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5th Grade

5th Grade Band

This is where it all begins! The Reeths-Puffer 5th grade band is the first time students in our school district can be in band. The instruments available
to students are:
Flute, Clarinet, Cornet/Trumpet, Trombone and Percussion. Students are given the Selmer Music Survey, and then we give students an opportunity to try out a couple instruments in a fitting process. Looking at hand size, mouth/embouchure issues etc. A parent information meeting is held and students get their instruments & books. Band is offered as part of our Explore Program, so students will have band three days a week in like instrument classes. We use the Standard of Excellence Red Book I with our students. This has a CD/Computer program with it to enhance learning at home. Private Lessons are available for any level student. Performance opportunities include – the November –“Falling Notes” Concert, held in our RPI Gymnasium to inform parents how the students are doing in the first 6-8 weeks of band. They perform as a band in our District wide Band-O-Rama held usually in March at RPHS and the RPI Spring Band Concert held in the Rocket Centre.

Gail Brechting
Intermediate School
5th Grade Band Director
Gail A. Brechting

Gail A. Brechting is in her thirtieth year of music education, the past twenty-four with the Reeths-Puffer Instrumental Music Program. She holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Central Michigan University and a Master of Arts degree from Western Michigan University. She has performed trombone with the Traverse City Symphony, the Lansing Concert Band, the West Shore Symphony and the West Michigan Concert Winds. In 1982, MSBOA appointed her the first Chairperson of the Elementary Band Committee. From 1996-1999, Mrs. Brechting represented MSBOA as their chairperson for the Michigan Youth Arts Festival. She was recently elected to the National Board of the Association of Concert Bands, as well as appointed to the Selection Committee of the prestigious John Philip Sousa's Sudler Silver Scroll Award. Mrs. Brechting is in her thirteenth season as the conductor of an adult concert band, The West Michigan Concert Winds, and is in her thirteenth year as an adjunct instructor of music for Muskegon Community College. She has been an active district and state adjudicator for low brass, bands, and orchestras for over twenty-five years. Mrs. Brechting is a member of MSBOA, the College Band Directors National Association, the Association of Concert Bands, the National Band Association, and the Woman's Band Directors National Association.

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