An update, I have started Tom Moore HS show and have completed the opener. I am also currently working on adaptations for Creative Solutions. I am starting to get the ideas of themes and the music from the high schools that I work with. Things are coming along.
The charting for the first show of 2018 is complete. Western Harnett High School from Lillington, North Carolina has the honor this year. This is the first year I have done their show. I am also currently working on a Creative Solutions show using the music from The Greatest Showman. Good stuff there. I will…
We are back online with a new computer which has everything on it except for Pyware. Hopefully, that will be taken care of tomorrow.
Congratulations to George West High School from George West, Texas in earning a Sweepstakes Trophy from their UIL Concert and Sightreading contest. They are the seventh school that earned UIL sweepstakes that I wrote for this year. Good Stuff!!
We are down but not out. My computer’s motherboard zonked out. This is the 2nd one in three years. So, good old Fred has purchased another computer which will be here in a few days. In the meanwhile, I have my laptop which will be doing the Pyware, posting here and on the website, and…
I have completed the second of two drills for Creative Solutions on their 2018 catalog. I am thrilled to have a chance to do this for them. I will look to start the adaptations for those drills pretty soon and will hopefully be starting the first of what is at the moment 19 drills from…
Congratulations to Needville HS, Stafford HS, Hawley HS, and Sweeny HS for getting sweepstakes trophies for 2018. With Sabinal HS and Blanco HS, they made first divisions in concert and sightreading. These six schools are bands that I wrote drill for in 2017.
Tom Moore High School from Ingram, Texas, becomes the 18th show in the GCDD family. Thanks to Luke McMillan and David Spruiell for bringing them this way. This is what we got so far: Columbia HS – West Columbia, TX (14th year) Needville HS – Needville, TX (9th year) Stafford HS – Stafford, TX (10th…
Some congratulations are in order for Sabinal High School and Blanco High School who received UIL Sweepstakes Trophies for earning first divisions in marching, concert, and sightreading. That’s good stuff! 🙂 These two schools are bands that I wrote for in 2017.
In honor of the 10th anniversary of writing Stafford High School’s marching shows, I have for you, The Stafford Project. These are 45 to 60 second snippets of their shows for the last nine years. They have been led by the capable hands of their director Rod Rodriguez. Notice the evolution in music and drill…