Class B All State Band |
To: Class B Band Directors Click Here for An application
Hello and welcome back to another school year! I hope you and your programs have gotten off to a great start for this year. After much talking and deliberation I have the audition material and procedures ready to go for the first annual class B All-State Band! If at anytime you have questions, please feel free to contact me and I will do my best to help you out…remember this is my first time as well! For our first year we will be at University of Nebraska at Omaha. We will have one concert band and one jazz band. We hope in the future that we may have a concert band and a symphonic wind ensemble as well as the jazz band. The date for this event is Saturday, March 17th, 2007. The clinicians for this year are, Dr. James Saker, who will work with the concert band and Dr. Randy Neuharth, who will work with the jazz band. The due date for the audition tapes will be postmark of Friday, December 1st. This will allow us time to get them accurately and professionally judged. A letter of who was accepted into the groups will be sent out no later than January 15th so that you may make the necessary arrangements. If an email is provided, you will receive a n email as well as a hard copy in the mail There will be a $1 audition fee per student. The cost once a student has been accepted will be $20. This fee includes music, clinician, and facility costs. Students that are in grades 10, 11, 12 may audition for Class B All State Band. Students may also audition for both the concert band and jazz band, however, if they are selected to both bands, they may only play in one. They must also pay $1 for each audition. On the application is a place to mark the preference of the student. We will be using the following books and materials for auditions: Watkins-Farnum Performance Scale Form A
Audition Procedure: Your schools audition code is: ________________________
Concert Band Audition Materials
Oboe/Bassoon: Clarinet/Alto Clarinet/Bass Clarinet Alto Sax/Bari Sax Tenor Sax French Horn Trumpet/Baritone T.C. Mallett Percussion Battery Percussion Timpani Jazz Band Audition Material Alto Sax/Bari Sax Tenor Sax/Trumpet Trombone Trap Set Bass Guitar Keyboard Guitar If you have any questions about the audition materials and process, feel free to call one of us. We will meet sometime during the actual festival day to discuss how we can improve upon what we have set up. Please keep in mind that this is the very 1st year for this event and we want it to be very successful and with input from everyone, positive or negative, will help improve and make this event better for all students involved. We wish you and your students good luck in your preparations for auditions! Click Here for an Application. Musically Yours John Furrow Keith Byrkit
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