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Upcoming Events...
Dec 09
Fruit Delivery & Pick-up
4pm: Fruit Delivery
6pm-9pm: Fruit Pick-up
54791 Pine Street, New Baltimore, MI 48047
Dec 09
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Symphonic Band Rehearsals
Combined Symphonic Band (5th hour-Visnaw & 6th hour-Dee) rehearsal after school
Dec 10
Fruit Delivery & Pick-up
7am-6pm: Fruit Pick-up
54791 Pine Street, New Baltimore, MI 48047
Dec 10
7:30 PM
ABHS Winter Concert (WE, 9SB, 9CB)
ABHS Auditorium
Wind Ensemble, 9th Grade Symphonic and Cadet Band
Call Times:
9th Grade Cadet Band - 6:45pm (E128)
9th Grade Symphonic Band - 6:45pm (E130)
Wind Ensemble - 7:10pm (E128)
Dec 11
7:30 PM
ABHS Winter Concert (SB, CB)
ABHS Auditorium
Symphonic Band & Concert Band
Call Times:
Concert Band - 6:45pm (E130)
Symphonic Band - 6:30pm (E128)

 
 

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) Variations on America (Ives)
2) A Movement for Rosa (Camphouse)
3) On The Campus (Sousa)
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2008 MSBOA District XVI Band Festival:
1) Valdres March - Schissel
2) Vox Populi - Danielpour
3) Cajun Folk Songs II (Mvt. I & II) - Ticheli

Symphonic Bands

Reference Recordings:
1) Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (Sousa)
2) Lost Colony (Sheldon)
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2008 MSBOA District XVI Band Festival:
1) La Banda Nascente - Sbraccia
2) Courtly Aires & Dances (Mvt. I, IV, V, & IV) - Nelson
3) Requiem to a Land Forgotten - Sheldon

Concert Band

Refrence Recordings:
1) Peacemaker (King)
2) Dances Fantastique (Shaffer)
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2008 MSBOA District XVI Band Festival:
1) Military Escourt March - Bennett
2) Highland Legend - Moss
3) Creed - Himes


9th Grade Cadet Band

Reference Recordings:
1) For Pit and the Pendulum
2) Alpine March
3)

2008 MSBOA District XVI Band Festival:
1) Crosswinds March - Swearingen
2) Annabel Lee - Wagner
3)
Dorian Rhapsody - Del Borgo


9th Grade Symphonic Band

Reference Recordings:
1) True Blue March (King)
2) Fall River Overture (Sheldon)
3)

2008 MSBOA District XVI Band Festival:
1) United Nations - King
2) Three Colonial Ballades - Curnow
3)
Voices from the Battlefield - Sheldon

Jazz Ensemble

Reference Recordings:
1) Bb Blues Progression @ 100bpm
2) Bb Blues Progression @ 120bpm
3) Bb Blues Progression @ 140bpm

4)
Second Line - LCJO
5) Second Line - DEO
6) Second Line - changes
7) Perdido - LCJO
8) Perdido - DEO
9) Perdido - changes
10) Sidewinder - GRP Big Band
11) Maiden Voyage - GRP Big band
12) Madien Voyage - Herbie Hancock
13) Pick Up the Pieces - GRP Big Band
14) Indiana
15) Indiana - Lester Young
16) 'Round Midnight - GRP Big Band
17) 'Round Midnight - Coltrane
18) Hullabaloo - Baylock
19) Hullabaloo - changes
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Solo Section Changes:

2007 MSBOA State Jazz Festival:
1) Doxy - Rollins
2) I Remember Clifford - Golson
3) Groove Merchant - Richardson

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