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Connie Schar
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Lynn Huenemann
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OMEA District II Jr. High Music Honors Festival 2010
Seneca East Jr. High joined with 31 other schools to be a part of an honorary music festival that performed a final concert on Saturday, February 20th, 2010 at Tiffin Middle School. Music teachers from District II sent nominations of outstanding band, chorus, and orchestra students, from which the final ensembles were created.

January 2010

** Joe Corbi’s Pizza products & Myers Cider: Look for delicious products to order now through Jan. 20 from all S.E. Band students. See Mrs. Willman or any band student if interested in ordering. Orders must be pre-paid. Delivery is Feb. 10th in the afternoon.

**Kroger Accounts: If you shop at Kroger, you could be instantly helping the Music Department. You can choose your favorite band/choir student, or build up your own child’s student music trip account NOW by signing up for the Kroger Community Rewards Program: Register online (krogercommunityrewards.com) using your Kroger plus card, and the Seneca East Music Booster NPO number 81688. This will automatically send 5% of all purchases to the Booster account, and we will specify which student is to get this profit. If you do not have a child in band or choir, the purchases can be sent to the music fund anyhow every time you shop using the plus card at Kroger. Encourage friends and family to sign up also.

**Green Recycling: Save your old small electronics, such as jewelry, cell phones, ink jet printer cartridges, laptops and netbooks, MP3 players, digital cameras, GPS devices, radar detectors, Kindle & Sony Book Readers. The Music Boosters have a collection for these items in the band room. Please bring them in.

District 2 Honors Music Festival 2010

It was a remarkable final concert given by hundreds of high school students who were selected as members of the District 2 Honors Band, Choir and Orchestra. The concert was held on Saturday January 16, 2010, at the Port Clinton High School, after an entire day of rehearsal, along with one evening rehearsal on the prior Monday.

District 2 consists of schools in the counties of Crawford, Erie, Huron, Marion, Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca, and Wyandot. There were 33 schools involved with this event, with directors in each sending audition recordings of their most talented students, who were then chosen to be in the final ensembles.

Guest conductors were brought in for the Festival. The Orchestra was conducted by Dr. Joanne Erwin, professor of Music Education at Oberlin Conservatory. She is active as a Suzuki method instructor, orchestra camp director, and has several textbooks published. Seneca East band director Mrs. Dana Willman and many other directors played along with the orchestra.

The Festival Choir Clinician was Mr. Charles R. Snyder. He is most known as the director of the 200-voice All-Ohio Youth Choir, in which former Seneca East students have participated at the Ohio State Fair. Megan Hosang – Alto – was selected from Seneca East as a choir student of Mrs. Connie Schar. Joshua Senn, former D2 Honors Choir member and All-Ohio Youth Choir member, was also present to assist the day’s festivities.

Dr. Birch Browning was the guest Band Clinician. He is founder and conductor of the Cleveland Winds at Cleveland State University. Among his many positions, he has been a conductor for several bands in Russia. Seneca East Band students of Mrs. Willman were John Phillips on Trombone, and Brianna Jordan on Alto Saxophone.

The final number combined the three talented ensembles in “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” played to a packed house of admiring parents, relatives, and friends of the students. It was a true display of musical expression. Thank you to the 2010 Festival Chairs: D. Gregory Fox, Choir; Rodney Miller, Band; and Brian Stitak, Orchestra.