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…
Today, I have been getting the sound files ready for the following schools: Columbia High School Needville High School Brazos High School Western Hartnett High School Louise High School Wolfson High School Sabinal High School Call me prepared as some of these shows are not going to be done until June or July. But at…
We have two more confirmed for 2018. Van Vleck High School from Van Vleck, Texas, and Boling High School from Boling, Texas makes it 17 so far. Crazy good times!
Wolfson High School from Jacksonville, Florida, becomes the 15th school to join the GCDD family. Actually, this will be the fifth year so things are good. The schools confirmed for 2018 so far: Columbia HS – West Columbia, TX Needville HS – Needville, TX Stafford HS – Stafford, TX Industrial HS – Vanderbilt, TX Sweeny…
This is The Crown Jewels (I always wanted to do a British show). This show is based around British band and orchestra music (as it turns out English music) and they are all arranged by Jay Bocook. These are older arrangements; the opener and closer were from Jenson Music from the 1980’s, the middle tune…
Louise High School in Louise, Texas, becomes the 14th official show for 2018. The summer is beginning to look busy. 🙂
We got another new school!!! Western Harnett High School from Lillington, North Carolina will be a part of the GCDD family!😊 That makes 13 confirmed for 2018. They are: Columbia HS – West Columbia, TX Needville HS – Needville, TX Stafford HS – Stafford, TX Industrial HS – Vanderbilt, TX Sweeny HS – Sweeny, TX…
This is Stand Firm and Strike Hard which sounds like a British type march. Upon research of this music (I had never heard of it before), I found that this is the motto of the Mercian Regiment which is an English Battalion that has roots as far back as the 1700’s and has battle honors…
TMEA Day 3 – February 17 This is the closing day and I said my final good byes for those that I got to see this week. It was good to see Luke McMillan, David Herring, and the boys from MSC before I left. I am guessing we should be home around mid afternoon. The…