Welcome to the Concert Band web page. Here you will find a copy of the lesson schedule, upcoming events, and letters that have been sent home. Also you will find links to all the songs that we will be working on this year. Please make sure to contact Mr. Lennon if you have any questions or concerns. My email is [email protected]
Intro Letter 2021-2022 WBMS Band Welcome back!! I hope you are as excited as I am about this year. You all did an outstanding job last year especially given the fact we had online lessons for several months. I am really looking forward to working with you in person this year. As I said last year I am always impressed with your skills and ability to work together. I am confident we will have another outstanding year!! Here is the lesson schedule: Students will have one lesson a week. The schedule will rotate so each student will only miss a certain class once every 4 weeks. Lessons will be approximately 50 minutes long giving students 10 minutes to return to class in order to find out what they missed in class and assignments that were given. COVID Mitigations for Band
All students will be at least 3 feet apart in lessons and rehearsals
All wind instruments will be required to use a bell cover
Rehearsals and lessons will not be any longer than 50 minutes
Air will be constantly circulating with a fan throughout the room
Instrument cases will be clearly marked so no one will be using the incorrect instrument
Percussionists will not share drum sticks
Masking with appropriate material remains the best way of reducing
potential infected aerosol from circulating in an indoor space. Masks are recommended to be worn while singing and speaking.
In the occurrence that band is canceled you will find out during the morning announcements. Please listen closely to them. The dress code for concerts this year will be Black on the bottom and White on the top. Please make sure that you have dress pants and not jeans. Ladies, you can wear a dress but it needs to be knee length. Also please make sure you have black socks and black dress shoes (please no sneakers). Here are some important dates:
September 14th Instrument Rental Night for 5th and band students who need to rent an instrument. WBMS 6:30-7:30 (Auditorium)
Virtual Winter Concert December 7th To be determined due to COVID restrictions Link to the Concert
June 8th (rain date June 9th) (6:30pm) Spring Concert at Mt. View School (outside)
Full band rehearsals will be on Tuesday MORNING from 8:20am-9:00am (starting Oct 5th).
Thank you again and I look forward to working with each one of you in both group lessons and within the ensemble. Included with this letter is the 4 week band rotation. Please make sure you check on the Band Web page for updates and what you should be working on. The address for the band web page is: http://whitebrookband.weebly.com/
Please make sure to sign up for the 6th-8th grade remind messages, here is how you can do it: Please send a text this message “@whitebroo” to 81010 This will sign you up for remind messages for the White Brook Middle School Band. Do not include quotes.
Here are the links to the following songs that we will be performing for this year. Click on the name of the song and you will be directed to a web site where you can hear it.