Comments on: Rifles and Sabers and Flags–Oh My! http://blog.ctnews.com/trumbullband/2010/01/19/rifles-and-sabers-and-flags-oh-my/ Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:23:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mark D http://blog.ctnews.com/trumbullband/2010/01/19/rifles-and-sabers-and-flags-oh-my/#comment-94 Mark D Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:19:56 +0000 http://blog.ctnews.com/trumbullband/2010/01/19/rifles-and-sabers-and-flags-oh-my/#comment-94 What a well written and accurate assesment of the quality of performance and energy that the THS Winter Guard will have this winter. And I can say that without ever yet seeing one practice or show yet this season. Why can I say this? Because I watched most of this same core of students perform at a level of talent and energy that I personally had never seen from this year's fall THS Golden Eagle Marching Band, of which the Winter Guard draws many of its competitors from. I had the pleasure of watching a good dozen shows from the fall marching band season and I was struck at how while I should have been watching my "son playing in the band," I just could not take my eyes off of what the guard component was doing out there on the field. Week after week, they improved to the point that they actually scored a perfect score in their area of expertise in the Fall Championship competition at Kennedy Stadium. A perfect score! I wish I could say I was surprised, but I wasn't. Even my wife had to admit that as much fun as it had been in years past to look for students we knew on the field, that it was just plain impossible to take ones eyes off of the Guard. Because they were mesmerizing, they were great! The guard was a constant, a well oiled machine within a band that was peaking at the end of the season. The Guard component did things that other schools could only dream of, and on a regular basis they were firing on all cylinders week after week, only getting stronger and gaining their confidence. Well Fall, turns into Winter and with it comes Winter Guard and Winter Percussion for the Trumbull Gold Eagle Band, in whatever form the season requires of the students. I am going to end this by remembering back to one of the recap articles from the WGI tournament in Dayton last March or April timeframe and I recall the 2009 WGI tournament write-ups from Dayton which gave accolades to all of the talented schools who performed well in Dayton, and one of their yearly responsibilities is to look at all of the schools from the presnt year and project a performance and a rank a year away. Which frankly is a very tough thing to do these days given all of the variables that can enter a school's music program over the course of just one year! But the WGI tried to sum up what schools were rising starts and what schools to watch out for in 2010. Guess which school was listed in the group as one of the schools to watch out for this winter? I am not telling, but you can go look for yourself at wgi.org Come out and watch these students, you will be awed, and you won't be disappointed, and no they don't even have to be your children for you to appreciate their practice and talent. Mark What a well written and accurate assesment of the quality of performance and energy that the THS Winter Guard will have this winter. And I can say that without ever yet seeing one practice or show yet this season.

Why can I say this? Because I watched most of this same core of students perform at a level of talent and energy that I personally had never seen from this year’s fall THS Golden Eagle Marching Band, of which the Winter Guard draws many of its competitors from. I had the pleasure of watching a good dozen shows from the fall marching band season and I was struck at how while I should have been watching my “son playing in the band,” I just could not take my eyes off of what the guard component was doing out there on the field. Week after week, they improved to the point that they actually scored a perfect score in their area of expertise in the Fall Championship competition at Kennedy Stadium.

A perfect score! I wish I could say I was surprised, but I wasn’t. Even my wife had to admit that as much fun as it had been in years past to look for students we knew on the field, that it was just plain impossible to take ones eyes off of the Guard. Because they were mesmerizing, they were great! The guard was a constant, a well oiled machine within a band that was peaking at the end of the season. The Guard component did things that other schools could only dream of, and on a regular basis they were firing on all cylinders week after week, only getting stronger and gaining their confidence. Well Fall, turns into Winter and with it comes Winter Guard and Winter Percussion for the Trumbull Gold Eagle Band, in whatever form the season requires of the students.

I am going to end this by remembering back to one of the recap articles from the WGI tournament in Dayton last March or April timeframe and I recall the 2009 WGI tournament write-ups from Dayton which gave accolades to all of the talented schools who performed well in Dayton, and one of their yearly responsibilities is to look at all of the schools from the presnt year and project a performance and a rank a year away. Which frankly is a very tough thing to do these days given all of the variables that can enter a school’s music program over the course of just one year! But the WGI tried to sum up what schools were rising starts and what schools to watch out for in 2010. Guess which school was listed in the group as one of the schools to watch out for this winter? I am not telling, but you can go look for yourself at wgi.org

Come out and watch these students, you will be awed, and you won’t be disappointed, and no they don’t even have to be your children for you to appreciate their practice and talent.

Mark

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