Like many teenagers, he also loves soccer and tennis and plays drums in his school band.
She had a T-shirt design created, started a Facebook page, and " band-ing together for Joplin High School band" was born.
The Fighting Irish players, wearing championship hats and T-shirts, set up a dance line to celebrate and did an Irish jig in front of the school band.
Today McDonogh 15 is more accustomed to happy hallways bursting with the colors of Mardi Gras and the strains of adolescents playing New Orleans jazz in the school band.
Russ Kramer, a musician who heads the Mason City high school band programme, says that music, and a stubborn spirit of optimism which it helps to underpin, are still central to life in the town.
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Afterward, the finalists embraced like the old friends that they are, having met via organized jazz programs: Mr. Stranahan and Mr. Brown met through the Brubeck Institute, and Mr. Ross at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington high-school band competition.
The prince also heard and watched a performance by school pupils from Hillhead High School jazz band.
Previously the boards honouring the musicians were displayed across different sites at the school and band service headquarters.
"I tried playing trumpet in my high-school marching band but I was soon demoted to ticket-taker at football games, " he said.
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The singer played high-school football, then went to East Tennessee State University, where he was a guitarist in the school bluegrass band.
She got her start with a high school punk band then graduated to partner with the loose collective of Canadian musicians known as Broken Social Scene and most unexpectedly, the electro-rock rapper, Peaches.
Public-school parents accuse the board of the 9, 000-student East Ramapo Central School District of cutting teachers, guidance counselors, art programs, all-day kindergarten and the high school marching band, while diverting public resources to favored Orthodox institutions.
This school's band was known far and wide, not only in Kyoto, but all over Japan.
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The school's band, known as the Marching 100, is one of the top university marching bands in the United States, famed for its elaborate dance formations and innovative style incorporating popular music.
But without instruments, a band is not a band, and with the new school year looming Joplin's band kids "are getting really desperate, " Bowcutt said.
Over ten years ago, I vividly remember making a snide comment to a friend in high school during a marching band trip.
The overflow service ran long with cathartic wails of the young widow and sobbing kids from the school where Shavers was a band teacher.
School singers and their jazz band provided campaign music, and students acted as television moderators, conducting interviews and reporting electoral results by fixing either a blue or a red pin to a map of the United States.
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The team signs on for a mission that looks like an easy paycheck for Barney and his band of old-school mercenaries.
"The deep study of this music has affected our lives, " said Jeffery Leonard, director of the band of Lexington High School in Massachusetts.
Reunited for what they think should be a quick, in-and-out mission, this tight-knit band of old-school mercenaries are about to find themselves at the brink of global disaster and are driven to make this mission personal.
There is hope, though: social networks have started to have an accelerating effect on the practical implementation of the ideas originally published by the Ivan Illiches of this world, through the online actions and interactions of a growing innovative band of social networking school-builders, curriculum designers, teachers, parents and students.
He didn't start in a music school or even a regular old jazz band.
If School House Rock morphed into an actual band, it'd be Jukebox The Ghost.
My eldest brother, for some reason, became the first trumpeter in the wind band of Rakunan Junior High School, and became known as a musical genius.
After high school, he joined Ronnie Hawkins' band, the Hawks.
Pendleton, 15, an honor student and band majorette at Kings College Prep School, died Tuesday after a gunman shot her at a park in what her godfather, Damon Stuart, described as an "ideal community" on Chicago's South Side.
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About half of the young people involved with the comparsa band have found jobs or returned to school.
Several days before the competition, there was a serious discussion at school about who, of eighty students in the band, would be sent.
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