Lee's Summit West High School's Band, Choir, and Orchestra Programs
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.
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!
Here’s the full schedule for instrumental and vocal contests:
LSWHS Vocal Instrumental Contest Schedule
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
Guard tryouts are open to all incoming freshman to 12th grade students.
Please email Mrs. Keune if you have questions.
Thanks!
This is for Saturday, March 23rd. All District Solo/Ensemble Contest 2013 at LSWHS.
It’s finally here, hope you are ready to go!
Here are some last minute reminders:
1. Be here on time.
Thurmond, Mosier, Krinke flights at 3:15
Kuhlman and Reed flights at 4:15
Sullivan, Keeney, Perry, Pherigo and Harrel flights at 5:15
2. Don’t forget your music!!!!!!
3. Flute, clarinet, oboe, trumpet, violins, violas don’t forget your instrument!!!!!
4. Percussionists don’t forget your stick bag!!!!!
5. ID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
6. BE ON TIME!!!!!!!!! We WILL leave you.
7. Money for the airports.
8. Bring a good attitude.
9. Don’t forget your music again.
Mr. T
Here’s a copy of the important forms for the New York trip.
Due Friday, March 8th: Practice this section of your music and record a playing test using SmartMusic at home or be prepared to perform a playing test on the computers during class. The benefit to completing your playing test at home is that you can practice and perform the test several times. You’ll have a 5-minute time slot to do the same in class, but you should spend plenty of time practicing the material at home so you are prepared — just like studying before a test. Continue reading “Concert Band Playing Test #3”