Wednesday
July 17, 2019

Pre-band rehearsal social media time.

Next stage is the "waiting-in-anticipation-of-flute-rehearsal." Can you see it in their countenances? (Can you imagine it?) These are concert band flutes.

Opening the music folder to look for surprises, like this week's band music. We've dropped in on the junior high tuba/euphs. Mr. Benton is their instructor.

Our junior concert band trumpets have put together their weapons and are attacking the music, putting it into submission.

Mr. Doggett is their instructor.

Off to Jones Hall. Presenting Mr. Barney and his junior symphonic saxophones.

Mrs. Piper-Jarrett has the junior concert band horns.

Sometimes the band poster must take priority!

Junior concert trombones with Mr. Zorn.

Junior concert percussionists are with Mrs. Freeman.

We saw the juior concert band brass and percussion sectional yesterday (?), so today we get the woodwinds. Ms. Caldwell and Mr. Owens are the directors this week.

Next door, in the Mirror Room, is the junior symphonic brass and percussion rehearsal.

We've missed Mrs. Anderson's morning oboe classes, so I declare today "Oboe" day for room N-143, which is where they have their oboe sectional. These are the junior honor band oboes.

Meanwhile the junior honor saxophones are upstairs in Northen with Mr. Yett.

Mr. English instructs the white band euphoniums and tubas.

White band trombones. I might have taken their pictures last week, but I'm not sure. They've changed so much in just six days. They're taller. I hardly recognize them anymore.

I was a bit late to the concert band saxophones. They were packing up and running in all directions (when they saw me). I told them I wanted to take some family pictures, so they froze in place. They were relieved to find out that I was not part of their family.

Junior symphonic bassoons.

Mr. Cameron was talking to them about bassoon reed tricks.

Mr. Worosello is working with the junior honor band clarinets.

Mrs. Casso and the white band horns.

The white band trumpet were working Mr. Burns. He was telling them that A sharp equals B flat. My wife, who teaches clarinet, wants "A sharp equals B flat" chisled into her tombstone so that she can still tell the whole world after she's gone (or at least after band camp is over). She was delighted when I told her that trumpets don't know that A sharp equals B flat, either. It's not just the clarinets! This is a universal problem that plagues all of mankind.

Junior concert bassoons orphaned by Mr. Cameron. I found him and made him teach them. (Mr. Cameron and Dr. Carpenter, WT's bassoon professor, were doing "bassoon speak," which is a foreign language to me. He didn't abandon them afterall; he was just distracted.

Honor band bassoons. I understand all three are incoming music majors this fall at WTAMU.That's going to be a nice addition to the bassoon studio.

Concert band trumpets and Dr. Takacs.

Orphaned honor oboes waiting for Mrs. Crutchfield. They should go to N-143, where those campers are celebrating OBOE day.

Look what we have here. It's the oboe day room, N-143. And the maroon band oboe section is enjoying the festivities.

I saw this poster in the hallway. Today the campers are voting for Mr. and Ms. Band Camp. Alyssa, entrepreneur that she is, is campaining for the job. The top says "You have a friend in me."

Another Alyssa poster. Down at the bottom it reads: "Please vote for me. I already told my mom that I won."

Next I hit concert band percussionists. The were working on practice pads counting rhythms. Dr. Tariq is their instructor.

And Mr. Kendrick had the junio9r honor band percussionists.

The student events office is keeping track of the points won at the assemblies. A pizza party is given to the band, one to high school and the other to the junior high, that has the most points.

Mr. Cooley, Mr. Dixon, Mr. Mireles.

Dr. Teweleit, Ms. O'Bryant, Mr. Worosello, Mrs. Cooley, Mrs. Bulloch

Mr. Nuckols, Mr. Allred, Mr. Sheffield, Mr. Rivera

Third hour white band oboes. Celebrating N-143 oboe day.

Dr. Lewis was taling about teaching ephonium and tuba.

Mr. Tegmeyer offered a masterclass to the third hour clarinets and bass clarinets.

Ms. Frazier has the junior varsity flutes.

The symphonic band flutes were in the Fine Arts Complex Recital Hall.

Their attendance monitor.

Mrs. Eiben is working with the junior varsity flutes.

Dr. Manfredi and the honor band horns.

Honor band trombones with Dr. Shanks.

Junior varsity band oboes and Mrs. McMillan. I told them they were perfect (I was thinking about my photography skills) and they agreed (thinking I was talking about their playing). It turns out they were right. They playing is much better that these pictures that I draw freehand. I'm running out of film.

Mr. Garcia and the lone white band bassoon.

I went by the scoreboard and again and realized that each of the markers has a band director's head. (I've always wondered where band directors keep their heads. Now I know.) Mr. Lefevre.

Mr. Ellis and Mr. Collins.

Mrs. Denny and Mr. Allred.

Mr. Ludlow and Mr. King.

Mr. Hinds and Mr. Alfaro.

Mr. Roberts and Mr. Shaw.

Mr. Rath and Mr. Montgomery.

Ms. Caldwell and Mr. Owens.

Mr.s Mitchell and Mr. Davis.

The WTAMU Faculty Brass Quintet was rehearsing on stage just before the 1:45 class. I took some shots and ran away before they could tell me to stop taking pictures.

Off to the junior trumpet ensemble with Mr. Conner.

I missed this one the other day. This is the junior clarinet ensemble II with Ms. Caldwell.

Marching band sent some pictures. This is one of the 1:45 pm classes.

The high school horn ensemble did an impromptu peerformance in Northen Atrium while the high school students were lining up the for 3 pm assembly.

I headed back to the Branding Iron Theatre for the junior high assembly. Today Jazz Band III was performing in the BIT. I did my usual lousy job of freehand drawing. (You're probably going to have to visit your eye doctor when you get finished looking at these pictures. Don't go until next week. I'm still on the rampage for two more days. My camera's really smoking after all the shots (misfires) I've made today.)

Mr. Barney is the director.

The game was spinning around with your eyes closed then pin the extra eye on the alien. (Practice this at home, if you want to.)

I went over to the high school assembly and caught Mr. Storey and Jazz Band I.

It's 4:30 and the posters are due at 5 pm. Hurry, campers, hurry.

The 7 pm assembly featured the woodwind choir. These are the top woodwind players at the camp based on audition. Mr. Worosello is the conductor. The first composition they played was written by Max Gray, who plays second alto saxophone in this ensemble. Pretty remarkable.

Then it was the brass choir with Dr. Mandredi conducting.

The concert ended with the faculty jazz band. Dr. Teweleit conducted.

The last three pieces featured our guest artist, Mr. John Tegmeyer. Again, we express our appreciation to Tarply Music for sponsoring Mr. Tegmeyer's residency.

That finishes Wednesday.