The Brownsville, Texas Lopez Lobo High School Band is a Class 5 A band. It has won numerous prestigious awards and has been recognized all over the nation by many cities and music institutions including the Walt Disney Record Company, and professional marching corps like the Cavaliers. It has won the title of the Texas State Honor Band and the Texas State Marching Band in it's 15 year history. This band has never recieved anything less than a Division 1 at Pre-Pigskin, Pigskin, and Area competitions. Needless to say, this is truely a band of great skill.
This year the Lopez Lobo High School Marching Band will be performing an original show entitled "Colors of the Sea" under the direction of George Trevino, Micheal Myers, David Ramirez, and Javier Bermudez. The show consists of 4 movement with pieces from Claude Debussy's original impressionist work. The staff for this show is phenomenal, including the best rated composers and arrangers in all the nation.
Hello, I am a sophmore at Lopez High School and I have a serious problem. Over the course of this 2008-2009 school year, it has become apparent to me and countless other upperclassmen that this year's freshmen class is going to be the downfall of this band.
Our band has acheived the reputation it has not by playing 3, 4 hours a day, but by playing until our lips bleed and then playing some more. Not only are we known for our accomplishments, but we are also known for being some of the most hard working, honest, and humblest individuals in all of Texas. We run to each and every one of our sets, we don't get breaks between rehersals, we run laps when told to, we learn our music and our sets until they become second nature to us, we replace our lunch period with a trip to the bandhall to master our music, we listen to our upperclassmen and every single adult that might address us out of respect and cooperation for the entire band. This is no joke. Music is truely our lives. Everyone in our band does these things and more.
Everyone except the freshmen.
We're like this because we all know what it's like to fail. Please help us come up with ideas to get these freshmen to step it up. Our performances for this year have been horrendous so far with people falling over, bumping into each other, getting stage fright, etc, etc. Things like this are unheard of at Lopez High School at this time of the year. We are desperately running out of ideas. We've already taken the freshmen class out and told them straight out that we won't be having their crap on the field. Every rehersal we help them fix their mistakes but they continue to disappoint us time and time again. We don't know what to do anymore. They just won't listen!
Someone, anyone, please help us.
Any feedback would be greatly apreciated.
~Clarinet, 5th chair-Symphonic Band, Sophmore
This year the Lopez Lobo High School Marching Band will be performing an original show entitled "Colors of the Sea" under the direction of George Trevino, Micheal Myers, David Ramirez, and Javier Bermudez. The show consists of 4 movement with pieces from Claude Debussy's original impressionist work. The staff for this show is phenomenal, including the best rated composers and arrangers in all the nation.
Hello, I am a sophmore at Lopez High School and I have a serious problem. Over the course of this 2008-2009 school year, it has become apparent to me and countless other upperclassmen that this year's freshmen class is going to be the downfall of this band.
Our band has acheived the reputation it has not by playing 3, 4 hours a day, but by playing until our lips bleed and then playing some more. Not only are we known for our accomplishments, but we are also known for being some of the most hard working, honest, and humblest individuals in all of Texas. We run to each and every one of our sets, we don't get breaks between rehersals, we run laps when told to, we learn our music and our sets until they become second nature to us, we replace our lunch period with a trip to the bandhall to master our music, we listen to our upperclassmen and every single adult that might address us out of respect and cooperation for the entire band. This is no joke. Music is truely our lives. Everyone in our band does these things and more.
Everyone except the freshmen.
We're like this because we all know what it's like to fail. Please help us come up with ideas to get these freshmen to step it up. Our performances for this year have been horrendous so far with people falling over, bumping into each other, getting stage fright, etc, etc. Things like this are unheard of at Lopez High School at this time of the year. We are desperately running out of ideas. We've already taken the freshmen class out and told them straight out that we won't be having their crap on the field. Every rehersal we help them fix their mistakes but they continue to disappoint us time and time again. We don't know what to do anymore. They just won't listen!
Someone, anyone, please help us.
Any feedback would be greatly apreciated.
~Clarinet, 5th chair-Symphonic Band, Sophmore
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