Dear Hawks,

We’re excited to celebrate the festivities of Homecoming Week next week.  The annual homecoming parade is on Wednesday, September 21.  The orchestra will be walking in the parade.  Please help us have a great parade by observing the following guidelines:

• Meet in the student parking lot at 5:30pm
• Students may leave bags in the orchestra room before meeting
• Bring a bag of candy (no chocolate) to toss to the parade goers 
• Bring water, and a hat for shade.
• Parade uniform is:
  • This year’s orchestra t-shirt (to be distributed before the parade)
  • School appropriate shorts or pants
  • Walking shoes

Students are dismissed following the completion of the parade route (parade goes around the Hebron campus and returns to the parking lot)

Students may continue to the pep rally at Hawk Stadium or leave campus.

This is a required event for orchestra members.  If they are involved with two or more parade groups, they may choose which group to go in the parade with, and please notify both group sponsors.  If you wish to request a schedule or health exception to the parade for your student, please let us know as soon as possible.

Forms & Fees

Thanks for sending in the Code of Conduct and Media Acknowledgement forms.  We have completed 100% turn-in on these forms!  We are at 58% turn-in for the Fee form and Handbook form.  Please do not wait to send in these forms with the fee.  If you wish to submit the orchestra fee in payments or at a later time, this is fine, but please indicate this on the form and still turn in these forms as soon as possible.

The cellos/basses have one more form to turn in – the District Instrument Form.  Please do not send a separate payment for this form.  It has been included in the booster club fee.  The district uses the instrument fee to provide necessary annual maintenance for school owned instruments.  The district instrument form acknowledges that the student is responsible for any damage.  We are continuing to work on handling the instruments safely in class.

All-Region

The All-Region registration form has been posted to the classes.  Registration deadline is September 30.  Full audition information is in the audition packet.  All-Region sectionals are optional – Fridays after school until 5:00pm.  Good luck to all of our All-Region candidates!

Shoutouts

We are so thrilled to announce that orchestra seniors Emily Kwak and Danyal Saeed have been recognized as National Merit Semifinalists!  Congratulations!  These seniors continue Hebron Orchestra’s legacy as a student learning community.

Orchestra sophomore Hannah Mathew has written an article about Mrs. Chang for the Hebron Hawkeye.  It’s been so wonderful having Mrs. Chang as part of the orchestra team.  Thanks Hannah!

Upcoming Events

September 21 – Homecoming Parade

October 4, 13, 14 – Chamber Recording Concerts

October 15 – All-Region HS Auditions

October 20 – Hebron Cluster Orchestra Pep Rally

Thank you all for your support of the orchestra and please let us know if we can help with anything.  We’ll see you all at the next event!

Hebron Orchestra

Dear Hawks,

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Welcome to our new orchestra families, and welcome back to our returning families!  It was so great to see our orchestra students and welcome them to our new orchestra room today!  If you’re curious, check out a preview of our new room: https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChDrxrelm5I/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

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Welcome Concert

We can’t wait to start filling up the room with music.  Our theme for this year is “Rawk The Hawk,” and we’re excited to share some of your rock favorites with you all at our concerts.

We will have a Welcome Concert and kickoff meeting to start the year:

Welcome Concert

Hebron Auditorium

August 30

6:30pm

Please make every effort to attend, as we will be going over several pieces of important information for the school year.

Private Lessons

We will go over this in class, but if you would like to sign your student up for private lessons now, please sign up on the following form: 

https://forms.gle/SoAKrKMyYjwUcV5K8

Private lessons are an essential component of musical and instrumental development.  Typically a private teacher will give your student an individual lesson in a private lesson room during class.  This allows for individual, focused attention to the needs of the student, allowing for them to learn the most advanced solo material, leading to the strongest and most consistent progress as a musician and musical athlete.  Lessons also give your student the greatest chance at higher musical achievement, such as placement in the All-Region Orchestra, and/or high achievement at the Solo & Ensemble Festival.

Some of the advantages of taking private lessons are:

Individualized instruction and attention to the specific needs of the student.

Unique solo music not available in class.

Unique music skills not available in class.

Advanced repertoire for Solo & Ensemble festivals.

Advanced skill and repertoire for All-Region and All-State auditions.

Our lesson teachers are highly qualified and experienced.  In addition to teaching, they regularly perform as professional musicians throughout the metroplex and beyond.  Their schedules may be extremely limited so lessons will be arranged on a first come/first served basis.  Private lesson scholarships are also available to students who are interested and qualified.

Lessons are highly encouraged for all members of the orchestra.  Our focus with the Hebron Orchestra is individual progress combined with team achievement.  Please feel free to contact me with any questions about our private lesson program.

New Assistant Director

We are so happy to welcome Mrs. Helen Chang to Hebron and our orchestra.  Some of the students have already had a chance to meet her, and we’ll be excited for her to meet everyone else soon.  You can read more about Mrs. Chang on our orchestra website: https://hebronorchestra.com/programs/

Program information will go out regularly to you as we start the year.  Please let us know if you have any questions or if we can help with anything.  We’re excited to see you all soon at the Welcome Concert!

Hebron Orchestra

The Multiverse of Music

Hebron Auditorium

May 12, 2022

7:00pm

It’s Game Day for the Hebron Orchestra! Click the link below to download the digital program:

Hebron Main Gym

Thursday, October 14, 2021

7:00pm

Please see previous post for full student instructions.

Dear Future Hawks,

We are so excited to welcome you all to Hebron for our Future Hawks Orchestra Pep Rally!

Hebron Main Gym

Thursday, October 14

Concert Time: 7:00pm

Follow the diagrams below and make sure to follow the instructions from your orchestra director. We’ll see you all soon!

-Hebron Orchestra

Call (arrival) Time:

5:30pm – Hebron High School Orchestra

5:45pm – Middle School Intermediate and Advanced

6:15pm – Middle School Beginners

Uniform:

This year’s Orchestra T-Shirt

Jeans with no extra holes

Shoes – closed toed (yes sneakers; no flip flops, sandals, or crocs)

Long socks