Green Mountain High School - Ramblings Yearbook (Lakewood, CO)

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mae: i ' ' 5354 :J Aff, -, mmf 4' ::i Y .ae f s f I ,' Girls Choir Girls Choir sang their hearts out this past year. All twenty-one vivacious, musical women sang together in harmony at several school concerts. In additon to this, they also sang and showed their musical talent at a few community organizatons. Several girls hope to make it into Images or Shadows in their future years. This was the first year at Green Mountain for Mr. Nelson, the director of the choir. He commented, . . . the girls come upon lots of happiness in the music and are very supportive to one another. Hopefully Mr. Nelson will have many enjoyable years to come while teaching the Girls Choir here at Green Mountain. Concert Band, the band for beginner high school musicians. lt is the entry level band here at Green Mountain. Mr. Iiams, the teacher of Concert Band. says, , . . I consider this to be the feeder program to the upper bands, Symphonic, Marching Band, and eventually Spectrum. Mr. Iiams had fifteen years of teaching experience behind him when he came to Green Mountain High School. He has taught private lessons and also taught colege students at Greeley. This is plenty of experience needed to give concert band students a chance for the future at Green Mountain. Mr. Iiams also teaches Marching Band, Spectrum, Symphonic Band, Wind Ensemble, and supervised Symphonic Orchestra, besides the Concert Band.hopefully Mr. Iiams will be here for many years to come and show beginning students exactly how it's done at Green Mountain High School. Heather Huges pratices her high notes Lora Planks says, 'lYodeleaheehoo . The Girls Choir yodles together. Mr. Nelson Kelly Baier Julie Bennet Deana Deems, Amy DeBord, Mitzy Fink, Tina Hollyhead, Grace Knowles, Princess Lown, Six Choir Girls . . rehearse their Ooohs . T ii W . 'afwrgwl mmww ,. .'v. . Tracey Mateer, Linda Moody, Kristen Myers, Barbara Peterson, Steph Phillips, Lora Plank, Shelly Saxton, Liesl Slocum, Jamie Snodgrass, Debbie Stewart, Victoria Townsend, Timi Wibur, Tamara Watt. Girls Choir 101 v

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Symphonic Band Symphonic band. O.k., lets take it by definition.Symphonic adj.,l'larmony, as if sounds colors, in music usually in four movements. Add to this definition Band, n. a group organized to play musical instsuments. So you are probably saying O.K., Symphonic Band is a group of people who play musical instruments, harmoniously, who move four times while they are playing. Not quite. Here at Green Mountain the definition should read something like: Symphonic Band n. a group of dedicated musicians who are in the middle of their high school instrumental music career, having graduated from concert band, who meet during fourth hour, are taught by Mr. Wayne Iiams, and on the stepping stone up to Wind Ensamble. As you could tell from the above definition, the goal of most people in Symphonic Band is to reach the Wind Ensamble. An anonymous informed me that about 8007: of the members do continue on into Wind Ensamble. The way the students move up through the musical ranks is by audition mainly and teacher approval. The farther up you go the more auditionare required to join. ln all the groups your age is not a factor, only your playing ability and experience has any bearing on which musical group you are in. Through the year, this group has 4 concerts, evenly spaced,1 every quarter. Symphonic Band also helps the musicians by increasing their sightreading skills and allowing them to play a wide variety of music. Symphonic Band tunes up Mr. liams says Good Morningu. Symphonic Band works hard. Pouncing for the kill. 100 Symphonic Band whiff: ' ,, f V ,,., . ,, ,, , ,,.

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Marching Rams perform at Homecomming. ' Marching Along This year, Mr. liams was the marching band sponsor. The drum major was Jeff Fowler but there was no actual majorette. The main purpose of the marching band is to perform at football games and support the team. They are also a competitive band and compete with other 4A class bands. This year, at Lakewood On Parade, they took 3rd place overall. At the Arvada Harvest Festival, they took 2nd thc Pikes Peak Invitational in Colorado Springs, the Regional Competition. A high placement at this competition would give the better placement at the state competition. Their tour was November 2, where they competed with diffrent bands from all over the country. 140 students were enrolled in marching band this year but 7007: of the students took the class received no credit at all. Assisting Mr. liams this ikrnyrgpggggp-as N M gf . r gg place, and at the Jeffco Marching Band Festival, they took lst place which makes this 3 years in a row. Other competitions they marched at, included Marching Band shows their drama. year were: Tim Marko lmarching designl, Dave Marvin lPercussion linel, Roger Greenfeild tassistantl, and Danlin Marvin and Kathy Kasten lflag linel. The end of the show. 102 Marching Band M., f ,W W