Miss Daugherty and I are often asked to share things and opportunities from different musical organization in the area.

Miss Daugherty and I also send you plenty of emails already, so here are many of the postings that we didn’t send a separate email to you about.

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Performances

Orchestra Iowa Pictures at an Exhibition October 5 & 6

Orchestra Iowa Eroica November 23 & 24

Also see…

• Music Outside of Alburnett
• Upcoming Events of Interest

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Summer 2024 Concert Opportunities

There is a TON going on all the time music-wise in the CR/IC Corridor, and Summer is a great time to take as much of it in as you can!

Most notably, the United States Coast Guard Band’s tour will take them to Cedar Rapids on 7/1 and Iowa City on 7/2

• USCG Band
  • 7/1 at Cedar Rapids Jefferson
  • 7/2 at Voxman School of Music (Iowa) in Iowa City
• The Cedar Rapids Municipal Band puts on a series of concert throughout the entire summer. Very high level musicians with a mix of fun recognizable music and classics of the band repertoire in PRECISELY 1-hour concerts.
  • Schedule Link
    • Note that each Sunday is the same as the preceding Wednesday, but each ‘week’ is a separate program of music
• The Wurst Brass Festival in Amana is back! Featuring ‘British-style’ Brass Bands and other groups. Lots of parent fun with the Wurst Fest running concurrently in Amana. 6/14 & 6/15
  • Iowa Brass’s Link
  • Amana’s Link
  • FB Link
• Valerie Cull curated some information on a good number of other opportunities 2024 VCull Performance List.pdf - Brass Transit Authority really rocks!
• Iowa City Jazz Festival
  • Seriously brings in some fantastic, renowned talent every single year
• More in Iowa City – Summer of the Arts

JMC “Exemption” note

2022-03-25

JMC actually can show an assignment as exempt, but for some reason they have not built this feature out appropriately. There are two different modes for teachers to grade in, and Alburnett uses JMC’s “Competency-Based Grading” mode, which allows us to mark scores in a way more aligned with SBG.

JMC has many features missing from this mode (including the ability to mark an assignment late or missing) but we’re using it staff-wide so that grades don’t look wildly different between classes.