For those who saw me at TMEA and wondered what I was working on, this was it. I completed the first two movements in San Antonio and finished the closer at home. This is Time After Time and is arranged by Luke McMillan. The movements in this show are Clocks by Coldplay, Time After Time…
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This was a show that I originally did at the TMEA Convention in San Antonio in February, 2024. This is Chess, The Art of Revolution and it is arranged by Luke McMillan. The three movements are the Ballet Suite No. 4 by Dmitri Shostakovich, Everybody Wants to Rule the World sung by Tears for Fears,…
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The 2nd Just for Fun show for 2025 is entitled Full Circle. It features two Latin themed pieces that can be interpreted as a circle. The opener is Corona by Jay Bocook which is the round gaseous ring around the sun which you see during a eclipse. The next two movements come from Casals Suite…
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Here is a just for fun video using three unrelated songs from the Arrangers Publishing catalog entitled Jubilation. It features Rocky Point Holiday by Ron Nelson arranged by Jay Dawson, Land of Make Believe (the old version) by Chuck Mangione arranged by Larry Kerchner and Joy by Joseph Curiale arranged by Tom Wallace. The band…
DetailsUIL Area Contest Results – 3A Tidehaven High School – Area D 27th Place Falfurrias High School – Area E 27th Place Tolar High School – Area B 18th Place Brazos High School – Area D 21st Place Luling High School – Area E 18th Place Orangefield High School – Area C 11th Place (Finalist)…
DetailsSome more results from UIL and beyond. First, my first band from Arizona, Morenci High School performed at their first contest last Saturday, the Eastern Arizona College Band Day and performed to an excellent rating. Good stuff for their first time out. Two more shows happened today and both were 1st divisions. From Arkansas: Piggott…
DetailsIt was a good day as far as the drill writing side of things. I am going to include the 2 out of state bands on this listing that received 1st divisions or that equivalent that went last week. They are in the order they received them: South Walton High School, Santa Rosa Beach, FL…
DetailsHere is Fred’s UIL Schedule for 2024 in chronological order (all are tentative at the moment): Tom Bean 10-16 2:45pm Region 25 Celina Big Spring 10-16 7:45pm Region 6 Abilene Crosbyton 10-19 9:05am Region 16 Lubbock Palacios 10-19 9:45am Region 13 El Campo Jayton 10-19 9:50am Region 16 Lubbock Boling 10-19 10:15am Region 13 El…
DetailsSo, in my somewhat nerdy self who loves statistics, here are the populations to the cities of the schools that I wrote drill to. This has nothing to do with the sizes of the bands or how good they are, just the populations of the cities. Houston, TX 2,314,157 San Antonio, TX 1,434,625 Jacksonville, FL…
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