DHS bands impress audience, judges

By Isabelle Chen,

The DHS Concert and Symphonic Bands took the stage on March 22, to perform an adjudicated, or judged, concert. Each band performed in front of the adjudicator, Lester Lehr, in the days leading up to the event, and then applied Lehr’s critiques during the final performance.

Concert Band director Clyde Quick found Lehr’s ideas helpful to his students.

“He’s dealing with the skills—[such as] adhering and melodic content—that we always deal with, [but] at a more advanced level, and it’s good to hear it from someone else,” Quick said. “So, already [the students] have implemented some of it and they’re just more aware of it, which means that they’re able to control it.”

Junior Marta Drown, a Symphonic Band flutist, was also pleased with the outcome of the performance.

“We just had a concert a couple of weeks ago that was completely different music, so there was a lot of hurry-scurry to get this music ready, and I think we did really great, considering,” she said. “And also, we’re just a really strong program this year.”

While Concert Band performed four shorter pieces, Symphonic Band played Steven Reineke’s “New Day Rising,” which, over the course of four movements, tells the story of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

The Symphonic Band will next be performing on its trip to San Diego. For an event closer to home, Davis community members can see the DHS Jazz Band’s Capitol Jazz Project Concert on April 1.