Sentences with phrase «school band played»

To keep volunteers energized and spirits high, the high school band played live music throughout the morning.

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.»

Moss and Woodson are like watching elementary school bands play.

As we sail a 75 - piece high school band plays We are the world, delivering goose bumps to our balcony.

Not exact matches

After graduating from high school (he played percussion in the marching band), Surace earned an engineering degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology and began his career working for large companies: IBM, Seiko Epson, and National Semiconductor, which relocated him to Silicon Valley.

She held fast to that dream throughout high school, toiling over her art portfolio and racking up painting awards, all the while maintaining top grades, earning her grade 10 Royal Conservatory of Music certification for piano, and playing saxophone in seven different bands.

In high school, I played in multiple bands, but I stopped playing for 15 years or so.

Alex participated in the school marching band and orchestra, playing baritone in the former and trombone in the latter, the Sun - Sentinel reported.

But, as someone who attended Cornerstone, Isaac remained involved in music: Throughout high school, he played in a variety of punk and ska bands.

[This spirit of sisterhood can be summed up in one of the highlights of the conference: On Friday afternoon, Emily Scott told a story about how her high school band director, surprised that she had chosen as «unfeminine» an instrument as the trombone, tried to keep her from closing her eyes and swaying to the music by literally pulling her shoulders back and standing on her feet as she played.

Eight weeks later my high school band (I played the oboe) journeyed by train to Washington DC, where we had been invited to play at the annual Cherry Blossom Festival.

Urging readers to pick up your book feels a lot like sending out a résumé or auditioning for a play or selling grapefruit door to door for your high school marching band trip to London (which is way harder than it sounds, by the way).

After we played together in the worship band every week, he'd slip downstairs before the sermon to teach Sunday School to a very small group.

«Wyoming and Central Michigan each played a fantastic game, and I have no doubt they were fueled by the support of their schools who sent marching bands and cheerleaders, as well as the thousands of dedicated fans who weathered the cold to cheer on their teams.

The next day, after missing his breakfast because he was on the phone with coaches, he marched two miles in a parade and played at a football halftime with the school band.

After the third round Daly went to a high school gym and played in two full - court basketball games with members of the band and Tour players Brad Faxon, Billy Andrade, Woody Austin and Jim McGovern, got back to the hotel in time to see Evander Holyfield upset Mike Tyson and finished the night by attending a Vince Gill concert.

The bands from the two schools joined on the field and played God Bless America.

a mentally retarded black man doing everything a human being could possibly do at a high school football game — greeting the crowd, providing radio commentary, delivering the pregame pep talk, running water bottles to the players, cheering with the cheerleaders, leading the halftime marching band and racing across the field with the school flag after touchdowns — everything except actually playing, and basking in his town's love every mad minute of it.

And on a Friday night in a South Carolina town, his encounter with a mentally retarded black man doing everything a human being could possibly do at a high school football game — greeting the crowd, providing radio commentary, delivering the pregame pep talk, running water bottles to the players, cheering with the cheerleaders, leading the halftime marching band and racing across the field with the school flag after touchdowns — everything except actually playing, and basking in his town's love every mad minute of it.

Pro and major - college sports, with their cheering throngs in big - time stadiums, were not to be played anywhere in the U.S. Away from the New York metropolitan area, it was deemed acceptable to play most small - college and high school sports, which went on as scheduled, accompanied usually by a pregame prayer, moment of silence and patriotic salute by the school band.

, where the school board has band the game of «tag» from being played at recess.

The Beatles rose to the top not just because of their talent, but because they were invited to play in Hamburg, Germany when they were a struggling high school rock band in the 1960s.

This is a particularly great event for elementary - age kids who play brass in the school band.

During my adolescent and teenage years I played on the middle school basketball team, but chose to go the musical route in high school and opted for band (both marching and concert band).

When he's not transporting food with his dad every other weekend as a Tampa Bay Harvest volunteer, David attends Osceola High School and plays trumpet in the schoolSchool and plays trumpet in the schoolschool band.

Allow your child to decide if he wants to play baseball or soccer, or if she wants to join the school chorus or school band.

Middle schools offer students the chance to join clubs, participate in community service projects, try out for a sports team or a play, or join the school band or chorus.

This is easy in UK schools, where all children have the opportunity to sing in assemblies, play recorders, and try out band or string instruments.

A week or so ago I wrote a post about Number 4 and how she was feeling conflicted about continuing to play the saxophone in band in school.

My father played the flute and piccolo in his high school marching band.

The University of Maryland's marching band will no longer play «Maryland, My Maryland,» the official state song, at school sporting events because of its ties to the Confederacy.

«Being a part of this program just changes your life,» said Joanne Beloy, 18, who plays saxophone in the school's band.

Barron spent the day in East New York visiting polling stations and also found time to speak to the 8th grade graduates of George Gershwin Junior High School with his wife, Inez, where the two later rapped some words of wisdom to the students while the marching band played behind them.

This year, the Collegiate Institute for Math and Science used BOOST funds to benefit students in a variety of ways, including tutoring and professional development services, a class trip to Yale Model UN, parent meetings and family nights, a trip for the school's band to play at Madison Square Garden, as well as initiatives for honor roll students and those with perfect attendance.

Whether they're for playing in the school band or a rock concert, the Roadshow Series has a drum set for everyone!

I start out an ordinary kid in Belleville, Illinois, kicking mushrooms and growing up to play baritone horn in the high school marching band.

In high school, he played in a band called «Doc Bornstein and the Interns.»

They played at high school dances, weddings, and private parties, the band members said.

In elementary school, he had learned to play the trumpet, and even at that young age, he managed to syncopate his way into the local high school marching band.

«When I left to go to Washington, the high school band came down and played.»

I played trombone for 9 years, and was the Drum Major in my high school marching band.

She shuttled us to soccer practices, piano lessons, basketball practices, flute lessons, play dates, volleyball games, marching band rehearsals, the pool center, band concerts, baseball games, high school musicals... All while working part - time and still making huge contributions to her scientific field.

My son and I went on a walk last night and the air was crisp, the leaves were falling and we could hear the sound of the high - school band in the distance playing during a football game.

I've been singing + playing piano since age 5, I did every chorus + band in school, did Districts + Regionals for chorus in high school, was in all of my spring musicals, AND was in an a capella group in college (specifically, the group John Legend was in during his time at UPenn — #FunFact).

Writing articles for my university's online chapter of The Odyssey, creating web content for multiple local music blogs and playing in bands since high school have all prepared me for any and all tasks I could meet.

I'm a hard - working Metalhead with a full - time job playing drums into bands and going to school full - time

Ukraine About Blog JINJER is a Ukrainian female fronted band which plays a mixture of progressive metalcore and groove metal, with some inlays of funk, reggae and jazz, though on their second LP the band is shifting a bit to death metal of the European school according to band members.

Hey boys!I'm Jessica,, and a senior at Fruitland High in Fruitland, ID.I like to play board games & playstation.I play percussion in the high school band, I love the color pink, I like Art, I like meeting new people, I'm single, I love to have fun, and I love to go to dances and get my groove on!

I mean, as I type this review, I can hear the theme being played by a school band at the local elementary school, and that's hardly a rare occurrence.

Acting alongside Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson, he played a high school basketball player who was desperate enough for a high SAT to join a band of students intent on stealing the answers.