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.
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
Band News
SPRING CONCERT DATE CHANGE
OUR NEW SPRING CONCERT DATE IS FRIDAY MAY 17TH AT 7:00 PM
Forming a Band Boosters Organization
As the program gets larger, we are in greater need of parent involvement with fundraisers, logistics for concerts and outside performances, and general operations of the program. We will have a meeting on TUESDAY APRIL 30TH AT 6:30 in the band room to discuss forming a booster organization.
Banquet
Years ago, the music department had banquets at the end of the year much like the sports teams do. I would like to revive this tradition. We are looking at a few dates in May but we are looking for people that have connections with facilities that are not too expensive! Please contact me if you would like to be involved with this project.
Wind Ensemble Concerts
Wind Ensemble will be performing at the Temple, Philadelphia Festival on Friday April 26th, leaving ERHS at 8:45 am and returning at 10:30 pm.
Also, they will give a concert on Saturday May 11th at University of Maryland Leah Smith Lecture Hall, 2:00 pm.
The Midwest Clinic
The Wind Ensemble has been experimenting with the project of chamber music and how it can improve your playing and musicianship. We submitted a recording to perform at the 73rd Midwest Clinic in Chicago, Illinois. We are just the FIFTH high school band from Maryland in its 73 year existence!!! Last year Centennial High School from Howard County was selected. We will be performing chamber works. I would like to thank the class of 2019 for all their hard work and leadership throughout this process. I may request that some of you perform and as I receive more information, it will be passed on. This is truly an amazing honor that we have worked very hard to achieve. BRAVO to all the Wind Ensemble students!! We will need to start raising money soon!!!!!!
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
Band News
SPRING CONCERT DATE CHANGE
OUR NEW SPRING CONCERT DATE IS FRIDAY MAY 17TH AT 7:00 PM
Forming a Band Boosters Organization
As the program gets larger, we are in greater need of parent involvement with fundraisers, logistics for concerts and outside performances, and general operations of the program. We will have a meeting on TUESDAY APRIL 30TH AT 6:30 in the band room to discuss forming a booster organization.
Banquet
Years ago, the music department had banquets at the end of the year much like the sports teams do. I would like to revive this tradition. We are looking at a few dates in May but we are looking for people that have connections with facilities that are not too expensive! Please contact me if you would like to be involved with this project.
Wind Ensemble Concerts
Wind Ensemble will be performing at the Temple, Philadelphia Festival on Friday April 26th, leaving ERHS at 8:45 am and returning at 10:30 pm.
Also, they will give a concert on Saturday May 11th at University of Maryland Leah Smith Lecture Hall, 2:00 pm.
The Midwest Clinic
The Wind Ensemble has been experimenting with the project of chamber music and how it can improve your playing and musicianship. We submitted a recording to perform at the 73rd Midwest Clinic in Chicago, Illinois. We are just the FIFTH high school band from Maryland in its 73 year existence!!! Last year Centennial High School from Howard County was selected. We will be performing chamber works. I would like to thank the class of 2019 for all their hard work and leadership throughout this process. I may request that some of you perform and as I receive more information, it will be passed on. This is truly an amazing honor that we have worked very hard to achieve. BRAVO to all the Wind Ensemble students!! We will need to start raising money soon!!!!!!
Check out the front page of the Greenbelt News Review for a story about the ERHS band trip to Atlanta!
Congratulations to Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble for a successful trip to the HBCU Band Directors Consortium Conference in Atlanta, March 2019. Here are some highlights:
Video 1
Video 2
Congratulations to Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble for a successful trip to the HBCU Band Directors Consortium Conference in Atlanta, March 2019. Here are some highlights:
Video 1
Video 2
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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.
