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Details about District Music Contest and Piano Soloist Contest

THURSDAY, APRIL 21 – Chamber Orchestra Strings

1. We will meet at MNHS, orchestra room at 7:00 PM to load the buses.  We must leave by 7:10 p.m.
2. We will arrive at Ralston High School (8969 Park Dr. Ralston, NE) by 7:30 p.m.; leave instruments in the homeroom. 
3. We will watch Millard South (8:15 p.m.) perform.  After that, we will go tune our instruments in the home room.  *BRING YOUR TUNER/TUNING APP.
4. Our warm-up time is 9:20 P.M. in the band room and our performance time is 9:45 p.m. in the auditorium.
5. We will load the bus after we perform and return to MNHS around 10:45 p.m.

• ALL STUDENTS MUST RIDE THE BUS.  If you need to arrive from or leave for an activity before/after we perform, Mrs. Martinez needs an email or note from your parent and you will need to provide your own transportation.  

• This is a required, graded, activity for first hour Symphony Orchestra students.  Because Music does not have a state-level competition, District Music Contest is our activity’s equivalent of State!

THURSDAY, APRIL 21 – Piano Soloists

• Arrive at Ralston High School (8969 Park Dr. Ralston, NE) 20 minutes prior to your performance time.
• Bring a clean, original score marked with measure numbers.  If your piece is not memorized, you will need to bring an original part to play from as well.   
• Check in at the registration table. 
• Your warm-up space is in a practice room; performance space is The Library. 
• Your judge is Stacie Hainline (UNO Collaborative Piano Professor).

8:15  PM Luke Eckles (warm-up at 7:55 PM in practice room)

8:21 PM Manognya Muktineni (warm-up at 8:01 in practice room)

When finished, you can stick around and wait for scores to be posted, otherwise you are free to leave right after you perform (except Manognya – join your friends in the orchestra homeroom)!

April 23, 2022, at Ralston High School

Students who registered for the team will receive more information individually via email.

Thursday, May 5th at 5pm

A reminder that students who wish to be considered for an Orchestra Letter Award must complete this document and return to Mrs. Martinez by April 29, 2022 if they would like to be announced at the Awards Night.

(Click [read more…] for a link to the document)

April 9 – Virtual UNO String Olympics – Video submissions due – Any string player, grades 9-12, is welcome to submit a solo and/or small ensemble recording for adjudication by a professional string educator! Fee is $20 per entry. 

Let Mrs. Martinez know if you are interested

Our event (the Tri-Millard Orchestra Concert) on Thursday the 10th has been postponed until Thursday the 17th (St. Patty’s Day!).  With the original weather forecast projecting snow on the original date, our hosts determined it better to move it one week later (and we can use more rehearsal time :).  The schedule and itinerary will be the same.  Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you, but we think it is best for the students, teachers, and our clinicians coming down from South Dakota.  Please consult this doc which has more detailed information.

Tuesday, March 8, 6:00 p.m. MNHS Auditorium

10-12th grade orchestra students will perform with their 8th grade counterparts. Call time is 6 PM; unpack in the band room.  Rehearsal starts at 6:15; concert at 7:30 p.m.  The concert will be livestreamed on YouTube

Please sign up to bring refreshments! 

Program draft is available here.

More detailed info is linked here.  

ISO more volunteers to sell Mustang Moolah tickets!  What am I saying? These tickets sell themselves! 

Each $10 ticket gets the buyer a chance to win $10,000! And, all proceeds go to MNHS to support activities like orchestra!  In fact, we earn $5 for each ticket sold. 

Click here to sign up to sell!

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Movie Night

Saturday, December 11th, 7:30 – 9:30.
Orchestra students are invited to attend our Movie Night this Saturday in the MNHS Band Room.

Please bring a snack to share (chips + dip, or cookies, soda, etc.) and blankets/pillows as we will be sitting on the floor.
Door 30 (the orchestra room door) will be open at 7:30 p.m.

December 13, 2021

Martin Photography will be here Monday to take our group photos during class.

PLEASE WEAR OR BRING YOUR BLUE ORCHESTRA SHIRT so we look coordinated in the photo.

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