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L.D. Bell has an archive of their shows going back to the 1960s on their website here: http://www.dfife.com/archive.html

I know this board tends to be more interested in marching season, but I figured I'd share something different. My old band, Southwest High School from Fort Worth, is performing at Midwest this year, and they performed a pre-Midwest concert at UNT this past weekend. I wanted to share a recording of one of the pieces they're performing with clarinetist Jon Manasse, "Rondo" from Concerto No. 1, Op. 73:

Just wanted to log in to my account for the first time in two years to say congrats to Southwest for making state finals for the first time in school history. Really proud to see my old high school achieving greater things.

Here's the newest video from Southwest. From Area B prelims:

Interestingly, if you were to remove the non-finalists and re-rank the bands as if there were only ten, Wakeland would actually be out and Liberty would be in.

Congrats to all the bands who competed. I can only imagine how rough it must be to miss out with finals being cancelled. With that said, I'm really glad to see my old band back in state after missing it in 2011. Wish I could have been at the competition today. I can't believe how close the top 6 were.

Cedar Park 2, 11, 4, 3, 3 Total: 10 Friendswood 3, 5, 3, 1, 7 11 Vandegrift 1, 2, 6, 6, 8 14 Southwest 5, 10, 1, 8, 1 14 Forney 6, 6, 5, 7, 4 17 Wakeland 7, 1, 2, 10, 12 19 McCallum 8, 4, 7, 9, 5 20 Liberty 11, 7, 11, 5, 2 23 Wylie 4, 12, 13, 2, 9 25 Aledo 9, 3, 14, 12, 6 27 Dawson 10, 9, 9, 4, 11 28 Dr. Springs 12, 13, 8, 11, 10 33 Greg. Port. 13, 8, 10, 14, 14 37 Foster 14, 14, 12, 13, 13 40 Those are apparently the full results and rankings. Congrats to all the bands who competed.

The success of Centennial gives me hope for what Southwest can achieve in two years. You guys made state in '07, missed in '09, and are on track to do amazing thing this year. We made it in '09 and missed it this year so hopefully Southwest will be right back in the thick of things in two more years.

I'll be pulling for the Area B bands and Dripping Springs. I'd like to see Friendswood do well, too. I can't wait to see how Centennial places. They've done amazing this year.

Thanks for being so quick with the results, borchnork! Do we know if those Area B results are in any particular order?

Really wish I could be there. This contest would be held on the one weekend I'm not able to make it home. Oh well. I'm looking forward to getting those prelims results.

I really hope they allow Poteet to compete. I'd hate to see any band kept out of the state competition because of something as small as what sounds like a paperwork issue. Kudos to the director for handling it the way he did.

Just submitted mine as well. Did it more to enjoy viewing other people's predictions, though, and I only did the top six. I really don't know much about the bands this year. The only shows I've seen are Centennial's, which looks amazing, and Southwest's. I just kind of went on past success and a little of what I've heard on TheYellowBoard.

This is entirely possible. Three of the four bands that made it two years ago from Area B made finals and Southwest missed it by two. I'll almost be surprised if there aren't three Area B bands in finals with one earning a medal.

Aledo actually got seventh. Birdville was the alternate and The Colony came in sixth. Anyway, Southwest's show is The Rise of the Phoenix. I don't remember what the entire musical program consists of but I know they're playing some of Mackey's Kingfishers Catch Fire and Stravinsky's Firebird. Here's a video of their performance a little over a week ago if you're interested.