Swingin’ Sounds for Senior Citizens

Montgomery Blair High School

Instrumental Music Department

51 University Blvd. East
Silver Spring, MD 20901
Music Office: 301-­‐649-­‐283
FAX: 301-­‐649-­‐2830

January 18, 2012
Dear Montgomery Blair High School Alumni,

I am extremely proud and honored to invite you, your senior citizen family members, and elderly members of the community to what I hope will become an annual tradition at Montgomery Blair High School. “Swingin’ sounds for Senior Citizens” is a brand new service project of our Tri-M Music Honor society chapter and our two jazz bands. The goal of this program is to provide senior citizens from area nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and the community with a relaxed, casual, coffee house environment where they can hear (and possibly dance to) our jazz bands performing music from the big Band era.

Our Honors Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Lab Band will be performing music from Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, George and Ira Gershwin, duke Ellington, Cole Porter, Louis Prima, and more. In case you have not seen these two outstanding groups before, instrumentation includes flutes, clarinets, saxophones, trumpets, trombone, piano, guitar, bass, and drums. Other Tri-M Music Honor Society students will be available as dance partners and to provide basic assistance. There are absolutely no admission fees or charges of any kind for our senior guests or their families – although we plan to have a bake sale, and we will certainly accept voluntary donations.

“Swingin’ Sounds for Senior Citizens” will take place in our Student Activities Center(SAC) between 2:00 P.M. and 4:00 P.M. on Sunday, February 19, 2012 (snow date march 4), so residents living in nursing homes or assisted living facilities can come after their lunch and be back before dinner. Vehicles can pull up close to the building and let guests out at the main entrance to the SAC, which is on the University Boulevard side of the building.

To reserve tables and seating please let me know as soon as possible approximately how many elderly and other family members will be attending, as we will have to limit the number of guests to the capacity of the SAC.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. I teach classes most of the day, so e-mail is the easiest way to reach me. I hope to see you on Sunday, February 19!

Sincerely,

Michelle Roberts
Tri-M Music Honor Society Sponsor
Instrumental Music Director
E-mail: Michelle_Roberts@mcpsmd.org