| Branding Iron Theatre [BIT] Fine Arts Complex (east side) | Northen Recital Hall [NRH] Northen Hall (northwest side) |
|---|---|
| 10:30 AM Junior Varsity Band | 10:30 AM Junior Honors Band |
| 11:00 AM Junior Concert Band | 11:00 AM Symphony Orchestra | 11:30 AM Junior Symphonic Band |
| 12:15 PM High School White | 12:00 PM High School Concert Band |
| 1:00 PM Philharmonic Orchestra | 12:45 PM High School Symphonic Band |
| 1:30 PM High School Maroon Band | 1:30 PM High School Honors Band |
| Band | Morning Class | Warm-Up | Performance |
|---|---|---|---|
| JH Varsity | [9:45 am, BIT] | 9:45 am, BIT | 10:30 am, BIT |
| JH Concert | [9:45 am, F-Studio] | 9:45 am, F-Studio | 11 am, BIT |
| JH Symphonic | 8:30-9:30 am, F-Studio | 10:45 am, F-Studio | 11:30 am, BIT |
| JH Honors | 8:30-9:45 am, N-1010 | 10:00 am, NRH | 10:30 am, NRH |
| HS White | 10:15-11:15 am, AC-202 | 11:45 am, F-Studio | 12:15 pm, BIT |
| HS Maroon | 10:30-11:30 am, AC-203 | 1:00 pm, F-Studio | 1:30 pm, BIT |
| HS Concert | [10:00 am, N-1010] | 10:00-11:00 am, N-1010 | Noon, NRH |
| HS Symphonic | 8:30-9:30 am, BIT | 12:15 pm, N-1010 | 12:45 pm, NRH |
| HS Honors | 8:00-9:30 am, BIT | 1:00 pm, N-1010 | 1:30 pm, NRH |
| Philharmonic Orchestra | 9:00-10:30 am, N-1022 | 12:15 pm, N-1022 | 1:00 pm, BIT |
| Symphony Orchestra | [10:00 am, F-175] | 10:00 am, F-175 | 11:15 am, NRH |
Welcome to the 71th annual Band Camp at West Texas A&M University.
A&M
Here are some before pictures. We're assembling packets for Sunday's registrations.
Let's start with.....the gang. Kaitlyn, Braden, and Zoe. Gage took the picture.
Closeups!
This is Northen Hall atrium, looking west. Music shares the building with the art department (or it could be the other way around) and dance, so the atrium is a gallery.
This is the northwest side of Northen. You will come through this entrance to start the registration process.
If you swivel your body to the right, you'll see the entrance to the west addition to Northen. Inside are percusssion practice rooms, the large ensemble rehearsal space, instrument storage, and two decent-sized rehearsal rooms.
Now we're inside the west addition and there's a surprised Kaitlyn.
Same view without Kaitlyn.
The large ensemble room.
Inside Northen is the recital hall. It's dark inside. And here's an early example of my work. Strain your eyes.
We're back outside. Northen atrium is on the left and the west addition is on the right. During camp, Northen is the "N" building.
Left face! Now you are seeing the Fine Arts Complex. This is the "F" building.
This the view from the south side. We're on the north side of campus, so most of the buildings are south and east.
Inside the Fine Arts Complex, center of the first floor, facing east.
On the east side of the Fine Arts Complex are three performance areas: southernmost is the School of Music's recital hall (110 seats), in the middle is the Branding Iron Theatre (350 seats; where the Saturday conerts will be performed for half of the camp; and northernmost is the Happy State Bank Studio Theatre.
A tree. South side of the FAC.
Turn around and you are facing south and looking at the Bookstore that is within the Classroom Center, which is a four-story banana-shaped building.
Close to the Bookstore is the Gold Card Office. The band camp card can be loaded for vending machines, etc. The university is cashless, so the card is like a debit card.
The Starbucks in the food court.
Chick-fil-A and Which Wich.
Jarrett Hall is where the male campers will stay.
Across the street from Jarrett is the dining hall. Meals are included in the cost for residential campers; commuters can use their band camp ID as a debit card.
Further south is Centennial Hall, northwest entrance, and this is where the female campers will stay.
Zigzagging back toward Jarrett but listing to the east is the Virgil Hensen Activities Center (VHAC). We will have morning classes in there, and it will be open for recreation in the evening. More later.
The marching band field at the north end of campus. We're watching the temperature. If it's too hot, we will move the 1:45 pm class into the VHAC.
