According to Tyrone Area High School band instructor, Kris Laird, last year was a record year for Tyrone students attending District Band, with 11, but this year, that record improved.
\nAfter completing auditions at Hyndman High School in late November, 12 students secured a spot in the 2005 Pennsylvania Music Educator\u2019s Association District Band.
\nStudents selected are: seniors Alicia Rodriguez \u2013 clarinet, Doug Conrad \u2013 tenor sax, Elizabeth Kreckel \u2013trombone and Bill Hartsock \u2013 tuba; juniors Jean Keller \u2013 oboe, Tim Stibitz \u2013 alto sax, Zach Zolten \u2013 trombone, and Zac Yeaton \u2013 baritone, and sophomores Jenna Dillon \u2013 clarinet, Amber Davis \u2013 alto clarinet, Allyson Detwiler \u2013 contra alto clarinet and Philip Kreckel \u2013 tuba.
\nAmong these students, TAHS holds three first chair spots with Conrad, Davis and Yeaton and two second chairs with Detwiler and Hartsock.
\nAccording to Laird, this year\u2019s festival will be held at Greater Johnstown High School and will feature Quincy Hilliard as the guest conductor.
\nHilliard is the composer in residence and professor of music at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. He is well-known for his compositions for wind band and is a highly commissioned composer including his work for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and a score for the documentary film, The Texas Rangers.
\nThe students completed an audition on Wednesday, January 12, with hopes to advance to the regional level scheduled for February at Central Cambria.
\nThe rest of the festival will include rehearsals with the guest conductor, a guest concert featuring the \u201cJazz in Your Face\u201d big band based in the Johnstown area and a public concert at the Johnstown High School auditorium on Saturday, January 15 at 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
According to Tyrone Area High School band instructor, Kris Laird, last year was a record year for Tyrone students attending District Band, with 11, but this year, that record improved. After completing auditions at Hyndman High School in late November, 12 students secured a spot in the 2005 Pennsylvania Music Educator\u2019s Association District Band. Students […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}