Announcements

• Sectionals have resumed. Check the schedule here.
• Practice Card is due on Monday, January 11^th
• Our sectionals are to help us prepare for UIL on March 2^nd
• One more week to the end of the grading period. Outside of practicing, students should be focusing on bringing up their grades in ALL classes to their highest level.

Upcoming Events

• UIL Clinic #1 on February 2^nd
• Winter Party, Friday February 5^th
• UIL Clinic #2, Tuesday, February 16^th
• Pre-UIL Concert, Thursday, February 25^th
• UIL Concert and Sight Reading Contest, Wednesday, March 2^nd

Assignments

• Long tones (tone development), scales, Zacatecas tonguing exercise.
• La Madre de los Gatos.Students should be working slowly, one section of music at a time. You should hear smaller sections of music repeated again and again for accuracy of pitch and rhythm.
• The Steppes of Russia. From the beginning to m. 39