Wakulla High Symphonic Band Earns Top Honors 

The Symphonic Band participated in the Florida Bandmasters Association District III Music Performance Assessment Friday, March 7, 2008 where they earned straight superior ratings for their performance!  This is the highest honor a group can receive at this event.  They also received a superior in their sight-reading evaluation and Nina Reich (pictured below), the student conductor, received a superior rating as well.

The honors for this band will only continue as they advance to the State Performance Assessment Festival to be held at the University of North Florida in April.  The symphonic band has also been invited to Indian River Community College during the last week of March to perform with the Inagakuen Soto Wind Ensemble from Osaka, Japan as a part of a clinic for band directors all over the state on how to rehearse their own band. 

If you would be interested in helping support either of these educational opportunities for the students, they will be out at the Wal-Mart in Crawfordville on Saturday, March 22 and Sunday, March 23 selling hotdogs and sodas, and accepting donations which will be used for their travel costs.  Any assistance will be greatly appreciated!

Noted Becky Carlan, WHS Director of Bands, "I have been told on more than one occasion by several renowned teachers that this is the most talented band Wakulla High has ever had."  Rodney Dasinger, the band director at Rutherford High School in Panama City, who judged the band's performance Saturday remarked, "The people of Wakulla County should be very proud of these students and the teaching taking place in their community."

- Submitted by Becky Carlan, Director of Bands
  Wakulla High School

- Photos courtesy of Arthur Carlan 

This article originally published on March 9, 2008.

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