Our school is a public four-year high school with a wide range of students from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. Approximately 35-40% of our student body participates in fine arts on some level. Offering our music students the chance to succeed is my top priority. We strive daily to make opportunities available for our high school students to further their musical skills and expand their horizons.
Students attending our school have earned recognition at the district, state, regional, and national level.
We have alumni working on Broadway, teaching college and public school music, and performing as professionals all over the world. Our music department has a 100+ year history of excellence, and we try every day to live up to that legacy. We offer jazz band, two levels of string orchestra, and concert band, pep band, and marching band. We also have strong choral, guitar, drama, and fine arts programs.
My Project
As we deal with the realities of teaching music during this global pandemic, we have discovered that students need access to more high quality solo literature. The music library at our school is good, but there are a few pieces missing and I'd like to complete the sets we have for each instrument.
Having high quality solo literature in our music library will help our current and future students stay motivated to progress in their individual musical growth.
This year, we are focusing on what makes one player great and how that will help the ensemble overall. If we are able to once again join forces and have larger ensembles, then we can dive deeper into band and orchestra literature.
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