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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

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“Holiday Classics”

Winter Concert

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

7:00pm

Hebron Auditorium

Thank you in advance for helping us have a fun and safe concert by observing the following CDC and LISD guidelines:

Each performer may have up to two guests at the concert.  
The seats in the audience are marked with pink and green dots on the backs.  
Available seats are marked as singles or pairs – pairs must live in the same household.All guests and performers must wear a mask while on campus.

Park/drop off in the Auditorium parking lot off Plano Parkway.

Call time for performers is 6:30pm.
Concert Orchestra: Stage
Symphonic Orchestra: Orchestra Room
Chamber Orchestra: Choir Room

Concert will start promptly at 7:00pm and is scheduled to conclude by 7:40pm.

Please maintain social distancing before and after the concert.  Unfortunately there will not be a reception following the concert. 

Concert Uniform is “Individual Formal”

Solid color button up dress shirt or blouse (no polos)
Dress pants or full length dress skirt or dress
Dress tie; full length dress socks (must go past calves)
Dress shoes – heels 2.5 inches or less (no sneakers)
Suit jacket not required but encouraged
Tasteful winter accessories encouraged
santa hat/reindeer ears
holiday tie or socks
understated jewelry – jewelry should be inaudible and not disrupt the player’s ability to perform on the instrument.

Thank you and we hope to see you tonight.
Matthew Cautivar

Dear Hawks, The challenges we’re facing might make Thanksgiving more important than ever this year.  I asked the students what they’re thankful for, and by far the number one response was that they are thankful for their family.  Perhaps fitting to the times, students also wrote just “living” and “being alive”.   “I am thankful for the opportunity to still be a part of virtual learning during this pandemic. Some people are unable to be in school during this time since they don’t have the technology for virtual learning so I am thankful to be able to still learn, be a part of orchestra, and play basketball during this time.” “practically everything: my family, friends, life, food, that I have a roof over my head, etc!” “Anyone who has ever positively interacted with me because it has shaped who I am today.” Class Performances It’s a learning process.  In a typical year our orchestra produces and performs several major concerts and learns fifty or more unique pieces of repertoire.  As a necessary adjustment this year our learning paths have moved toward more guided individual learning, allowing our students to explore some of their personal musical interests while also developing their musical and technical skills.  As I’ve mentioned to the classes, it’s been a learning process for me also.  I’m pleased to share with you some videos we’ve made in class.  We will continue to develop our musical abilities, but in addition to this I am excited to learn alongside the students more about recording and filming the orchestra, and editing the videos.  We’ll continue to share as we’re able to improve our cinematic abilities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et_uZzg1Ttc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5iKw82jMk4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIrGvaJ2TLg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Weup9loT7lc T-Shirt Uniform Pickup We will have our t-shirt/uniform pickup for our virtual students on Thursday, November 12, from 4:30-6:00pm .  Please line up in the main campus, main parking lot.  The orchestra room is directly past the flagpoles and I will be in front of the flagpoles ready for a quick drive-through pick up.  Please submit $10 in cash or check addressed to HHSOBC for the t-shirt, as well as any additional monies for any extra tees, sweaters, or sweatpants ordered.  The t-shirt is the orchestra uniform for informal performances and one has been ordered for every student, including virtual students.  The orchestra garments will be handled with nitrile gloves.  Please wear a mask during pick up. All-Region & All-State We’re thrilled to announce that several of our students have been selected for All-Region Orchestra.  These students were selected by competitive blind audition in TMEA Region 2, which includes students from Lewisville ISD, Denton ISD, and Northwest ISD.  Several of our students have recorded auditions for All-State, which will be judged next weekend.  Along with our 29 middle school All-Region students, the Hebron Orchestra feeder pattern has broken our previous record for All-Region selections, which was also set last year. Congratulations to our All-Region students! Symphony Orchestra Violin Lauren Ahn, 3rd Elli Kim, 7th Ju-young Kim, 14th Viola Alice Wei, 1st Benjamin Kim, 4th Ke’Juan Thompson, 7th Alana Dryburgh, 8th Yehjin Lim, 9th Kessa Dryburgh, 11th Cello Madeline Chong, 6th Bass Aidan Turner, 4th Philharmonic Orchestra Violin Rachel Ko, 43rd overall Madelyn Cha, 56th overall Cello Karis Moon, 22nd overall

I’m grateful for the music we’ve made in the past and music that is still yet to come. Thank you all for your support of the orchestra.  I asked the students when the holiday season starts, to a wide variety of responses.  We’ve already started on the holiday music so we hope to share it with you all soon.  Maybe soon, but not too soon… Matthew Cautivar