Hebron Appreciation Thread

[bandgeek7874]

Just wanted to put this post up to rave how amazing Hebron was this year. As a former Vandegrift alum who went there from 2016 - 2019, I have to say this was easily the greatest marching band show of all time. These kids sounded like a DCI group. I've never heard such a rich tone, powerful low brass, and technical proficiency from a high school group before and I just want to say thank you to all of the Hebron kids who just redefined how good a high school marching band can be. You've changed marching band forever and have taken this amazing art form we all love to a whole new level. You guys should feel like rockstars after performing that show and like I said before, thank you for all your hard work. You guys are the Michael Jackson's of marching band and   pulled off the greatest marching band show of all time.

[vistaridgefan42069]

ugh, the judges just couldnt give them the 96 in finals, could they???

[J-Mike16]

I have been loving Hebron since 2015 and has always thought they were tied for my favorite high school band along with my former high school band. Well, now after this marching season, I can't help but to say that they are my #1. Every year they produce some of the BEST music I would say in the world. You legit can not beat them musically, IMO. I do not know what kind of water they drink, but I want it. Hebron showed us that COVID ain't stopping them and that they are THE HEBRON HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING BAND!

Would I say its the greatest show of all time? Hmmmm I don't know. I would for sure say its WAY WAY up there. I will say the opener is the BEST! 

I can not wait to watch their show again at the Rose Parade and of course, can not wait to see what kind of show they want to do to top this show! Whatever it is, we all better be ready to wipe eachother's skin off our faces!

[slowbrass]

Lol. I love Hebron and it’s been crazy to see all the outpouring of admiration lately. But perhaps we should wait until a grand national champion is crowned before we start writing ballads of their greatness. 

[HB13]

  On 11/12/2021 at 3:36 AM, slowbrass said:

Lol. I love Hebron and it’s been crazy to see all the outpouring of admiration lately. But perhaps we should wait until a grand national champion is crowned before we start writing ballads of their greatness. 

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I'm definitely going to agree with this, we're a day or so away from watching more greatness up in Indy.

I graduated from the Hebron Band 5 or 6 years ago and have kind of lost touch of the band at this point, but just seeing how happy Andy Sealy and the kids in those pinstriped uniforms were, brought back an enormous wave of nostalgia for this activity and community as a whole. I still remember hopping on these forums every once in a while after one of our competitions to see what people were saying, and so to come back and see all of these people happy that Hebron broke our curse made me super happy. Can't be thankful enough for what the Texas high school marching community has given to me in my life.

[Tailgate88]

Hebron blew me away this year. Would have loved to see them make it to Grand Nats to face Broken Arrow, but I understand how expensive it is. I’m so impressed how marching band bounced back after a crazy last year of Covid!

[beffjezos]

i think if they had went to nats they would have gotten a near perfect music score

[slowbrass]

  On 11/18/2021 at 12:58 AM, beffjezos said:

i think if they had went to nats they would have gotten a near perfect music score

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Current record is a 19.8 by Avon in 2010. It’s crazy to think that an absurd score like that could have been in danger, but I have to agree. 

[vistaridgefan42069]

avon 2010 was similarly technically impressive and clean to hebron this year, but idk if they did what they did with the sheer musicality and tonal purity hebron did it with this year

[gobog]

Musical selections? I am aware of the composers but would like to know of their pieces. 

[slowbrass]

  On 11/24/2021 at 2:28 PM, gobog said:

Musical selections? I am aware of the composers but would like to know of their pieces. 

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In order of appearance 

St. Michael the Archangel by Ottorino Respighi

The Leviathan (from Atlantis) by James Newton Howard

All Hands on Deck by Thomas Bergersen 

Oblivion by Astor Piazolla

Amen by Carlos Simon

Blue Shades by Frank Tichelli

[SomeBandNerd]

If anyone is in the Lewisville area, Hebron will be doing a send-off performance of their show tomorrow night! Pull this information from a Facebook post:

The Hebron's Band Tournament of Roses send off performance will be Monday, December 13th @ 7:00 pm at Hawk Stadium. For their sendoff to the Tournament of Roses parade, the Hebron Band will have an encore performance of their 1st Place BOA San Antonio and their Gold Medal State Marching Competition show titled “Pen Stripe"

[MikeKyu]

I wish I could make it. Pinstriped was an amazing show and will do well to represent top flight marching band shows on a huge stage. 

[LeanderMomma]

  On 12/18/2021 at 3:24 AM, MikeKyu said:

I wish I could make it. Pinstriped was an amazing show and will do well to represent top flight marching band shows on a huge stage. 

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I would love to see the audience in the stadium in California when Hebron performs Penstriped and watch their jaws drop!!  😍

[Rubisco]

Assuming I counted correctly and the info is up-to-date, Hebron had 24 (!) students make All-State this year. That's astonishing, and over twice as many as the "2nd place" groups. According to my counts: Hebron (24), Coppell (10), Hanna (10), Vandegrift (10), Clear Springs (9), The Woodlands (9), Claudia Taylor Johnson (8), Cypress Woods (8), Flower Mound (8), Cedar Park (7), Dawson (7), and Westwood (7).

Is Honor Band for 6A this year? If so, good luck everyone! 🙃

Edit: Realized a couple of those Johnsons weren't CTJ. A few other Johnsons in the state!

[Vidal28]

  On 1/16/2022 at 1:13 AM, Rubisco said:

Assuming I counted correctly and the info is up-to-date, Hebron had 24 (!) students make All-State this year. That's astonishing, and over twice as many as the "2nd place" groups. According to my counts: Hebron (24), Coppell (10), Hanna (10), Vandegrift (10), Clear Springs (9), The Woodlands (9), Claudia Taylor Johnson (8), Cypress Woods (8), Flower Mound (8), Cedar Park (7), Dawson (7), and Westwood (7).

Is Honor Band for 6A this year? If so, good luck everyone! 🙃

Edit: Realized a couple of those Johnsons weren't CTJ. A few other Johnsons in the state!

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I’ll just pull out some stats for how well they did in Area auditions:

A Hebron student was first chair in: Piccolo, Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Alto Sax, Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba, Contrabass Clarinet

The first 5 trumpet chairs were from Hebron, which didn’t really surprise me as we all heard how good their trumpet section was in their marching show, compared to their main area competitors, and when you’re talking about Marcus and Flower Mound that says a lot👀

They had the second chair in three other sections not already named: bass clarinet, euphonium and horn with several sections having multiple students as well. What a great year for them, and I hope soon they can cap it off with a TMEA Honor band invitation soon!

 

[LeanderMomma]

Wow. 

[SomeBandNerd]

https://www.facebook.com/lewisvilleisd/videos/2021-22-toy-finalist-andrew-sealy/1380813752382771/

Wanted to share this video of Hebron's fantastic band director. An amazing tribute honoring the impact he had on his past students and his current students. I cannot think of anyone more deserving of the Teacher of the Year award, and I truly hope he is honored with this achievement. 

[snares]

  On 5/4/2022 at 2:23 PM, Asaiah said:

Hmmm. I was curious about this too, so I double-checked. Unless I don't understand how All-State rankings work (since from what I remember, higher ranks pick which ensemble they perform in), Hebron actually had 26 All-Staters, but only one was "rank 1," the 1st chair Symphonic Orchestra flute player. (If that's just my mistake, please correct me!)

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The original post about this was referring to the Area round, not All-State. Students start out within their own local region, I think there's typically two rounds of auditions at this level, and then advance to Area, and if they advance past the Area round they are All-Staters. So Hebron had a ton of first chairs at the Area level, not the All-State level. Definitely very easy to mix them up.

[Rubisco]

  On 5/4/2022 at 2:23 PM, Asaiah said:

Hmmm. I was curious about this too, so I double-checked. Unless I don't understand how All-State rankings work (since from what I remember, higher ranks pick which ensemble they perform in), Hebron actually had 26 All-Staters, but only one was "rank 1," the 1st chair Symphonic Orchestra flute player. (If that's just my mistake, please correct me!)

By my count, Hebron had:

6 Symphonic Orchestra members,

12 Symphonic Band members,

4 Philharmonic Orchestra members, and

4 Concert Band members.

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Sorry, I was referring to band students. You appear to be including string players in your orchestra counts. Hebron had 1 Piccolo, 3 Flutes, 3 Bb Clarinets, 1 Bass Clarinet, 1 Contrabass Clarinet, 1 Oboe, 1 Alto Sax, 5(!) Trumpets, 1 French Horn, 2 Trombones, 1 Euphonium, 2 Tubas, and 2 Percussion make State this year.

[MadisonBandMan1]

Just got done watching the Tourney of Roses standstill performance they did in ponchos...good lord  bass trombone. I could hear you in the State Finals performance video and you just sound even more meaty up close.