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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Learning how to play a march in Heidelberg?

 The District 99 Honors Band prepares for a clinic with Lt. Colonel Beth Steele, US Army.
 Having performed and conducted our national march The Stars and Stripes Forever! nearly 5,000 times in her military career, Lt. Colonel Steele had a voice of authority during the clinic.  Lt. Colonel Steele was a contemporary of both Mr. Teague and Mr. Roselieb from Northwestern University. 
 A soccer pitch made completely from Gummi bears in the window of a shop in Heidelberg.
One of three Heidelberg Castle tour groups stops for a photograph on the balcony of the Heidelberg Castle.


Today, our students learned how to better perform a march.  With years of military band conducting experience, Lt. Colonel Steele was able to convey the things that make a march musical very concisely and quickly to our student musicians.  The transfer of learning that took place during the clinic would become even more apparent during the performances in both the Kronenzentrum and at Lochbrau.