Main Band SYF exchange in Maris Stella

All alumni members please take note:

Main Band will be having an exchange in Maris Stella (yes.. maris stella is the host!). The exchange will be commencing at 9 o clock.

ALL AVAILABLE ALUMNI MEMBERS ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO HELP OUT IN THIS PARTICULAR EVENT!

I HOPE TO SEEK ALL MEMBERS CO-OPERATION IN THIS. THANK YOU!

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7th April exchange

Schools involve:

Chung Cheng High School (Main)
Marsiling Secondary School
Bedok North Secondary School
Monfort Secondary School
Unity Secondary School
First Toa Payoh Secondary School
Regent Secondary School
Whitley Secondary School
St Joseph Instituition
St Gabriel Secondary School
Maris Stella High School

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fredy chia
President
maris stella symphonic band alumni

Attendance and cooperation pls!

ok... i dun wish to scold any1 here... but i seek every1s cooperation in this matter

first... attendance... we always do haf bad attendance, but i hope to see more of u coming down this week... why?
- concert is in july... we haf effectively about 3-4 more months to concert
- band doesnt even look complete w/o u guys
- wadsuse of organising band pracs when no1s coming

i predicted mani excuses will start to appear...
- SYF?
- Church?
- Concerts?
- Girlfren?
- or juz lazy?

this doesnt shoot any1... i juz merely stated afew excuses i tot of... i understand sometimes its becoz of ur circumstances... but do u noe wads the attendance we got last week (24 march)?

ok... i tell u... effectively excluding main band players... we haf 4... oni 4 out of liek 40-50+ of u all? haryl, me, fredy and sean kwek were the oni 1s present... i do hope to see some improvement this comin week... all the more that we felt upset was, we oni got afew replies as to who n who cant make it... all the rest didnt even bother to reply!

i shall remind all alumni members once again...
There will be Almuni Prac this coming SATURDAY (31 March) at 2.30PM... Venue: Band Room

if for wadeve reasons u cant make it, pls haf the basic courtesy to inform any1 of the comm members ty...

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Coming to the concert part, there will be a concert in the last week of July (29th July)... it will be held in VCH at 5pm... will let every1 noe the details as soon as the details are ironed out... right now we juz nid u guys to confirm ur participation... if somehow u cant perform wif us, pls feel free to contact any1 of the comm members... if u do not tell us ur participation, we will expect u to come down for the subsequent practices...

Pieces wise... we haf not settled all the songs yet, but we nid u to come down n tell us... give us feedback on the songs, if u dun like it, we will happily change it as long as the band agrees...

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We juz hope to get this concert moving smoothly, so i seek ur attention in the above matter(s)... ty...

Jason Chee Zhen Cheng,
Alumni Committee Member, QM
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New President + Concert + SYF

Dear Alumni members,

A few things to announce for this entry.

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Alumni Practice

Alumni Practice will resume on 10th March 2007, Saturday! Everybody please be present for this upcoming practice. Thank you!

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mssba President

Just to update on the NEW President matter. The alumni committee has decided on the New President (we have decided since last year :)). We will announce to all of you soon.

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July Concert (29th July 2007)

Please take note that We will be having concert on 29th July 2007, Sunday at 5 pm at Victoria Concert Hall. Please make yourself free on that day. Lin Sheng wants me to CONFIRM members. So Please give us your confirmation.

Repertoire for this concert

We are still trying out pieces for this concert, will have a few Singapore Premiere pieces. So please come down for band practices so we can try out those pieces with full instrumentation. THANK YOU!

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SYF 2007 for Main Band

Mr Chiang wants those alumni members who are free on Saturday or any other days to come down to help the Main Band members to prepare for the upcoming SYF.

Those who wish to help out please inform me the time you can come down. You can also check the schedule with either Mr Chiang or me.

I hope most of you can help out with the main band members.

For those who has yet to know this piece of information, Main band will be playing With Heart and Voice for their SYF.

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SMU Concert!

SMU Symphonia will be having Concert on 11th March 2007, at Singapore Conference Hall at 730. Ticket is priced at $15.

They are playing: Danse Diabolique, 7th Night of July (tanabata), Tico Tico and etc.

Marist Alumni members that will be playing for the concert: Chong Min, Yi Ming, Charles, Derek and Haryl.

Do support them if you have the time! Thankz!!

Please contact Chong Min or Haryl or me for tickets.

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That's all for this Entry.

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10th March Practice is important! Please make sure you will be present for the pract!

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Fredy Chia
mssba president