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Upcoming Events...
Sep 08 -- Sep 09
2:35 PM - 4:05 PM
REHEARSAL
After school rehearsal
Sep 13 -- Sep 16
2:35 PM - 4:05 PM
MARCHING BAND REHEARSAL
After School Rehearsal
Sep 14
7:30 PM
BAND BOOSTER MEETING
ABHS Band Room @ 7:00
Sep 17
7:45 AM - 2:00 PM
MARCHING BAND ELEMENTARY TOUR
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Sep 17
5:00 PM
HOME FOOTBALL GAME
Home football game vs. Stevenson HS (Report time-5:00 PM @ABHS)
Sep 20 -- Sep 23
2:35 PM - 4:05 PM
REHEARSAL
After school rehearsal

 
 

Quick Fact...

The College Board identifies the arts as one of the six basic academic subject areas students should study in order to succeed in college.

- Academic Preparation for College: What Students Should Know and Be Able to Do, The College Board.

 

Music for High School Bands

Recordings
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Wind Ensemble

Reference Recordings:
1) Seize the Day - Burns
2) Canzon, Fugato, and Hymn - Camphouse
3)
Suite fromMass, Mvt. II - Bernstein
4) Suite fromMass, Mvt. III - Bernstein

5) Dancing at Stonehenge - Suter
6)
Dusk - Bryant
7) March
8) Cityscape - Boerma
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2010 MSBOA District XVI Band Festival:
1) The Earle of Oxford Marche - Jacob
2) Cloudburst - Whitacre
3) Danza No. 2 - Yurko

Symphonic Bands

Reference Recordings:
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2010 MSBOA District XVI Band Festival:
1) Under The Double Eagle - Wagner
2) Chourus Angelorum - Hazo
3) Three Miniatures for Winds & Percussion - Sheldon

Concert Band

Refrence Recordings:
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2010 MSBOA District XVI Band Festival:
1) Harmony King March - Geisler
2) Tableau - Pearson
3) Four Breton Dances - Broege


9th Grade Cadet Band

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2010 MSBOA District XVI Band Festival:
1) Lexington March - King, arr. Edmonson
2) Barabarose - Himes
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As Winds Dance - Hazo


9th Grade Symphonic Band

Reference Recordings:
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2010 MSBOA District XVI Band Festival:
1) Peace Jubilee - King
2) Epiphony - Morales
3) Jamestown Trilogy - Fagan

Jazz Ensemble

Reference Recordings:
1) Bb Blues Progression @ 100bpm
2) Bb Blues Progression @ 120bpm
3) Bb Blues Progression @ 140bpm
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The Chicken
5) The Puffy Taco
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Solo Section Changes:

2010 CMU Jazz Festival:
1) Blue Trane - Coltrane
2) Chelsea Bridge - Strayhorn
3) Blue Rondo al la Turk - Brubeck

2010 MSBOA State Jazz Festival:
1) Blue Train - Coltrane
2) I Remeber Clifford - Golson
3) On Green Dolphin Street - Kaper

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