AMEA 2013 Performing Groups
One tenet of the Auburn City Schools’ philosophy is that learning takes place best in an organized, comprehensive curriculum. A major goal of the school system is to provide each student the opportunity to learn, to develop personally, and to experience success. The Auburn City School System houses its 7000+ students on ten separate campuses. Each campus has a at least one music and one art teacher. Auburn band students begin instrumental instruction in the seventh grade. Upon arrival at Auburn High School as tenth graders, band students are placed into one of two performing ensembles.
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assignment is made by the use of an audition which is taken during the spring of the previous year. Band students at Auburn High School meet for class every other day during a blocked 96 minute class. The
2012-2013 AHS Band enrollment is 160 students. Marching Band at Auburn High School is an extra-curricula activity. The marching band is a voluntary organization and meets for a total of three and one half hours outside of school time weekly. Directors for the Auburn City School bands are: Deanna Marshall, J.F. Drake Middle School; Joshua Wine, Auburn Junior High School and Rusty Logan, Auburn High School. Auburn High School is lead by Principal Dr. Todd Freeman and the Auburn City Schools Superintendent is Dr. Karen T. DeLano.
The JSU Chamber Winds, under the direction of Kenneth G. Bodiford, is a select group of approximately 60 highly skilled musicians who perform the finest in wind literature. The Chamber Winds utilize the practice of flexible instrumentation, which allows performance of many types of wind ensemble writing. Exploring traditional as well as contemporary works for band, this ensemble is known for its high level performances of quality literature. The Chamber Winds perform both on and off campus, tours frequently, and performs at professional music conferences. Students are selected for membership each fall and spring semester by audition.
The HTHS Chamber Choir is in its third year of existence. In 2009 there was a Women’s Ensemble made up of fourteen freshmen girls and a SATB group of twenty-eight known as the HT Singers. Three years later, there is now a non- auditioned Concert Choir of sixty-seven and the auditioned twenty-four voice Chamber Choir. Our HTHS choirs are proud of their growth (42 to 91) in these three years as singing has become a more “cool” thing to do. The Chamber Choir has a busy December. They annually sing at Fox 6, Children’s Hospital, Birmingham Airport, as well as school and church appearances. Both the Concert Choir and Chamber Choir have scored Superior ratings at State Assessment and will participate this year. HTHS is always represented at All-State Choral Festival as well.
The Shades Valley High School Percussion Ensemble was formed in the spring of 1998 as an additional performance opportunity for the percussionists at the school. The students are expected to be well-versed in orchestral, marching, and ethnic percussion. The ensemble regularly performs music in a wide variety of styles and genre, often splitting into 2 or 3 sub-groups in order to facilitate every student’s educational needs and interests. This practice provides both interesting curricula for the students and entertaining programs for their audiences. Under Mr. Gumina’s direction, the Shades Valley Percussion Ensemble has performed at various Percussive Arts Society Days of Percussion, the NASPAAM National Conference, the Alabama Music Educators Association In-Service Conference, and the Music for All Sandy Feldstein National Percussion Festival. The ensemble has also served as a demonstration group for many West African Drumming clinics that Mr. Gumina has conducted throughout the southeast. We are pleased to be invited to perform again at the AMEA In-Service Conference in January 2013. Shades Valley High School is a public secondary school located in Irondale, Alabama and is a learning community of approximately 1,400 students. The school was established in 1948 in Homewood, Alabama and was moved to its present location in Irondale in the fall of 1996.
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