Washington D.C. 2022 – Alpharetta High School Orchestra

I hope you all had a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving holiday break and have had a chance to relax and refresh. I ran the Atlanta Thanksgiving Half Marathon and whipped up a great Thanksgiving meal to celebrate with my family and some friends. I want to express my gratitude to all of our orchestra students and parents, our AHS faculty and administration for their love and support. I’m so thankful for all of you!

Hot Chocolate Social

Our first Hot Chocolate Social will be this Friday, December 3 before school from about 7:40 to 8:15 AM in the orchestra room. Come warm up with some yummy hot cocoa and socialize with your orchestra friends from all of our classes!

Students should RSVP for the Hot Chocolate Social using this link: https://bit.ly/alpharettahc

Winter Concert

Our winter concert is just around the corner. Be sure to mark your calendars for Thursday, December 9 at 6:30 PM in the AHS auditorium. Each orchestra will perform including the AHS Symphony Orchestra, our first time putting this ensemble together since February 2020. In addition, we will be joined by the 8th grade orchestras from Webb Bridge and Hopewell Middle Schools. It will be an evening of great music and will help bring out your inner holiday spirit!

For students, a dinner provided by AHSOA will be served around 5:00 PM. There will be an RSVP form that will go out this week, so stay tuned.

Holiday Gift Exchange

This week students will be signing up for and drawing names for our annual “Secret Santa” gift exchange. The spending limit is $10. We will hold our gift exchange on Tuesday, December 14.

SPF – Student Participation Fee

It is expected that each orchestra student pay their fair share toward the orchestra program. Like any other activity that has activities outside of the school day and provides services and opportunities for students, we must charge a fee in order to make everything happen.

This year the fee is $120 per student. If you have not paid your SPF, please do so as soon as possible. You may pay online at https://www.alpharettaorchestra/pay or via check made payable to AHSOA.

Compared with other orchestra programs across the county, state, and country, our fees are nominal. Some examples of things that SPF funds are the KSU Orchestra Invitational, LGPE Entry Fees, our pre-concert dinners, orchestra socials, the orchestra t-shirts, orchestra room supplies and accessories, sheet music, and more. To date, less than half of students have paid this fee. Our annual budget is constructed with the anticipation that we will receive these funds from every student and we may be unable to continue to provide the goods, services, and experiences to students for the remainder of this year if we do not receive the remaining funds.

Please let me know if you have any questions and do feel free to reach out if you have extenuating circumstances or would like to divide the SPF into smaller payment increments. We are happy to work with you on this.

Thank you for your help and understanding.

Washington D.C. Trip

There are still openings for our trip to Washington D.C. on March 11-14, 2022! We would love to have you travel with us! We will explore D.C., experience an orchestra clinic with a nationally-known clinician, and perform a public concert. These experiences don’t come around often and I know many of the students have not traveled since before the pandemic. An orchestra trip like this can be the highlight of a student’s high school experience!

Our Itinerary and trip details: https://www.alpharettaorchestra.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Alpharetta-HS-Washington-DC-March-11-14-2022-LOW-1.pdf

How to register: https://www.alpharettaorchestra.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/How-To-Register.pdf

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns!!

AHSO on Social Media

Don’t forget to check out the AHSO on social media!

Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/alpharettaorchestra/
Twitter – https://twitter.com/alpharettaorch
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/alpharettaorchestra
YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/AlpharettaHSOrchestras

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