Great kids, high expectations, world-class music
Hello HCB and Smamble Members and Families, Once we know who will be going on the Japan trip, I’ll have a better email list, so please bear with me for a little while if you are not planning to go on the trip. Also, some of you may receive this twice. I’ll have that fixed … Read more
Hello Returning and New Rio Band Members and Families, Welcome to another year of “Great Kids, High Expectations and World-Class Music”! We’re off to a roaring start, and we’ll soon have the bands placed and chaired, so we can really get down to business. We have enthusiastic returning kids, joined by a new crop of … Read more
The new theater will provide a new face to the public for Rio, and we all hope it will be the first phase of a comprehensive re-imagining of the entire campus. As part of the new theater construction, an entirely new music complex will also be constructed, roughly on the site of the existing band room. … Read more
Our PM and FM Jazz Ensembles, as well as two combos performed at the Santa Cruz Jazz Festival last Saturday. PM and FM were both selected to perform at the command performanceon Saturday night. Judges and audience alike were impressed with all of the Rio kids. Solo awards were won by: Jackson Stafford, Neta Galili and … Read more
It is now official. Rio WILL be getting a new Theater! The SJUSD Board voted unanimously at last night’s meeting to fund construction of a theater at Rio. Planning is to begin immediately, with construction beginning in months, and completion some time next year. This has been a long process, originally begun over 15 years … Read more