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April 15, 2024
Owens Director Notes
The 23-24 school year is really moving quickly and will be coming to a close soon. The band department is busy with many performances as we finish this year! Please look over the document below with our list of the upcoming calendar dates. If you look to the right hand side of the document, you will see performance groups scheduled to perform for each event.
FHS BAND DATES TO FINISH THE YEAR
April 16th FHS Percussion Trio performs at the Art Museum for Heart of Portland. 7PM
April 18th JV BAND FESTIVAL @ Lincoln H. S. Symphonic Band/Concert Band (parents welcome to attend) Schedule/info here
April 19th ARTS ALIVE- Various groups perform! 7PM.
April 20th Portland State University Percussion Festival- FHS Large and Small Percussion Ensembles Perform. Schedule/info here
April 20th Arts Alive 7PM
April 23rd First Marching Rehearsal on the Field! 7PM Parent Meeting for Canada- Form Turn in 7PM
April 26th State Chamber Championships @ MT Hood Community College - Franklin Bus leaves @ 11am. Schedule Here
April 27th Final Night of Arts Alive! State Solo Championships at Portland State University.
April 30th Marching Rehearsal on the Franklin Field! 7PM
*For More Dates please look at the Full Franklin Bands Calendar Link*
Spring Trip to Victoria BC, Canada- Saturday, May 18th through Monday, May 20th.
Tuesday, April 23rd 7PM Parent Meeting
4 Important reminders (To Do's) as we prepare to travel
Mark your calendars- April 23rd. 7:00 pm. Parent Meeting in the Band Room. This is also form turn in night and our first marching rehearsal on Field. Our School Nurse Jean will be attending to answer any questions you may have regarding medications on the trip. PARENTS PLEASE ATTEND
Make sure you look over all the required forms to turn in for Canada. These are located at the bottom of this section of the newsletter and have been handed out to the students. If you will be traveling with medications please also fill out the medication forms below also. Nurse Jean will be at Tuesday's 4/23 7pm meeting to look over medication forms and answer any questions you may have.
Fill out this google form with the passport # of your traveling student, or Birth Certificate # if your student is 15 or younger during travel.
Make sure your travel accounts are all paid up!
IMPORTANT LINKS:
Required Forms to turn in for Canada
Form for Passport # or Birth Certificate #
Medication Forms- If you are traveling with medications
Please Make any last payments Here.
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Marching Tunes for Tour and Starlight Parade
Marching Rehearsal 4/23 Agenda
STEP UP NIGHT WITH BEACOCK MUSIC APRIL 21, 2024.
As your musician continues to improve on their instrument, it might be time to think about purchasing an instrument of their own. We have a partnership with Beacock Music in Vancouver where once a year, students have the opportunity try out "step up" instruments. These instruments are more advanced than what I can offer through PPS and would be a great investment for a serious musician. Ask your musician if they have tried a step up instrument in class. Students are welcome to take an instrument home for a night and or try it with their private instructor. If you would like to set up a meeting with the music shop about affordable options and plans for instrument purchase, please fill out this form below. Instrument "Step up" Night Monday, April 22nd
WHY PURCHASE A STEP UP INSTRUMENT?
• Bigger Sound: Beginner instruments have small bores that give a shallow, small sound. Step up instruments have larger bores for bigger, fuller sounds
• Better Intonation: Beginning instruments aren’t perfectly in tune. Better quality instruments are made with greater precision resulting in more accurate intonation across the entire range of the instrument.
• Tone Quality: Beginning instruments are made of less expensive materials. Better quality instruments are made of materials that give the best tone. For example: plastic clarinets vs. wood clarinets, nickel flutes vs. silver flutes, solid body vs. composite body.
• Features: Beginning instruments don’t have extra features: better quality instruments have features that help the player better tune, faster, with more control and with extended range. Triggers on French horns, trombones, open-hole flutes, extra keys on saxophones and oboes.
Encourage your musician to practice and play at home
Please take the time to encourage your musician to practice and play at home and outside of class. With our marching performances coming up and our final concert performances there is a lot to work on and practice. Don't let your musician convince you that they don't need to practice. Everyone needs to Practice.
Congratulations to all our State Qualifying Chamber Musicians and State Solo Musicians!
State Solo Championships @ Portland State University Feb. 27th
Opal Rockett- Cello & Trey Owens- Tuba
FHS BANDS has 4 chamber groups representing FHS at the Chamber State Championships at Mount Hood Community College Next Friday, April 26th
Support Franklin Bands and Receive AD space for your Business.
Sponsors would get an advertisement in the program for the spring awards concert (May 16), promotion on the social media pages (Instagram and Facebook), a lovely tax deduction for supporting our 501(c)(3), and of course the glow of knowing that they are supporting young musicians. Prices are according to this image -- a 1/2 page ad is $275, 1/4 page ad is $150, 1/8 page $100, and 1/16 $75. We are only planning on doing one page of advertising, so wanted to open things up to the band community first. If you or someone you know might be interested in being a sponsor, please let us know!
Please contact Lightningbandboosters@gmail.com for more info and to get your ad in our Program!
FHS BANDS MOVIE NIGHT
Saturday May 11th @ Franklin High School.
PRINCESS MONONOKE
7PM START
Jason Owens
Director of Instrumental Music
Franklin High School
jowens2@pps.net
“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.” ― Haim G. Ginott
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