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Digital Programs Below are the concert programs (PDF) for the winter concerts on December 13th and 14th. Enjoy! 
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Winter Concerts Our Mira Mesa Orchestras will be presenting their annual Winter Concerts on Thursday, December 13th and Friday, December 14th. Thursday's performance will be held at Mira Mesa High School and Friday's performance will be held at Patrick Henry High School's PHAME Center for the Arts. Both performances will be held at 7:00 PM. Book Drive As part of our Winter Concerts, we are collecting children's books, which will be donated to Rady Children's Hospital and the Ronald McDonald House - San Diego. Please do bring a book with you to the concert to donate to one of these wonderful organizations! Silent Auction Please note, the performance at Patrick Henry High School on Friday, December 14th will also include a silent auction to benefit our Mira Mesa Orchestras. Promotional Posters Promotional posters are available below in both PDF and PNG formats.
Orchestra Volunteers Are you interested in helping our orchestra this year? Join our wonderful group of parent volunteers by filling out the form below!  Rehearsal Preview | Divertimento in F, K. 138 (Mozart) A look inside a Monday afternoon rehearsal alongside our our Symphony Strings as we explore Mozart's Divertimento in F, K.138. Mozart completed the composition at age 15, in early January of 1772. Given this fact, perhaps it's appropriate similarly-aged musicians take a turn performing the piece.  Giving Thanks Our Mira Mesa Orchestras have much to be thankful for this year. Here are a few recent activities and events for which we should give thanks. Groundbreaking | Music Building On Tuesday, November 13th, a few hundred music students were able to enjoy the official groundbreaking ceremony for our new music building! The new building will house our band, orchestra, and guard programs as we are certainly thrilled to see work commencing on this project. Let's cross our fingers and hope to be moved in for the start of the 2019-20 school year!    Musical Opportunities Thanks in part to the VAPA Foundation, our students have the opportunity to study and explore a number of modern orchestral works, including compositions by Philip Glass, Max Richter, and Eric Whitacre. Pictured below, small chamber ensembles rehearsing Company, by pre-eminent American composer Philip Glass. The composition was originally a string quartet, so students have been divided into smaller ensembles to explore the work in its original setting.  Celebrate Progress Our Symphony and Concert Orchestra held their annual Rehearse-a-Thon on November 12th. These students logged seven hours of rehearsal between the two ensembles and also enjoyed a lunch (facilitated by a great group of parent volunteers). Revisit the morning here and afternoon here.  San Diego Symphony We were recently informed that our instrumental music program, in coordination with theSan Diego Symphony, were awarded a grant in the amount of $10,000 to provide wind coaching during the second semester to support our Mira Mesa Orchestras and Bands. Certainly, this is something to celebrate and be thankful for as we move through the Thanksgiving recess! We will be working with the San Diego Symphony in the coming weeks to structure a coaching schedule that best serves our students. Thinking of Others As part of our winter concert series we will be sponsoring a book drive to support our Rady Children's Hospital and the Ronald McDonald House-San Diego. Please consider donating new and/or used books. Collection bins are available at school and all items are welcome. Thank you! Informational & Business Items
Finally, here are a few points of information:
Shop with Scrip Support our musicians by simply purchasing your normal items with Shop with Scrip cards. There is no cost to you and the program will benefit as noted below. Thank you for your support!
Rehearse-a-Thon As a reminder, our annual Rehearse-a-Thon will be held on Monday, November 12th. Please review the document below and consider sponsoring a musician. Thank you! For photos from last year's event, click here for the morning session and here for the afternoon.
 All-County Honor Orchestra All information regarding the 2019 California Music Educators Association All-County High School Honor Orchestra is now available. Please review the scales, excerpts, and application below.
Cookout Concert | Thank You Thank you to all the students, parents, supporters, and volunteers who made our annual Cookout Concert a success. Whether you attended as a guest, sponsored the meal, provided a potluck item, or volunteered in some capacity, your assistance is very much appreciated.  Donation Drive Our Fall Donation Drive is off to a strong start. We have been fortunate to receive over $3,000 in donations to date. Thank you to those families who have already made a donation online! Next, we have a unique opportunity to take advantage of an incredibly generous offer which has the potential to significantly impact our students. A generous donor within our community is willing to match the next $3,000 in donations dollar-for-dollar! Make a charitable donation today and your support will have double the impact! If we are able to maximize the benefit from our community donor, we will be able to meet or exceed our $10,000 campaign goal! Orchestra Attire By request, we will be placing an order for Mira Mesa Orchestra gear, including 'hoodie' sweatshirts and zip-up shirts. Sweatshirts are $20 and the zip-ups are $25. All orders are due on or before the November 5th meeting (see below). Order forms for both the sweatshirt and the zip-up are available here.  VAPA Foundation We were notified recently that the VAPA Foundation has approved a grant in the amount of $500 to support our Winter Orchestra Concerts! This grant will be used to support our students by making accessible modern works for orchestra, including works by Philip Glass (Company) and Max Richter (On the Nature of Daylight). For reference, video recordings of those two works have been included below. In addition to the works supported by the VAPA Foundation , we will also be performing Eric Whitacre's setting of Margaret Wise's iconic children's book Goodnight Moon on our December 14th concert. Again, many thanks to the VAPA Foundation for their support of our musicians! Parental Involvement
Our next meeting of orchestra supporters will take place on Monday, November 5th at 6:30 PM in Room 405. We will review the minutes from our October meeting a look forward to upcoming events, including Rehearse-a-Thon, All-State/All-Southern auditions, and our Winter Concerts. See you there! Orchestra 'M-Gear' By request, we will be placing a fall order for orchestra attire. Please use the order forms below to request either an orchestra half-zip and/or an orchestra hoodie.
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