Thailand Trip -Day 1-

We arrived in Singapore Changi Airport at 1300 hours. Soon, we moved into the departure hall and boarded the SQ 976.

We arrived at the Thailand Suvarnabhumi Airport 30 mins earlier, 1720 hours.

We were brought to a restaurant near the CHAOPRAYA River and enjoy our first taste of the Thai Cuisine. It was ok although personally I thought it was more of like a vegetarian meal. Is today the LUNAR Calendar 1st or 15th of the month?

The restaurant is located near our Hotel, ROYAL PRINCESS (will be uploading pics of the room when I have figured out how to upload to this comp).

The Royal Princess hotel is MUCH MUCH better than expected and I think everyone in the group enjoy and like the hotel.

Practice is simple and sweet. Never played well though.

That's all for today!!

(THIS IS THE SUMMARY ENTRY! FULL VERSION WILL BE OUT AFTER THE TRIP!)

Stay tuned!!!

MAWE Thailand Trip + Updates during Trip

Hi Guys,

In 3 days time we will be leaving for Thailand, I hope everyone is ready for this Thailand trip!

I have uploaded the PDF of what to bring. Please download it and make sure you don't leave out anything.

Please Download the things to bring file from this Link:
Things To Bring

Do take note of our attire. It is in the things to bring list.

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Things to take note:

* Everyone is to report in Maris Stella at 10 AM on 24th November 2009, Tuesday.

* Make sure your hand carry luggage is 25cm x 35cm x 55 cm (MAX).

* Make sure all LAG (Liquid, Aerosol and Gel) items are not in your hand carry luggage.


Other than that we will do last minute check on Tuesday itself.

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We will be updating daily from Thailand for our Thailand Trip, so parents and members can refer to our blog for updates.

Thanks!

Happy Packing!!

Fredy
maris alumni wind ensemble

MAWE Trip + new trainee members!

Hi All alumni members,

Our Thailand Trip STILL GOES ON even though Main Band's trip is cancelled.

Please do take note Alumni Practice resumes 10th October 2009 at 1.30 pm at Maris Stella Band Room.

* Members' list is updated with 5 new trainee members. Welcome all the 5 new trainee members! So in total we have 10 trainees up to date (1st half of 2009 - 4, 2nd half 2009 -6)! Hope you all learn a lot more stuffs in Alumni band. Hoping to hear the best from you all!

PS: It will be fun to name each of these batch like 09A and 09B batch. So you guys have different batch mates for alumni! haha. So batch 09A is batch 09B senior! haha!

Fredy
maris alumni wind ensemble

Maris Alumni Wind Ensemble

Hi All Members and the Public,

With the effect from 19th August 2009, Maris Stella Symphonic Band Alumni is officially re-named Maris Alumni Wind Ensemble.

From now on, all upcoming performances, events and others, the name Maris Alumni Wind Ensemble will be used for this alumni band group.

*all members or the public who use the name Maris Stella Symphonic Band Alumni to link to our blog, please kindly change it to Maris Alumni Wind Ensemble.

Thank you very much.

We will continue to bring the best we can to the audience.

PS: For the main picture of this blog, I have another version with more animations and pictures but unable to use it for the blog as it is 8MB in size. So everyone bear with this less striking main picture of the blog.

Fredy
maris alumni wind ensemble
~the legacy continues~

MARISTalumni @ the PARAGON

Dear all,

Here are some of the pictures taken during Paragon's performance.

Good job everyone =)

Click on the link at the bottom of the post to view the rest of the pictures.

[Click Below]

Cheers,
Wai Yip

A gift for ALL MSSBA members! Our Mascot!

Hi All,

I think this can be our mascot from now on!!

mssba teddy! mssba monogram version

Just for mssbalumni members!

Fredy
maris stella symphonic band alumni
~the legacy continues~

Alumni Shirt Design Voting

Hi All,

Below will be a few designs for our alumni shirt.

The shirt will be a WHITE POLO. I am trying to get white DRI FIT POLO.

Front will be like this.


Now, for the back, please choose according to the 6 Options (A, B, C, D, E, F). My Personal choice will be 1. F, 2. A, 3. B, 4.E, 5. C, 6.D. Choose yours now!

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Please kindly vote for the design with the poll below.

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That's all!

Thanks

Fredy
maris stella symphonic band alumni

Upcoming Events

Hi All,

Please kindly refer to your email for all our upcoming performing dates and program for those events.

I seek highest co-operation from everyone in the band so as to have a successful and good playing performances.

Please kindly inform your SL if you are unable to make it for practice.

** SL > please refer to the members list at the side of this blog. There are some changes to your section members. Those without valid reason and have not been regular or unable to attend practice due to certain reasons have been eliminated from the section. Kindly make sure ALL your section mates do attend practice from now on and inform you if they are unable to make it.

Thank you.

Fredy
maris stella symphonic band alumni
~the legacy continues~

Alumni practice on 27th June 2009

Hi All,

Alumni practice on 27th June 2009 will be cancelled due to H1N1. This week MOE has stated no school activities. So we will need to cancel.

Practice resumes NEXT WEEK.

THANKS!

fredy
maris stella symphonic band alumni
~the legacy continues~

Message from Mr Stephen Melillo!!

All mssba members!

Below is the message from Mr Stephen Melillo after he watched the Chosen video that I have recently updated!!

Below is the email Mr Stephen Melillo sent to me. ^^

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Hello, Fredy!

Thank you for playing this Music about honoring the Great Souls of the Past, like Beethoven and many like him. This is what is meant by Time to Back the Knights. The "Knights" of History regardless of geography or boundary.

I very much LOVE the CONDUCTOR!... and I think the Ensemble sounds very fine considering the Video microphone.

Bravo to you and a special thanks to the Musicians for all of their Giving, and or course to the fine Conductor.

Thanks again to you and Godspeed!

Steve

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So guys! Continue your good work!!! We will need to be even better!!

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And here it is!! The video!!

THE CHOSEN!


Be the best we can be!! mssba gogo!

Fredy
maris stella symphonic band alumni
~the legacy continues~
-creating music style of our own-

Practice resumes on 6th June 2009!

Hi all mssba members,

Please take note that maris stella symphonic band alumni practice resumes on

6th June 2009
Saturday
2 PM
Maris Stella Band Room

Please make sure you are free from things can come down for practice.

Email has been sent out to ALL MEMBERS. Please read, update yourself and of course co-operate with us for those upcoming events!

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Concert coming up and we will need to get things done! After 11 months of break, I am pretty sure we are going to sound rather bad but things need to go on.

Do take note, you will need to come for every practice as this program, you will not be able to get it done a few practices before concert. It is rather impossible to bring back the score and practise on your own too cause a lot of linkages here and there within the band.

So you will need to come down for practices.

We will be giving out scores for these upcoming events in batches. So we will need to settle majority of the pieces before the next batch of pieces come in. Will update you all more about this on 6th june practice.

Hope to see everyone soon!

Enjoy your remaining break before Alumni Band resumes!

Fredy

maris stella symphonic band alumni

~the legacy continues~

-creating music style of our own-

Main Band SYF

To all Alumni Band members,

Main Band has achieved a Gold award in the Singapore Youth Festival Central Judging (Concert Band) 2009.

They have performed very very well on 8th April 2009. It was the best I have seen them perform (and many other alumnus too). Although did not get what they aimed for but still they have worked very hard for this Gold that was awarded by the 7 Judges.

Be it Gold or Gold with Honours. That particular day, 8th April 2009. They have played music that touched the hearts of the audience. I think that's something worth more than any award.

Main band has really made all the Alumnus proud on that very day with their music. Really proud of them.

After Main Band SYF, it will be our turn again anytime soon. We (both mssb and mssba) shall continue to strive to the best we can be.

Maristbands GOGO!!

Fredy
maris stella symphonic band alumni
~the legacy continues~

Something for everyone...

Haha. this is our SIBF video (ONLY BAND VIEW, so we all got cheated).

This is Hymn to the Sun ~with the beat of the Mother Earth~

enjoy!

Since next sat alumni band resumes, there's sth for u guys to do after the practice.

NUS Wind Symphony presents an evening through the evolution of music - in GREEN!

InTempo 2009 featuring an environmental theme, with highlights like Jan Van der Roost's Amazonia, Frank Ticheli's Vesuvius, Satoshi Yagisawa's Hymn to the Infinite Sky. Band classic literature like Fantasy Variations by James Barnes and classical transcription of Franz von Suppe's Light Cavalry Overture are also highlights in the concert.

Date: 21 March 2009 (Saturday)

Time: 1930 HRS

Venue: University Cultural Centre Hall, National University of Singapore

Ticket: $12 (Free Seating)

Music Direction & Resident Conductor: Assoc. Prof. Ho Hwee Long

Programme:

Chorale and Shaker Dance - John P. Zdechilik

Puszta - Jan Van der Roost

Hymn to the Infinite Sky - Satoshi Yagisawa

Vesuvius - Frank Ticheli

-Intermission-

Amazonia - Jan Van der Roost

Pinocchio - Alex Poelman

Fantasy Variations - James Barnes

Light Cavalry Overture - Franz von Suppé

For tickets, please contact me (Wai Yip) at 8112 4941

SYF date for Main band

To all Alumni members,

Please take note that Main Band SYF date and time is as follow:

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Maris Stella High School
Band no. 145

SYF Day = 8th April 2009
Time: 1145AM

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ALL alumni members are encouraged to come and help the main band! So do tell me if you can make it.

35 more days to their SYF!

Let's work together with the main band to achieve the First Gold with Honours in Maris Stella. Since we have gotten the TOP and Champion position in competitions. It is now our turn to help our main band to achieve GwH.


fredy

Congratulations!

On behalf of all the members in the maris stella symphonic band alumni.



We would like to congratulate Mr Adrian Chiang for getting a baby girl, Arielle Chiang on 11th February 2009!



mssba wishes your child has a good health and grow into a beautiful and fine lady!


Once more, thank you for your hard work and all the stuffs you have done for mssba!

Leave your message for Mr Adrian Chiang on the Tagboard!

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SYF

Please do take note that Main Band SYF is drawing near, all mssbalumni members please do come down and have sectional with them if possible.

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NTU and SAB Concert

NTU Concert -Sojourn 2009
21st FEB 2009
VCH @ 730
Price @ $12

Saints Alumni Concert
28 FEB 2009
VCH @730
Price @ $15. Buy in bulk will be $12

Those interested please inform me. Thanks!

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Fredy

A Night of Chamber Wind Music with Dr John Boyd

Everyone please take note..

Everyone is HIGHLY ENCOURAGE to for this concert! It is a MUST GO and MUST WATCH! Very good concert.

A Night of Chamber Wind Music with John Boyd
Date: 21st January 2009 (wednesday)
Time: 730 pm
Venue: Esplanade Recital Studio
Price: $12 for Students.

really it worths the money! You will be seeing professional (SSO players) playing challenging and nice pieces. It is a good way to learn!

Everyone should go for this!

Fredy

mssba Latest Updates

Few things for this post.

1. TPJC BAND FESTIVAL!

I would like to thank members that have spent their time playing with the TPJC band in this TPJC Band Festival. I hope all of you have learnt something from Mr Surapol through this Band Festival.

Members that participated for this Band festival: Hao Siang, Jin Yan, Chien Teng, Nicholas Tan, Stanley, Chang Jun, Hwee Young, Seung Hwa, Dwayne, Darren, Wee Chong, Raymond, Lionel, Ryan, Nicholas Chew, Jun Xiang, Zhen Cheng, Chan Lun, Aaron, Caveat, James, Nicholas Wu, Ken Tan, Sean, Wai Yip, Fredy.

Hope it is a fun and good experience for all!

2. Registration of mssba.

We will be registering ourselves under the Maris Stella Alumni Association. Thus there will be some changes and postponement of event(s) for the 1st 3 months of 2009. Nevertheless, practice will continue as we need to practise for our WMC choice and set piece.

There will be announcement of changes to the mssbalumni in the next Practice which will be on 10th January 2009.

3. 16th World Music Contest

Please take note, our participation in the 16th World Music Contest 2nd Division has been confirmed by the WMC organizers. Dates will be finalized in January.

For now, the competition slot will be on either 17th or 18th July 2009.
Please keep your 15th/16th -24th/25th July 2009 period free.


4. Singapore Youth Festival 2009

As all of you may know, 2009 will be the SYF year for Secondary schools and JCs. Of course, our Maris Stella Main Band will be participating for it. I hope all available seniors from ALL Sections can come down and coach your main band juniors on Saturday. I guess it is not very nice to have a not too bad Alumni Band but a lousy Main Band. I guess nobody in the Alumni wants to hear people saying to give comments like: "your alumni good but your main band not good" or anything of that sort that maybe negative for both mssba and main band.

Thus, I would like to see all the seniors who can come back to help out with the main band to come back and teach.

Gold or not, depends on us and them. Gold with Honours or not depends on how much both bands work together.

5. MSSBA PRACTICE!

Alumni Practice will resume on 10th January 2009. We will be trying out our WMC Set Piece and of course choice pieces. At the same time, will announce some changes to mssba too. So everyone please attend the practice. Important.

Thanks!

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Christmas is coming. Hope everyone has a WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS!! I want my presents!!! haha.

Merry Christmas mssba members!!

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fredy
maris stella symphonic band alumni
~the legacy continues~

SIBF Recording + Upcoming Events

All Maris Alumni members,

A few things for this post, (PLEASE READ YOUR EMAIL CAREFULLY)

SIBF RECORDING
(DO NOT DISTRIBUTE THE RECORDING!)

I have received the Official Recording for our SIBF performance.

YESH. FINALLY! After SO LONG of waiting.

So let us hear the TEASER!!

WMC 2009

i think many of u guys already know that the set piece for WMC 2009 is out.

the music committee is currently working on the choice piece. the admin committee is working on the preparation for WMC 2009. we hope to see more ppl joining us for the upcoming competition, so every1 pls be patient.

the trip this time round will be different. less sightseeing but more interaction. how does that sound? will be giving u guys a rough idea of the trip when alumni prac resumes.

Chee Zhen Cheng Jason
Logistics Head
Maris Stella Symphonic Band Alumni