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Music Education Services is in charge of the Spectrum Band Program. They have been established for 20 years and are based in Elmhurst, Illinois. Students are eligible to join band when they are nine years old. They start as Beginners, and then progress to Intermediate and Advanced, moving up to the next group after each year.
Students become proficient in reading and performing all kinds of music, but most importantly, they learn that playing in band is fun and rewarding.
Tuition
Students pay $40 a month for tuition, roughly $5 per group lesson.
Instrument Rental
Students either rent an instrument from Music Education or another music store or use an instrument they already have.
Lessons
Band students meet twice a week for a 40-minute lesson.
Practice
Like anything else, practice is important in order to improve. They learn many different practice techniques and are required to practice a minimum of 90 minutes per week.
Concerts
Students have three big concert experiences each year at which time they are combined with eight other schools for a truly wonderful performing opportunity. Spectrum students also play a small concert for just Spectrum School in December and May.
Intermediate and Advanced students also get field trips where they go with other band students and tour four schools in one day performing a concert at each school.
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e Sardina grew up in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Instrumental Music Education from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1979. This is her 18th year as a music teacher, her sixth with MES. Though her primary instrument is the flute, Ms. Sardina can play all the band instruments and the piano. Outside of the flute, her favorite instrument is the trombone. She hopes someday to learn to play the oboe. 
