Harbor High School - Mariner Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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looking stern, tuniti drummer Hum Iiilhwl'il hentx on his timm at this Hulu pep .ivwml'tx' It's Tuesday afternoon after school Hi! I'm glad you've decided to join me in a tour of a typical jazz band rehearsal and performance. ltis Tuesday afternoon after school and Kaleva Hall begins to fill up with anxious musicians. Uh oh! Now it's 3:00 p.m. and some people haven't shown, Time for Mr. Heusinger's weekly talk about how we don't have to have stage band But we all know he loves it more than anyoneji l,2,3,4-The first downbeat of the day. The trumpets sound, the drums pound etc . i . Arenit you glad youire here? As you look around people are mostly concentrating on their mu- With tap pulled down low, Ion Herman fingers the notea nn hh- tmmbone after school at Kaleva Hall 28i5tudent Life sic-but having fun too! You just know everyone is good friends. Now it's almost 4:00 p.m., and they are almost done. They want to be just perfectethey have a performance tonight, you knowi They're gonna perform at a Jazz Festival. Everyone is really psyched! Well, here we are. It's 7:00 p.mi and everyone is uniformed, except for maybe one person who lost his uniform. That's O.K. though they'll be great. You heard them practice. Theyire on Stage now. Not really all that nervous. Maybe some sweaty palms among their great soloists. The lights are burning bright, a couple 3 Puffing away, Shawn Hall plays his tuba at a pep assembly The pep band performed at all the home boysl basketball games. last comments from Mr. Heusinger and they're off. The first song was really great, the audience is really en- thused. All the eyes are on them. The second, and third were just as great. Everyone is roaring. Now their finale. It's over. The audience is on their feet clapping and jumping up and down. Encore! Encore! Weren't they great!! The band is relieved-but not too surprised After their performance you see them patting each other's backs. What a great team. They please their audi- ences wherever they go! Holding his music in one hand and his horn in the other, junior Danny Goodman performs RHIIYV.

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Well . . . band is fun, but it's also a lot of hard work. A good example of both of these is band camp. The fun swimming, the dances, and being with your friends. The hard part is the work; you get up at about 6:00eand work until 8:00 p.m. Another hard part of band camp is the food . . . it's usually rotten? But after all the work, we get to go to all the football games . . . free. And we get to go all over Ohio and Pennsylvania for competi- tions and band shows. That's the fun! :lj'LEMJ Wit Bande27

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r , rm. agl A. I AND WHAT'S MORE. . . . I enjoy playing in the jazz band mostly because I love jazz music! Jazz music fascinates me! It really moves and has a steady beat. Sometimes I can just lay on my bed at home and listen to jazz on the radio for hours, It relaxes me yet it peps me up or puts me in a good mood. I love playing music, and to be able to play some of the songs my favorite artists sing really makes me think I'm closer to them and what they do. It takes a lot of coordination I give up a lot of my spare time to the band, but to me the sacrifice is worth it. Rgmci Asmab COUUW Dmsu 'xci UbfaW ma St. 44th Ringing; am 44094