Mount Pleasant Band

Enter your chance to win a 2011 Polaris Trail Blazer 330 from the Mt Pleasant Band Boosters. Tickets are $20.00 each and only 500 tickets will be sold.

The drawing is scheduled for May 24, 2012 or at an earlier date if all tickets are sold ahead of schedule.

Tickets will be available for purchase at the Mt Pleasant Winter Concert on December 15th, and at Ride Now in Concord on December 17th. You can also purchase tickets from band students or band boosters.

Starting next week (2/2/12) Mr. Tulbert, Mr. Lee and Mr. Brown (aka Jazz) will be conducting percussion practice on Thursdays from 4:00 – 6:00 PM at the Middle School. This will give the directors an opportunity to focus on percussion as well as an opportunity to discover and recruit new percussionist. If you are interested, please let Mr. Tulbert know.

The Winterguard travels to Dorman High School this Saturday to compete in the CIPA Carolina Qualifier. This is the Winterguard’s first year in CIPA since 2004 as they have been participating in the CWEA circuit since 2005.

Schedule

• 8:00 AM – Call time at MPHS
• 9:30 AM – Hair and makeup
• 10:30 AM – Departure
• 12:00 PM – Stop for lunch
• 1:00 PM – Arrive at Dorman HS
• 2:22 PM – MPHS Performance
• 6:15 PM – Guard Performances End
• 7:00 PM – Percussion Performances
• 9:40 PM – Awards

Mr. Tulbert (and Mr. Adams) will be leaving after the guard’s performance. Students are not required to stay for the duration of the evening’s events, but must ensure they have a ride back to MPHS.

• Take Hwy 49 South to I-85 South
• Merge on to I-26 East via Exit 70 toward Columbia
• Take exit 28 (US-221) toward Moore/Woodruff
• Turn left on to US-221 North
• Turn left on to Cavalier Way
• School is on the right

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All-County Band is scheduled for Friday, February 17th and Saturday, February 18th at Robinson High School. The high school county band will be performing the World Premiere of a new piece of music commissioned by the Cabarrus County School Band Directors. David Holsinger will be the conductor of the high school band and is the composer of the piece.

While we usually wait until late January to take requests for participation, the directors have decided to begin building the band now to give participating students ample opportunity to prepare their parts of this new work. Any student is welcome to request participation, but priority will be given to students who have made the South Central All-District Band, followed by students who auditioned, but did not make the band, followed by students in order of seniority.

If you are interested in participating, please contact Mr. Tulbert.

The band will travel to South Central District Music Performance Assessment (aka Concert Festival) on Friday, March 23rd. Between now and then we will have after school Festival Band rehearsals on Mondays from 3:00 – 5:00 PM. These rehearsals are not optional and the success of the ensemble at MPA depends on everyone participating in each after school rehearsal.

Our band is broken into two class periods during the school day, so these after school rehearsals are necessary in order to give us time to prepare with the full ensemble in the room.

If everyone attends, we will have seven (7) rehearsals with the full ensemble before taking the stage at MPA. Please make all necessary arrangements with your coaches, club advisors and employers now.

• $800.00 – Bach Omega Trumpet – silver plated, 37ML bore, leather case, two mouthpieces and straight mute included. Excellent condition.
• $400.00 – Selmer 1400 plastic intermediate clarinet, factory mouthpiece included. Like new.
• $1,000.00 – Buffet R13 wooden concert clarinet, Vandoren 5RV mouthpiece included. Like new.

If you are interested in any of these items, please contact Mr. Tulbert.

Student band account statements/summaries were sent home with all students last Wednesday. If you have not seen your student’s account statement/summary, please ask them for it as it is probably crammed in the bottom of their book bag, or inside their instrument case. We are in desperate need of students to fulfill their financial obligation to the band. Economic times are tough, but our bills have to be paid.

The MP Band concluded the marching season with an outstanding performance at the Ardrey Kell Mighty Knight Invitational. Congratulations on a great performance!

• 1st Place Colorguard 2A
• 1st Place Percussion 2A
• 1st Place Overall Music 2A
• 1st Place Overall Visual 2A
• 1st Place Overall 3A