How we keep the rooms

We ask your written permission before we share any photo of your child, on this site, in newsletters or on social media, and you can change your answer at any time. We never put a child's name with a photo, and the photos on this site are examples until we replace them with our own.

Please stay home with a fever or a stomach bug, and let us know by text or a call so we can offer your lesson time to someone on the waitlist. Wind players, tell your teacher about a cold before the lesson; we can switch to rhythm and theory.

We close for Thanksgiving week, over the winter holidays and for severe weather. We text families and members by early afternoon when weather closes the hall, and a lesson we cancel is made up.

Parents of younger students walk them to the lesson room and wait in the lobby. We hand a student only to the grown-ups on the pickup list you give us, and a teen leaves alone only when a parent has told us so in writing.

A parent may sit in on any lesson, and the door to every lesson room stays open or has a window. Concerts are open to families and friends: arrive early, silence phones and hold applause until a piece ends.

Tell us in writing a month before your last rehearsal or lesson, by email or at the front desk. We will explain what happens to a season in progress.

Wear what you can play in, with closed shoes. Concert days are dark clothes, and the youth ensembles wear black and white.

Phones stay in a pocket or a bag during a rehearsal or a lesson. A teacher may ask to record a passage so you can practice from it at home.