When the calendar turns to March, several college students begin to look towards spring split. Although the period will improve, there will not be a break for the active Highland Band.
The band will go away university on Friday, March 18th and return on Thursday the 24th to vacation to Walt Disney Planet in Orlando with other Highland fantastic arts students. Even though there, the band will participate in a session with a Disney teacher to study songs employed in an iconic movie scene that they will have the possibility to carry out. Highland band director Andrew McDonald talked about the encounter with KCII News, “Disney Earth does an brilliant point with schools that exhibit up where, they give you some music to a scene from a Disney film, and you possibly sing it or participate in it on instruments and then they swap out the primary motion picture audio with your band or choir’s effectiveness. I did the very same matter when I was in superior college. The scene that we got was the stampede from ‘The Lion King’. They experienced us participate in the background new music to that scene and then at the stop of it you get a DVD with the first movie video and that high school’s audio.”
Upon their return to Iowa, several customers of the ensemble will just take portion in the Southeast Iowa Superconference Honor Band at Winfield-Mt. Union Large University on March 24th. Later in the spring, McDonald invitations close friends and family members of band associates to the seventh through 12th quality Highland band solo festival March 31st, and the May possibly, 9th concert for sixth through 12th grade concert and jazz bands.