HOMESTEAD HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTER BLAST!

November 2, 2011

A pair of sunglasses were found in the staging area at last Saturday’s Dublin competition.  If they are yours, please contact AJ Keval at aj.keval@gmail.com.

The next few days are going to be busy!

Please remember, all practices and performances are mandatory and affect your grade. Please contact Mr. Burn by email immediately if your student will be absent.

NEW NEWS:

-       Friday’s football game

o   Schedule

o   Concession Pre-Order Form

o   Volunteers needed

-       Saturday’s Home Show

o   A message from Diane Cressler

o   Schedule

o   Volunteers needed

-       Help needed for Thursday’s Orchestra Exchange at Gunn

-       Next Meals for Macy’s at Chipotle on Tuesday, November 8^th

REMINDERS:

-       Last opportunity to order field show apparel

-       Scrip

-       Video footage of all marching band events

-       Meals for Macy’s Calendar

-       Band room availability

-       School year calendar

THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE:

Wednesday, November 2^nd   

5:30-8:30pm – Full Band Practice

8:00-8:30pm – Scrip sales in Performance Arts Bldg. hallway

Thursday, November 3^rd

            7:00pm – Fall Orchestra Exchange at Gunn High School

Friday, November 4^th

            Last day to order field show apparel

5:30pm – Marchers to meet in Band Quad for uniforms

            7:30pm – HHS v Milpitas football game

Saturday, November 5^th

            10am– 3pm Practice

            3:00pm – Change into uniforms

4:00pm – Home Show featuring HHS Marching Band, Color Guard, and

                        Equestriettes

Sunday, November 6^th

            Daylight Savings Time ends

Monday, November 7^th     

5:30 – 8:30pm – Mandatory Wind Ensemble rehearsal for Carnegie Hall

5:30-8:30pm – Percussion practice

Tuesday, November 8^th

            Election Day

Meals for Macy’s at Chipotle

            7:00pm – Music Booster Board Meeting in Band Room

NEW NEWS:

HHS FOOTBALL GAME, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 4^th

HHS Marching Band with CMS A Band

SCHEDULE FOR HALF-TIME SHOW

(Vicki Feltman)

5:30pm          Meet in band quad to change and dress in uniform.  Bring everything you need for the night (gloves, shoe bag with CLEAN shoes and CLEAN black socks, money, instrument and jacket).  You will have no access to the band room.

Leave your instrument cases and belongings IN FRONT OF uniform carts. We cannot see anything put in BACK of uniform carts.

6:00pm          Warm up/Pep band music rehearsal with Cupertino Middle School.  Please show them how it’s done.

7:25pm          Traditional pre-game show

7:30pm          Game begins

• During the game, the band sits in their sections in full uniform, and plays pep band music.
• No eating or drinking, except water, while in uniform.
• The entire band stands up when we play.
• Four minutes before half-time the band prepares for the half-time show.
• Half time: the band performs Angels in the Architecture!
• After the half-time show, you will go back to the uniform carts and change out of your uniforms, and put on pep band shirt, jacket and jeans. Return your hat to its box, your marching shoes to the shoe bag, and your uniform jacket and pants (NEATLY HUNG) to the garment bag. Hang the uniforms on the carts.
• 3^rd quarter: return to stadium, get some food, and bring your food to the band area of the bleachers.
• 4^th quarter: ALL band members must attend 4^th quarter. When the band is playing, everyone needs to be playing (not eating or talking). You must be with your section (flutes, clarinets, altos, etc.) when in the stands. We will play one or two songs after the game ends, and then you’re a dismissed. (sometime between 9:30 and 10:30 pm)

Pre-order tickets – you will find them in your hat boxes after half-time. Tuba and Pit will find their tickets taped to the front of their uniform cart. Color Guard pre-order tickets will be distributed by a Color Guard parent.

CONCESSION PRE-ORDER FORM

(Winnie Lo)

Hurry, get your forms in!  The deadline for concession pre-order forms is tonight, Wednesday, November 2nd at 8:30PM.

In addition to your favorites, Concession has added three “new” menu items available for pre-order:     Veggie Burgers, Chicken Burgers and Root Beer Float

If you would like to order food from concession stand to eat after the half-time performance, please visit the HHSMB website at http://www.hhs.fuhsd.org/mbmain, go to the Forms page and download the Concession Pre-Order Form.

Please return the completed Concession Pre-Order Form, along with a check, to

Ms. Vicki Feltman’s box.  You may place an order for one or more football games at any time.

Questions can be directed to Winnie Lo at leolo9@yahoo.com.

**Please note – Pick-up for ALL concession pre-orders will now be at the gate underneath the bleachers (facing the entrance to the stadium behind the ticket booth).

VOLUNTEERS STILL NEEDED!!

(Eileen Chun)

Just a reminder to all Music Booster volunteers; everyone must pay to get into the football games, volunteering or not.

WE NEED ALMOST 30 VOLUNTEERS for this Friday’s football game in order for the event to be a success. 

To sign up, go to http://www.volunteerspot.com/login/entry/962345632561568076

OPEN SPOTS:

Half Time Equipment Help needs 1 of 4

Recycle 3:30-5 needs 1 of 1

Signage 3:30-5 needs 1 of 1

BBQ Serve 5-7:30 needs 1 of 2

Nachos Serve 5-7:30 needs 1 of 2

Potato Serve 5-7:30 needs 1 of 5

Recycle 5-7:30 needs 3 of 3

BBQ Cook 6-8 needs 1 of 1

BBQ Serve 6-8 needs 1 of 1

BBQ Cook 7:30-10 needs 1 of 2

BBQ Serve 7:30-10 needs 2 of 2

Nachos Serve 7:30-10 needs 1 of 2

Potatoes Serve 7:30-10 needs 3 of 8

Recycle 7:30-10 needs 3 of 3

Snack Shack 7:30-10 needs 6 of 9

Recycle 9:30-10 needs 2 of 2

To all volunteers: Please follow through on your assignments and verify that your position is covered. In some instances, we have had to scramble to find someone to fill a spot, not realizing that you were coming. In most instances, if someone is in Your Place, it is because we yanked them from another spot or they are doing a double shift. Please don't assume your spot is covered just because you see someone there! Your follow through will be greatly appreciated. We will do our best to post Red Flags where people are needed/missing. Thank you for your cooperation. 

HOME SHOW, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5^th

A MESSAGE FROM DIANE CRESSLER

SCHEDULE

(Vicki Feltman)

10am– 3pm Practice

3pm                Meet in band quad to change and dress in uniform. Bring everything you need for the night (clothing, money, shoe bags, instrument and jacket) out to the band quad with you. You will have no access to the band room.

Leave your instrument cases and belongings IN FRONT OF uniform carts. We cannot see anything put in BACK of uniform carts.

4pm                HOMESHOW!

Volunteer Specifics

(Eileen Chun)

We need about 20 more cookie donations and about a dozen more volunteers this Saturday in order for the Home Show to be a success.   

To sign up, go to http://www.volunteerspot.com/login/entry/962345632561568076

OPEN SPOTS:
Bring: 3 doz Cookies needs 27 of 50

Pit needs 1 of 5

Parking Attendents needs 5 of 5

Refreshments Setup needs 3 of 4

Ticket Sales needs 3 of 5

Refreshments Host needs 1 of 4

WANTED – HELP TRANSPORTING STRING BASS TO GUNN HS THURSDAY EVENING

(Vicki Feltman)

The Homestead Orchestra is participating in an exchange concert with the Gunn High School and Prospect High School Orchestras on Thursday, November 3^rd, at 7pm, in the Spagenberg Theater.

Mr. Burn needs help transporting a string bass to Gunn High School, to arrive at 3:45 pm, when orchestra is scheduled to rehearse. The instrument will also need to be transported back after the concert or first thing Friday morning.

Can anyone help? Please contact Vicki.feltman@gmail.com.

MEALS FOR MACY’S NEXT TUESDAY AT CHIPOTLE   

(Jackie Browning)

The next Meals for Macy's event will be held at Chipotle located at S. De Anza Blvd & McClellan Road, Cupertino onTuesday, November 8^th from 2pm – 10pm. Please print the flyer and bring it with you to the restaurant. The flyer will be uploaded to http://www.hhs.fuhsd.org/mbmain under Forms. There are also flyers in the band room.

Fliers are good for dine-in and take-out orders. See you there!

Remember to buy scrip for Chipotle to double the benefit!

REMINDERS:

FIELD SHOW APPERAL! ONE MORE CHANCE!!

(Sylvia Gronovius)

There will be ONE!! (1) more opportunity to get your field show t-shirt and/or sweatshirt!!

Because it is an extra order outside of our agreement with the printer, we have to cover some extra costs, which increases ALL prices by $2.50.

It also means we need a MINIMUM of 20 shirts ordered.  If we do NOT reach that minimum, the order will not go through and you will be refunded your money.

Please send the order form WITH your check made out to HHS Music Boosters to school and put it in Vicki Feltman’s box.

The form can be found at http://www.hhs.fuhsd.org/forms

NEW prices:

T-shirts: $17.50

Pullover Hooded Sweatshirts : $37.50

Zippered Hooded Sweatshirts: $42.50

All sizes are ADULT sizes Small / Medium / Large / Extra Large / XXL

DEADLINE IS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4^th!! NO EXCEPTIONS!!!

Spread the word! Put it on your Facebook! This is the ABSOLUTE LAST CHANCE!

Questions? Contact Sylvia Gronovius at 408-730-4526 or sylvia@gronovius.com

SCRIP NEWS

(Nicolle Sidovar)

Get your scrip form in the Band Room or at http://homestead.schoolloop.com/file/1238131168549/1249846149106/8344325295935888111.pdf.

Remember to buy scrip for Chipotle and Chevy’s to use along with your flyer for the upcoming Meals for Macy’s events!

Questions can be directed to Carrie Adelman (carrie.a@comcast.net), Cora Ustaris (ust_family@yahoo.com), Jenny Haight (the haights@aol.com), and/or Nicolle Sidovar (sidovar_nicolle@yahoo.com). 

VIDEO FOOTAGE OF ALL MARCHING BAND PERFORMANCES

Carl Gutekunst has videotaped all of Homestead’s performances.  They can be found athttp://www.youtube.com/user/carlsgutekunst.

MEALS FOR MACY’S CALENDAR

(Jackie Browning)

November:

8* – Chipotle, S. De Anza Blvd & McClellan Road, Cupertino

14 – Chevy’s, 2116 West El Camino Real, Mountain View

21 – Fresh Choice, 1105 West El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

28 – Pizza Party, 3581 Homestead Rd. Santa Clara

*Please note that the Chipotle fundraiser will be on a Tuesday night

BAND ROOM AVAILABILITY

(Vicki Feltman)

The band room will be open from 3-6pm daily during school days.

SCHOOL-YEAR CALENDAR:

(No changes from last week)