Our Middle School Band program has a total of five different ensembles for students to participate and learn music. At the beginning of each class, students set up their chairs, music stand and instrument. We warm up the band with various engaging musical exercises then tune each section.
Our Middle School Band program offers a variety of ensembles that currently has an enrollment of 240 seventh and eighth graders in the 2016-17 school year.
We offer two Beginning Band classes comprised of seventh and eighth graders. Incoming students who learned a band instrument during summer school are placed in the Intermediate Band class. The Symphonic Band consists mainly 8th grade band students and a few selected Intermediate Band students. Second year students who are interested in taking another music class may audition to perform in the Jazz Band . Our Middle School Music Department also offers a Concert Orchestra ensemble that combines the strings and band instruments which meets once a week after school.
My Project
We have Manhasset music stands that students use during each class and we need to create more space in our classroom for other instruments. This two-tier music stand rack will help us save space in our classroom and also allow us to place all of the ala carte music stands on a rack. This specific music stand rack holds 40 music stands and is designed to hold the maximum number of stands in the minimum amount of space. This stand rack will allow us to transport music stands in the truck to save space when we perform at other venues. Please help us fund "A Rack of Stands, A la Carte" project!
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