Hey alumni,

Thank you all for your continuous support to the school, main band and the the alumni band.
Mdm Zaibon has asked us to convey her sincere thanks for all who played for the Carnival.
We personally think it was a good start for the alumni band again; performing together.

In addition, We have PROPOSED to ask the school to let us have an Alumni Band Concert. Yes! OUR VERY OWN ALUMNI BAND CONCERT.

However, this is a proposed plan only. we need some feedback from you alumni first so that the alumni band administrative group can go ahead and approach the school to let us have a concert.

Thus, this being the first time we are going to endevour doing this, there are some implications to having a concert for the first time.

1. We(alumni band) will not seek for a big performance venue and settle for the current school hall. However, should the school support to using a concert hall then that would be better.
2. To get a better chance of holding a concert, We are proposing to tie up with this year's 50th anniversary. Thus, the alumni band concert will be a charity concert. For the school, we will sell tickets (price yet to be settled. est:$5) and the money will be donated to the school's charity fund.
3. We will accept and understand that there may not be any financial support from the school. In such cases, we will work out a best lowest budget for us.



Now, we need some feedback from you people on the following criteria:

1. We will propose for a concert begining of November 2009.either the 1st or 2nd week of that month. this date is roughly set so that it does not clash with the University and Polytechnic exams. I'm sorry for those A level students affected by this period. No current O level and N Level members(still in the school) will play for this concert. This is also a confortable date for the school's activity plan as it will be just after the O levels.

2. Since this will be a self reliant project. We need full resources for instrumentation; players. The minimum number of players set is 50-60 musicians. and this includes full individual section
(pls take note that the below eg. is just a minimum guage and that there is no maximum quota now)

eg.
Flutes- 5
Oboe- 2
Clarinets- 12
Saxophones- 6
Bass clarinet- 1
Bassoon- 1
Trumpets- 6
Trombone- 6
Horns- 5
Euphonium- 2
Tuba- 4
Percussion- 6

3. We will request for practices 3 months before the concert. That means from Mid August to Begining November. Practice times will depend but likely a saturday morning, Unless we can find a better day/time slot for us. Thus, due to to short practice schedule period, we would also want to have conductive practice sessions. musicians would need to have at least 70% of practice attendance.

4. As mentioned, we will tie in this proposed concert with the 50th annivesary. Thus, we have decided on a suitable theme "down memory lane". we will be using CONCERT music which we have played over the many years in our reportoire. Choice of reportoire will be decided later.


Now we need u to reply with ur feedback.

Please tell us what you think about this PROPOSED project and if u are interested to play in it too(considering the criteria abv). I know it is way early to know some of our schedules for that period of time and commit to practices and the concert. But just give a rough certain reply if you think u are likely able to or not. so we can account to officially go ahead with the proposal; we do not want to have a concert with no players!
Please do send in your replies by the 16th of April(thurs) to the alumni band e-mail hscaband@gmail.com .SHORT TIME ONLY! so please do not wait for your whole batch to agree, we would like you all to participate with personal enthusiasm as the admin team do. =]

This is super important, so please do notify your fellow alumni band members to read this mail and reply asap too.

We look forward to your favourable replies =]

-- Hai Sing Alumni Band
Adminstrative Group