Centerburg Music Department

Does your instrument still play the way it did when it was new? Do you have your instrument regularly serviced by a repair technician to keep it in tip top shape? Do you think your current instrument is holding back your potential as a musician? Are you ready for the next level? "HORNS OF PLENTY"   the midwest's biggest instrument event! Saturday, November 7th Music and Arts Center 43 N. State St. Westerville, OH. 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Bring your mouthpiece!   Try hundreds of instruments?  Discuss how you go about obtaining one of these high quality instruments!  END PRODUCT:  Be amazed at what a new intermediate or professional instrument can  do for your playing! Comparison... Student Model Instruments :                                                      1)  Made for beginners     ...

Check out these area performances! Saturday, Oct. 24th: Denison Jazz Guitar Festival Concert Burke Hall - Denison Univ.  7:30 PM. Sunday, Oct. 25th: CJO (Columbus Jazz Orchestra) - Ellington, Basie & Beyond... Southern Theater - Columbus (inside Westin Hotel) 3:00 PM - (Ticketmaster)

Friday, October 23rd -  Away game at Mt. Gilead 3:00 - 4:00 PM:        Practice on field.  Run through of "Superstar Show". 4:15                            Load trailer 4:30                            Dinner 5:30                           Load buses and leave for Mt. Gilead *  Full uniform Friday, October 30th - Away game at East Knox 3:00 - 4:00 PM         Practice on field.  Run through of "Superstar Show" 4:15                           Load trailer 4:30                           Dinner 5:45                 ...

What will we put on the field for Friday night? First, let me tell everyone how the design of a student show goes... First, you sit and share ideas Then you design a show that is attainable by the average marcher Then you look at how much you will able to accomplish in each and every practice based on the fact that the majority of the band members have practiced their music and are prepared with their music and lyres on the field. Finally, as you are practicing you determine how much time you have left, the "quality" of what is already learned, and how much more is able to be added without weakening what already exists.  So... With that said, I'd like to work during period 2 with the 8th graders and period 9 with the H.S. on both Thursday and Friday in order to strengthen the music and individual parts, and then go out to the field during both period 9 and after school on Friday and see if we can't add the rest of the moves the seniors designed! AND... Even...

Senior Night... 3:00 - 4:15 PM - Practice on field 4:15 PM - Load trailer 4:30 PM - Dinner   (Battery) 5:00 PM - Suit-up 5:50 PM - Meet at elementary for warm-up 6:10 PM - Senior Awards 6:40 PM - Pre-game SHOW:    #1 = Walk this Way   #2 = Bohemian  (stand still)  and #3 = Thriller PLEASE:   Practice these 3 tunes on your own this week!   YOU MAY USE YOUR FLIP FOLIOS!!!

Friday, Oct. 9th  -  Fredericktown  (Away Game ) 3 :00 - 4:15 PM      Practice on our field ( Run Show) 4:15 PM                Load trailer 4:30 PM                Dinner  ( Sousas and Pit ) 5:30 PM                Load buses for Fredericktown *  Full uniform - bring along raincoats!

 As we, the directors, reflect on the New Jersey trip, we are overflowing with joy and pride in our students. Their performances were all beyond what we imagined, and their attitudes were stellar during the entire trip.  We received compliments from every place we visited, from schools to hotels,  on how respectful and well behaved our students were. You could see on their faces and in the way they presented themselves that our students were brimming with pride in themselves and their peers.  When taking 125 people on buses to anywhere for 4 days it is impossible for everything to go as planned.  Flexibility is obviously a must as there are certain areas the group leaders have no control over. We felt that the students showed tremendous maturity when faced with an alternate plan or a change of any sort. Their flexibility and ability to “improvise” made us proud. Some great things can occur serendipitously. One example of this is when we missed the ferry fr...