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Dear Colleague:
With great pleasure we announce that the 27th Annual Towson University All Junior-Senior Honor Band will be held on Saturday, December 12, 2009. This one-day clinic includes rehearsals throughout the day with a performance at 7:00 p.m. Students are chosen and invited to participate in this honor band based upon their contribution to your band program and your recommendation as the band director. Please list seniors first and juniors next on the attached sheet and give each of them an ability/achievement rating. You can also nominate students over the Internet by going www.new.towson.edu/bands and follow the Honor Band link. Your rating plays a major part in the selection process. (However, due to space and time limitations, some students may not be invited.) We must receive your nominations by Friday, October 16, 2009. (We suggest that you send us the nomination list as soon as possible!!) Upon receiving your list, we will send the application form and all of the honor band information directly to the students at the addresses you supply.
All members will receive a Certificate of Participation and a 2009 AJSHB T-shirt. Lunch will be provided. There is a $25.00 fee for the Honor Band. The concert will be at 7:00 p.m. Saturday, December 12. The admission charge to the concert is $4.00 for adults, $2.00 for students.
Those seniors who are interested in attending TU as a music major or minor must attend one of the official, scheduled audition dates during the Spring semester. The official audition dates for admission into the Music Department are on January 9, February 6, and March 27, 2010. Music Department scholarships are available for music majors, and are awarded as a result of the audition on one of the scheduled audition days. (There is more scholarship money available at the earlier audition dates.). Marching band stipends of $500 are available to every member of the marching band regardless of major!! We encourage students from all majors to participate in the TU band program.
The TU Symphonic Band's fall concert will be on November 19 at 8:15 pm. We hope you and your students will come and enjoy the great program we're performing. The centerpiece of the concert is Lincolnshire Posy by Grainger. We are also very pleased that our new trombone professor Dr. Natalie Mannix will join with us to perform William Goldstein's Colloqy, a showpiece trombone concerto. Plus we will all have fun with David Holsinger's Scootin' on Hard Rock. We are also pleased to announce that the TU Symphonic Band will be on tour in China (Beijing and Shanghai) in March of 2010.
Look for the Towson University Tiger Marching Band on Thanksgiving Day as they perform as the only university marching band in the 2009 Macy's Parade. We'd love to have some of your students in the marching band next year.
We look forward to hosting your outstanding students on our campus on December 12, 2009. We know your students will have a great time on our campus. We hope to see you soon.
Sincerely,
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