1993 Frontier Trail

The Frontier Trail
Junior High School
Concert Band
Olathe, Kansas
Lorrie S. Holt, Director
Kansas Music Educators Association
Friday, February 26,1993 8:30 A.M.
CenjurY II Concert Hall
Wichita, Kansas
DearKMEAMemben,
We are pleased to support the participation of the Frontier Trail Junior
High School Concert Band in the Kansas Music Educators Association Convention. The Frontier Trail Concert Band, under the capable director of Mrs. Inrrie
Holt, represents outstanding band performance capabilities of junior high
students.
As an integral part of our curriculur progxam at the junior high school
level, students have the opportunity to exhibit excellent instrumental music
abilities. Recognizing the importance of all musical progams as an important
leaming experience for students, the Olathe Disuict Schools proudly supports
the leadership of Mrs. Lonie Holt and the achievement of students from Frontier
Trail Junior High
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Dr. Ron Wimmer
Superintendent of Schools
Greetings,
Frontier Trail Junior High School's Concert Band is extremely proud
and pleased to perform for the Kansas Music Educators'Association's 1992-93
state convention. The KMEA has long been recognizd,for thefu commitrnent to
outstanding music education across the nation. It is our hope that our students
can perform to that level of excellence.
The students in our bands have performed admirable since Frontier
Trail opened its doors four years ago under the direction of Mrs. Lorrie Holt.
Our students are a credit to their school, their parents, their director and to
themselves. Their challenge at this convention is not an easy one, but is one
which these students relish.
An invitation to such a performance indicates the level of excellence
that has been established at our schml in this short period of time. This opportunity ttrat you have afforded us by this invitation will provide us with the
impetus to continue to mintain ttrat level of excellence in the future. On behalf
of the Olathe School District" the staff and snrdents of Frontier Trail Junior High
School, and the community which supports our fine program, we wish you a
successful convention. Thank you for allowing us to share it with you.
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Dr. Stan Smith
Principal
Olathe District Schools Administrators
Dr. Ron Wimmer, Superintendent of Schools
Dr. Alison Banikowski, Assisant Superintendent
Dr. Robert Hull, Assistant Superintendent
Dr. Patricia All, Director of Secondary Eduqation
Dr. Stan Smith, Principal of Frontier Trail Junior High Schml
Ms. Paula Burnetta, Assisant Principal, Frontier Trail Junior High School
IvIr. Mark O'Dell, Assistant Principal, Frontier Trail Junior High School
Program
Lorrie S. Holt, Director
Tom Harrington, Assistant Director
Robert E. Foster, Guest Conductor
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March
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Heroic
. Andrew Boysen, Jr.
March
. . . Robert E. Foster
based on a march by Georg Philipp Telemann
Conducted by Robert E. Foster
Polka
from the Ballet
....MalcolmArnold
"Solitaire"
arranged by John p. paynter
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Program Notes
r Am was commissioned by craig Aune and the cedar Rapids Prairie High School Band
of Cedar Rapids, Iowa in February 1990. It is written in memory of Lynn Jones, a
baritone saxophone player who was killd in an auto accident during the winter. The
aleatoric section is intended to represent the fogry morning of the crash. The words "I
fun" are takerr fronr a poem ihat Lynn wrote just days beiore his death. The piece is not
intended in any way to be an elegy. kutead, it is a celebration, and reaffirmatioru of life.
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I lilrz to achieve recognitbn.
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Heroic Music is based on a theme which is over nro hundred years old. Written
originally as an instrumental solo with accompaniment, it appears in a group of solos
called "Heldenmusik" or "Heroic Music". This is the premiere performance of this march
which will be released as part of the Wingert-Jones Achievement Series in 1993.
Lorrie S. Holt is in her fourth
year as Director of Bands at Frontier
Trail Junior High School. Mrs. Holt
holds a Bachelor of Music Education
Degree from the University of MissouriKansas City Conservatory of Music.
Prior to teaching in the Olathe School
District, Mrs. Holt taught two years at
Bonner Springs High School and Junior
HigtrSehool. Shebegan teaching in the
Olathe District in 1985 as Assistant
Band Director at Olathe South High
School in addition to several elementary schools.
Mrs. Holt is currently serving as the KMEA District I Middle
Level Band Chairpenon. She is a member of MENC, KMEA, KBA, and
the Westem Missouri Brittish Brass Band. Originally a native of Liberfy, Missouri, Mrs. Holt and her husband, Gene,. currently reside in
Shawnee, Kansas.
Robert E. Foster has been
director of bands at the University of
KanSas since 1971. He had previously
served as assistant director ofbands at
the University of Florida following a
successful teaching experience in the
public schools of Austin and Houston,
Texas.
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Mr. Foster has served on the
board of directors of the National Band
Association, Kansas Band Association,
Foundation,
College Band Directors National AssoJohn Philip Sousa
ciation, and the American Bandmasters Association. He is President of
the prestigious American Bandmasters Association, and of the National
Band Association, the world's largest band organization. He has served
as President of the Southwest Division of the College Band Directors
National Association, and as chairman of the 1989 North American Band
Directors Coordinating Committee, is on the Selection Commiuee of the
ABA/Ostwald Composition Contest, and is a member of the Intemational
Jury of the Sudler Intemationd Wind Band Composition Competition.
A well known composer and author, he is also a member of MENC,
KMEA, TBA, Phi Beta Mu, Phi Mu Alpha, and an honorary member and
former district govemor of Kappa Kappa Psyfiau Beta Sigma.
CONCERT BAND
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flutes
Tonia Becker
Christie Benels
Jacque Blumer
Katie Riehn
Anjali Saha
Jessica Schnepp
Suzarme Vega
Shannon Warden
Srephan Pro
crunXrts
Aaron Asquith
Bryan Brutto
Stephen Cady
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Patrick Danko
Konney
Malio
Jeff Mitchell
Ali Soleimani
Oboe
Amy Addington
IEsgoou
Sarah Donegan
Alisoo Sparks
Matt Tinnel
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Deana Gilmore
GImt[*ts
Katy Holcomb
Nicole Alben
Mitdrell Challis
Tiffany Hook
Jennifer Hkins
Stephanie Heiman
Bryan
laing
Gtonboueg
MdiaHill
Kari Bott
Jackie Kreissler
Justin Bradford
Michelle McGuire
Brent Crawford
Cheri Myers
louie Medina
Kerry Waller
Brent Moore
Becky Woodward
Isgg Clsrtucu
Michelle Sage
Tiffany Ziegenhom
$Ito Ssxor[oucg
Greg Alton
Cassandra Lytle
James Peckham
Joseph Wiker
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Jason McKinney
Iohn Welch
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Eric
I*win
David Sanchez
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John-Paul Haywonh
Nicholas Reed
Philip Sizemore
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Mark Homickel
David Perdaris
Nate Ragner
Melissa Robersqt
The olathe Band program is open to all students and begins in
the fifth grade. Beginning students provide their own instruments and
meet for thrity minutes every other day and on altemating Fridays.
There are twenty two elementary schools, five juniorhigh schools, and
three high schools with verticat scheduling for band directors according
to attendance areas.
Frontier Trail Junior High School is in its fourth year with a
student enrollment of seven hundrd eighty nine. The band program has a
total enrollment of two hundred five students. The program consists of
The Concen Band, The Advanced Band, The Intermediate Band, and
two beginning band classes. The Jaguar lazzBand is an extra curricular
group which practices once a week beforc school.
The concert Band is made up of eighth and ninth grade students
selected by an audition process which takes place each spring. Sixty five
percent of these students arc studying privately and most have chosen to
take a solo or ensemble to festival this spring. All students electing to
participate in solo-ensemble festival are being taught before or after
school once per week. The Concert Band has received first division
ratings at world of Fun Festival of Bands and at Emporia state university Band Festival.
Olathe District Band Staff
John Kieffer
Charles T. Menghini
AaronWatkins
lonie Holt
Doug Cox
Ed Colson
Phil Holmes
Mark Keltner
Judy Colson
S. D. Evans
Janelle Gieseke
Tom Harrington
Susan J. Ratigan
Olathe South High School, District Coordinator of Music
Olathe North High School, DistrictBand Chairman
Olathe East High School & Elementary Band
Frontier Trail Junior High School & Elementary Band
Indian Trail Junior High School & Elementary Band
OregonTrail lmior High School & Asst. Elementary Band
Pioneer Trail Junior High School & Elementary Band
Santa Fe Trail Junior High School & Elementary Band
Elementary Band & Assistant OTJHS
Elementary Band
Elementary Band & Assistant OSHS
Elementary Band & Assistant FTJHS
Elementary Band & Assistant ONHS
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