Showing posts with label marching contest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marching contest. Show all posts
Monday, January 2, 2017
Marching Band Monday
Happy New Year, too!!! Hope you had a super New Year's Eve. As usual, we were selling fireworks.
Since Sonshine, aka Marching Band Boy, is home for the (belated) holidays, I'm going to share a video of one his programs from high school... They're not as good/polished as the previous two bands we saw, but it still takes some skill for these kids to play and march and perform, and I'm still incredibly proud of my kid.
Monday, October 7, 2013
U.I.L. or BUST!
U.I.L. -- From the U.I.L. website: The University Interscholastic League exists to provide educational extracurricular academic, athletic, and music contests. The UIL was created by The University of Texas at Austin in 1910 and has grown into the largest inter-school organization of its kind in the world.
U.I.L. October 2012, Elk Stadium, Burleson High School
Show music: Mysteries of the Nile
Sonshine's high school marching band has attended U.I.L. for the last I don't know how many years. But not this year. Sadly, they're not ready. Their readiness (and scores) have declined over the past three years. And, this year, the new band director has decided not to take them. I don't blame him for not wanting to take them, though I do believe their lack of preparedness lays partially on his shoulders.
I'm disappointed because what the hack are we working towards anyway besides just playing at football games?
This past Saturday, DD passed a pair of school buses and a pair of Enterprise trucks. The buses were full of some high school band and the Enterprise trucks no doubt full of instruments and possibly props and all on their way to a contest.
How well I remember those days. Sonshine's first year in the band was the hardest but ultimately the best. I cussed out the band director several times that year--the 56' boat prop (seven 4' sections on casters) was heavy as heck. But it was memorable. They attended a handful of contests and generally scored 1s and 2s (more 2s than 1s though) and they marched in several parades.
This year...well, y'all know all about this year.
There may be hope however. There's an organization called Drum Corps International that Sonshine is interested in. It's gonna up his game ten-fold in all areas. Video games will be a thing of the past. Cost-wise, it seems reasonable. We can handle it IF he gets in. The big question is is he going to step up and not only stay on top of his studies, but make time to practice too.
I did tell him he had raise his grades to and maintain Bs in all his classes or the whole endeavor is a no go. I guess we'll see what happens.
As for U.I.L., even though Sonshine's band isn't competing, DD, Sonshine and I decided to go anyway--as mere spectators this year. Sadly, my UIL mug collection will forever remain incomplete.
Monday, October 8, 2012
Brrr...it's cold!
I had a huge post mostly written for today, but I decided not to post it. Instead, I'll share my great find:
$5 at Target!!!
Friday, the weather turned chilly and Saturday Marching Band Boy and band had a contest. We would be out in the cold all afternoon and evening. I wanted to have hot tea with me. So the girls and I went to Target
and I found a couple of travel mugs in the kitchen section, but there were $10 each. Ugh. So DD and wandered around over to the camping area to look for a backpack and came upon another aisle that had thermoses, and we saw these. I was so excited. And they worked great. My tea stayed hot hot hot all dang day.
As far as the contest went, we won 1st place, BUT But but we were the only school in our group, so it wasn't a real competition for us in that sense. But score-wise, we seemed to have scored on par many of the 1st and 2nd place schools in the other groups.Our color guard however was awesome and I think received one of the highest scores of the night (compared to other color guards).
And I felt so bad for all the color guard members--they were all wearing light-weight, sleeveless outfits. It was down to 48* degrees by 9/9:30 when the awards were handed out.
I ended up having to pull props--ugh--but I got a few pics:
Here's Marching Band Boy performing his solo during the first song. You can see one of guard girls in Egyptian costume right behind him.
It was a long day and we have another contest tonight, for the school district.
How was your weekend??
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