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First of all, we’d like to congratulate our 2024 State Silver Medalists! Vince Barrera, Benjamin Castañeda, and Eva Garcia all earned Silver Medals at the UIL State Solo and Ensemble Contest! Our Woodwind Choir, Brass Choir, and Percussion Ensemble also earned Excellent Ratings at the contest! We are very proud of every student who advanced and performed!!! This week is
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First of all we’d like to congratulate our 2024 graduates who graduated Friday night! We wish them the best as they move onto the next chapter in their lives! I’m posting this week’s message a night early due to UIL State Solo and Ensemble tomorrow/Monday. For those students we need them to be at the high school by 10am so
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It seems like just yesterday I was writing the first of these emails with the days of school starting for everyone! Today we find ourselves at the final week of the school year, even though we do have a number of events still on the calendar for the Odem Bands. The biggest this week will be graduation on Friday. Odem
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We begin this week by congratulating our Odem JH Symphonic Winds and Odem HS Wind Ensemble students for outstanding performances on Friday at the American Classics Buccaneer Festival at Del Mar College. Both bands earned Superior Ratings from the three judges and the award of ‘Outstanding Performer’ for their class! This is our final full week of school for the
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I would like to begin by saying thank you to all who attended Windi and Jazzi: ‘May the Fourth Be With You’ yesterday! We had our largest crowd at this event ever, with 158 tickets sold! Our silent auction and punch board also performed well, so we had a great fundraiser event! We’ll have details and the reports on everything
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This week we host our big Dinner/Concert Fundraiser of Windi and Jazzi on Saturday! The event theme this year is ‘May the Fourth Be With You,’ and will feature iconic songs from the Star Wars movies along with other great music! We hope you’ll come and join us for this great event! Tickets are still available here: https://odemhsband.ludus.com They will also be
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We wish to begin this week by offering congratulations to some students in our program. We have 5 ‘Texas Music Scholars’ this year, who have earned the high honor of this State award issued by the Texas Music Educators Association! Vince Barrera, Benjamin Castañeda, Eva Garcia, Elena Molina, and Angelica Soto all earned this honor for maintaining outstanding academic and
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I hope this message finds you well! This week is busy for students with EOC and STAAR tests ongoing on both JH and HS campuses. For the bands though we’re just in the middle of rehearsing and preparing for upcoming events. It is a very busy race to the finish here, so we do ask that people please keep our
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We would like to begin this week by extending our congratulations to the members of the Odem JH Symphonic Winds and the Odem HS Wind Ensemble for earning UIL Sweepstakes awards this week! Both groups received superior ratings from every judge at the contest! We are very proud of the students and their accomplishments! We also were fortunate at the
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We would like to thank everyone who came out to support the students at their Pre-UIL Concerts this past week! We’re currently making our final adjustments and preparations for UIL at the end of this week with the feedback we received from the judges. Thursday at 12:45pm the Odem JH Symphonic Winds will perform at Tuloso-Midway HS Auditorium, and they’ll
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