«When I left to go to Washington, the high
school band came down and played.»
Not exact matches
After the
school band played and Joel spoke, this young girl
came up to me with her new saxophone and said, «Thank you for thinking I'm worthy of an instrument like this.»
«He'd
come to rehearsal, work us, go work his
band, then he'd go to his studio all night and record,» is what James «Jimmy Jam» Harris, Prince's high
school classmate and producer, tells EW.
The
band also maintains a prep
school persona (they met while attending Columbia University) that, combined with their summertime pop sound makes them one of the most unique acts to
come along in a long time.
Two minutes into his solo, the Williamstown High
School band joined in, marching in formation through the crowd of 7,000 people who had
come to bear witness to the ribbon - cutting of Ark Encounter, a Christian theme park featuring a replica of Noah's ark built using the dimensions God gave to Noah in Genesis 6.
Well, about a month while driving my oldest to
school, my boy
band love
came out again.
College football
comes close, with
school chants and marching
bands, but they aren't nearly as oppressive as 20,000 - 50,000 mostly male voices screaming words you probably don't understand.
They
came up against other
schools whose rubber -
band qualities were superior, but they managed to finish with a respectable.500 record, 5 -5-1.
As class registration
came up for the spring semester, she entertained the idea of transferring to music
school in Chicago and learning enough to cover
bands for magazines like Rolling Stone and Spin.
Built out of crowd - pleasing elements as durable as a lacquered, sky - high»80s hairdo, writer - director John Carney's
coming - of - age musical is a synth - drenched joy: a tuneful, deeply personal ode to the impulse that forges a high
school rock
band.
And so when a revered instructor, Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), handpicks him for the
school's big -
band jazz ensemble, it seems like a dream
come true.
«Almost Famous» (2000) Crowe's been consistently unafraid to draw from his own experiences, but his epic «Almost Famous» is certainly his most autobiographical work, telling the tale of how, as an underage high -
schooler, he ended up working at Rolling Stone magazine (in this case, covering fictional
band Stillwater), falling in love, and
coming of age.
From visionary anime auteur Masaaki Yuasa
comes a joyously hallucinogenic but family - friendly take on the classic fairy tale about a little mermaid who
comes ashore to join a middle -
school rock
band and propel them to fame.
Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) is an unemployed 23 - year - old bass guitarist in an up - and -
coming garage rock
band who is dating a cute 17 - year - old high
school girl, Knives Chau (Ellen Wong).
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Schools still routinely use sports, games, social clubs, and
band competitions to get students excited about
coming to
school.
Stacy Quiros, Whitefield's
band director and one of the
school's founders, explains, «Even though we may be doing algebra, we can say that the wonder of math and the beauty of numbers
come from this creative God we serve.
It said children might need to take tests for several
schools on different days and that further complications
came from the use of
banding (where
schools take a proportion of children from different ability
bands) alongside other criteria such as catchment area, feeder
schools or a pupil's faith.
First and foremost, Grand Nationals is an educational performance opportunity open to all high
school bands, on a first -
come, first - served basis.
We've never been more accepted, and while some part of me mourns the loss that
comes with acceptance, the slight sense that we aren't the same
band of die - hards that have to stick together for fear of ridicule anymore — bedraggled but proud creatures huddled together in the trenches awaiting the latest onslaught from the media or the
school bully — the much larger part of me basks in how new people are discovering my beloved hobbies and ashamed of that little errant thought.
See Nathan Carter's dioramas currently on view in Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance
come to life during this highly entertaining short film which tells the story of four women who finish high
school and start a punk
band.
A different take on Leo's art, also written in 1966,
comes from the great New York
School poet, Ted Berrigan: «Leo Valledor magically invokes moods of nature with painting that consists simply of a number of
bands of color juxtaposed in a manner that seems intuitively correct.
From superheroes to
band names, those drawings and their subjects
come to mind more quickly than the
school lessons that influenced them.
Back in high
school, you had that friend who would
come to class each week with a brand new cassette tape of
bands and songs you never knew existed.
It ended up feeling crowded and cluttered all the time because my husband would
come home from
band practices with his guitar, amps and briefcase and my son would
come in with his instrument from
school and it would all get set in around the furniture.
I've been trying to think of things, but the only thing I've
come up with is to get one of those old
school shoe stretcher things and see if that works, or cut off the little decorative
band that goes across the top because it's the bulky stitching holding it in place that's digging into the sides of my feet inside of the shoes.
This morning will be equally full on: the eldest is meant to be at
band by 7.15 am, the builders are
coming around 8 am, then I need to drop the youngest to
school and dash to work.