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7th and 8th Grade Band Trip to Schlitterbahn April 10th, 2016 Dear Parents/Guardians, As we approach the end of the year we are looking at having our Annual Schlitterbahn trip with the seventh and eighth grade band students. This trip will take place on Monday, May 23rd. Buses will depart at 7:15am (students arrive by 7am), and return by around
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This week is going to be the last week before our Concert and Sight-Reading Contests next week. There are not many events going on this week, but we do have our extended band hall hours most of the days this week. We’ll be making some adjustments this week in the bands for any students that are ineligible as of
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How are we already in April? Time flies fast this time of year! This week we have a number of Carnegie Hall Trip items occurring, but our main focus in class with the bands competing on UIL will be refining our performances from this past Thursday. Thank you for helping us make that performance a successful one! Before I
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On Saturday, April 2nd the Odem High School Screeching Owl Jazz Band Performed at the Texas A&M University Kingsville’s 49th Annual Jazz Festival. The students had a very well received performance that morning! The band was awarded a Superior Rating for their performance and 1st Place for Class 3A! We congratulate the students on an outstanding performance and accomplishment!
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I hope this message finds you well! We will be having a very busy week this week with the Odem Bands! Before I get to our main information about the week I would like to share with you that for the second consecutive year Odem-Edroy ISD has been named as one of 476 Best Communities for Music Education Nation
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Odem-Edroy ISD’s Music Education Program Receives National Recognition Odem named a Best Community for Music for the 2nd Consecutive Year Odem, Texas. March 24, 2014 – Odem-Edroy ISD has been honored with the Best Communities for Music Education designation from the NAMM Foundation for its outstanding commitment to music education. Odem-Edroy ISD joins 476 districts across the country in receiving
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I hope this message finds you well as we find our Spring Break coming to a close. Please remind your students to bring their instruments back to school tomorrow. This is the last ‘slow’ week for the Odem Bands for a while. Please see below for the schedule for the week and individual sections that may apply to your
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As we come closer and closer to the date of our trip there are many things that are going to be coming up. First I would like to invite performing students to join the Facebook Group that DCINY has created for the performing groups to join. Their idea is that performers and directors may have some ability to talk prior to
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I hope this message finds everyone enjoying their Spring Breaks! Due to Spring Scheduling conflicts we have had a few changes of dates on our schedule that I wanted everyone to be aware of. I am also including the next couple months of dates just to remind everyone of the upcoming events. Thursday, March 31st: Pre-UIL Contest Concert – Please
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We have had the date of Monday, April 4th on our calendar for the Pre-UIL Concert and have run into some issues with the date conflicting with Varsity Softball. As such we have been looking for an evening that would be the best possible option. Unfortunately this time of year we find ourselves in the situation that there really
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