SAKS HIGH SCHOOL CONCERT BAND
The Saks High School Band is dedicated to musical excellence.
Beginning and
intermediate band are offered to students in grades 6 and 7 at Saks Middle School. The High School Band consists of students 8th grade through 12th grade. Accomplishments of the band include: all superior ratings at District and State Alabama Bandmasters Association’s Concert Band Competition and Assessments from 2004 through 2010; all superior ratings at marching band contest in Georgia and Alabama, including Best In Class
and First Place in Division One in the Covered Bridge Marching Festival in 2004 and 2010, The Mud Creek Marching Festival in Hanceville, AL in 2005, the 2006 Southern Classic Marching Contest at Jacksonville State University, Concourse of Champions in Oxford, AL in 2007, and the Dixie Jubilee Jam Contest in Weaver, AL 2008,2009, & 2010.
Several Saks Band graduates
continue to further their musical knowledge at a college level as music majors and band members. Many students in the band participate in ABA solo and ensemble events. The Concert Band was honored to be selected to perform at the 2007 AMEA In- service Conference. The Jazz Band has performs at several functions in the community including performing at Ross Bridge C. C. for the State P.E.O. Convention in May 2011. Working each day to embrace the tangible and intangible benefits of musicianship, the Saks Band is inspired by these inspirational words of Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit”
Gene Inglis, a graduate from Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama, has completed his 39th year teaching and his 9th year as Director of Bands at Saks High School in Anniston, Alabama. He retired as Director of Bands for Rome City Schools June 30, 2003, completing his 11th year at Rome High School, which was created in 1992. Prior to that, he was director for 12 years at West Rome High School and 6 years at West Rome Junior High School. His first position was at Scottsboro Junior High School in Scottsboro, Alabama. He served on the adjunct faculty of Berry College as the percussion instructor from 1980-2003. Gene is an active member of Music Educators National Conference, Alabama Music Educators Association, National Band Association, Phi Beta Mu Honorary Professional Music Fraternity, and the Phi Mu Alpha Professional Music Fraternity. He has served in various leadership positions in these organiza- tions over the past 39 years including the State Band Chair for Georgia Music Educators Association 2001- 2003. In the areas of marching, concert, and jazz performance, Mr. Inglis has served as adjudicator, con- ductor, and clinician throughout the southeast. In January 2007, the Saks Concert Band had the distinct honor to perform as part of the AMEA In-Service Conference at the University of Alabama.
Among his honors is the
Outstanding Band Director Award for the state of Georgia in 1983 presented by the American School Band Director Association, Teacher of the Year at West Rome Junior High in 1976 and again at West Rome High School in 1990. In his first and seventh year at Saks High School, Gene was the schools nominee to the Jacksonville State University Teacher Hall of Fame system com- petition. He received the national award; the “Legion of Honor” presented by the John Phillip Sousa Foundation and the National Band Association, and was recognized at the Midwest Band Clinic in Chicago, IL, December 2002. Inglis received the “Citation of Excellence” presented by the National Band Association in 2007 and was listed as the Alabama recipient for the “50 Directors Making a Difference” in the December issue of Band and Orchestra Magazine. He is the past President of the Calhoun County Band Directors Association and current President of the Gray Echelon, JSU’s Marching Southerners Alumni Association. Gene is married to the former Shenley Back of Gadsden, Alabama.
Inglis Nix; and four grandchildren, Taylor and Emma Nix, T.J. Brown, and Claire Inglis. Concert Program
They have three children, Tony, Allison Brown, & Gena Friday, Jan. 20, 2:20 P.M.
“A Southern Hymn: Fanfare, Theme & Variation”
......................................................................................................Bill Locklear, 5:30 “Forever Holding Close the Memories” ...........................................................................................................Richard L. Saucedo, 5:00 “British Eighth March” ....................................................................................................................................................Zo Elliott, 4:00 Guest Conductor, Gena Inglis Nix
“Australian Up-County Tune”
............................................................Percy Aldridge Grainger arranged by Glenn Cliffe Bainum, 3:00 “The Black Horse Troope”
....................................................................................John Philip Sousa edited by Frederick Fennell, 4:00 “Duty, Honor and Country”.................................................................................................................................Harold L. Walters, 6:00 Guest Conductor, Tony Inglis
“Armed Forces Salute”............................................................................................................................ arranged by Bob Lowden, 4:30 “Fate of the Gods”
...................................................................................................................................................Steven Reineke, 9:00
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