Big band

Joining band We were in 5th grade and the teachers said we were allowed to choose some things for our schedule. One of the things we were allowed to choose was a fine arts class, which meant we could choose band, choir, or theater arts. When my sister was in 5th grade she had to choose, she chose choir, she was a natural at singing. I think my parents thought I would choose choir also, because my sister did. That day I had music, when I walked into the room I saw two people that I had never…

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the nagging I did. I had to wait until July for the show, but I was already planning in June. I knew I was going to take my friend Hope and my mom told my dad that it was his turn for concert duty. Unfortunately, my father got stuck chaperoning for a band he couldn’t stand which was going to make to the whole night better. Flash forward to the night of the show, which Hope…

It is 2014, I am 14 and it’s 5:00 am on a Saturday morning, I am just waking up to go to NEIBA (Northeast Iowa Band Association). 9 other band members will be going too. We have all been selected to participate in the 8th grade honor band. This is not the first time that I have gone to one of these associations. In 7th and 8th grade, I went to NEISTA (Northeast Iowa String Teachers Association), an honors orchestra. I knew what to expect signing up NEIBA, but the other 9 students were unaware of…

I shadowed a junior, who will be referred to as Sarah, through 6 class periods. The classes observed included Government, Informational Technology (IT), band, lunch, and a free period during which Sarah worked in the office. The high school in which I observed showed its age, there was a very warm feel to the building. The first classroom I was in grew almost unbearably warm, there was still a chalkboard in the room, and the room itself felt crowded. The feeling of being crowed carried through…

during the war; there was plenty of brass instruments accompanied by bands and voices singing together. The music and bravery from the soldiers went together beautifully. The soldiers feared dying in battle but with a little music could boost their adrenaline.…

This essay discusses what hunter-gathers are and how it fits with a band organization, what life was like for Bushmen and the role of kinship and friendship, and the safety nets formed by the Ju/’hoansi people. I will evaluate the definitions of these types of groups, and what they are made up of. I will give examples of how the interwoven ties aid in survival. More specifically, I will give examples from the Bushmen of South Africa Kalahari desert area known as the Ju/’hoansi. First,…

One of the generalities about the band is that we are ambitious towards reaching goals yet lackadaisical towards giving the necessary work. We hope to have a productive rehearsal, yet talk for most of its duration. People, thinking they are leaders, yell for everyone to “help the pit!” yet do not help them themselves. As a band, we expect others to accomplish our goals for us. We assume that someone else is going to play loud enough to cover for our own lack of sound. We assume that the effort…

football, basketball, or hockey, I was excited to see the Badgers win, and hear the band celebrate with them. One of my favorite memories is from High School Band Day in 2014. I got rejected to homecoming on the bus there, but once I got in the stadium and saw the marching band rehearsing, my sorrows vanished for good. I couldn’t believe that I got to play during half time at a badger game! Since we didn’t make it back for band day the past two years, I thought my adventures at Camp Randall were…

Robert Allen Zimmerman, mostly know as Bob Dylan, has recently received the Nobel Prize for Literature being the first songwriter to ever win it. In order to achieve this nomination, it all initiates with the Swedish Academy that constitutes of 18 members that will evaluate nominations. Once it that has occurred, the Academy will send out invitations to a specific group of people between 600-700 individuals that have the chance to participate, and they must follow specific deadlines in order to…