Mountlake Terrace High School Bands

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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

	UPCOMING EVENTS
	1/5 - Solo/Ensemble Forms Due Ensemble Form Solo Form 1/6 - Pep Band v. Meadowdale 6:45 Call Time 1/10 - Pep Band v. Everett 6:45 Call Time 1/13 - Pep Band v. Shorecrest 6:45 Call Time 1/15 - Special Jazz Bands Workshop Time TBA 1/16 - Special Jazz Bands Workshop Time TBA 1/19 - Pep Band v. Marysville/Getchell) 6:45 Call Time 1/26 - Jazz Night 7pm 1/27 - Pep Band v. Oak Harbor) 6:45 Call Time 1/28 - Clark College Jazz Festival (All Day) JE1 and JE2 1/31 - UW Band Festival (CW) All Day 2/2 - Pep Band v. Meadowdale 6:45 Call Time 2/4 - Solo/Ensemble Contest Full 2011-2012 Calendar

	Director's Corner - Darin Faul							News
		UW Gave Us What We Asked For (Seattle Times) Why Straight A's May Not Get You Into UW This Year (Seattle Times) Don't Limit Yourself By Applying to Only One School (Seattle Times) Karl Paulnack Speech - Welcome Address given to incoming freshmen at Boston Conservatory (2004) Jazz Symposium Listening Estimated probability of Competing in Athletics beyond HS. Summer Band Workshop Slide Show Summer Jazz Workshop Slide Show Day Breaker's Rotary Listening Video Presentation				“. . . a grade is an inadequate report of an inaccurate judgment by a biased and variable judge of the extent to which a student has attained an undefined level of mastery of an unknown proportion of an indefinite amount of material.” -Paul Dressel Basic College Quarterly Michigan State University, Winter 1957		Vote every day for MTHS in the "Glee Give A Note" Competition (click here)

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Joan's Presidential Corner

Our 2011-2012 Pledge Drive has begun!
You, our biggest supporters, are now able to donate to the band each month via electronic funds transfer. Select an amount and feel good about your ongoing financial contribution. Money goes to support the music education of the students in the band program with the largest portions going for the purchase of sheet music, to pay guest clinicians, and to cover group travel expenses. All donations are made to our non-profit MTHS Music Boosters organiztion and are tax-deductible. Please pledge whatever amount you can. (read more...)

You can listen to MTHS Bands and/or purchase audio recordings by the track or full CD's by CLICKING HERE.
Latest Release: Allen Vizzutti with the MTHS Bands in December 2010.

KPLU School of Jazz CDs are now available. ($12)
Jazz Ensemble 1 at Hot Java Cool Jazz 2010 (Videos)
Old Man Blues
Nowhere Fast
Single Petal of a Rose
Concerto For Clarinet
Jazz Ensemble 1 at Lionel Hampton (video)
Old Man Blues

Joan Lundquist, Music Boosters President

You are invited to volunteer for two fabulous community events which benefit our music students.

MTHS JAZZ SYMPOSIUM is Saturday, October 22. We have many fun ways to help with Hospitality and Concessions from 7:30am-2:30pm.

WINTERFEST (Santa Breakfast) takes place on Saturday, December 8 and is a GREAT way to meet other parents. Help is needed between 7:00am-1:00pm.

To volunteer contact Joan Lundquist mthsmusicboosters@gmail.com (425) 778-5663

Recommended Videos

Praise for the MTHS Band Program

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Three Year Old Maestro (YouTube)

Let Freedom Swing: Part 1 "We The People"
Let Freedom Swing: Part 2 "E Pluribus Unum"
Let Freedom Swing: Part 3 "A More Perfect Union
Jessica Jackley: Poverty, money -- and love.
Ze Frank's web playroom
Benjamin Zander on Music and Passion
Wynton Marsalis Interview on "Musicians@Google"

Daniel Pink on the suprising science of motivation.
Daniel Pink: Animated Talk about Motivation.
Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity.
Sir Ken Robinson on how schools kill creativity.
Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the Revolution.
Mike Huckabee: Art and Music Education.
The Jose Abreu Story on 60 Minutes.

"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

	Recommended Links		History and Tradition		Grades and Grading
	Mountlake Terrace Jazz 1 on TV (KCTS) www.YOUniversityTV.com (video tours of most major universities) National Jazz Workshop (Lots of FREE Play-a-longs and Improvisation Materials)		Coming soon...		Alfie Kohn vs. Dwight Schrute (Video) From Degrading to De-Grading (Article) The Schools Our Children Deserve (Video) Diane Ravitch Lecture about NCLB and Educational Reform (Video)

	Recommended Music Links		Music Advocacy		Quotes
	Mark O'Connor (MTHS Grad) with Wynton Marsalis (Soundcheck) Mark O'Connor with Wynton Marsalis "Sweet Georgia Brown" Jazz Profile: Thelonious Monk (from Ken Burns' Jazz) Jazz Profile: Art Blakey (from Ken Burns' Jazz) Jazz Profile: Sonny Rollins (from Ken Burns' Jazz) Jazz Profile: John Coltrane Pt. 1 Jazz Profile: John Coltrane Pt. 2 Jazz Profile: Wynton Marsalis (The Historian) Swing Central (Some great Jazz Stuff Here) Terell Stafford's Website Wycliff Gordon's Website Christian McBride's Website Gerald Clayton's Website Joshua Redman's Website James Morrison's Website Wynton Marsalis' Website Mark O'Conner's Website (MTHS Grad) Gary Hobbs' Website Bobby McFerrin and the Pentatonic Scale		"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"		"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