Congratulations to the following 39 AHS Band members who have successfully passed the first round of All State Band auditions and will be going on to the second and final round of auditions, to be held at Houston County High School on Saturday January 5, 2019:  
Flute:  Olivia Colburn, Alexa Espinosa, Maliha Hasan, Allison Wang;  Oboe:  Divya Vikram;  Clarinet:  Ayoub Abubaker, Daniel Cho, Ethan Metcalf;  Bass Clarinet: Nadia Dixon, Manoj Niverthi;  Contra Bass Clarinet:  Nadia Dixon;  Alto Saxophone:  Ryan Bard;  Tenor Saxophone:  Aaron Bagger;  Trumpet:  Nick Amundson, Will Ashe, Ben Failor, John Heyerdahl, Taewoo Kang, Patrick Wahl, Arthur Yu;  French Horn:  Drequor Berry, Antonina Forzese, Sanath Kamath, Varun Kasibhatla, Enrique Perez, George Pogorelov, Grant Thomson;  Trombone:  Josh Herring, Nikhil Jaganathan, Hormis Thaliath, Ian Schwalbe, David Wahl, Justin Zandstra, Kevin Zhao;  Bass Trombone:  Nishad Kute;  Euphonium:  Emma Wood;  Tuba:  Kaushal Gokare, Matthew Lou;  Percussion:  Ian Valdes, Ryan Zhang
The second round is the entire etude and two pieces of sight reading.  Students, prepare NOW.  This is your opportunity to get extra help - before the semester break.  Mr. Walsh and Mr. Jenkins will be in Chicago during exam week, so let's work this week.  Audition times for round two are TBA, transportation will be on your own (112 miles from AHS, allow plenty of time to get there). 
WE ARE SO PROUD OF EACH OF YOU!!!

ATTENTION ALL BAND STUDENTS:  In the unlikely event of extreme wind, rain, flood, cold, heat, snow, earthquake, etc... and the school system closes for a day... and you are stuck at home with no assignment, now you have an assignment!   If the school CLOSES for a weather day, DOWNLOAD this assignment. 
YOU WILL NEED YOUR INSTRUMENT to complete.  The assignment is due 3 days after the date the school re-opens.  The completed assignment should be posted to your OneNote notebook.  You will receive TWO grades - one for turning it in on time, the other for the quality of the content.