Our school is a public, four-year high school with a wide range of students from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. Approximately thirty-five to forty percent 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 levels.
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 one-hundred-year history of excellence, and we try every day to live up to that legacy. We offer jazz band, two levels of string orchestra, concert band, pep band, and marching band. We also have strong choral, guitar, drama, and fine arts programs.
My Project
John Philip Sousa is one of the most important American composers in our musical history. He holds the title of "March King" due to his composition of 139 marches for concert band. Most of these marches are available for free from the United States Marine Band, but the ones in this project are not yet in the public domain, so they have to be purchased.
Having a complete set of marches by John Philip Sousa on our shelves will give our current and future students immediate access to the greatest American music ever written.
A music library in a typical high school can have anywhere from 300-500 titles. Ours currently has around 900, but there are many incomplete areas that we are trying to fill in. Any help you can give will serve the students attending our school for the next 50+ years.
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