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News from the Odem HS Bands
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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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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We would like to begin this week by congratulating the members of The Spirit of OHS on their performance on November 21st! The students continued Odem High Schools proud tradition of Superior Ratings, and managed to earn their 15th Consecutive such rating! They now hold the longest streak out of the 3A High Schools in our region! Their success at that
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This week is set to be a very busy week for the Odem Bands! The main event is that UIL Region Marching Contest will be Saturday. For this contest there is a limit of 100 tickets per school for the event. I’m including more information in the section below, but tickets will be held at OEISD Business Office for purchase.
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First, I would like to thank the students for an absolutely outstanding performance/rehearsal on Saturday! Our guest adjudicators were incredibly impressed with our band and how hard everyone worked! We identified our main areas we need to focus on cleaning leading up to Region Marching Contest on November 21st. Please note that UIL Region Marching Contest is a required and
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This week the HS Band will begin making our final preparations towards Region Marching Contest on November 21st. Please note that UIL Region Marching Contest is a required and graded event that date, even with it being on the break students must be in attendance! We received our preliminary performance time for the event this week. The Spirit of OHS
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