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I hope this message finds you recovered from this past week with power and water at your houses. Please let us know if there are any lingering issues that we can/need to assist with! The next two weeks are going to get busy for us on both campuses. First up will be our UIL Solo and Ensemble recordings. We were
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Thank you to those of you who joined us last week online and in-person for our Solo and Ensemble Recital! This week our focus with the bands will be to get their entries completed. We had planned on recording tomorrow (Monday), but with the weather concerns we are moving that to Tuesday. We HAVE TO record after school that day
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This week we begin a week-long final focus on the region UIL Solo and Ensemble contest for the students involved. Tuesday evening, at 5:30pm we will have our Solo and Ensemble Recital at the Odem HS Cafetorium. We will be allowing two tickets per student for audience members who may wish to attend. I will pass out those tickets on
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Our schedule will be getting busier as we move into the semester, but this will be one of our lightest weeks of the year with nothing on the schedule. Please help encourage your students to bring instruments home daily, both for practicing, and to help ensure an instrument is at home if they have to go into quarantine. If that
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Thank you to all who attended our OJH Bands Concert last week! It’s been a tough year and Mr. Williams and I are grateful for the fact we were able to have a performance with those students! Tomorrow night at 7pm we will be having our monthly band booster meeting in the JH Band Hall. (We had to move it
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This week we begin by congratulating Senior Trombonist Ethan Sanchez on placing 1st at the Area Auditions, and earning his 2nd Trip to the All-State Bands! We are proud of our other Area contenders, Savannah Beltran, Kassidi Tijerina, Martin Doria, and Landon Garza for also having good showings in the process! ATSSB has not finalized plans yet, but tentatively they are trying
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I hope everyone has had a safe break and this message finds you all well and healthy! The next few weeks traditionally are some of the least busy for us as we transition seasons with the high school band, and begin preparing for Solo and Ensemble and UIL Concert and Sight-Reading Evaluation with the 7th-12th Grade Bands. The schedule for this
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Tonight we have received our results from our students who participated in the 2020 All-Region Auditions. This year the auditions were held virtually with recordings submitted by the students and judged by directors remotely. I am pleased to announce that we had a record number of Odem HS Band Students named to the All-Region Bands! In total Odem HS is
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We would like to begin this week by congratulating The Spirit of OHS on their outstanding performance yesterday at the UIL Area E Marching Band Championships! For the 5th Consecutive time they have been named an Area Finalist Band! Ultimately, they finished 7th in the contest, but in a normal year would have had a finals round to compete one last time.
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This week brings us to the week of the UIL Area E 3A Marching Contest that will be held at Calallen HS. The Spirit of OHS performs at 11am in the first block of bands that begins at 10am. The block concludes at noon when the stadium will be cleared of fans and sanitized for the next block. For our
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