Tuesday is the first "regular" day of camp. We're on autodrive from here on out. Mrs. Hensen has the junior high school varsity band in the activity center mirror room.
Back inside the band camp office. Braden and Zoe.
Dayton.
Johanna and Brianna, the student events directors.
We're going to hit some of the section period classes. Each morning the campers has a full band rehearsal, a woodwing or brass/percussion grouping, and then an individual sectional in varioius combinations. We start with the marron band saxophones. Mr. Yett is their teacher.
Mr. Lancaster and the junior high school honor band tubas and euphoniums.
Dr. Barger has the honor band saxophones.
Dr. Bell and the honor band bassoons.
The junior honor band horns are with Mrs. Casso.
MRs. Rhynes' maroon band clarinets. (Without seeing Mrs. Rhynes, although she is in the same room with them.)
Mr. Loudenback and the junior concert band saxophones. (We are allowed to use the dance studiod, so the campers have to remove their shoes so that the vinyl flooring doesn't get scarred.
High school concert band trumpets and Dr. Takacs.
Dr. Krause's honor band oboes.
Tobin and the high school maroon oboes.
Let's try the third hour. This looks like fuzzy clarinets, so it must be the symphonic band. Mr. Storey is their teacher.
Mr. Storey's back.
Honor band tubas and euphoniums.
Mrs. DuBois with her precioius symphonic band bass clarinets.
Mr. Swails and happy-to-be-photographed white band bass clarinets.
The side-view mug shot.
Honor band trombones.
Dr. Shanks in a side-view pose, imitating the white band bass clarinets.
White band bassoons sight-reading the daily bulletin.
A final action shot: Re-reading for comprehension.
Junior high school varsity oboes.
Oboes playing pianissimo.
Muted maroon band trombones.
Junior high school symphonic band trombones reaching for that really low note.
Mr. Zorn is their teacher.
Ms Schury teaching the symphonic band flutes.
After lunch come the 1:45 required class. We're in the room with the high school trumpet ensemble I. Dr. Takacs is the teacher.
Junior high school percussion ensemble II with Mr. Perry.
The junior high school flute ensemble II.
The jazz improvisation class, mostly brass.
And the woodwind version of jazz improvisation.
There is also a music theory class taught by Dr. Brooks.
A camera misfire with evidence that we do wear shoes at camp.
Becky, the camp secretary, and her children.
A 3 pm we have assemblies. High school students gather a Northen Recital Hall; the junior high students meet in Legacy Hall in the JBK (the Jack B. Kelley Student Center.
Now we're at the junior high assembly.
At 3:30 pm, the camp teachers form the directors band (a band of directors without possession). They are conducted by Dr. Gary Garner, WT professor emeritus.
Color guard practiced in Northen atrium at 4:30.
There was a faculty recital last night for the 7 pm activity. Many of the camp faculty are also WTAMU faculty. First up was a string quartet (Dr. Rossitza Goza {WTAMU faculty], Yesenia Campos [WT graduate], Patrick Daly-Williams [WT graduate student], Alyssa Barton [camper]).
Next was Saint-Saens, Danse Bacchanale (Kathleen Bell [WTAMU faculty], Doug Storey [WTAMU faculty], Dr. James Barger [WTAMU faculty], Dr. Conor Bell [WTAMU faculty], Colby Swails [WTAMU alum])
Dr. John Shanks [WTAMU faculty] with Mila Abbasova [WTAMU faculty]
Jessica Schury [WTAMU faculty] with Mila Abbasova (WTAMU faculty).
And last was Carnival of Venice performed by Dr. William Takacs [wTAMU faculty] and Mila Abbasova [WTAMU faculty].
To finish up the evening for the campers was a dance, karaoke, or recreation at the activity center.