Welcome to the MTHS Band Website
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Program Profile | Listen | Contact | Members | Calendar
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle
"I will teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music,
for in the patterns of music and all the arts are the keys to learning."-Plato
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Director's Corner - Darin Faul |
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News |
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Calendar
Please subsribe to the Band Google Calendar. It’s a good idea to check out the “Reminders and Notifications” for the calendar because you can receive emails when events are changed and/or added to the calendar.
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Music Booster Information - Sherrill Leppich, President |
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Donate |
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Recommended Videos |
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Praise for the MTHS Band Program |
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Student of the Week |
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"Once again, your students dazzled our parents and community members with their performances. We received numerous comments from parents on how much they enjoyed listening to the students perform and on how talented they are. Thank you to each of you for working with students to organize the performances for the evening and though thanks seems hardly enough – for the amazing work you do each day with our students." Erin Murphy
"My husband and I, too, thoroughly were blown away by your fantastic group! Good Luck with future performances. We look forward to trying to see your group again."
"Congratulations on stealing the show! Your band was amazing and the only one to get a standing ovation. (read more...)
"I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed your band's performance on Friday night, and especially... (read more...)
"We just wanted to congratulate you and the members of Jazz Ensemble I on your phenomenal performance at Hot Java Cool Jazz. It was simply magical! (read more...)
Praise for the Fall Band Concert 2009
Praise for the Veteran's Day Assembly 2009
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Calvin is a senior at MTHS. Click here to read more about him in the weekly Newsletter.
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Recommended Music Links |
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Music Advocacy |
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Quotes |
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"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." -Dr. Seuss
LINKS:
MENC Page
www.supportmusic.com
VIDEOS:
Wynton Marsalis: The Importance of School Music Programs
The Case for Music Education
Why Music Education Belongs in Public Schools
Why Music? (brain research)
AUDIO:
Why Music Matters - Jack Stamp (composer/conductor)
Karl Paulnack Speech - "How Music Works"
Karl Paulnack Speech - Welcome Address given to incoming freshmen at Boston Conservatory (2004)
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"It gets to the point where the player, if he's going to be any kind of serious player, teaches himself."
-Bill Evans
"The Arts cannot thrive except where men are free to be themselves and to be in charge of the discipline of their own energies and ardors. The conditions for democracy and for the arts are one and the same. What we call liberty in politics results in freedom in the arts. A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too." -Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1939
"The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose -
and is a test to the quality of a nation's civilization."-John F. Kennedy |
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