The Maricopa High School Symphonic Band earned an excellent rating for their performance at Chandler Center for the Arts as part of the ABODA State Concert Festival on Tuesday, April 26. They received feedback from a noted panel of adjudicators including noted band director and composer Richard Saucedo from Carmel High School in Indiana.
They also participated in a sight reading evaluation where they have to play a piece they have never seen and earned an excellent rating for that too.
The band performed:
“The Black Horse Troop” by John Philip Sousa
“Aria Cantabile” by Frank Erickson
“Alligator Alley”= by Michael Daugherty
The band will next perform at the Music-a-Thon on May 7 in the PAC. The Chamber Orchestra appears at the State Festival tomorrow April 28th, at 6pm at Chandler Center for the Arts. Admission is free.
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