Amanda Drinkwater Named New Lewisville ISD Fine Arts Director

[northtexasbandfan]

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Will be interesting to see how this plays out for Marcus. She'll certainly be a strong advocate for all of the LISD bands.

[KinDallas]

It's a very sad day for the students there. Then again, it's also an opportunity. And DW is going to be an exceptional fine arts director.

[NTXBandFan]

Another interesting note from the same board meeting that announced her as the new Fine Arts Director.  The District is considering starting school earlier, basically, cutting a lot of band camp out.  With teacher meetings and such, there will likely only be 1 week available for full day practice.

[Bandwoww]

I think Keller ISD did the same thing last year. School started a week earlier but it didn’t seem to affect the Band program that much at all.

[takigan]

It can work...especially if you're prepared for it well in advance.  Basically it means scaling back the drill, the visual layers, ditching your pre-show, and starting your competition season later with a quicker planned peak.  Additional solutions include learning stand-tunes during May camp, expanding May freshman camp by a couple days and getting as much music out of the mix as possible so that one week can be spent focusing completely 100% on learning the show.

[ChristopherRoden]

  On 12/13/2017 at 7:54 AM, takigan said:

 

It can work...especially if you're prepared for it well in advance. Basically it means scaling back the drill, the visual layers, ditching your pre-show, and starting your competition season later with a quicker planned peak. Additional solutions include learning stand-tunes during May camp, expanding May freshman camp by a couple days and getting as much music out of the mix as possible so that one week can be spent focusing completely 100% on learning the show.

Typically, the first week (or most of it) is learning fundamentals for freshmen and reteaching the returning members, at least at my school

[takigan]

You get 10 hours of free time to spend on marching fundamentals at any point in the summer before August 1st.