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This past Saturday an unprecedented total of twenty
7th and 8th grade musicians participated in the OMEA District 15 adjudicated events opportunity at Dublin Scioto High School. These students presented a total of fourteen pieces via solos, duets, trios, or quartets - and eleven of them received the top rating of Superior, with the other three receiving the second highest rating of Excellent. GHBOB congratulates the following middle school musicians: Hudson Barber, Maddie Barger, Emma Binkley, Mira Bondy, Harper Cunningham, Evie DeLong, Lexi Goncz, Mary Herlihy, Sydney Herren, Bruno Lount, Summer Martinez-Wheeler, Halle McNamara, Rose Ritzman, Callie Rutter, Julia Staton, Leela Strickland, Isla Swisher, Brook Wangler, Sophie Welsh, and Zachary Young. (We caught pics of as many students as we could, but unfortunately we missed a few. There were just so many!)
GHBOB is proud to support this event every year, and positively thrilled that this year's participation is double the number of students from just one year ago. Great things are happening in our instrumental music programs! (Updated April 7, 2024) |
Our GHHS instrumentalists had a busy last week of school before spring break. It started with our GHHS Jazz Ensemble, giving their longest and most creative concert of the year. All the pieces on the concert program were arrangements or mash-ups of video game music, and some featured onstage costume changes and accompanying video montages! Guest artists Zach Compston and Logan Moore from the Jazz Arts Group joined the performance, and our students premiered four original works, including two arranged by Logan Moore and two arranged by our own GHHS senior and jazz ensemble member, Colin Parker!
The next day, all of our GHHS band and orchestra students had a unique opportunity, traveling together to Dayton to see an afternoon performance of the Dayton Philharmonic. The Dayton Phil performs at the stunning Schuster Center for the Performing Arts, a world-class facility that plays host to opera, musical theatre, traveling comedians, and concerts, among other things. The GH Band & Orchestra Boosters were proud to support this extended learning opportunity and field trip by purchasing their admission tickets. And our thanks to everyone reading this story, for your efforts to help us raise the funds that make these opportunities possible!
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The weather threatened this year's Season in Review event too, but it mostly held off long enough for the GHHS Marching Band to show off their pregame show and all four halftime shows to a slightly damp and very appreciative crowd. Check out our photo album below, and click here to see video snippets from almost every show. (Note, we didn't record snippets of the senior show but there is a link to that full performance in the story above.)
Thank you for coming out to support our marching Bobcats - this is always such a great night for our band students! (Updated October 23, 2023) |
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Last year, the Boosters decided to make the event more inclusive, and invited the participation of seniors from across all fall sports teams instead of just football, and this year they included the seniors from the Marching Band as well. Marching Band Seniors Lyla Baxter, Steve Chordas, Freddie Keil, Ben Matter, Eryn O'Harra, Colin Parker, Sam Reichert, and Liv Rutter joined more than 40 other Bobcat seniors in lighting the first flames of a bonfire in the pit where the Boosters roast close to 2000 pounds of beef every year to make the fabled "ox sandwiches" for sale during the last day of the Ox Roast. The full GHHS Marching Band also participated in the pep rally that preceded the pit lighting, playing a few songs to pump up the crowd.
GHBOB-er Sandy O'Harra took many of the photos above (and certainly took all of the best ones!) and we are grateful to her for sharing them. We are also grateful to the Bobcat Boosters organization, for including our students! (Update September 10, 2023) |
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This past Saturday, a total of ten Larson Middle School students participated in the OMEA solo & ensemble competition at Canal Winchester High School. Not only is this an awesome, huge number of participating students, it's the first time that we have sent any students to the middle school competition in many, many years! Students prepare a short solo and/or ensemble piece, perform it in front of a judge (usually current or retired music educators), and receive a written rating and feedback for their performance. Congratulations to seventh and eighth grade students Laura Alvarez-Link, Hudson Barber, Mira Bondy, Evie DeLong, Bruno Lount, Max McCullough, Charlotte Ritzman, Callie Rutter, Audrey Siefker, and Isla Swisher for embracing this performance and learning opportunity! And kudos and thanks also to Mrs. Olis, Mr. Heath, and Dr. Julie Vish (Mrs. Olis's substitute during her maternity leave), for helping our students prepare for the big day. Mr. Heath and Dr. Vish spent many hours in Canal Winchester guiding our students through the experience as well! Check out some photos from the day down below.
The GH Band Parents Association is proud to have underwritten the students' participation in this activity - and of course that means we are grateful to all of you, as well, for helping to raise the funds that made it all possible. Thank you! (Updated March 26, 2023) |
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