The son of a friend of mine is a freshman in high school, and has achieved wonderful accomplishments in the high school and regional bands.
Today was the "All Regional High School Band Concert for Region XVI" for the Texas Music Educators Association http://www.tmea.org/. I went to the concerts: There was the TMEA Region 16 Freshman Band, the TMEA Region 16 Symphonic Band, and the TMEA Region 16 Honor Band.
They were wonderful performances. The concerts were brief, less than 30 minutes. They started practicing on Friday morning. What they accomplished in that short period of time was amazing!
There were three conductors: Dr. Brandon Houghtalen, from Abilene Christian University who conducted the TMEA Region 16 Freshman Band, Eric Rath, from the Canyon Middle School who conducted the TMEA Region 16 Symphonic Band, and the final conductor, for the TMEA Region 16 Honor Band, was Brian Britt, University of Oklahoma.
Mr. Houghtalen talked about the financial assistance that is available at universities for music majors. Mr. Rath talked about the opportunity to work with students, and share his compositions (which were wonderful!). Mr. Britt said it was unfortunate that there was no news media present, to record the positive accomplishments of these students. I agree.
This was a wonderful experience.
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