Looks and Sounds Good

Rehearsing for October Concert

A New Year in a New Band Room

An enthusiastic group of students have started learning to play band instruments at Lakewood Elementary. About 140 new students are divided into three bands of 45-50 and meet every third day for band and a short lesson. Our new band room, instrument storage room, practice room and office/studio is proving to be very conducive to learning and making music.

MAY 11 CONCERT PROGRAM ANNOUNCED

Don't forget our final evening concert of the year next Tuesday, May 11th in the Middle School gym at 7:00 p.m. The band will be performing the following pieces:

Boundary Road March--Gott and Pearson
Those Fabulous Flutes--Anne McGinty
Largo & Finale ("From the New World" Symphony)--Dvorak
Midnight Suite--Brian Balmages

• Midnight Mission
• Midnight Sky
• Midnight Madness

Imperium--Michael Sweeney


This is a pretty strenuous program for the band, but should only last about a half hour. We will look forward to showing you our progress.

MAY BAND OF THE MONTH

The May Band of the Month is our day 3 and 6 group, consisting of 29 musicians from the classes of Mrs. Tobey and Mrs. Krichau. The instrumentation has good variety, but is a little heavy on trumpets. (A good opportunity to teach them to control their sound--all of you parents would appreciate this at home, I'm sure.)

Flute: 3
Clarinet: 4
Alto Sax: 3
Tenor Sax: 1
Bass Clarinet: 2
Trumpet: 10
Trombone: 4
Percussion: 2

May 1 is international tuba day!!!


The relatively few tuba players need a little celebration time, I guess.
I have two excellent tuba players, Ryan and Ben--so we'll give them some special encouragement on May 1!

Day 2 & 5 Rehearsal

The March band of the month meets on days 2 & 5 and is composed of students from the classes of Mrs. Rench, Mrs. Fox, and Mrs. Austen. The band has 38 members with the following instrumentation:

Flute: 7
Clarinet: 12
Alto Sax: 2
Trumpet: 4
French Horn: 1
Trombone: 5
Baritone Horn: 1
Tuba: 1
Percussion: 5

In the picture below, you can spot our new student teacher from Iowa State sitting in the middle of the clarinet section to help them out. His name is Allen Chace, and his home is the Minneapolis area.

March Band of the Month

Band of the Month

January's band of the month is our largest group, which meets on days 1 & 4. These fine and committed musicians represent the classes taught by Mrs Hegland, Mr. Ramthun, and Mrs. Nichols. These home room teachers, like all of you parents reading this, are very supportive and encourage them to work hard, stick with it, and remember to bring their instruments on band days.

This band has a total of 47 students and is quite well balanced, which makes it easier and more enjoyable to rehearse our concert music:

Flute: 5
Clarinet: 10
Alto Sax: 7
French Horn: 1
Trumpet: 11
Trombone: 4
Baritone Horn: 1
Tuba: 1
Percussion: 6

We are currently working on three pieces of band music for our February 16th concert and plan to add at least two more before then. One of these will be Midnight Mission, by Brian Balmages, which is the opening tune of his Midnight Suite and will be followed by Midnight Sky, and Midnight Madness.