The Parade of Choirs takes place tomorrow evening, April 16. Call times for all high school choirs is 6:10. The program will begin at 7:00. This is always a great event to showcase our talent at SLMS and LSWHS. Good luck to all participants, and parents, enjoy a fantastic performance!
State contest information
Here is a document with all the information you should need for State solo/ensemble contest in Columbia on April 26th. This includes info on parking, maps, attire, permission slips (required), etc…
State Band Schedule
Titan Pride this week
Contest is over. Enough said.
The kids did a FABULOUS job. I’m truly amazed by the talent and professionalism they showed throughout this process. The Concert Band played a wonderful performance with some very difficult music, full of some very exposed sections where individuals really had to pull their weight. I’m proud of them for a fine job and an Excellent “2” rating! The Symphonic Band gave a very inspired performance as well, I’ve never been prouder in my 14 years of teaching. They came out with a Superior “1” rating.
Lee’s Summit Festival (see this post)
This Thursday, many kids will be competing at the Lee’s Summit Festival. This will take place between 3pm and 5pm at LSHS in the PAC area. The schedule came out last night, so here it is. Many kids (most of which don’t drive) have times that occur before most of you get out of work. I have asked the kids today to work on carpools with other parents and such. Please help make sure your student gets to LSHS at least 20 minutes prior to their assigned performance time. Students should be dressed appropriately (tuxedo/dress is fine, but could be something a little less formal) Here is the schedule.
Brass Class
This week brass class will be canceled. Please enjoy one more day of 20 extra minutes of sleep.
Jazz in the Courtyard
On Friday, April 19th, the jazz bands from the R7 School District will be putting on a concert in LSW’s courtyard. It is an evening to be enjoyed by all. Please consider attending and supporting our Titan Jazz for an evening of music.
State Contest
On Friday, April 26th, all students who received a “1” rating at District Solo/Ensemble contest last month will be competing at State Solo/Ensemble Contest. This takes place at MU in Columbia. Students involved are excused from school that day. Transportation is NOT provided, so please let me know if you will have trouble getting your son/daughter to Columbia for the event. We probably won’t know performance times until next week.
Cavalcade of Bands
Monday, April 29th – Concert Band and Percussion Class in performance in the LSW Fieldhouse. Concert begins at 7:00pm. Concert attire is the dress for the evening. All tuxedos will be returned to the school after this concert, so boys will need to bring a change of clothes for after the concert.
Tuesday, April 30th – Symphonic Band and Titan Jazz in performance in the LSW Fieldhouse. Concert begins at 7:00pm. Concert attire is the dress for the evening. All tuxedos will be returned to the school after this concert, so boys will need to bring a change of clothes for after the concert.
Music Awards
Tuesday May 7th, all students receiving a music letter or a medal/certificate from solo/ensemble are encouraged to attend our Music Awards Ceremony. This event begins at 6:30pm. Also, there will be some honor performances that night of some of our best musicians on their solos from State.
Have a great week!
Clifton D. Thurmond
Lee's Summit Contest Schedule
As of Tuesday afternoon, here is the schedule for this Thursday’s contest at Lee’s Summit High School. Be sure and check both graphics below, as one is for the Lecture Hall, and one is for room C30. Students should dress nicely and arrive about 20 min. prior to their performance time.
Large Ensemble Contest Results
Concert Band – 2
Concert Orchestra – 1
Symphony Strings – 1
Symphony Orchestra – 1
Symphonic Band – 1
Men’s Choir – 1
Women’s Choir – 1
Concert Chorale – 1
Una Voce’ – 1
Also, we are proud to announce that our very own LSWHS Titan Pride Colorguard won the GOLD MEDAL at this weekend’s State Colorguard Championships. We are very excited as this is the first state championship for the colorguard in our school’s history.
Saturday Guard Results
Congrats for a couple of fine performances at this Saturday’s contest at Blue Springs South H.S.
The LSW Guard scored 78.17 for a 2nd place finish out of 10 guards and the SLMS Guard placed third out of 5 guards.
Keep up the hard work. Well done!
Full Contest Schedule
Here’s the full schedule for instrumental and vocal contests:
LSWHS Vocal Instrumental Contest Schedule
Guard Bring-a-friend rehearsal
The high school guard is putting on a “Bring-a-Friend” rehearsal next Monday March 25th from 5:30pm-8:30pm in the aux gyms. Guard members, talk to your friends and bring one with you — band members find a guard member and join them! The guard could always use a few more members for the upcoming marching season. Monday night there will be treats to share, everyone will learn a simple and fun routine and we’ll play around with rifles for a bit. It’s all for fun and possible recruitment for next season.
Band Update
Wow! Back from NYC and no rest for the weary. We had a GREAT time. The kids were awesome, behaved well, didn’t complain, and represented LSW to it’s highest regard. I was proud of them and it allowed the staff to have a good time as well. The performance was an extreme highlight of my career and I credit that to the kids as they played their rear-ends off. In fact, as some of them have told you, I had trouble holding back the tears at the end of a very inspiring performance of Shenandoah.
Woodwind Class
Tomorrow morning, 6:45AM is when we START . See you all there! We have clinicians scheduled to work with the kids, so please have them there on time.
District Contest
This Saturday, SOME of the students are performing a solo or small ensemble at District Contest, which is hosted here at LSW. Students not on the attached schedule will be performing at the Lee’s Summit Festival in mid-April. More info on that to come. Here is an UPDATED schedule. All changes were at the request of the student, so they should know about it already, but wanted you to have the right times/rooms.
(See attached file: Solo Ensemble Schedule.pdf)
State Band Contest – also held at LSWHS
The Concert Band will be performing at State Band Contest on Wednesday, April 3rd at 3:10pm . More information to follow.
The Percussion Ensemble (all percussionists in Symphonic Band/Concert Band, plus Trevor Allen and Jacob Grigsby) will be performing at State Band Contest on Wednesday, April 3rd at 2:30pm
The Symphonic Band will be performing at State Band Contest on Friday, April 5th at 3:00pm
Brass Class
Next THURSDAY, March 28th, 6:45am
Have a great weekend!
Clifton D. Thurmond