Clovis East High School Orchestra
The Clovis East Orchestra is the primary orchestral ensemble at Clovis East, where students will play challenging and rewarding music. The ensemble will perform at concerts and festivals through the year, and may require some after-school commitment for rehearsal of Symphony Orchestra with wind and percussion students.
Clovis East Orchestra Spring Concert Selections
Click the links below to listen online and practice at home!
Revelation's Edge - Alexander Safford
Fantasia on an Original Theme - Joseph J. Phillips
Whimsical Dance - Timothy Broege
The Reagan Educational Center's Chamber Orchestra is the premier orchestral ensemble at the Reagan Educational Center. This ensemble is an audition based group made up of students grades 7th - 12th from Reyburn Intermediate School and Clovis East High School. The ensemble rehearses after school from 3-5pm on Tuesdays. Students participating in this ensemble are required to participate in another core instrumental music class at Reyburn Intermediate or Clovis East High School.
The Clovis East String Quartet is made up of four of the top musicians in the Clovis East Orchestra program. These students rehearse weekly as a quartet and are cliniced monthly by their director and professional string coaches. This ensemble performs for events on campus, throughout the district and across the valley. If you are interested in hiring this ensemble for an event please contact Ali Gilroy Golden aligolden@cusd.com with your name, best contact phone number and email address, the date, location and time of your event as well as the purpose of the event.
GREAT NEWS!
For the 2081-19 school year we will be expanding the Clovis East Orchestras into two full time levels!!!
Clovis East String Orchestra + Clovis East Chamber Orchestra
The Clovis East String Orchestra will be an ensemble for new string students and most underclassmen. Everyone is welcomed! The Clovis East Chamber Orchestra will be a small ensemble composed of the most advanced level string musicians at Clovis East High School. All ensembles will perform at our annual Tri-Tip Dinner, Fall Concert, Winter Concert, Pre-Festival Concert, Festivals around the central valley and our Spring Concert.
Auditions are required for participation and enrollment in the Chamber Orchestra.
Noteworthy News!
Good afternoon Clovis East Orchestras! Here are some noteworthy news.
Our Spring Concert date has been set for Tuesday, May 15th. This is our annual Food Truck and Spring Music Festival. We invite a few food trucks to our event so you can chow down and enjoy great music. It’s a free event and we encourage you to bring anyone and everyone! This year, students will perform inside the MPR and trucks will be just outside. I love the outdoor approach we’ve had over the past few years, but it isn’t the best set up for actually hearing our students perform. This is the first year we’ll be trying the indoor music approach. Food will still be welcome in the MPR. ALL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC ENSEMBLES will perform. Band, percussion and orchestra 7th – 12th grades. We hope you can make it to the fun end of the year performance.
Awards Banquet and Slideshow
Please RSVP for our end of the year Awards Banquet here so we are sure to get enough cake 😊 Our Awards ceremony will take place in the Reyburn MPR, Thursday, May 17th at 7pm. This is a free event! I hope to see many of you there!
If you took any pictures or videos of your students throughout the year please be sure to email them to Timberwolvesmusic@gmail.com by Friday May, 11th so that we can include them in our end of the year awards banquet slideshow. This a super fun tradition we have and it's always more enjoyable when we have pictures of all of our students. Please email all photos asap to timberwolvesmusic@gmail.com with the subject "Clovis Easat Slideshow Photos"
ALL SENIORS! REMINDER TO SENIORS and their PARENTS: WE NEED BABY/ELEMENTARY/JUNIOR HIGH/SENIOR PHOTOS ASAP. I would hate to leave a senior out of the slideshow and culminating poster that are hung in the music rooms each year. Please email those to timberwolvesmusic@gmail.com IMMEDIATELY! In the Subject please include student’s name.
Staff Gifts:
Each year we ask our band, guard and orchestra families to consider donating $5-10 towards the end of the year staff gifts. Our coaches work so hard for their students each year. They are paid, but if you sat down and did the math of the amount of hours they work “overtime” for these kids and then the amount they are actually paid, well, it’s not much. No one is required to donate and any donation amount you can make is greatly appreciated. Each year we pull the funds and give the coaches a nice gift card at our awards banquet. Cash donations are preferred and please make sure that your student knows what the funds are going towards so that I put it in the appropriate envelope.
I don’t typically ask for donations for the directors, but this year, since Shannon and Spencer are leaving, I thought it might be nice to consider getting them a small parting gift from our students. If you’d like to contribute towards that gift I think it would be really special. Taking these graduate assistantships and leaving their students was an extremely challenging decision for both Shannon and Spencer and I know any gesture from our students will be so appreciated by both of them. If you’d like to contribute towards a gift for Shannon and Spencer, please again just have your student specify so that I put the funds in the appropriate envelope.
Please make sure to get these donations to Ali Gilroy Golden by the end of the Spring Concert, Tuesday, May 15th so we have a few days to get gifts.
FUNDRAISERS:
Red carpet car wash tickets ($15 each with $8 going back to our students) will start next week. These are a great fundraiser and make a wonderful gift. Order form is attached here. We only have 100 coming and sales will be first come first serve.
Next week we also will start our chocolate bars ($1, with $.50 going back to our students) sales! Students are required to fill out a permission slip to participate in this fundraiser. Once they sign out a box students are responsible for selling the entire box. We unfortunately can not take back any open boxes. Selling these chocolate bars doesn’t typically seem to be a problem for our students though. As a friendly reminder, students can only sell chocolate after school no earlier than 3:10pm.
We have a few Jamba BOGO cards left over from last year. Another perfect gift! If you’d like some of those they are $10 each. Please send cash or check with your student to stock up for another hot summer.
Please start signing up to help work the fireworks booth this summer! Last year we made about $13,000 from fireworks sales! Please sign up on charms to work 1 or 2 shifts so we can make a big dent in our fundraising efforts for next year. If you can’t work a shift but want to help send anyone and everyone you know to our fireworks booth on the southwest corner of Shaw and Armstrong in that big dirt lot 😊 Fun! NOT the booth next to Save Mart. Again, we’re the booth in the dirt lot across the street. On Tuesday, July 3rd we’ll have students at the booth on instruments, with flags and waving signs to get some attention and extra business. All students are welcomed and strongly encouraged to come. After getting your fireworks that day and picking up your student you can stop by Mickey’s Yogurt for our ALL DAY fundraiser with them (July 3).
End of the Year Due Dates and Deadlines:
Written Finals for Orchestra will take place May 23rd. All school instruments are due by May 30th. If you’d like to help with instrument pick up on May 1st at 1pm please talk to Ms. G
Remaining 2018 School Year Events:
5/8 – REC Percussion Studio Recital – evening – Shaghoian Concert Hall
5/12 – Solo and Ensemble Festival 5/15 – 4th Annual Spring Concert and Food Truck Festival! Evening at CEHS Amphitheater and MPR
5/16 – CSF Awards Banquet – String Quartet Performs
5/17 – REC Instrumental Music Awards Banquet, Reyburn at 4:30pm, CEHS at 7pm in the MPR
5/18 – Scholarship Awards Banquet – String Quartet Performs
5/20 - Honor Jazz Concert
5/24 – Monthly Membership Donations Due
5/28 – No School – Memorial Day
5/29 – Baccalaureate – String Quartet Performs
5/31 – CEHS Graduation
6/8 – Last Day of School
6/30-7/4 - Fireworks Booth, Southwest corner of Shaw and Armstrong
7/3 - Mickey's Yogurt - all day - 20% back to us!
Our Spring Concert date has been set for Tuesday, May 15th. This is our annual Food Truck and Spring Music Festival. We invite a few food trucks to our event so you can chow down and enjoy great music. It’s a free event and we encourage you to bring anyone and everyone! This year, students will perform inside the MPR and trucks will be just outside. I love the outdoor approach we’ve had over the past few years, but it isn’t the best set up for actually hearing our students perform. This is the first year we’ll be trying the indoor music approach. Food will still be welcome in the MPR. ALL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC ENSEMBLES will perform. Band, percussion and orchestra 7th – 12th grades. We hope you can make it to the fun end of the year performance.
Awards Banquet and Slideshow
Please RSVP for our end of the year Awards Banquet here so we are sure to get enough cake 😊 Our Awards ceremony will take place in the Reyburn MPR, Thursday, May 17th at 7pm. This is a free event! I hope to see many of you there!
If you took any pictures or videos of your students throughout the year please be sure to email them to Timberwolvesmusic@gmail.com by Friday May, 11th so that we can include them in our end of the year awards banquet slideshow. This a super fun tradition we have and it's always more enjoyable when we have pictures of all of our students. Please email all photos asap to timberwolvesmusic@gmail.com with the subject "Clovis Easat Slideshow Photos"
ALL SENIORS! REMINDER TO SENIORS and their PARENTS: WE NEED BABY/ELEMENTARY/JUNIOR HIGH/SENIOR PHOTOS ASAP. I would hate to leave a senior out of the slideshow and culminating poster that are hung in the music rooms each year. Please email those to timberwolvesmusic@gmail.com IMMEDIATELY! In the Subject please include student’s name.
Staff Gifts:
Each year we ask our band, guard and orchestra families to consider donating $5-10 towards the end of the year staff gifts. Our coaches work so hard for their students each year. They are paid, but if you sat down and did the math of the amount of hours they work “overtime” for these kids and then the amount they are actually paid, well, it’s not much. No one is required to donate and any donation amount you can make is greatly appreciated. Each year we pull the funds and give the coaches a nice gift card at our awards banquet. Cash donations are preferred and please make sure that your student knows what the funds are going towards so that I put it in the appropriate envelope.
I don’t typically ask for donations for the directors, but this year, since Shannon and Spencer are leaving, I thought it might be nice to consider getting them a small parting gift from our students. If you’d like to contribute towards that gift I think it would be really special. Taking these graduate assistantships and leaving their students was an extremely challenging decision for both Shannon and Spencer and I know any gesture from our students will be so appreciated by both of them. If you’d like to contribute towards a gift for Shannon and Spencer, please again just have your student specify so that I put the funds in the appropriate envelope.
Please make sure to get these donations to Ali Gilroy Golden by the end of the Spring Concert, Tuesday, May 15th so we have a few days to get gifts.
FUNDRAISERS:
Red carpet car wash tickets ($15 each with $8 going back to our students) will start next week. These are a great fundraiser and make a wonderful gift. Order form is attached here. We only have 100 coming and sales will be first come first serve.
Next week we also will start our chocolate bars ($1, with $.50 going back to our students) sales! Students are required to fill out a permission slip to participate in this fundraiser. Once they sign out a box students are responsible for selling the entire box. We unfortunately can not take back any open boxes. Selling these chocolate bars doesn’t typically seem to be a problem for our students though. As a friendly reminder, students can only sell chocolate after school no earlier than 3:10pm.
We have a few Jamba BOGO cards left over from last year. Another perfect gift! If you’d like some of those they are $10 each. Please send cash or check with your student to stock up for another hot summer.
Please start signing up to help work the fireworks booth this summer! Last year we made about $13,000 from fireworks sales! Please sign up on charms to work 1 or 2 shifts so we can make a big dent in our fundraising efforts for next year. If you can’t work a shift but want to help send anyone and everyone you know to our fireworks booth on the southwest corner of Shaw and Armstrong in that big dirt lot 😊 Fun! NOT the booth next to Save Mart. Again, we’re the booth in the dirt lot across the street. On Tuesday, July 3rd we’ll have students at the booth on instruments, with flags and waving signs to get some attention and extra business. All students are welcomed and strongly encouraged to come. After getting your fireworks that day and picking up your student you can stop by Mickey’s Yogurt for our ALL DAY fundraiser with them (July 3).
End of the Year Due Dates and Deadlines:
Written Finals for Orchestra will take place May 23rd. All school instruments are due by May 30th. If you’d like to help with instrument pick up on May 1st at 1pm please talk to Ms. G
Remaining 2018 School Year Events:
5/8 – REC Percussion Studio Recital – evening – Shaghoian Concert Hall
5/12 – Solo and Ensemble Festival 5/15 – 4th Annual Spring Concert and Food Truck Festival! Evening at CEHS Amphitheater and MPR
5/16 – CSF Awards Banquet – String Quartet Performs
5/17 – REC Instrumental Music Awards Banquet, Reyburn at 4:30pm, CEHS at 7pm in the MPR
5/18 – Scholarship Awards Banquet – String Quartet Performs
5/20 - Honor Jazz Concert
5/24 – Monthly Membership Donations Due
5/28 – No School – Memorial Day
5/29 – Baccalaureate – String Quartet Performs
5/31 – CEHS Graduation
6/8 – Last Day of School
6/30-7/4 - Fireworks Booth, Southwest corner of Shaw and Armstrong
7/3 - Mickey's Yogurt - all day - 20% back to us!
