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Summer Lessons
Looking for an educational summer activity for your student? Sign-up for summer lessons! All of our teachers make arrangements to offer some sort of summer band activity for the students.
Private lessons are a wonderful opportunity for your child to experience a one-to-one education, focusing on their instrument. This personal attention allows students to have a customized lesson, be challenged with unique musical selections, learn advanced techniques on their instrument, and better know their band director. Band camps can also provide a unique opportunity to better know their peers and experience a high-school setting band experience.
If you have not received a letter, you will be getting one from your child's teacher in the coming weeks. This letter will have all of the necessary details about the band activity that is offered and information for sign-up.
Please consider having your child participate in some type of structured music program over the summer. It will be a beneficial activity and well worth it!
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End of the year Billing
The last tuition payment for the 2012-2013 school year will be billed on May 15 for most students. Chicago Public School student's last tuition payment will be billed on June 1. This will be the ninth and final tuition installment. If you already own your instrument this will be your final bill for this year.
Please note that if you are renting your instrument and you believe your child will be continuing in band next year, you should not return your instrument. Even if your child is unsure about returning to band, it is still in your best interest continuing renting until a final decision has been made. Once an instrument is turned in, all the equity that you have built up for that instrument will be lost.
If you are sure you child wants to continue in band, you can either continue renting at the same terms or buyout your instrument now. We are currently offering a 20% off buyout sale until the end of June. This is a great opportunity to buy out your instrument and not receive any bills over the summer.
If your child has decided they do not want to continue in band next year and you would like to return your instrument, please have your child give their instrument to their band teacher on the last day of class.
All of our renters will be receiving a detailed letter explaining your options with the next bill. Please consider your options carefully. If you have any questions or concerns, please call us at 847-805-1800.
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Honors Band
Our annual Honors Band will be held on Saturday, May 4th, 2013.
We are excited to be performing again at the Elmhurst Christian Reformed Church, 155 West Brush Hill Road, Elmhurst, IL 60126. This beautiful performance space and building design is most accommodating and we look forward to having another successful Honors Band! All of our teachers play a key role in preparing our students for the event. We hope to see many family guests and friends attend the concert at 3:00PM. If you have any questions, please feel free to call our office, or contact your band director.
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Monthly Music Fact
A study by researchers at McMaster University in Canada indicated that young children who received a year of musical training showed brain changes and superior memory when compared with children who did not receive the instruction. The children taking music lessons improved more than others in non-musical abilities such as literacy, verbal memory, mathematics, visospacial processing and IQ.
Source: Brain, a Journal of Neurology, Oxford University Press, September 2006.
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