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LEARNING TRANSFORMS US.
by Katie Burris
Beaverton High School’s band program is a longstanding tradition that, over the years, has placed a love of music in generations of students hearts. Today, Beaverton’s band program is small but mighty, suffering losses of students to the boundary changes. However, students still work hard to perfect their songs and showcase them to their families and peers.
On February 21st, the band program put one of their annual concerts to showcase the music they are working to perfect for the upcoming festival season. As always, the jazz band opened the concert, playing fun selections to warm up the audience.
Concert Band followed with the piece they’ve been working on, entitled “Carolina Legend” by James Swearingen. This is a joyful, peppy song that is more of an impressive feat considering that Concert Band is missing sections of their ensemble. Even without the low brass instruments, they were able…
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