Pizza Kit and Cookie Dough Does Well!!

We just finished our pizza kit/cookie dough fundraiser and we made roughly $1400!! I will annouce the two top sellers of this fundraiser as we look over the orders this week and award them. I want to thank everyone for making this so successful.

The pick-up date is Saturday, February 6th in the McCants Cafeteria from 9am-12pm. Everyone will need to make sure they can come and pick-up their orders or make arrangements to have someone pick-up your orders. These items will need to be refrigerated so this is very important.

Winter Concert was a Success!!

We had our winter concert on December 18th and all the students did a wonderful job! We were able to video record it all and now that are webpage program is up and running again we will post the video soon.

McCants Orchestra Students Perform at the McCants Pigout!

We had a small group of orchestra students perform at the McCants Pigout on Friday, October 9th. We had a blast playing fiddle tunes along side of the McCants band.

Sixth Grade is Moving along Fast!

The sixth grade class on A-day is doing really well. We had our first bowed playing test today, October 13th and everyone did great!

The B-day class of the sixth graders began one of their first winter concert pieces just the other day. I am really impressed with these young musicians and their elementary strings teachers should really be commended!

McCants Lanyards are a Big Hit!

We sold out of the McCants lanyards at the 6th grade orientation! I ordered another 200 so they should be here any day now. We are selling them during lunch in the cafeteria. They are $3.50 each.

Our First Booster Club Meeting

We had our first booster club meeting for the McCants Orchestra on September 1st. We decided to have our annual Pizza Kit and Cookie Dough fundraiser. We will begin that soon.

We discussed upcoming events such as All-County Auditions here at McCants on September 29th from 4-8pm. We will need some parents to help students get to the audition rooms and check-in.

Here is this Year's Syllabus

Click here to download the 2009-2010 Syllabus.

Congratulations to these Students who Auditioned and were chosen for the Chamber Orchestra for Lord of the Rings!

1^st Violins

Lora Lassiter

Allea Nickell

Lillian Hardaway

Katie Hanley

Yoon Seok Hwang

Briana Cleveland

2^nd Violins

Chris Geer

Ashleigh Joy

Christian Macias

Alex Geiger

Erin McLain

Claire Counts

(Alternate - Catherine McIntyre)

Violas

Ben Delorme

Jennifer Miranda

Lina Baroni

Jonnathon Giraldo

Heather Peer

Rachel Brennan

(Alternate - Dennis Sostre)

Cellos

Kenan Hunter

Ashley Hampton

Mikayla Lee

Jordan Matthews

Kathryn Hammond

Madison Winstead

(Alternate - Sam Wheeler)

Basses

Luke McCollum

Conner Martin

Ross DeFranco

Alex Dorton

Olivia Alewine

(Alternate - Quincy McAlister)

The morning rehearsals will begin next week from 7-8am. Each student needs to make at least three each week. They can decide which three they will be. The concert for this will be in May for the student body as well as a night concert so parents can attend. I want to thank everyone that helped out running these auditions, Mrs. Baroni and Mr. Moseley and anyone else since I was in a district meeting for a while.

McCants Students Perform for Our Local Nursing Homes.

The last week of school before the winter break, we had about 40 students perform for five nursing homes (Magnolias, Morningside, North Pointe Assisted Living, NHC, and the Legacy). The students had a great time as well as the residents!!

Fall Concert and Pumpkin Carving Day are fast Approaching!!

Our first concert of the year is approaching fast. It is Tuesday, October 27th at 7pm in the Fine Arts building here at McCants. This concert is just for the 7th and 8th grade orchestras. We will also be carving pumpkins the day before, Monday, October 26th from 4-7pm in the Fine Arts building so bring your carving tools and your pumpkins!

We will have a contest for the top three pumpkins and announce the winners at the concert.

Legend of the Sleepy Hollow Morning Rehearsals

Students that are working on the Sleepy Hollow music need to come during their appointed times. Below are the times for each instrument as well as the full group rehearsals that are for everyone:

Monday 7-8am Violins only

Tuesday 7-8am Violas only

Wednesday 7-8am Celli and Basses only

Thursday 7-8am Everyone

Friday 7-8am Everyone

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The drama is performing a play about "The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow" and we are performing the music for it this fall. This music will be played by the advanced 8th grade orchestra and students that are willing to work hard and audition on the music (because the music is very difficult). We will work on some of this in the morning rehearsals as well as in class. The date for the play is October 29th.

Every Thursday and Friday morning we are rehearsing the music for the Sleepy Hollow for anyone that wants to try it.

Congratulations to Our 13 Students who were Accepted into the All-County Orchestra!!

After the auditions on September 29th and much hard work we had 13 students that were chosen to represent McCants Middle school at the All-County Orchestra weekend. Click here to see a picture of them. They are: