Extra Credit for students (DUE by Fri. Jan. 27 at 11:59pm)
MS Jazz – James Bond
MS Jazz – Louie Louie
US Jazz – Soul Bossa Nova
US Jazz – What a Wonderful World – Mr. Jim Ketch, trumpet
US Jazz – Night Train
Combo – Mack the Knife
Combo – September in the Rain
Combo – There Will Never Be Another You
Combo – Blues for Matze (some distortion)
Guests – On the Sunny Side of the Street
Guests – I Got Rhythm
Combined MS-US Jazz Bands – Tenor Madness
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Video
MS Band – 20th Century Fox Fanfare
MS Band – Eye of the Tiger
MS Band – The Magic of Harry Potter
MS Jazz Band – James Bond
Combined MS Orchestra and Band – The Pink Panther
Combined Orchestra, Chorus, and Band – Always Look on the Bright Side
Combined Orchestra, Chorus, and Band – Make Them Hear You
Audio
MS Band – 20th Century Fox Fanfare
MS Band – Back to the Future
MS Band – Eye of the Tiger
MS Band – The Magic of Harry Potter
MS Jazz Band – James Bond
MS Orchestra, Band – Pink Panther
Combined Orchestra, Chorus, and Band – Always Look on the Bright Side
Combined Orchestra, Chorus, and Band – Make Them Hear You
US Band/Orchestra Concert 10-26-16 (videos updated)
MS Band/Chorus/Orchestra 11-7-16 (videos updated)
Jazz Gig at the Sharp Nine Jazz Club 1-17-17
All-Region Jazz Band Jan 20-21, 2017
Class of 2017 as 6th graders! Class of 2011 as seniors!
Soundtrack and Video from Fantasia 2000 – Band Disney Trip 2011
Beginning Band – Hedwig’s Theme
Beginning Band – William Tell Overture
MS Band – Pirates of the Caribbean
MS Band – Star Wars Highlights
MS Band – 2001
US Band – Fantasia 2000
US Band – John Williams: The Symphonic Marches
US Band – Music for a Darkened Theater
US Jazz – Big Noise from Winnetka
US Jazz – In the Mood
Combo plays Take 5
MS Jazz Band plays Louie Louie
All 6th-12th grade Band students performing Sousa’s The Stars and Stripes Forever
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Beginning Band – Star Spangled Banner
Beginning/MS Band – Wipe Out
MS Band – Washington Post
MS Band – Tongue Twisters
MS Jazz Band –
US Band – Hoe Down from Rodeo
US Band – At a Dixieland Jazz Funeral
US Jazz Band – Bandstand Boogie
US Jazz Band – New York, New York
US Jazz Combo – I Got Rhythm
US Jazz – Combo – Autumn Leaves
Band NYC Trip – March 2014
Disney Trip 2004 disneytips04
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).
US Jazz Band – Round Midnight
05-06 End of Year Concert-Awards Program
Jazz on the Quad info 10-17-05
MS-US Band Concert 11-2-05 Program Info
Video – Beginning Band – Prehistoric Suite
Video – MS Jazz – Rock This Town
Video – US Band with Campbell University – Incantation and Dance
MS Band – Devil Dance
MS Band – A Childhood Hymn
MS Band – The Great Locomotive Chase
US Band – On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss
US Band – Tricycle
US Jazz Band – Cute
US Band, Chorus, Orchestra perform at Meymandi Concert Hall
2014-15 began with the theme of electronic music. US Jazz Band performed Jazz on the Quad with guest professional big band, the Moonlighters. MS students performed with ipads and with digital hand chimes at the Band Concert in November and US Band performed with guests. In January, Mr. Grush took medical leave and Ms. Judy Drtina, graciously and masterfully stepped in for the remainder of the year. The US Band, Chorus, and Orchestra performed a collaborative concert at Meymandi Concert Hall, home of the NC Symphony, in March. The Spring concert featured all bands with a wide variety of music.
US Jazz – Night Train 10-20-14
US Jazz – Manteca 10-20-14
Combo – All the Things You Are 10-20-14
Combo – Take the A Train 10-20-14
Beginning Band – Name Those Tunes 5-6-15
MS Band – Zydeco Crawdad Dance 5-6-15
US and MS Bands – the Eagles on Tour 5-6-15
US – Star Trek 5-6-15
US Jazz – Vehicle 5-6-15
Combo – When You Wish Upon a Star/Blue Bossa 5-6-15
Cary Academy’s first ever concert – October 23, 1997 at West Cary MS.
(Orchestra starts about 30 minutes into the video)
In 1997, Eric Grush was hired as Cary Academy’s first Orchestra Director. Larry Speakman was the first choral director. The school wished to include strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion players and the research showed that a school our size would not support both a Band and an Orchestra program. So, all instruments were scheduled in the same classes – Beginning Orchestra, MS Orchestra, and US Orchestra. Dr. Charles Campbell, retired university music professor, and Ms. Gina Calabria, who also ran the first extended day program, worked part time with the string players while Mr. Grush led the program. We performed 4 concerts during year one, the first at West Cary MS and the other three in building V on the SAS campus.
First CA concert Chorus-Orchestra 10-23-97
End of Year Movie Music Concert – June 10, 1998 at SAS Building V auditorium
We did not have a yearly theme. Mr. Grush returned to school in October following months of chemotherapy. Mrs. Judy Drtina again led the band program masterfully during his absence. The NCAIS Honor Band was at High Point University in October. Instead of evening concerts in the fall, students performed assemblies during Grandparents Day activities. Jazz Band and Combo played at the Sharp 9 Jazz Club on Superbowl Sunday! Our Spring concert was back on the quad and featured music that should have been easily recognizable to the audience. 7th and 8th grade band students performed multiple pieces with the US band at each performance. Beginning Band students took a field trip to the music store in April.
Pops on the Quad Pics 4-14-16
Jazz at Sharp 9 Club Pics 2-7-16
15-16 Pops on the Quad Program
BB 15-16 In-class Demo video
BB 15-16 trip to music store video
US Jazz Feels So Good Video 11-6-15
US-MS GPday Blues Brothers Video 11-6-15