Show Unveiling Coming Any Day This Week!

I will be posting the entire plan for this coming year's show, including my drill plan, dramatic aspects as well as attaching audio recordings and the music downloads to the website! Keep checking for the unveiling!

The Band Sounded Great Last Night!

We had a rehearsal for Florida last night, marched around the gym about 40 times, and looked great. We will not need to have an additional rehearsal next week. We will have about an hour backstage at Disney before each parade to rehearse a bit. Great job!

The New Schedule for 2010 is Posted!

The new schedule is now up on the roslynband.com website. I spent alot of time developing this schedule. We are using the 2006 and 2007 marching band years as the models for this schedule. Let me explain. In my now 28 years of running marching bands, those two years stand out as the most incredible programs I have ever run as a band director. In my opinion, those two years were the perfect balance of all the aspects of running a great marching program. Those two years were efficient, fun, and we were at a super high level in terms of teamwork and morale while we fit the program perfectly into our school's high academic culture. We are going from 121 rehearsal hours in 2009 to the old 80 rehearsal hours of 2006 and 2007. I am excited and feel this will totally boom our program in every way. This, coupled with bringing back the "team building" activities to band camp, will bond us better as a team as well. We will still be adding the three home games including the homecoming parade and game and the "Friday Night Lights" soccer game night. All of those will be added in March, as soon as the dates are set. In addition, I am planning on participating in the "Chick Fil-A" bowl game sometime between Christmas and New Year's Day. The bowl game schedule is also out in March. This was an incredible trip we did 3 years ago and included a great parade, bowl game performances before the game and during half time, along with a huge pep rally, tour of CNN studios and a trip to the amazing Atlanta Aquarium. I will be proposing this trip to the Board of Education in the Spring for their approval. I wanted to let you know what our goals are early so that you can plan accordingly. As far as the Fall season, you really need to be here every weekend with the exception of the Columbus Day weekend, which we traditionally have left open for college visitations. We will need all the marching band members to be here all other weekends between Labor Day and the Carrier Dome State Championship weekend on Halloween.