ALHS bands to perform final concert of the year
Published 9:32 am Friday, May 6, 2016
On Monday the Albert Lea High School band department will present its final concert of the year. The performance will be at 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium and will feature the Tiger band, symphonic band and concert band. Tickets are available at the door and are $7 for adults and $5 for students and seniors. Children preschool age and under are free. Family music passes are good for the event.
At the concert, various awards will be presented, including the John Phillip Sousa award for band and the Louis Armstrong award for jazz. Graduating seniors will also be recognized.
Each band was given the opportunity to help choose one of its songs for the concert. The Tiger band, which is made up of eighth and ninth-grade students, chose a medley of songs from “Grease.” They will also perform “Arabian Dances” and “Pevensey Castle.” The ninth-and tenth-grade symphonic band chose “Bohemian Rhapsody” by the rock band Queen. It will also perform “Phantom Train” and “Hail America.” The concert band, made up of mostly juniors and seniors, chose a medley of songs from the recent hit movie “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” It will also perform its Big Nine Music Festival program, which includes “Danse Bohemian” by Randall Standridge and featuring All-State percussionist Sam Ware on xylophone, “Lux Aurumque” by Eric Whitacre and “Exhilaration” by Larry Clark.
All three groups are led by ALHS director of bands Suzanne Mauer.