Last night the bands at KOHS performed their pre-UIL concert for parents and families. This was basically a dress rehearsal for their actual UIL performance -- Wind Ensemble on April 12.
It was hard to find Austen, but I finally managed to zoom in and find him among all the clarinetists! He's in the center of this photo:
And here are videos of the three pieces of music they played --
John Philip Sousa's "Hail to the Spirit of Liberty"
Percy Aldridge Grainger's "Molly on the Shore"
Edward Elgar's "Variations on an Original Theme" in six parts; this is about 17 minutes long.
Austen left yesterday with all the bands at his school for their annual "spring trip." This year they went to Corpus Christi and all bands (varsity, concert, symphonic, and wind ensemble) performed in a competition yesterday afternoon at Texas A&M's Corpus Christi Performing Arts Center. They will spend the rest of the weekend in some condos they've rented -- on the beach. They'll all have a great time!! (They return on Sunday afternoon.)
Parker and all the bands at his school are going to the Galveston Southcoast Contest today for a competition there among intermediate/middle school bands from all over the area. They'll play at The Grand 1894 Opera House in Galveston and return this evening.
Kira's school choir performs this morning in the 9th Annual Children's Music Festival of Houston, along with many other elementary school choirs. Kira's choir performs at 9 am, and they hope to win first prize!
No photos, of course, since I'm not attending any of these. Thankfully, there'll be end-of-the-year band performances in May, and I can go to all those.
We are at the beginning of springtime music performances, and they are wonderful, as usual.
I took Kira to her school's choir performance at the nearby Methodist Church, where they were holding their annual Eggstravaganza Market. Anne made it there on her way home from work, in time to hear the choir perform.
Parker's band's pre-UIL concert (dress rehearsal for regional competition) was also given last night, and Austen represented our family in the audience.
Tonight was Austen's band's pre-UIL concert, and I went to that one. Gorgeous and beautiful, as usual!
I took a photo and a video of the choir performance, but I'm still learning how to use that camera ... so I may or may not be able to add them to this post later. No camera tonight!! (I don't think Austen cares whether I have a camera or not!)
Last week and this week, the schools around here have been giving Christmas concerts. Kira is in her school's choir, and Parker and Austen are in their schools' bands. Overall, they were very good! (Just a little biased here!!)
This is from December 8th, when Kira's school choir and choirs from another elementary school, the nearby middle school, and the high school gave performances. At the end of the show all the choirs were onstage singing the last song together. It was wonderful.
Kira's school choir performed six different times between November 21st and December 10th. This is from the last performance, which included a play as well as the singing.
Parker's school band put on their concert on December 9th, but I didn't make it there, sad to say. My Achilles tendinitis was really acting up. =( I'll bet they did wonderfully well, though. The music teachers at the intermediate school are very talented at getting the best performances out of their students.
Austen's school bands performed last night, December 14th. The first video is of the Jazz Band; the second and third videos are of the Wind Ensemble, in which Austen plays clarinet.
(Cut short about 30 seconds when my camera ran out of space for videos!)
