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Beginning Band students played an in-class demonstration for parents in September. Our first evening performance in February was polished and showed exceptional improvement since those first weeks of school!
Beginning Band – Mary Had a Little Lamb
Beginning Band – Go Team
Beginning Band – Caveman Gets a Haircut
In October, MS Band students participated in the fourth annual Independent School Band Festival, hosted this year at Cary Academy. Students from four area independent middle schools combined to form three large bands, worked for one day with guest conductors, and performed that evening. MS Band performed for the Central District Band Festival at Cedar Ridge HS in Hillsborough on March 25. We gave a much more polished performance, despite trimester break, and earned an Excellent rating playing Level III music.
MS Band – Pinnacle
MS Band – March of the Paratroopers
The MS Jazz Band performed in the Band concert in February, at an assembly for the student body in April, and for Pops On the Quad.
MS Jazz Band – Tequila
In November, the US Band presented its first performance that was not shared with any other school or community group, preparing seven different pieces of music. In March, the US Band traveled 3 ½ hours to Shelby NC for the South Central District Band Festival (since our District Festival is always over Spring Break and Exams were moved to the week before Spring Break) and gave its best performance of the year. We earned an Excellent rating playing Level IV and V music for the 3 judges for our on-stage performance of 3 prepared pieces and a Superior rating for sight-reading.
US Band – Big Four March
US Band – Gathering of the Ranks at Hebron
The US Jazz Band performed for Jazz on the Quad in October with guests from Enloe High School. Adam Pedersen and Zack Hobbs, along with some of the hot-shots from Enloe, played their own 30 minute set after the two jazz bands finished.
US Jazz Band – Take the A Train
It is amazing how far we have come since August, 1997. In year one, there were less than 50 students who played wind instruments. In year seven there are over 100 (not counting those students twice who are in both US band and US Jazz Band).