Concert band

The concert band just played in the winter concert earlier this month and all of you that didn’t get to go to the concert missed out on our band playing great music. The band and the director practiced endlessly to perfect their music and make it sound excellent. The phoenix high school band and choir performed a variety of songs with the theme of the current holidays which is chrismas. They have a variety of members to individual students to different levels of band like, concert band, jazz band, and the marching band. Let’s not forget that choir was also at the winter concert and sang great music for everyone to hear. There are many people that have seen the band…

When you hear the word band when related to music, what do you think of? Is it a small group of friends playing in a garage, or a huge group of people putting on a concert at school? Merriam Webster defines a band as “a group of persons, animals, or things; especially: a group of musicians organized for ensemble playing.” To finish out the semester I went to one last concert, the SIUE Wind Symphony and Concert Band. The opening piece of the night Where Never Lark or Eagle Flew by James Curnow.…

I thoroughly enjoyed observing Dr. Silveira conduct and lead the IC Concert Band in rehearsal today. Dr. Silveira led a very efficient rehearsal that resulted in a lot of playing by the ensemble, and significant improvement. At the beginning of the rehearsal, I noticed that flutes, clarinets and saxophones were there. I discovered later that this was because they were given sectional time while Dr. Silveira worked with the rest of the ensemble for a portion of the rehearsal. This allowed him to…

Concert On April 17, the band Hinds with opening act Twin Peaks perform live at the Crescent Ballroom in Downtown Phoenix. It was a Monday and I had class at 5:45pm till 7pm and homework due soon. Like every college student we tend to procrastinate and say "screw it, have fun",yet regret it later. That day I proudly skip class and my boyfriend and I take a lyft from my house to downtown Phoenix and meet up with our group of friends. To give a little information on the band, Hinds is a Spanish…

If you love music, then you will be sure to love this! The Concert Band and Wind Ensemble of Chino Hills High School competed on Tuesday, March 27 at Walnut High School. This is one of the few competitions that our band attends during the concert season and has a large overall impact on their remarkable reputation. Our Huskies competed in two categories: Score Performance and Sight Reading. In order of highest score to lowest, it lists: Superior, Excellent, Good, and Fair. Starting with Concert…

I've been playing music for as long as I can remember. Growing up, I spent most of my time on a piano bench. Naturally, I followed this passion to my middle school concert band. Unfortunately, on my first day, I was met with the words: “Your mom must be the one with the funny name”. Despite my best efforts, most days continued with the same tone with meaner remarks. I felt out of place and discouraged. Over time, I began to allow these words to bother me and after nearly three years in concert…

I attended Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 50th Anniversary Celebration concert at the Division of Fine & Performing Arts at Paradise Valley Community College. There were two sides to the program, the first one included the album of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and the second program consisted of a mixture between songs from the albums Revolver, Magical Mystery Tour, White Album, and Abbey Road. They had a band that consisted of many vocalists, and instrumentalists and also, an…

13th, 2017 I attended the Steel Band concert in the Fine Arts Recital Hall directed by Dr. Scott Harris. I formally had never attended a concert of this kind. When I thought of a steel band before I would think of just tubas and trumpets, I never thought it would be a band of Caribbean type steel drums. From the very beginning I was greeted with many interesting details which presently surprised me. Overall Western Kentucky University’s Steel Band concert was a very entertaining and eye-opening…

applauding crowd. I bowed and quickly stepped down off my podium and ran to the front of the line and led my band out of the Hart County Stadium. My heart was racing and I could hear the perfectly in time steps of my band on the pavement. We marched until we were out of view of the judges. We walked the rest of the way to our band trailer smiling and cheering. I hugged my senior friends knowing that that was our last performance together. We knew we had performed our hardest and we were proud of…

On May 26, 2016, the Jazz Ensemble at Cal State La decided to have a concert called Jazz combos. The meaning behind the name was the fact that there wasn't only one Jazz band performing but in fact four groups getting to show the students including outside people their talent. The jazz ensemble combos consisted of : Faith +1, Los Nombres, Alt+f4, Something Really Meta. Each group collectively performed three to four song, 14 all together. You would think that since all of these groups would…