The Mighty Trojan Marching Band: Garner’s Unsung Talent Written By: Lauryn Gibbs The Mighty Trojan Marching Band marches to a cadence played by the drumline to Friday night football games. At the games, the band plays stand tunes such as the Garner High classic ‘Hey Baby’. During halftime, the band performs their marching show. During third quarter, the band goes on break.
About two-thirds of the way through this practice on October 12th, ERPB played a song that had a trumpet solo, and the trumpeter mistimed when she was to play the solo’s first note. After another example of the humorous “brushing off” of the mistake occurred, the Drum Major dictated the band would replay the same song from a certain measure late in the music, so as to give her additional practice. This exemplifies how ERPB allows individual players to work on more challenging elements of the music on an as-needed basis, while also limiting the amount of time invested on what ideally is a quick
(1st Slide) Distinctively Visual Distinctively Visual ideas in text have the power to provoke reactions from the responders. The elements of characterisation, dialogue, stage directions and dramatic techniques, cause responders to question the notions of normalcy, and challenge them to think and visualise in new ways. (2nd Slide)
Explanation of Scenes The Shoe Horn Sonata is an iconic play written by the famous author John Misto. This play is about the loss of harmony between two people and how the harmony is restored. The shoehorn is used as a motif throughout the entire play, as it is an everyday object that takes on symbolism and recurs all through the story. A sonata is a musical piece composed from two instruments or voices, it represents Bridie and Sheila’s bond of friendship, love, support and care. The play consists of two main parts, which is Act one and Act two.
“The Trombone” is about a boy who loses and finds his trombone. When Jerry gets off the bus to go to his music school, he realizes his trombone is missing. Knowing that if he didn’t find it, his family would have to pay a big fee. In the end, his music teacher Nadine finds his trombone and brings it back to him.
Adesh Balraj and I had a productive fall semester. One of my long terms goals for Adesh was to help improve is fundamental to the point where the trumpet would not hinder what he wants to say musical. To begin working on this goal we spent the majority of our weekly lessons working on a few different concepts. We started working on breathing and having a consistent horizontal air flow to improve the efficiency in which Adesh plays with. We worked on improving flexibility throughout the horn to improve his ability to play low to high with get ease.
Heroes come in many shapes, sizes, and colors… They all have something in common, which is (Grit) passion, perseverance, and courage. The Little Rock Nine is a group of 9 African American students who showed Grit. Firstly, The Little Rock Nine showed perseverance despite the racial hostility depicted in the community. For instance, they were spat on, embarrassed on a daily basis, and continuously harassed with vulgar terms.
Meet my Jazz band. This is a picture of us in New Orleans my junior year during spring break to play Jazz. I decided upon this picture because this band has had such a profound impact on how I frame my future. My connection with music through the piano has been fostered ever since I could reach those shiny black and white collection of keys. Starting at the age of four, playing the classical music of Mozart and Bach was what my musical background was founded upon, with tangible medals and accomplishments as achievements.
We’re true band geeks who love what we do We love our instruments, and band, too. For fall is marching band season, a time for woodwinds and brass to reign, For drummers to master the elusive beat, for the conductor to stand on the bandstand again The band and I — we live for our show, each other and for the show.
Final Draft We all have stories and memories tied to songs that have become a part of who are. Remember the violins playing in the background while watching a sad movie or the song that helped you through difficult times or the song you and your friends sang while attending a concert? Whether it’s on the television, the radio, in a movie, in the car, or at a sporting event, music is everywhere. Feeling the rhythm of music brings us so much joy and excitement but playing musical instrument is even more fulfilling because it has many benefits.
Marching band; copious amounts of people scoff at the sound of those words. I often hear students commenting on how easy marching band is, how we don’t train like the football players do. At Anderson High School, that’s not the case, the marching band trains for just as long. As a band of over 125 individuals, it takes determination, pride, and confidence to achieve the goals we have set forth to accomplish. As a leader of the saxophone section, I know what it’s like to face failure, to overcome and turn it into success and to march on with confidence.
I attended to a concert performed by the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra on November 13th this year. This concert took place in the Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. I chose to attend to this concert because I have never been to a performance by any youth orchestra, I was curious to see how their performance would compare to other orchestras. The first of the three piece that were performed in this concert was Maenads’ Dance, from The Bassarids, composed by Hans Werner Henze. A variety of instruments were used in this piece, including woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings.
I’ve spent hundreds of hours working with my peers, building friendships while working toilsomely to perfect one show each year. When we weren’t on the field practicing, we were performing at football games or at community events, bringing the community together with a sense of pride. Being a part of the marching band has taught me to put the betterment of my peers over myself and I have made it my goal to make the people around me the best that they
I didn’t know that choosing this instrument meant that I would find a group of people so similar to me, so in tune with my every quirk. Even if fellow trumpeters don’t understand my Katherine-isms, they certainly—and wholeheartedly—accept them. With an instrument that pierces every melody, one cannot hide mistakes: trumpets are unabashedly themselves. I didn’t know I would be sitting in the back of the ensemble: when you’re far enough away from the conductor, you can just express yourself more. The poor flutes are tightly bound to the conductor’s confines, while trumpets can add their own flourishes—their musical identities—to the
● Stringed instruments – For more casual and modern genres of music the guitar, ukulele and banjo are good choices for the retiree. These instruments can give strong supporting accompaniment to rock, blues, folk and country jam sessions, sing-alongs and family gatherings. With a bit of instruction on some stringed instruments you can learn basic chords and rhythms in fairly short order and probably pick-up and entertain a gathering sooner than you think. For classical and some other elements of modern music the orchestral string family, including violin, viola, cello and double bass is the popular choice of instrument. Be mindful though that more intense instruction is needed to master the posture, motor skills and technical aspects of
