SYMPHONIC BAND
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The Symphonic Band is open to all 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students with prior instruction in wind and percussion instruments. Students in the Symphonic Band are highly encouraged to take private lessons. The Symphonic Band consists of modern band instrumentation and provides instruction in common-practice period and twenty-first century wind literature and transcriptions. The Symphonic Band is split into three classes (Brass, Woodwind, Percussion) that meet every school day and performs several concerts and festivals each year.
In 2014 and 2015, the Symphonic Band earned a Superior rating at Concert Band Music Performance Assessment!
M.P.A. Concert Selections
2020
Marche Diabolique, Balmages
Ravensgate, Strommen
Songs of Old Kentucky, Karrick
2019
Belleau Wood, Edmondson
Celtic Echoes, Clark
Welsh Rhapsody, Grundman
2018
Military Symphony (Mvt. I), Gossec
Nettleton, Vinson
Mini Suite, Gould
2017
Military Escort, Bennett/Clark
Llwyn Onn, Hogg
Tudor Suite, Vinson
2016
In 2016, due to instrumentation needs, the symphonic band and wind ensemble combined into one concert band
2015
Integrity, Sheldon
Pavana and March, Byrd/Gordon
At Morning's First Light, Gillingham
2014
March Mixolydian, Sheldon
Nettleton, Vinson
Mini Suite, Gould
2013
To The Colors, Knoener
Ammerland, DeHaan
American Sailing Songs, Milford
2012
Tenth Regiment March, Hall
A Hymn For Band, Stuart
Kentucky 1800, Grundman
2011
His Honor, Fillmore
On A Hymnsong of Phillip Bliss, Holsinger
Novo Lenio, Hazo
2010
Von Grrrhart's 613th March, Holsinger
Air for Band, Erickson
Songs of Old Kentucky, Karrick