Don’t forget the honor performances by two of LSW’s top ensembles at this year’s state convention in Osage Beach, MO.

The concerts take place at Tan-Tar-A Resort at the Missouri Music Educator’s Conference and Workshop.

Una Voce Chamber Choir will be performing Friday morning, January 27th at 11:15 and the Symphonic Band will be performing at 1:30 that same afternoon. These are sure to be great concerts featuring outstanding students!

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Enjoy the following selections from the LSW Orchestra’s from last night’s concert (right-click to download):
Carol of the Drums
Christmas Eve in Sarajevo
Greensleeves
We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Congratulations to the following students who were selected to represent LSW in various honor groups in the KC Metro #3 District!

Hannah Adair, honorable mention 9th chair, flute
Courtney Bingham, All-District alternate 1, HM 1, oboe
Joelle Beusterien, 2nd chair All District, clarinet
Mickayla Chapman, 3rd chair All District, clarinet
Allyssa DeJarnette, 6th chair All District, clarinet
Kayla Shaeffer, All-District alternate 1, HM 1, bari sax
David Adair, All-District alternate 1, HM 1, trumpet
Grant Fischer, All District 7th chair, horn
Collin Allen, All District 3rd chair, trombone
Aaron Ratigan, All District Alternate 1, HM 1, trombone
Sawyer Harmon, All-District alternate 1, HM 1, tuba
Dan Ratigan, All District 4th chair, Opt. 1 Percussion
Parker Sheridan, Honorable Mention 3, Opt. 1 Percussion
Blair Bryant, 1st chair Gold jazz band, bass
Quinn Mosier, 1st chair Gold jazz band, piano
Isaiah Carter, 1st chair Blue jazz band, drums

Welcome back to another exciting school year. This year proves to an exciting year, with a lot of events happening. TWO ensembles from LSW were selected to perform on the Missouri Music Educator’s Conference and Workshop at Tan-Tar-A Resort in Osage Beach, MO. This is one of the most prestigious performance invitation any group could hope to receive at any level of performance from beginning to college. The Symphonic Band, directed by Clifton Thurmond and Una Voce directed by Amy Krinke will both perform at this year’s conference. Congratulations!

Please congratulate the following band students for a fantastic day at All-District Band Auditions, where they auditioned against almost 600 kids from around the KC Metro area. Many of these students now have the opportunity to audition for the Missouri All-State Band and Jazz Band in early December.

Joelle Beusterien - 3rd Chair Clarinet
Mickayla Chapman - 4th Chair Clarinet
Jayme Emery - 8th Chair Clarinet
Brandon Milam - 1st Chair Tenor Saxophone
Brandon Milam - 2nd Chair Blue Jazz Band Tenor Saxophone
Drew Fischer - 2nd Chair Bari Saxophone
Kevin Coleman - 3rd Chair Trumpet
Joey Kopp - 8th Chair Trumpet
Josh Anderson - 11th Chair Trumpet
Aaron Ratigan - 6th Chair Trombone
Collin Allen - 9th Chair Trombone
Travis Houston - 1st Chair Mallet Percussion
Dan Ratigan - 2nd Chair Mallet Percussion
Ryan Gassen - 2nd Alternate Euphonium, 2nd Chair Honorable Mention
Travis Houston - 1st Alternate Timpani
Laura Cooke - 9th Chair Honorable Mention Flute
Drew Fischer - 4th Chair Honorable Mention Alto Saxophone
Stephen Crossland - 5th Chair Honorable Mention Trumpet
Ryan Gassen - 6th Chair Honorable Mention Trombone

Congratulations to Blair Bryant, bass in the Gold Band and Brandon Milam, 2nd Tenor in the Blue Band and Stephen Crossland was 2nd Alternate Trumpet. Nice work!

Congratulations!

Violin
Brian Hallis 1 Violin 1/Chair 1
Lauren Gaunt 5 Violin 2/Chair 1
Katie Zhang 8 Violin 2/Chair 4
Andrea Moseman 9 Violin 1/Chair 5
Hannah Schwagerman 29 Violin 2/Chair 5
Sydney Loethen 31 Violin 2/Chair 7
Arielle McPherson 33 Violin 2/Chair 9
Scotty Smith 41 Violin 2/Chair 17
Sarah Bechtold 43 Violin 2/Chair 19
Dakota Botts 48 Violin 2/Chair 48
Rylie Buehrig 50 Violin 2/Chair 26
Mia Cousin 51 Violin 2/Chair 27
Kyle Lautenschlager 54 Violin 2/2nd alternate

Viola
Dominic Antonacci 5 Viola Chair 5
Kathryn Hilger 6 Viola Chair 6
Emily Patton 10 Viola Chair 10

Cello
Hannah Frye 7 Cello Chair 7
Trent Mosier 14 Cello Chair 1

Bass
Charlie Pagan 1 Bass Chair 1
Jared Bajkowski 6 Bass Chair 6

The following 7 students were selected to represent Lee’s Summit West in the 2011 All State Choir. Great Job!

Soprano - Brianne Orr
Alto - Kylie McCollum
Alto- Mickayla Chapman
Tenor - Jon Gibson
Bass - Trenton Piepergerdes
Bass - Jordan Weber
Bass - Aaron Ratigan

KC Metro All-District Choir


KC Metro All-District Women's Choir

The 2010 Ice Cream Social was an overwhelming success! Many thanks to the outstanding work of our Music Parents and even more thanks to the parents, friends and family who came out to support the students. It should go without saying, but obviously the students created incredible music to keep everyone entertained. The directors would like to say thanks:

Thank you Music Parents! from Titan Music on Vimeo.

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Join us in the LSW Courtyard for our annual Ice Cream Social, featuring bands, choirs, and orchestras in performance! Each group has a slightly different call time, but plan to join the fun at 6:00. See you there!

Information for this weekend’s marching band festival is available in the Band > Forms and Documents area of the website.

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Band members: don’t forget to read the band handbook and sign the contract sheet given out today during 1st and 4th hours. It’s worth 50 points!

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Events for 2010 Titan Pride are updated on the calendar. Be sure and update your calendar, and check back to make sure everything is up to date.

There’s important news on the @LSW_Music Twitter feed!

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One more marching festival for the Titan Pride in 2009! We have a home game tonight after the half day today, but there's an itinerary available for next week's marching festival. Download, print and affix it to your refrigerator!

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1. The Symphonic Band will be opening their season next Monday, October 19th by performing in the Fall Orchestra Concert. After the orchestras perform, we will be playing two very beautiful selections, On An American Spritual and An American Elegy. Students in the Symphonic Band are to arrive in the band room by 6:40pm fully dressed in their concert uniform. The concert begins at 7:00pm. This does not include the Concert Band, however, they are encouraged to come watch the concert.

2. At our last competition of the season, UCM Festival of Champions, tickets will cost $10 for spectators. We have an opportunity to get 20% of that back per ticket sold prior to the event. If you will be travelling to Warrensburg on Saturday, October 24th to watch the Titan Pride play, please send CASH ONLY to school with your son/daughter to purchase the tickets through Mr. Thurmond. You may start purchasing these tickets immediately.

3. On our last scheduled home football game, Friday, October 30th, the Titan Pride Marching Band will be entertaining the audience at halftime with a brand new performance, Michael Jackson's Thriller. With it being the night before Halloween, we thought we would do this performance in costume. We are asking that all members of the marching band create a zombie costume to wear. We have asked them to go to Youtube and look at the video to get an idea of what we are looking for. We are requesting that they stick to the theme of Thriller, however, no masks may be worn. Students should arrive without make up on their faces, as we will be performing the pregame ceremony in our traditional marching band uniform. During the first half, we will come back to the building to apply make up and get into costume for the halftime show. All students need to have their costume in place for the Tuesday, October 27th rehearsal, so we can rehearse in costume.

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The full itinerary is available here, but here's an overview: the drumline performs at 11:15 and the band performs at 3:00. There's no bus transportation to/from the event, so be sure and check the full itenerary for all the details. Good luck Titan Pride!

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Find information for the 2009 Blue Springs Marching Festival on the forms page. Thanks!

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Required for Tuesday night: every member of the band must have three (3) "dot cards." One of them was given to you today, and two of them are from earlier in the season but we've reminded you to keep them with you at all times. If you've misplaced one -- you can find them ALL here. Print your page or copy your coordinates onto a note card and you'll get 100%! Thanks. Again, follow this link if you need to reprint your own dot cards.

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