Resources
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- Schedules and Info -
August 4th-7th, 10th-11th
Virtual Camp Schedules
- Woodwind/Brass Schedule
- Percussion Camp Schedule
Friday's Musical Challenge:
Spend 30 minutes practicing on your own outside of virtual practice
(5 points)
Friday’s “Bandalorian” Challenge:
THIS IS THE WAY:
Show your school spirit by singing the lyrics of the Maine West fight song! If the video won’t fit on the exit form, email it to Mr G at bgerstmayr@maine207.org
● 5 points per submission ● 10 Points to the best performance of it!
Lyrics:
Hail to thee, the blue gold and white!
Warriors loyal, we’ll cheer you ever onward
Fight team win team victory proclaim!
V-I-C-T-O-R-Y, Maine West Warriors that’s our cry
Yay rah for Maine West High!
Spirit/Theme Days
Thurs, Aug 6th = Superheroes!
Fri, Aug 7th = Disney!
Mon, Aug 10th = Bring your pet/favorite plush to band!
Tues, Aug 11th = 'Murica (dress in red white and blue!)
Wed, Aug 12th = Wild West Wednesday! (western or Maine West gear)
Thurs, Aug 13th = Section color day (ask your section leader!)
Fri, Aug 14th = A Day at the Beach!
Virtual Camp Schedules
- Woodwind/Brass Schedule
- Percussion Camp Schedule
Friday's Musical Challenge:
Spend 30 minutes practicing on your own outside of virtual practice
(5 points)
Friday’s “Bandalorian” Challenge:
THIS IS THE WAY:
Show your school spirit by singing the lyrics of the Maine West fight song! If the video won’t fit on the exit form, email it to Mr G at bgerstmayr@maine207.org
● 5 points per submission ● 10 Points to the best performance of it!
Lyrics:
Hail to thee, the blue gold and white!
Warriors loyal, we’ll cheer you ever onward
Fight team win team victory proclaim!
V-I-C-T-O-R-Y, Maine West Warriors that’s our cry
Yay rah for Maine West High!
Spirit/Theme Days
Thurs, Aug 6th = Superheroes!
Fri, Aug 7th = Disney!
Mon, Aug 10th = Bring your pet/favorite plush to band!
Tues, Aug 11th = 'Murica (dress in red white and blue!)
Wed, Aug 12th = Wild West Wednesday! (western or Maine West gear)
Thurs, Aug 13th = Section color day (ask your section leader!)
Fri, Aug 14th = A Day at the Beach!
- Music Downloads -
FALL 2020
"A Hero's Journey": The Music of Disney+ (will be added ASAP)
Pop/Rock Tunes:
Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra
Flash (from the movie "Flash Gordon") - Queen
99 Red Balloons - Nena
My Own Worst Enemy - Lit
MARCH CONCERT 2020
Wind Ensemble
Dum Spiro Spero
National Emblem March
Machu Picchu
Equivalence (Perc Ens)
Percussion Music (Perc Ens)
Symphonic Band
Be Thou My Vision
Self Destruct
Tango Mariana
Concert Band
Pulsation
Rain
Toccata for Band
Percussion Techniques
Drums of Moria
Technology
Power Struggle
PRISM 2019
Wind Ensemble
Dashing Through the Snow
Sleigh Ride
Imagine (at 3:30 mark)
All I Want for Christmas is You (Handbells)
Symphonic Band/Concert Band
On This Day Earth Shall Ring
Snow Day Celebration
Sparkling Lights
Percussion Techniques
Nutcracker - Miniature Overture, March, Dance of Sugar Plum, Trepak
MARCHING BAND 2019
Maine West Fight Song
Star Spangled Banner
Rock/Pop Tunes
Sucker - Jonas Brothers
I Like It - Cardi B
Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting - Elton John
High Hopes - Panic at the Disco
I Want It That Way - Backstreet Boys
"Escape" 2019 Competition Show Music
- Intro ("Mad World")
- Capture (Smashing Pumpkins' "Bullet with Butterfly Wings")
- Escape (music from "The Matrix")
- Hide and Chase (Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek" and Andy Akiho "No one to Know One")
- Freedom (John Legend's "Glory")
Click HERE for a YouTube playlist of the original source material for our "Escape" 2019 Show
Watch the animation drill to the show!
Escape Intro and Part 1
Escape Part 2
Escape Part 3 (Hide)
Escape Part 3 (Chase)
Escape 4
MAY 2019
Symphony!
Disney Film Favorites
Young Person's Guide to John Williams
Crossing the Bosporus
Cinema Paradiso
Iron Mon
MARCH 2019
Amparito Roca
Loch Lomond
Jupiter
Snow Caps
Da Vinci Sketches
Suspended Animation
On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss
Valiant Fanfare
Rhythm Stand
Drums Louder Gooder
PRISM 2018
See Amid the Winter Snow
Vier Deutsche Weihnachtslieder
Jingle Bells Forever
Season of Peace
Bugler's Holiday
The Christmas Song (Clarinet Choir)
Christmas Eve/Sarajevo (Percussion Ensemble)
Pines of Rome Finale (Symphonic Orchestra)
Holiday Joy (Jazz Band)
Sugar Plum Swing (Jazz Band)
VETERANS DAY 2018
Armed Forces - The Pride of America
Hymn to the Fallen (from Saving Private Ryan)
MARCHING BAND 2018
Maine West Fight
Feel It Still
Shape of You/Castle on a Hill
Something Like This
25 or 6 to 4
Downtown
"Dreaming in Color" Show
MAY 2018 CONCERT
The Addison Red Line, Bell
Princess Leia's Theme, arr. Brown
Action Sonata for Tuba and Band, Sadler
The Great Locomotive Chase, Smith
The Avengers, Silvestri/arr. Brown
Viva Mexico, Brobowitz
Bombastix (Percussion Techniques)
Brooms Hilda (Wind Ens percussion)
MARCH 2018 CONCERT
Ignition, Stalter
First Suite in E-Flat, Holst
I. Chaconne at 0:00 (click HERE for the score for analysis/research)
II. Intermezzo at 4:49
III. March at 7:38
Fantasy on a Japanese Folk Song, Hazo
Art in the Park, Sheldon
I - Cubism at 0:00
II - Aquarelle at 2:42
III - Sgrafitto at 5:30
IV - Chiascurro at 7:27
Havendance, Holsinger
Above the Clouds, Bernotas
Bandology, Osterling
Excalibur, Brooks
PRISM 2017 CONCERT
Sleigh Ride
Winter Rhapsody
Christmas at the Movies
Let There Be Peace on Earth
Faeries
Largo from "Winter"
Christmas Time is Here (Brass Quintet)
Angels We Have Heard on High (at 1:10 in recording)
Christmas Presence
MARCHING BAND 2017
(click on title for recording)
Handclap
Fireball
Can't Stop The Feeling
Africa
Hooked on a Feeling
Starships
"A Hero's Journey": The Music of Disney+ (will be added ASAP)
Pop/Rock Tunes:
Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra
Flash (from the movie "Flash Gordon") - Queen
99 Red Balloons - Nena
My Own Worst Enemy - Lit
MARCH CONCERT 2020
Wind Ensemble
Dum Spiro Spero
National Emblem March
Machu Picchu
Equivalence (Perc Ens)
Percussion Music (Perc Ens)
Symphonic Band
Be Thou My Vision
Self Destruct
Tango Mariana
Concert Band
Pulsation
Rain
Toccata for Band
Percussion Techniques
Drums of Moria
Technology
Power Struggle
PRISM 2019
Wind Ensemble
Dashing Through the Snow
Sleigh Ride
Imagine (at 3:30 mark)
All I Want for Christmas is You (Handbells)
Symphonic Band/Concert Band
On This Day Earth Shall Ring
Snow Day Celebration
Sparkling Lights
Percussion Techniques
Nutcracker - Miniature Overture, March, Dance of Sugar Plum, Trepak
MARCHING BAND 2019
Maine West Fight Song
Star Spangled Banner
Rock/Pop Tunes
Sucker - Jonas Brothers
I Like It - Cardi B
Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting - Elton John
High Hopes - Panic at the Disco
I Want It That Way - Backstreet Boys
"Escape" 2019 Competition Show Music
- Intro ("Mad World")
- Capture (Smashing Pumpkins' "Bullet with Butterfly Wings")
- Escape (music from "The Matrix")
- Hide and Chase (Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek" and Andy Akiho "No one to Know One")
- Freedom (John Legend's "Glory")
Click HERE for a YouTube playlist of the original source material for our "Escape" 2019 Show
Watch the animation drill to the show!
Escape Intro and Part 1
Escape Part 2
Escape Part 3 (Hide)
Escape Part 3 (Chase)
Escape 4
MAY 2019
Symphony!
Disney Film Favorites
Young Person's Guide to John Williams
Crossing the Bosporus
Cinema Paradiso
Iron Mon
MARCH 2019
Amparito Roca
Loch Lomond
Jupiter
Snow Caps
Da Vinci Sketches
Suspended Animation
On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss
Valiant Fanfare
Rhythm Stand
Drums Louder Gooder
PRISM 2018
See Amid the Winter Snow
Vier Deutsche Weihnachtslieder
Jingle Bells Forever
Season of Peace
Bugler's Holiday
The Christmas Song (Clarinet Choir)
Christmas Eve/Sarajevo (Percussion Ensemble)
Pines of Rome Finale (Symphonic Orchestra)
Holiday Joy (Jazz Band)
Sugar Plum Swing (Jazz Band)
VETERANS DAY 2018
Armed Forces - The Pride of America
Hymn to the Fallen (from Saving Private Ryan)
MARCHING BAND 2018
Maine West Fight
Feel It Still
Shape of You/Castle on a Hill
Something Like This
25 or 6 to 4
Downtown
"Dreaming in Color" Show
MAY 2018 CONCERT
The Addison Red Line, Bell
Princess Leia's Theme, arr. Brown
Action Sonata for Tuba and Band, Sadler
The Great Locomotive Chase, Smith
The Avengers, Silvestri/arr. Brown
Viva Mexico, Brobowitz
Bombastix (Percussion Techniques)
Brooms Hilda (Wind Ens percussion)
MARCH 2018 CONCERT
Ignition, Stalter
First Suite in E-Flat, Holst
I. Chaconne at 0:00 (click HERE for the score for analysis/research)
II. Intermezzo at 4:49
III. March at 7:38
Fantasy on a Japanese Folk Song, Hazo
Art in the Park, Sheldon
I - Cubism at 0:00
II - Aquarelle at 2:42
III - Sgrafitto at 5:30
IV - Chiascurro at 7:27
Havendance, Holsinger
Above the Clouds, Bernotas
Bandology, Osterling
Excalibur, Brooks
PRISM 2017 CONCERT
Sleigh Ride
Winter Rhapsody
Christmas at the Movies
Let There Be Peace on Earth
Faeries
Largo from "Winter"
Christmas Time is Here (Brass Quintet)
Angels We Have Heard on High (at 1:10 in recording)
Christmas Presence
MARCHING BAND 2017
(click on title for recording)
Handclap
Fireball
Can't Stop The Feeling
Africa
Hooked on a Feeling
Starships
- Des Plaines Arts Council Scholarships 2020 -
Did you know that the Des Plaines Arts Council has scholarship money for students in 4 - 12th grades? They support young people in their pursuit of the cultural arts: dance, music, performing and literary arts and the visual arts.
Go to www.dpartscouncil.org/scholarships to find out more.
Applications can be filled out online & the deadline is March 31, 2018.
Go to www.dpartscouncil.org/scholarships to find out more.
Applications can be filled out online & the deadline is March 31, 2018.
- Staff/Private Teachers -
Marching Band Faculty:
Mr. James Vernola, Assistant Band Director
Mr. Bobby Bonslater, Drumline Instructor/Visual and Music Designer
Mr. Benjamin Krauss, Pit Percussion Instructor
Ms. Abby Reynolds, Color Guard Coach
Private Teaching Faculty:
Ms. Alex Hoffman, Flute
TBD, Oboe
Mr. Andrew Marlin, Bassoon
Dr. Janice Minor, Clarinet
Mr. Miles Tesar, Saxophone
Ms. Lisa Taylor, French Horn
Ms. Jacy Ripley, Trumpet
Mr. Todd Smith, Low Brass
Mr. John Ringor, Percussion
Mr. James Vernola, Assistant Band Director
Mr. Bobby Bonslater, Drumline Instructor/Visual and Music Designer
Mr. Benjamin Krauss, Pit Percussion Instructor
Ms. Abby Reynolds, Color Guard Coach
Private Teaching Faculty:
Ms. Alex Hoffman, Flute
TBD, Oboe
Mr. Andrew Marlin, Bassoon
Dr. Janice Minor, Clarinet
Mr. Miles Tesar, Saxophone
Ms. Lisa Taylor, French Horn
Ms. Jacy Ripley, Trumpet
Mr. Todd Smith, Low Brass
Mr. John Ringor, Percussion
- Helpful Links -
Click HERE for the instrument rental agreement form
(for percussionists and students using Maine West instruments)
Musictheory.net
Offers excellent trainers and guides for improving your own personal music theory knowledge and abilities. Use this to practice note reading, key signatures and more!
Multimedia Online Music Dictionary
Created through Virginia Tech University, this is a great comprehensive resource for all musical terms and symbols.
Metronome Online
This online metronome allows you to practice with a very honest time-keeper! Just pick your tempo, turn up your speakers and go!! Also includes some in-depth explanations of the uses of a metronome and other instrument resources.
INSTRUMENT RESOURCES
Flute World
International Clarinet Association
The International Saxophone Page
The International Horn Society
The International Trumpet Guild Youth Site
Online Trombone Journal
Tuba/Euphonium Links
Vic Firth Percussion
Offers an excellent educational department for percussionists offering lessons, exercises and trainers.
Woodwind Fingering Guides
A complete list of fingering charts in full ranges for all woodwind instruments.
(for percussionists and students using Maine West instruments)
Musictheory.net
Offers excellent trainers and guides for improving your own personal music theory knowledge and abilities. Use this to practice note reading, key signatures and more!
Multimedia Online Music Dictionary
Created through Virginia Tech University, this is a great comprehensive resource for all musical terms and symbols.
Metronome Online
This online metronome allows you to practice with a very honest time-keeper! Just pick your tempo, turn up your speakers and go!! Also includes some in-depth explanations of the uses of a metronome and other instrument resources.
INSTRUMENT RESOURCES
Flute World
International Clarinet Association
The International Saxophone Page
The International Horn Society
The International Trumpet Guild Youth Site
Online Trombone Journal
Tuba/Euphonium Links
Vic Firth Percussion
Offers an excellent educational department for percussionists offering lessons, exercises and trainers.
Woodwind Fingering Guides
A complete list of fingering charts in full ranges for all woodwind instruments.