Join the Folsom High School Music Boosters for one of America's favorite pastimes - hot dogs!! Our next Family "Day" Out Fundraiser will be on Tuesday, September 28th at Urban Dog from 11:00 am to 8:00 pm. No flyer required! Just mention you're with the Boosters and 20% of sales for the day will be donated to the Music Boosters. Tell your friends and family!
Their address is 424 East Bidwell Street across from Folsom Lake Bowl. Check out their menu at http://www.urbandogandsausage.com/. Hope to see you there!
MUSIC NOTES News & Updates From The Folsom High School Music Boosters
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Calling All Volunteers
If you are in search of a volunteer opportunity that's fun and rewarding, look no further! Here are a couple of suggestions:
Paula Hill is in need of some help with food for the Marching Band and Color Guard, especially for the upcoming homecoming game on Friday, October 1st. You can either prepare food ahead of time or help serve at the game. Contact Paula at paula@daygear.com or (916) 351-1008.
Our event volunteer coordinators, Valerie Alens and Holly Larson, are already busy trying to fill positions for the Folsom Fall Festival (November 6th) and the Crab Feed (November 19th). Whether you'd like to assist with preparations before these events or the day of, there is much work to be done. Contact Valerie at valens@comcast.net (916) 355-1733 or Holly at bmllarson@sbcglobal.net (916) 984-1237.
As always, thank you for your support!
Paula Hill is in need of some help with food for the Marching Band and Color Guard, especially for the upcoming homecoming game on Friday, October 1st. You can either prepare food ahead of time or help serve at the game. Contact Paula at paula@daygear.com or (916) 351-1008.
Our event volunteer coordinators, Valerie Alens and Holly Larson, are already busy trying to fill positions for the Folsom Fall Festival (November 6th) and the Crab Feed (November 19th). Whether you'd like to assist with preparations before these events or the day of, there is much work to be done. Contact Valerie at valens@comcast.net (916) 355-1733 or Holly at bmllarson@sbcglobal.net (916) 984-1237.
As always, thank you for your support!
Friday, September 24, 2010
Congratulations Mr. Zimny!
The World Drum Corps Hall of Fame is a non-profit organization honoring those individuals who have contributed significantly over many years to the development and continuing excellence in drum and bugle corps activity. Seven individuals were inducted into the World Drum Corps Hall of Fame at the group’s annual meeting in Rochester, New York on Labor Day weekend, including our very own Mr. Zimny!
Here's what you may not know about Mr. Zimny and what the Hall of Fame published about his award:
"By the time he reached the age of 50, John Zimny had been involved in drum and bugle corps activity for more than 40 years. He began playing a soprano horn with the Viscounts of McHenry, Illinois in 1956 at age eight. In 1961 the corps won the national Sons of the American Legion Championship. By the late 1960s, he was soprano soloist with Chicago Royal Airs. Following his involvement at the junior corps level, he marched as a soprano horn player with the Air Force Academy drum and bugle corps from 1968 to 1971. He later served as chief arranger for the Academy. He is best known for his work as music arranger, teacher and program co-ordinator with Sacramento Freelancers beginning in 1976 and extending through the 1990s. In the early 1970s, he was brass instructor with Des Plaines Vanguard and Ottawa Crusaders in Illinois. He taught the brass section of the Knights in 1986. In addition to his work with various drum and bugle corps, he has been a music teacher in the Folsom, California school system. Downbeat magazine named his group the best middle school jazz band in America."
Our very best wishes go out to Mr.Zimny on this fantastic achievement!
Here's what you may not know about Mr. Zimny and what the Hall of Fame published about his award:
"By the time he reached the age of 50, John Zimny had been involved in drum and bugle corps activity for more than 40 years. He began playing a soprano horn with the Viscounts of McHenry, Illinois in 1956 at age eight. In 1961 the corps won the national Sons of the American Legion Championship. By the late 1960s, he was soprano soloist with Chicago Royal Airs. Following his involvement at the junior corps level, he marched as a soprano horn player with the Air Force Academy drum and bugle corps from 1968 to 1971. He later served as chief arranger for the Academy. He is best known for his work as music arranger, teacher and program co-ordinator with Sacramento Freelancers beginning in 1976 and extending through the 1990s. In the early 1970s, he was brass instructor with Des Plaines Vanguard and Ottawa Crusaders in Illinois. He taught the brass section of the Knights in 1986. In addition to his work with various drum and bugle corps, he has been a music teacher in the Folsom, California school system. Downbeat magazine named his group the best middle school jazz band in America."
Our very best wishes go out to Mr.Zimny on this fantastic achievement!
Monday, September 6, 2010
Hangman For Musicians
What’s the hardest word to solve in Hangman? If you guessed some freak of linguistics like “onomatopoeia,” “dybbuk,” or “benzodiazepine,” you’re barking up entirely the wrong arboriform growth.Take it from Jon McLoone, Director of Business Development for Wolfram Research, the company behind popular mathematical modeling tool Mathematica. McLoone was inspired to investigate the English language’s hardest-to-guess word after his six-year-old daughter asked him how she could beat her Hangman computer game.
To find out, McLoone wrote a program that would play Hangman with all 90,000 words in the dictionary, attempting to guess each one in a semi-random way similar to a method a good human player might use. In total, he simulated some 15 million Hangman games, tying up several office PCs for a weekend in the process.
Contrary to his expectations, McLoone found that shorter words were harder to guess than longer words, and the fewer pieces you use in your Hangman drawing, the truer that gets.
And the hardest word of all? “Jazz,” which topped the rankings in all the variations of the basic game he tried!
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