Director News
May 15th, 2012
Hi All,
Here is a list of bands that are currently registered for the 2012 Calgary Stampede Parade! It should be fun! Remember to focus on having your music memorized for Saturday’s rehearsal!
Banda Ciudad de Medellin, Columbia
Berittener Fanfarenzug Freckenhorst e.V., Germany
Bishop Grandin Marching Ghosts, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Calgary Fire Department Pipes & Drums, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Calgary Police Service Pipe Band, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Calgary Round-Up Band, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Calgary Stampede Showband, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Calgary Stetson Showband, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Clan Maxwell Pipes & Drums, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Cranbrook Girls Bugle Band, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Escuela Sinfonica de Musicos de Marcha, Venezuela
Fanfarenzug Potsdam, Germany
Fulda High School Raider Marching Band, Fulda, Minnesota, USA
Glenmore Temple Salvation Army Band, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Gran Banda Medellin, Antioquia, Columbia
Helsingør Pigegarde, Denmark
Hunter School of Performing Arts Marching Band, Australia
Lakeside Lutheran Warrior Marching Band, Lake Mills, Wisconsin, USA
Linkoping Youth Concert & Marching Band, Linkoping, Sweden
Mankato Area 77 Lancers, Mankato, Minnesota, USA
Mission Viejo High School Diablo Marching Band and Color Guard, Mission Viejo, California, USA
Patria Drum & Bugle Corps, Guatemala
Phitsanulok Drum & Bugle Corps, Thailand
Red Deer Royals Marching Showband, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
Satri Wat Ranking School All Girls Band, Bangkok, Thailand
Sutherland Schools Pipe Band, Sutherland, Scotland
Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School, Taipei City, Taiwan
The Queen’s Band, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
604 Moose Royal Canadian Air Cadets, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
May 10th, 2012
Hi All,
I received a great report about how music is coming along after Monday night’s rehearsal! The report about how memoriziation is coming along was not as good. Please make sure we are making time to get our music completly memorized. Remember we can’t begin to be successfull at marching drill if we don’t have music memorized. We will also learn the drill much quicker once the music is in control! Please come to rehearsal with the goal peices for that rehearsal memorized, this will ensure high quality rehearsals!
Remember to make the Monday night music rehearsals a priority. We have rehearsals the next 2 Monday’s from 6-9 pm at DMMS. Imagine we are only 16 days aways from learning drill and 6 weeks from our competative season being over! What are you doing today to make sure that you have a successful season?!
See you soon!
Mr. Hench
April 8th, 2012
Hi All,
I hope everyone is having a great start to their Spring. Please check on-line in my public folder: https://public.me.com/mr.hench to find audition materials, all of the music for this season, mp3 files, schedules for all rehearsals up to Spat Camp and the memorization schedule.
Saturday, April 14th is the Lancer Garage Sale and Part Placement Auditions. This year we will run auditions from 9 am – 3 pm. If you can’t make your appointed time you may show up at any other time and we will fit you in. Your audition will consist of ex scripts from “Blue”, and 2 scales. Auditions are for part placement only and will not affect your participation in Lancers. All auditions will be held at DMMS.
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Flutes Horns
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Clarinets Trumpets
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Saxophones Low Brass
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Make-up Auditions
WE WANT TO START WRITING DRILL!!! However we can not do that until we have a final registration number! We were hoping for March 15th but we are well into April and people are still not registered! If we want to have quality drill and guard work to match we need to finalize registration ASAP! Stop in to community Ed and get this taken care of before the 14th! If you are not able to register right now because of financial reasons please contact Jenny Portner or Mr. Hench to make arrangements and let us know your intentions!
REGISTER NOW! REGISTER NOW! REGISTER NOW! REGISTER NOW!
March 17th, 2012
Hi All,
Thank you Lancers for a great start to the season last weekend! It was exciting to get started and fun to get out and learn some marching in the middle of March! I thought the music was sounding pretty good by the end of the day for a first rehearsal! Remember now is the time to make sure you are registered and have your passport application process going. It’s also the time to bring in the kids that are on the fence and make sure they are registered. We would like to begin on writing drill, ordering busses for the season and finalizing Calgary arrangements. We need to have firm enrollment numbers in order to do these things well. Our season will be here VERY quickly!
Remember our preperation will be the single biggest factor in determining our success! We must begin working hard now because we will not have time once the season begins! Check out my public folder https://public.me.com/mr.hench or www.charmsoffice.com to get all of you music for the season and to check out the memorization schedule to see if you are on track with music!
See you on the 31st!
March 17th, 2012
Hi All,
I know you have all been waiting with great anticipation for the annoucement of this season’s leadership team. I am sorry for the delay. Thank you to those that applied! You all show initative and leadership by applying. Those selected are the ones we feel fit your sections needs the most. Here is the list:
Piccolo/Flute – Anna Burneske
Clarinet – Mikala Olson
Alto Sax – Tiffany Tatarak
Tenor Sax – Leslie Putizier
Horn – Ryan Erdman
Trumpet – Josh Portner
Low Brass – Jordan Anderson
Percussion – Aaron Hiniker