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unusual facts about School band


Scott Creek Middle School

For music, Scott Creek offers Beginner Band, Advanced Band, and Choir classes held in the morning from 7:45 am until 8:30 am.


Kenmore East High School

The school offers typical music groups like Chorale, Women's Choir, Select Choir (AKA Company of Song), Orchestra, Band, and Jazz Band.


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Alice High School

The Alice High School band was one of the first five schools to be awarded the Sudler Flag of Honor by John Philip Sousa Foundation and is listed on their national Roll of Honor for high school bands in existence between 1960 and 1980.

Birla Balika Vidyapeeth

The school band has been a part of the RDC Parade at New Delhi, since India became a republic in 1950.

Chorale and Shaker Dance

The piece was commissioned by the Jefferson High School Band of Bloomington, Minnesota, in honor of their conductor, Earl Benson.

Chuck Knipp

Knipp is a 1979 graduate of West Orange-Stark High School in Orange, Texas, where he served as drum major of the high school band.

Collela Mazee

Born in 1954 in Gem, Siaya District Collela attended Ngere High School where he was introduced to music in the school band.

Dave Wyndorf

As a teenager, Wyndorf was invited by Phil Caivano and Daniel Rey (Rabinowitz) to become the lead vocalist for their junior high school band Hard Attack.

Eastern Iowa brass band

In 1991, the band was featured by the Smithsonian Institution in the Festival of American Folklife in Washington D.C. On six occasions EIBB has been invited to present a feature program at the annual convention of the Iowa Bandmasters Association, and recently performed to a sellout crowd at the American School Band Directors Association convention.

Frank Battisti

Guest soloists and conductors appearing with the Ithaca High School Band while Battisti was conductor of the ensemble included Benny Goodman, Carl "Doc" Severinsen, Donald Sinta, Harvey Phillips, The New York Brass Quintet, Jimmy Burke, Vincent Persichetti, Norman Dello Joio, Thomas Beversdorf, Clyde Roller, Frederick Fennell, William D. Revelli and Walter Beeler.

Helen Shapiro

Aged ten, Shapiro was a singer with "Susie and the Hula Hoops," (with her cousin, 60s singer, Susan Singer) a school band which included Marc Bolan (then using his real name of Mark Feld) as guitarist.

Hwa Chong Institution High School Band

The band has performed for the former President of the Republic of Singapore, S. R. Nathan, and taken part in the National Day Parade 2001, together with Commonwealth Secondary School Band.

Justin Chancellor

Chancellor was educated at Tonbridge School in Kent, England, where he was the bass player for a school band named Slice of Life and used to perform a cover version of Corey Hart's Sunglasses at Night in the dining room of his boarding house.

Michael Leckrone

His father, Harold Leckrone M.M. '57, was the high school band teacher, but never pressured his son to follow in his professional footsteps, which included a contribution to the score of the 1986 film Hoosiers.

Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium

The Stadium has also played host to regional Drum Corps International and Bands of America events, as well as many local high school band festivals.

Rice brothers

Despite the difficulties of their condition as well as the loss of their foster parents, John and Greg participated in "normal" childhood activities such as the Boy Scouts, took regular classes throughout their education, and even played cornet in the junior high and high school band.

Robbie Basho

Although he played the euphonium in the high school band and sang in middle school and high school ensembles, his interest in acoustic guitar grew during his college years, as a direct result of his friendships with fellow students John Fahey, Ed Denson, and Max Ochs.

Roxbury High School

Composer Robert Farnon composed The Gaels: An American Wind Symphony, as a commission to the Roxbury High School band in honor of the school's mascot, the gael.

The Sleeping Place of the Stars

He was commissioned by the Homewood, Alabama Middle School Band to write the tune, with the inspiration coming from a poem of the same title written by Ethel Armes.

The Woodlands High School

The Woodlands High School Band was honored by the John Philip Sousa Foundation with the Sudler Flag of Honor in 2003 to recognize its high standards of excellence in its concert activities over several years.

Toni Wirtanen

Wirtanen is also known for having written numerous songs for the Finnish pop singer Irina, and appeared in the 1999 movie Pitkä kuuma kesä, portraying the lead-singer of the school band 'The Vittupäät'.

Troy Shondell

However, in 1963, Tommy Jackson changed the name of his high school band from "Tom and the Tornados" to "The Shondells" in honor of Shondell (one of his musical idols).

Winter Springs High School

The Winter Springs High School Band of Gold is under the direction of Adam McIntyre and Drum Majors Abigail Johnson and Omar Lawand.The 2012 Halftime show is based upon music from the movie The Incredibles.