Klarinet Archive - Posting 000663.txt from 1999/07

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] School Music Programs
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 12:11:29 -0400

On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Karl Krelove wrote:

> This sounds like an August "band camp" schedule in a place that's too
> hot in the afternoon to march. Does this schedule somehow continue
> once school starts?

They call it their "band camp," but it lasts from early July until school
starts in mid-August. I'm not sure what schedule this particular school
has once the academic year gets underway.

Yes, it is very hot and very humid here. This week, we are experiencing
high temperatures in the 90's and humidity levels just as high.

When my own children were in school just a few years ago, here's the way
it worked. They had several days of practice each evening during July,
then went out of town for a week-long camp where they practiced all day,
every day. Then, when school started, they had marching band rehearsal
the first period of every day, so the band director had them come to
school at 7:00 a.m. That gave them a two hour rehearsal to start each
day. Then, they went back to school on Wednesday evening for another 2.5
hour rehearsal. On Friday evenings, there would be football games, so the
band members would go back to school at about 5:00 p.m. and rehearse a
couple of hours until they had to go play at the football game. On
Saturdays, there would be one, two or three marching competitions. They
would compete somewhere in the morning, then get on buses and go to
another competition somewhere else in the afternoon, etc.

All this time, they were repeating the same marching show, and playing the
same 13 minutes of music, which they had memorized in the summer. They
never looked at another note on a page again until November.

By the way, they never won any of the competitions they entered. That's
another story.

To get things in perspective, once marching season was over and concert
band began, rehearsals were cut back to 50 minutes per day, 5 days per
week. That shows where the priorities were.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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