New England Adventure – Day 1 Today was quite a better day than yesterday. Temperature was 60 degrees this morning and did not get above 75. Great information and some shortcuts that I was not aware of were brought into today’s plans. In the meanwhile, I finished up Seagraves High School and started Columbia High…
DetailsCongratulations to Boling HS, Columbia HS, Danbury HS, and Industrial HS for their 1st Divisions in both Concert and Sightreading at UIL this week. These are schools that I wrote drill for last fall.
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TMEA Convention 2019 – Day 3, Epilogue We made one more run through the exhibit hall, talked one more time to the folks at MSC and to David Bozeman, then to the great Luke McMillian. I had the opportunity to talk to several marching music composers this week. On top of Luke, I got to…
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TMEA Convention 2019 – Day 2 Day 2 of the TMEA Convention had me in the exhibit hall quite a bit today looking at some music and a few other things for next year. I got some extra supplies to finish up this year. I had a sit down meeting with the newest member of…
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TMEA Convention 2019 – Day 1 A belated Happy Valentine’s Day to all. Today was a day of clinics, time in the exhibit hall, seeing some old friends and new clients, and to close it with my alma mater, the North Texas Wind Symphony with a tour de force performance. Overall, a generally good day.…
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TMEA Convention 2019 – Day 0 I arrived in San Antonio at about 4:30 today. I have registered and will be ready for tomorrow. This is the 99th year of the Texas Music Educators Association and this convention is by far the largest single state convention in the country. Registration was very easy this year…
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This is the 10th year that I will be writing for Needville High School in Needville, Texas. They are one of the bigger rivals to Columbia (where I work) but they have been some of the best folks that I have had the pleasure to work with. In the previous nine years, they have made…
DetailsWe have gained a few more verbal commitments for the 2019 drill writing season. They are: Rangeview High School, Aurora, CO Perquimans County High School, Hertford, NC Tolar High School, Tolar, TX Western Hartnett High School, Lillington, NC Needville High School, Needville, TX (for a 10th time!) That makes it up to 27. And, we…
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This is the 4th of five shows that I am doing for fun for the off season. This one is entitled Latin Variations by several different sources. The opener is Children of Sanchez by Chuck Mangione and this arrangement is by Ralph Ford and Alfred Music. The 2nd tune is White Rabbit which is the…
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This one is dedicated to Bobby Mowles. This is the third show done just for fun. The show is entitled Teamwork and it is by Luke McMillan. The show depicts a group who is seperated at first and comes together during the 2nd movement and has some fun on the closer. The idea to me…
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