Welcome to the 2018-19 year of band and orchestra! Click here for the Band Calendar and click here for the Orchestra Calendar for the year. Please check back for additional future dates, and see the bottom of this page for google and ical calendars.
Please pay all of your fees as soon as possible at myschoolbucks.com or by check made out to ERHS Bands.
SNAP Fundraiser
We will have a representative from SNAP online fundraising visit to give information about how to use their online platform for fundraising. We are trying something different to supplement our fruit fundraisers, so watch this space!
Fruit Sale
Our second fruit sale begins this week. Orders will be due on FEBRUARY 10th. Pickup will be February 28th from 3:30-7:00 pm. Order online at: http://freshfruitorder.org/ERHSBands
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING ALL STATE STUDENTS!
Ryan Guo 9th grade- Junior Band 1st chair Bassoon
Matt Miller 11th grade- Senior Band 2nd chair Oboe/English Horn
Olivia Arbach 11th grade- Senior Band 3rd chair French Horn
Liam McConlogue 12th grade- Senior Band 2nd chair French Horn Liam McConlogue has also been selected as a member of the All Eastern Band!! Students from Maine to Maryland have a chance to be selected. WAY TO GO LIAM!
SOLO AND ENSEMBLE
soloandensemble.org
Due date for piece selection is JANUARY 4TH. $10 per student per event. Your piece must be on the MMEA list. If you need assistance selecting a piece please ask! If you are playing a solo you will need a piano accompanist.
The festival is at Thomas Pullen School on Saturday, February 9.
Click here for the grading policy.
Click here for the 2018 Band & Orchestra handbook.
Sign up for Band Remind Texts:
Percussion Ensemble: text @h29deh to the number 81010
Symphonic Band: text @8ef2cd to the number 81010
Wind Ensemble:text @msrzep to the number 81010
Concert Band:text @8bccd4 to the number 81010
Please pay all of your fees as soon as possible at myschoolbucks.com or by check made out to ERHS Bands.
SNAP Fundraiser
We will have a representative from SNAP online fundraising visit to give information about how to use their online platform for fundraising. We are trying something different to supplement our fruit fundraisers, so watch this space!
Fruit Sale
Our second fruit sale begins this week. Orders will be due on FEBRUARY 10th. Pickup will be February 28th from 3:30-7:00 pm. Order online at: http://freshfruitorder.org/ERHSBands
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING ALL STATE STUDENTS!
Ryan Guo 9th grade- Junior Band 1st chair Bassoon
Matt Miller 11th grade- Senior Band 2nd chair Oboe/English Horn
Olivia Arbach 11th grade- Senior Band 3rd chair French Horn
Liam McConlogue 12th grade- Senior Band 2nd chair French Horn Liam McConlogue has also been selected as a member of the All Eastern Band!! Students from Maine to Maryland have a chance to be selected. WAY TO GO LIAM!
SOLO AND ENSEMBLE
soloandensemble.org
Due date for piece selection is JANUARY 4TH. $10 per student per event. Your piece must be on the MMEA list. If you need assistance selecting a piece please ask! If you are playing a solo you will need a piano accompanist.
The festival is at Thomas Pullen School on Saturday, February 9.
Click here for the grading policy.
Click here for the 2018 Band & Orchestra handbook.
Sign up for Band Remind Texts:
Percussion Ensemble: text @h29deh to the number 81010
Symphonic Band: text @8ef2cd to the number 81010
Wind Ensemble:text @msrzep to the number 81010
Concert Band:text @8bccd4 to the number 81010
Highlights from the December 2018 band concert:
Non-traditional jazz octet:
Flash mob! Concert Band brass:
Combined Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band:
On Saturday, December 1, a jazz ensemble from ERHS performed at the Greenbelt Festival of Lights Art & Craft Fair:
Greenbelt Performing Arts Festival
Saturday April 21st we had the opportunity to send several small groups to downtown Greenbelt to perform outside and inside in the New Deal Cafe, including flute choir and percussion ensemble:
Saturday April 21st we had the opportunity to send several small groups to downtown Greenbelt to perform outside and inside in the New Deal Cafe, including flute choir and percussion ensemble:
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New for 2017-18: you can pay for band uniforms and make a donation to the band program through myschoolbucks.com
The Sally Wagner Foundation:
The mission of the Sally Wagner Foundation is to promote excellence in music and education. We accomplish our mission by supporting the band program at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in ways that serve the most students as well as recognizing and supporting top candidates who will pursue education degrees at collegiate institutions. https://www.sallywagnerfoundation.org/ - now accepting donations!
The first scholarships from the foundation were awarded at the Spring 2017 concert, to Phillip McWithey and Avinash Singh, who received $1,000 each for college.
The Sally Wagner Foundation:
The mission of the Sally Wagner Foundation is to promote excellence in music and education. We accomplish our mission by supporting the band program at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in ways that serve the most students as well as recognizing and supporting top candidates who will pursue education degrees at collegiate institutions. https://www.sallywagnerfoundation.org/ - now accepting donations!
The first scholarships from the foundation were awarded at the Spring 2017 concert, to Phillip McWithey and Avinash Singh, who received $1,000 each for college.
Why take band when you could be concentrating your time and efforts on more STEM subjects? Read this Washington Post article about the skills needed to succeed in the workplace. Very ironic that it comes from Google since Sergey Brin is an alumnus. Enjoy and keep doing the thing you love like music, drama, art, foreign language, and sports. All the tops skills Google is looking for come from those things.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/12/20/the-surprising-thing-google-learned-about-its-employees-and-what-it-means-for-todays-students/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/12/20/the-surprising-thing-google-learned-about-its-employees-and-what-it-means-for-todays-students/
Online background check for chaperones
Click here for the online form and payment for the commercial background check. Choose Commercial Background Disclosure Statement from the list on the left.
Click here for the online form and payment for the commercial background check. Choose Commercial Background Disclosure Statement from the list on the left.
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Thank you to Ashleigh Naude for being an awesome student teacher!
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The ERHS band program received a $5,000 grant from the Greenbelt Community Foundation in October 2017 to purchase a sheet music storage system.
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Melissa Ehrenreich presents the check to Ms Zephir at the fall concert
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Combined Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble playing at the 2015 winter concert
Click here for music department dates, e.g. fruit deadlines. See the band and orchestra pages for calendars of concert dates.
