Mid-season festival performance for the marching band I direct. For the 2026 season, I ran all rehearsals. The kids did remarkably well with some room for reasonable improvement in phrasing, consistency, and pitch center maintenance.
This is a Spring concert performance by my 6th grade band on the piece “Afterburn.” The music is meant to represent a jet engine and a plane taking off.
This is the Spring concert performance by my 7th grade band. This was our “stretch piece” and included compound time signature and extended techniques. For this concert series, I tried to select music that was written during the students’ life times and held their attention as well as being quality music.
I adapted the score for the instrumentation I had available (eg. Replaced bassoon with bass clarinet)
