Robinson Middle School Performance Schedule 2007-2008
The
Robinson Middle School Bands (grades 7 - 8) are organized into
seven band classes with more than 200 students participating. The classes
are Beginning Band, Concert I, Concert II, Concert III, Concert IV, Concert
V, and Symphonic Band. Students also have the opportunity to participate
in an after school jazz ensemble. There are two middle school orchestras,
a mixed choir, girls choir, and 8th grade semester beginning guitar class.
Both
the administration and guidance departments strongly support the music
program at Robinson. The master schedule allows for middle school teams
and mixed performing groups for grades 7 and 8. Each band meets on a rotating
A/B block schedule with sectionals both during class and after school.
Many students in the Symphonic Band study privately with professional
musicians from throughout the Washington D.C. area. The middle school bands present three concerts a year, participate in District XI Junior Band and District XI Band Festival, Solo and Ensemble Festival, and a spring adjudication. The Symphonic Band has consistently received superior rating in Grade IV literature at District Festival and always places a large number of students in the Junior District Band each year. Students from all levels of band are encouraged to participate in the Solo and Ensemble Festival in the Spring.
In
December 2000, 81 seventh and eighth graders of the Middle School Symphonic
Band were invited to perform at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra
Clinic in Chicago. The band along with directors, guest soloist Senior
Chief Musician Roger Behrend, and parent chaperones traveled by air to
the Windy City the week before Christmas. The 45-minute performance for
which the students began rehearsing before school started in August, included
ten selections and three guest conductors: David Shaffer also the composer
of the music he conducted, Stanley R. Schoonover, Music Specialist, Fairfax
County Public Schools, and Curvin G. Farnham, Director of Bands, University
of Maine. The trip included meeting other composers of music the students
performed, an evening at Disney Quest, time to roam the vast exhibit hall
full of instruments and everything musical, and a visit to Chicago's Field
Museum.
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