Greetings from the campus of Towson University. Your band director has described you as an outstanding musician. We congratulate you on your accomplishments. As a result of your achievement, it is with great pleasure that we invite you to apply to become a member of the Twenty-sixth Annual Towson University All Junior-Senior Honor Band held on Saturday, December 12, 2009. It is a day-long clinic consisting of rehearsals throughout the day culminating in a concert at 7:00 p.m. in the Towson University Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall, a spectacular facility! The Honor Band is a great opportunity for you to meet together with other incredible high school musicians and to perform in an outstanding band.
Those seniors who are interested in attending TU as a music major or minor must attend one of the official audition dates for admission into the Music Department which are on January 9, February 6, or March 27, 2010. Music Department scholarships are available for music majors. 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. 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 Thanksgiving Day Parade. We'd love to have you participate in the marching band and symphonic band next year.
The application deadline is Nov. 13. There is a $25.00 application fee per student for the Towson University Honor Band. (Make checks payable to the TU Foundation. Funds for Towson University are administered by the Towson University Foundation, Inc.) We will send you a detailed schedule outlining the day's activities and the audition music once we have received your completed application and fee. We hope you will take advantage of the opportunity to become a member of the TU All Junior-Senior Honor Band on December 12.
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.
Please return this application today, but at least by November 13. In the meantime, we hope you continue to have a great fall semester.
