FOGO Horn, Sept. 1999

Welcome!
Welcome to the 1999-2000 year with the Garfield Orchestra!  We 
are looking forward to another year of wonderful music and 
student growth. A series of concerts is tentatively planned as 
follows:
    
Concert Schedule   
Oct 16 PLU Orchestra Festival (Orch.A)
Oct 21 Ballard High School, Foyer Concert (A, B, C)
Oct 30 Mercer Is. Orchestra Fest.ival, (B, C)
Nov 23 Concert with Band (A,B,C) 
Dec 16  Concert with Band (A,B, C)
Feb 13 Waltz at the Westin (A,B,C)
Mar 2 Recital Night in Foyer - anyone
Mar 4 SMEA Solo & Ensemble Contest - anyone
Mar 9-11 Retreat at Buck Creek Camp (B,C)
Mar 17 Gresham (Oregon) (A, B, C)
Avril Foolz Conzert - us all
Apr 7 Auction at Benaroya Hall Lobby (A, B, C)
Apr 28-29 State Solo & Ensemble Contest - Ellensburg
June 7 Meany Hall (A, B, C)
June 9 (Tentative) Depart for Japan
    
Japan Tour
Orchestra A students will have a wonderful opportunity to 
participate in a concert tour of Japan in June of 2000.  They will 
tour several Japanese cities, giving performances both alone and 
with local students.  Mr. Tsutakawa takes the orchestra on an inter-
national tour every three to four years, a chance for many orchestra 
students to broaden their horizons!
    
Wrapping Paper 
This sale is one of our big fundraisers, the proceeds of which go to 
the students' individual accounts. Please join this worthy cause by 
helping students sell to your co-workers, relatives, and neighbors -- 
starting right away.  Your student already received a packet, but 
more information will be available at the Open House.
   
Poinsettias For Sale
Need Christmas ideas?  Have an office to decorate?  The annual orches-
tra poinsettia sale can help you out and will help our funding.  Order 
forms for these holiday plants are in your Open House packet and more 
are available if you need them!

Rummage and Bake Sale     
On Oct. 16th at the Miller Community Center on Capital Hill we will 
have a day of rummaging. Mary Sandstrom and Gerri Hashisaki are in 
charge and encourage everyone to make donations of useful items. 
Volunteers will be needed to help out on the sale day, so please 
consider donating some time as well as bake sale items (cookies, 
brownies, whole pies, cakes, as well as individual servings of the 
same).
    
Winter Waltz
The Garfield Orchestra Winter Waltz is one of the most highly antici-
pated events of the year! A glittering evening of music and dance will 
be held at the Westin Hotel on February 13th. The waltz is the main 
fundraiser for the orchestra's yearly operating expenses that include 
coaching, new music, instruments, concert fees, etc.  Mark your year 
2000 calendars now! Parent help will be needed, at least 80 people, 
including ticket sales, ticket-taking at the door, coat check, serving
 coffee and desserts, cashier, door guard, and supervising the student 
room.  Please consider signing up now to be a part of this charming 
and memorable evening.
     
Dinner at Machiavelli's 
The McElroy family, owners of the fabulous Machiavelli Restaurant, 
will once again will host an evening of fine dining for the benefit 
of the Garfield Orchestra.  This year's dinner will be held at the 
Miller Community Center in the spring, on a date to be announced. 
Dinner will be about $15 per person and all proceeds will be donated 
to the orchestra�s Tour Fund for the trip planned to Japan in 2000.  
     
Gala Auction!
In order to defray costs for the Japan Tour, we are holding an 
auction on the evening of April 7th in the beautiful Benaroya Hall 
Lobby. Procurement papers will be included in the Open House packet
and we ask everyone's help with this, our major fund raising event 
for the tour.  Please network to solicit useful items for sale and 
consider donating your own skills and talents as well. Then plan to 
attend -- bringing family and friends to enjoy students performing, 
fine Schwartz Brothers catering, and special items for sale.
    
Company Matching Contributions
Many employers will match their employees' gifts to charitable 
organizations. You may direct your contributions to the orchestra 
through the Alliance for Education, a 501 (c)(3)  organization.  
Check with your employer for necessary forms.   Please let your 
family and friends know also.  Checks should be made out to the 
Alliance for Education (Garfield Orchestra).

Red Balloon Sales
Many, many thanks to Stan Sorcher for organizing students to help 
the Red Balloon Company sell balloons during the various summer 
festivals in Seattle.  Stan did a wonderful job working with the 
students, and the students put in long hours to help raise money 
for their accounts.  This was a good match and we hope perhaps we 
can do more such fund raising like this.
   
FOGO Board Members