Advanced Music Study & Performance

Your student will need to wear concert black to all concerts.  

• Solid black dress shirt that covers shoulders

• Black dress pants or mid-length skirt (below the knee at minimum)

• Black dress belt, if needed

• Black dress, closed-toe shoes.  If Vans or other casual shoes, must have black soles.  Flats or low heel acceptable

• Black socks that go above the ankle

Please do not talk while a performing group is playing/singing

• • This is the first and greatest rule of concert etiquette

  • This includes whispering to, or disciplining your other children

Please turn off electronic devices

• • While most phones now have very musical ring tones, they don't always fit into our performance, nor do they provide pleasant sounds for your neighbors

Please do not wave to your student during the concert

• • This can be a distraction to the students, when they should be focused on their performance for you

Please do not take flash photography or move about with your video camera

• • Photographing and/or filming can also be a distraction to the students, when they should be focused on their performance

Please applaud at appropriate times

• • Some music has several sections

  • Remember, it's not over until all of the sections have been performed

  • A good rule of thumb is to watch the conductor, when his/her arms are lowered completely, it's usually the end of the composition

Please do not enter or leave the auditorium during the music

• • Wait for a break in the concert to visit the restroom, unless you are caring for an upset/noisy child, in which case you may exit as quickly and quietly as possible

  • If arriving late, please stand near the back or sides of the auditorium until a break in the concert, before finding your seat as to not interrupt other concert goers in the audience.

Please come to the concerts expecting the best

• • You might just be surprised how good your student sounds when joined by the other students

  • We are greater than the sum of our parts!