Parkland: A Season for Giving

As on of our bloggers mentioned in the last post, Gary Millspaugh, Director of the Allentown Rescue Mission, stopped by our Music Production class 2nd period today to say “hi” and “thanks” to our class.  In addition to asking us some questions about how we put the CD together, he listened to a track from the CD and shared with the class how our donation will be used to met the needs of the homeless men attended to by his organization.  We look forward to seing Mr. Millspaugh again this Thurs. when he’ll share briefly with the audience at our high school Chorus and Orchestra Concert.  We know how busy he is and how important is his work, so we really appreciate his taking the time to come to Parkland!

Allentown Rescue Mission Director, Mr. Gary Millspaugh, hands a check to class Public Relations rep, Kaela B., for 25 CDs to send as a "thank you" to Rescue Mission donors.

Just wanted to make a quick shout out and thank you to all of those who came to the Orefield Middle School concert and to those of you who bought our CDs!  We are really proud of our middle school and we are so thankful for those of you who purchased the Season for Giving CD!

Just to keep everyone updated, we just got an incredible visit from a person who is very special and influential to our CD:  Gary Milsbaugh, the director of the Allentown Rescue Mission!  We are so excited to actually have met him and for those of you coming out to this Thursday’s High school orchestra and 11/12 grade chorus concert, you could meet Mr. Milsbaugh as well!!!  We hope to see a lot of you there!

Hey everyone!  I hope this finds you well and that you all had a great weekend!  We seemingly have all of the final dates and locations for sales of the holiday CD!

Tonight at the Orefield Middle School concert at Parkland High School at 7 PM is our first concert sales day!!!!  We hope to see a lot of people show up to support the kids and also to support the Allentown Rescue Mission in sales!

Additional concert sales dates(all concerts begin at 7PM):

December 7:  Jaindl Elementary

December8:  High School (Orchestra and 11/12 grade chorus)

December 12:  Orefield Middle School Band concert (at the high school) AND Cetronia Elementary School

December 13:  Ironton Elementary

December 14:  Kratzer Elementary

December 15:  High school (band and 9/10 grade chorus)

December 16:  Middle School Orchestra Concert(at the high school)

December 19:  Kernsville Elementary

December 20:  Springhouse Middle School band concert (at the high school)

Additionally,  the CDs will be sold this Wednesday, December 7th in the Parkland High School Auditorium lobby from 7-740 at our weekly coffeehouse and this Sunday December 11 at Congregation Keneseth Israel from 9:30-12:30 in the holiday sales in the multipurpose room.  Additional dates and locations currently being considered.  Updates soon to come.  Keep buying the CDs!  We’ve already had a great turn out and amazing orders from the CDs.  We really appreciate it and I’m sure the people from the Allentown Rescue Mission will too!  Thanks so much every one!

Hey everyone!  The Parkland: A Season for Giving CD is finally in!  The first official sale date will be Monday December 5th at the Orefield Chorus concert so come and and support the middle school chorus kids and take part in the generosity that is the Season for Giving CD!  Buy a CD or 2 for $10 each and support the Allentown Rescue Mission.  Also, come see live performances and presentations of the songs from the CD in the Parkland High School auditorium lobby on December 7th from 7 Am-7:35 AM!  Hope to see a lot of you there!  Keep an eye out for more sale dates of a great holiday CD!!

The Parkland High School Music Production class has finished the Season for Giving CD!  Our official release date for the CD will be at the coffee house located in the Parkland High School auditorium lobby on Wednesday December 7th!  However, we have just been informed of an early release date on Monday December 5th at the Orefield Middle School chorus concert, also located in the Parkland High School auditorium!!  We are planning to sell these wonderful CDs at all of the middle school and high school concerts from December 5th on and possibly at a few of the elementary school concerts (definite dates soon to come).  As the holiday season approaches, keep in mind that a CD filled with wonderful holiday songs makes a wonderful stocking stuffer or gift for friends and family alike! Additionally, for anyone who would be around on December 11th, the Season for Giving CD will be sold at the Holiday Vendor Fair in the Congregation Keneseth Israel Multi Purpose room from 9:30 AM-12PM along with some fun gifts made by other vendors in the Allentwon area!  More dates and locations of sales soon to come!

For those who would rather buy online, the CD is still being sold from the aforementioned website, direct from the vendor and can also be purchased (all tracks except Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer) on iTunes!  Any ideas for more locations to sell the Season for Giving CD?  Leave us some comments and let us know and we will do our best to see where we can get and what we can do to get our CD out!  Remember, this is for a great cause!  Come out and support the Allentown Rescue Mission when you buy our Parkland High School A Season for Giving CD!

Although our Parkland: A Season for Giving (2011) holiday CD won’t be “officially” released until Wed. Dec. 7, it is available as of today for digital download from the iTunes Store.

CLICK THIS LINK TO VISIT SEASON FOR GIVING (2011) ON iTUNES

Note: Due to copyright restrictions, the track, “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer,” featuring PHS principal Dr. Lessel, and PHS teacher Mr. Schwartz, is ONLY available on the physical CD and not on iTunes…sorry!  Plus, when you buy the actual CD you get an actual CD with Sierra D’s great CD cover art and we make a little more $$ for our charity, the Allentown Rescue Mission. We hope you’ll consider giving this uniquely “Parkland” gift this holiday season.

Class members: If you need the CD cover art to use for posters, etc. when promoting sales of the CD, grab it here:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B0OzrCgIkS84NmMxNjI5M2QtMzBkNS00OTllLTk2NjctOTA4YmI4NzllMWMw

For those of you following our class’s holiday CD for charity project, we wanted to post this final, semester’s end, report about the project.

In the end, the Parkland High School Music Production class was able to make a donation of $1,250 to Valley Youth House from the sales of our annual holiday CD project, “Parkland: A Season for Giving.” In the end, we sold about 300 physical CDs to our school and community, as well as a handful of digital downloads available at the iTunes Store.

Our class turned out a great CD this year, full of stylistic variety, inventive arrangements, musical creativity, fine performances, and interesting production elements. That the dozen or so students involved could use their combined talents to help troubled and abused teens in our area makes it that much more rewarding.

Well done everyone!

When we re-launched the blog for 2010 I had intended that we’d share artist info story – let you meet the folks behind PARKLAND: A SEASON FOR GIVING (2010). We’ve come up a little short, but it’s never too late to try to rectify this
Let me tell you about Sam, our producer (pictured). Sam plays several instruments and has a pleasing voice. His track, Hanukah, O Hanukah” shows these eclectic gifts.
But as Producer, Sam’s also been instrumental in leading the class through decisions about the direction the CD has taken and its marketing, etc. We all have “Season for Giving” T-Shirts because of Sam

Hello everyone,
Nich again! It looks like we are nearing the end of our CD sales….but there are still CDs to sell and you may still purchase them at our upcoming chorus concert on Thursday night! PLease support this cause, it’s fabulous. We ordered 120 more CDs, so there should still be a little more than 100 left. Hope you have a wonderful day.

NICH