Klarinet Archive - Posting 000989.txt from 2000/08

From: MaisondeHadley@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Re: Marching Band
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:40:00 -0400

In a message dated 8/29/00 9:40:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
Bilwright@-----.net writes:

<< Thank you for your post, Mrs. Barta. I'm still stewing about a
similar situation in a school district in Kansas. I'd like to ask you a
very specific question:
In your area, is marching band mandatory only if your child enters
the music program, or is the music program itself mandatory? >>

I'm going to jump in here. My school, Dallas High School, no longer has a
marching band program. However, local schools over in Salem have marching
bands still. The way I have come to understand it from friends involved in
those programs isthat directors in this area run it like this: If the student
auditions and is accepted into the *Wind Ensemble* then they are required to
participate in marching band. Most of the schools around here have a
"primary" band and a "secondary" band, and often times also some sort of jazz
group. Its usually the primary band that is required to also do marching
band.

~Joseph

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