| Spring Trip 2010 |
 SPRING TRIP – NEW YORK
Thursday, April 1- Sunday, April 4
The Oak Mountain Concert bands perform at Carnegie Hall
2010 National Invitational Band and Orchestra Festival
Carnegie Hall, New York, New York
Oak Mountain High School, Shelby County and the State of Alabama were proudly represented at Carnegie Hall in New York on Friday April 2nd, 2010, by the concert bands of Oak Mountain High School. Oak Mountain represented two of the eighteen bands invited to perform at this year's Festival.
The Oak Mountain High School Symphonic Band under the direction of Kevin Ownby, Associate Director of Bands took the stage first with performances of:
Kirkpatrick Fanfare- Andrew Boysen
Song for Lyndsay - Andrew Boysen
Summer Dances - Brian Bamages
The Oak Mountain High School Wind Ensemble followed under the direction of Director of Bands, Jim Duren and performances of:
Eternal Father Strong to Save - William Whiting
Movement for Rosa - Mark Camphouse
Russian Easter Overture - Nickolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Arr. Tohru Takahashi
The band was evaluated by the following nationally recognized adjudicators:
Craig Kirchhoff (Professor of Conducting and Director of University Bands at the University of Minnesota)
Charles Peltz (Director of Wind Ensembles at the New England Conservatory of Music)
Frank Battisti (Conductor Emeritus of the New England Conservatory of Music)
H. Robert Reynolds (Principal Conductor of the Wind Ensemble at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California and Past Director of University of Michigan Bands for 26 years)
Here are some of the comments noted in the evaluations presented to directors Jim Duren and Kevin Ownby regarding both performances:
"Terrific in all aspects"
"Beautiful and rich, very mature sounds"
"Fantastic""Very Impressive"
"Bravo"
"Bravo, terrific music making"
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