Chorus / Choir

Marching Band

Winter Concert

Winter Band Concert Mill River Union High School Bands' Winter Concert December 12, 2007 Wednesday night at 7:00 the Mill River Union High School Bands Program will proudly present its second public performance of this school year, in a concert titled "Polar Expressions", in the Mill River Union High School Auditorium. Admission is open to the public with no admission fee (although donations to the music program are always appreciated). Five of Mill River's Bands, including two Jazz Ensembles and three Concert Bands will be performing three to five selections each, and each selection is certain to spark the spirit of the season for all who are able to be present !

The Senior Band has been preparing a medley that presents the music from the movie inspired by Chris Van Allsburg's Caldecott Award winning book, "The Polar Express", along with holiday music made popular by "Mannheim Steamroller", and other seasonal television favorites from "Peanuts" & "Rudolph" & "Frosty" . The Eighth Grade Band is working on titles like "Carol of the Bells", "Greensleeves" and "The Nutcracker Suite Petit". The Seventh Grade Band has been rehearsing a beautiful original work called "December Sky", in addition to "Winter Wonderland" , and "Jingle Jazz". Among the selections being prepared by the Jazz Band are "My Favorite Things", "When I Fall In Love", and "On Green Dolphin Street". Jazz Lab has been preparing "Misty", "Hey Jude", and "Kansas City Breakout" .

FRIENDS OF MUSIC FALL MEETING

Mill River Friends of Music will have their once a year, Annual Fall Organizational Meeting on Wednesday, September 26th at 7:00 pm in the Chorus Room. Families of all student musicians are encouraged to attend to help prepare for the year.

UPDATE: We had the meeting. Folks signed up to participate in fund-raising, planning, manning the door, selling stuff, and other tasks valuable to the cause. When we get any more information here, we'll put it up. I'll be posting the complete schedule as handed out earlier but the temporary schedule can be seen below.

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