Audition Open to all qualified students, the Symphonic Band studies and performs symphonic music literature that is both complex and challenging. During marching season, it combines with the concert band to form the marching band. Students will study how music interrelates with the other arts. Audition, Placement Concert Orchestra is a class for students who prerform at the intermediate to advanced level. This class meets daily for one period and performs four to six times each year both in school and the community.
Students receive one credit for each year they are in the class.
This course meets the Fine Arts requirement. Audition Instruction in standard jazz repertoire is offered as well as more advanced and contemporary compositions including those exploring unusual meters and metric change and non-conventional formal structures. Improvisation is expected of all students. Performance on various occasions is anticipated and encouraged. Students will study how music interrelates with the other arts.