Welcome to Markham Place School Music
2018
Dear Markham Place Students and Parents,
Welcome to the Markham Place Music website. All students at Markham Place will take a general music through during their Related Arts cycle courses and all students are also invited to participate in our performing ensembles including Concert Band, Orchestra, and Concert Choir.
Rehearsal Schedule
Zero Period/ Before School Schedule 7:35 - 8:10 AM
Jazz Band - Thursday & Friday mornings from 7:35 - 8:10
Chamber Orchestra - Thursday mornings from 7:35-8:10
Guys Ensemble - Tuesdays - 7:35 - 8:10 *Select
Girls Ensemble - Wednesdays 7:35 - 8:10 *Select
Enrichment Period Rehearsals- 2:23 - 3:03 PM
5th & 6th Grade Concert Band (Warrior Band) - Days 1,6
7th & 8th Grade Concert Band (Blue Band) - Days 2,3
Orchestra - All Grade Levels - Days 1,2,6
Concert Choir - All Grade Levels - Days 3,4,5
Join Remind App for notifications and updates:
Blue Band - https://www.remind.com/join/mpsblue
White Band - https://www.remind.com/join/mpswhite
Orchestra - https://www.remind.com/join/mpsstrings
Choir - https://www.remind.com/join/mpschorus9
Jazz Band - https://www.remind.com/join/mpsjazz
Concert Schedule 2018
Spring Band Concert
Thursday, May 10th
2:00 PM - Student Concert, 7:00 PM - Community Concert
Concert is at Markham Place School
Attire is black and white
PTO Lakewood Blueclaws Chorus Performance
Optional Performance for Chorus Members*
Thursday, May 24th
6:30 PM, arrival at 5:45
Attire is Blue music T shirt, casual bottoms, sneakers. see music website to order
Tickets available through the LS PTO
Memorial Day Band Performance
Monday, May 28th
9 AM - Memorial Park
Attire is black and white
Orchestra & Chorus Concert
Thursday, May 31st at Markham Place Cafetorium
2:00 & 7:00 PM
Attire is black and white
Trills & Thrills Festival
Friday, June 1st
8 am - 6 pm
Blue Music T Shirt, casual bottoms, sneakers
Go to Markhamplacemusic to order T Shirt by 5/4
Graduation Ceremony
Wednesday, June 20th
7 PM
*Selected Band Students*
8th Grade Musicians are welcome to perform in ceremony
Please feel free to visit this site, the google classrooms, and please feel free to reach out to us anytime.
Thank you,
Stephanie Bennett & Jennifer Brush
Welcome to the Markham Place Music website. All students at Markham Place will take a general music through during their Related Arts cycle courses and all students are also invited to participate in our performing ensembles including Concert Band, Orchestra, and Concert Choir.
Rehearsal Schedule
Zero Period/ Before School Schedule 7:35 - 8:10 AM
Jazz Band - Thursday & Friday mornings from 7:35 - 8:10
Chamber Orchestra - Thursday mornings from 7:35-8:10
Guys Ensemble - Tuesdays - 7:35 - 8:10 *Select
Girls Ensemble - Wednesdays 7:35 - 8:10 *Select
Enrichment Period Rehearsals- 2:23 - 3:03 PM
5th & 6th Grade Concert Band (Warrior Band) - Days 1,6
7th & 8th Grade Concert Band (Blue Band) - Days 2,3
Orchestra - All Grade Levels - Days 1,2,6
Concert Choir - All Grade Levels - Days 3,4,5
Join Remind App for notifications and updates:
Blue Band - https://www.remind.com/join/mpsblue
White Band - https://www.remind.com/join/mpswhite
Orchestra - https://www.remind.com/join/mpsstrings
Choir - https://www.remind.com/join/mpschorus9
Jazz Band - https://www.remind.com/join/mpsjazz
Concert Schedule 2018
Spring Band Concert
Thursday, May 10th
2:00 PM - Student Concert, 7:00 PM - Community Concert
Concert is at Markham Place School
Attire is black and white
PTO Lakewood Blueclaws Chorus Performance
Optional Performance for Chorus Members*
Thursday, May 24th
6:30 PM, arrival at 5:45
Attire is Blue music T shirt, casual bottoms, sneakers. see music website to order
Tickets available through the LS PTO
Memorial Day Band Performance
Monday, May 28th
9 AM - Memorial Park
Attire is black and white
Orchestra & Chorus Concert
Thursday, May 31st at Markham Place Cafetorium
2:00 & 7:00 PM
Attire is black and white
Trills & Thrills Festival
Friday, June 1st
8 am - 6 pm
Blue Music T Shirt, casual bottoms, sneakers
Go to Markhamplacemusic to order T Shirt by 5/4
Graduation Ceremony
Wednesday, June 20th
7 PM
*Selected Band Students*
8th Grade Musicians are welcome to perform in ceremony
Please feel free to visit this site, the google classrooms, and please feel free to reach out to us anytime.
Thank you,
Stephanie Bennett & Jennifer Brush
American composer and conductor, Jack Stamp, on "Why Music Matters":
Why Study Music?
Music is Science. It is exact, specific; and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's full score is a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of time. It embodies many levels of physics from acoustics to architecture.
Music is Mathematical. It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper, in a highly specific form with regard to exact placement and symmetry.
Music is a World Language. Most of the terms are in Italian, German or French; and the notation is certainly not English. It is a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complete and universal language.
Music is History. Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creation, taking on the emotion of a nation, region or a people. It is the only Art form we can hear as people hundreds of years ago had. Unlike paint, whose image is always there once created, Music is perpetually "Repainted" each time it is performed. The feelings and thoughts of countless generations are forever cast in Sound.
Music is Physical Education. It requires fantastic coordination of the fingers, hands, arms, lips and facial muscles, and control of diaphragmatic, back, stomach and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets. There are as many calories burned by a symphony trumpet player in one performance as there are by a quarter-back in a professional football game.
Music is Art. It allows a human being to take technical and sometimes difficult areas of learning and translate them into human emotion. It helps every person to recognize and understand beauty, and to understand love, compassion and how to live more fully within this world.
Music is Science. It is exact, specific; and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's full score is a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of time. It embodies many levels of physics from acoustics to architecture.
Music is Mathematical. It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper, in a highly specific form with regard to exact placement and symmetry.
Music is a World Language. Most of the terms are in Italian, German or French; and the notation is certainly not English. It is a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complete and universal language.
Music is History. Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creation, taking on the emotion of a nation, region or a people. It is the only Art form we can hear as people hundreds of years ago had. Unlike paint, whose image is always there once created, Music is perpetually "Repainted" each time it is performed. The feelings and thoughts of countless generations are forever cast in Sound.
Music is Physical Education. It requires fantastic coordination of the fingers, hands, arms, lips and facial muscles, and control of diaphragmatic, back, stomach and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets. There are as many calories burned by a symphony trumpet player in one performance as there are by a quarter-back in a professional football game.
Music is Art. It allows a human being to take technical and sometimes difficult areas of learning and translate them into human emotion. It helps every person to recognize and understand beauty, and to understand love, compassion and how to live more fully within this world.