Conlan Ordakowski
The Maple Mountain High School Band Started out its season in the first week of June with its Summer Marching Band Program. The Drum Majors are leading the band this season are Susan Nelson and Conlan Ordakowski, with Section Leaders: Dean Packard over the Trumpets, Jonah Bateman over the Flutes, Jayson Buhler over the Clarinets and Saxophones with Rayna Bell helping the Saxophones, Katrina Ordakowski over the Melliphones, Bradley Griffen over our Low Brass, Grace Rose over our Color Guard, and David Bates over the Drumline. We marched our way through five Parades including the spectacular July Forth Freedom Festival. The tune that we preformed in these parades is titilted “Semper Fedelis”.
Our fall season started out with a Bang with our theme "Day of Infamy", in memory and honor of those who died on December 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor. Our Fall Band Camp started out on August 8 through August 19. We started out the day at 7:30 am and were at the school until 4:30. Our Drumline continued until 8:30 every time and their efforts have always been successful winning "Outstanding Percussion" awards. We all appreciate this hard work that our drumline has done, but even they will bow down to what our freshmen and first- years have accomplished. One in particular whom everyone sees has the hardest time trying to get everything correct as everyone else does is our beloved freshmen Philip Stuart. He picked up saxophone just one year ago, but we have watched him grow to be a great confident player. No one has matched his determination and pride in doing everything right.
Our amazing freshman class, including: Kira Mosdell, Phillip Stewart, Anya Nielson, Hyrum Skelton, Adam Warnick, and our first years Rayna Bell, Derek Packard, Eric Amundson, Elizabeth Swan, Sarah Vincent, Johanna Linford, Brent Blas, Christian Taylor, and Julia Raymore have pushed the seniors harder then imaginable. They have grit and determination that fuels the rest of our band. The Marching Band learned their whole field show and memorized all of their music in 2 weeks, faster then any other year before. We had our first performance for our parents on August 19, a great success for 2 weeks. We look forward to this season, and the growth that we will receive as musicians, and as people, for all of our hard work. We hope that our music conveys the tragedy that happened at Pearl Harbor, and that we show what it means to us. We love our music, and we hope that you will too.
Our next performance is Saturday, September 17th at Orem High School. We would love everyone’s support. We also hope to perform at a Football halftime, but that is still a work in progress.
"No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory." Franklin D. Roosevelt, December 8, 1941
Thanks for this article! This year is already amazing and I can't wait to see what we've got coming if we continue to work hard :)
ReplyDeleteWe can't say it enough - the band is working so hard this year and it's paying off big time! I'm so excited!
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