good place to start is my devotedness to the band program. This year‚ I played in the following bands: Marching Band‚ Jazz Ensemble‚ Jazz Band‚ Winter Percussion‚ Wind Ensemble (occasionally). While I am obviously not the best in the school at my instruments‚ I definitely have a connection to the band program that few others have considering the amount of time I put into it. Another quality I would like to mention is my willingness to learn. I want the band program to excel next year‚ and I am up for
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the band. I am a great leader‚ with a lot of maturity and know when it’s time to be serious‚ and when it’s time to joke around. Every day‚ I grow more and more with this band and leading this band as drum major‚ or leading the saxophones as section leader‚ would be an amazing accomplishment for me and I know I can do the job well. First of all‚ I will be putting all of my heart into this job‚ I’ve been in band for seven years‚ and I have grown with this band for two years. I know the band can reach
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A Band-Aid is Not Enough Essay Christina Buynak Bryant & Stratton College Intro to Health Care Dr. Sullivan August 3‚ 2013 Being that I have worked in the health care field for over eight years I have certain expectations when it comes to patient care. During my career I have been awarded several patient care awards and have had patients tell not only my head nurse manager‚ but the director of nursing that “the kind of care Christina has provided me is like the kind of
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I saw The Santa Fe Big Band 22nd‚ Annual Evening of Jazz Concert. The band was dressed up all matching. The men were wearing black dress shirts and pants‚ with dress shoes. The women wearing black formal dresses with red shoes. They all looked very professional and when they started playing it immediately took me back to the 1930s‚ the big band era. Most of the songs were of long length and with many solos through the songs. The instruments used to create the songs were: saxophones‚ trombones‚ trumpets
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he was fourteen he was playing for a band that featured the famous Bix Beiderbecke. By sixteen he was known as far as the west coast and was invited to be in Ben Pollack’s band. While he played there four years he was also attending Illinois institute for technology in his sophomore year. His father was a middle class workman and Benny couldn’t imagine living a life like that. He was inspired to do better. During his life he had recordings with the bands and also recorded under his name. In
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Since celebrity activism has been around for a while‚ that must mean something. Activism wouldn’t be around for this long if it was pointless and is ineffective on society. For example‚ the article states that in the 1980s the overnight success of Band Aid and USA for Africa raised significant funds for famine relief in Africa. If that much progress was made in the 1980s‚ imagine how big of an effect celebrity activism has on the world today. Secondly‚ celebrity activism helps raise awareness
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The poster does a great job in explain the difference between fair vs equal. Along with the poster I found this lesson named Band Aid lesson: Fair is not equal. This lesson seems very simple‚ but it gets the main idea across students with a visualized concept of injuries and band aids in order to prove the main idea of fair is not equal which can be trace back “Fair is not everybody getting the same thing‚ instead fair is everybody getting what they
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subtle ways‚ like land grabs and forced evictions and the power of the rich over the poor local communities. Despite national laws put in place to protect people and forests‚ in Cambodia and Laos massively powerful Vietnamese ‘rubber barons’ (Hoang Anh Gia Lai and the Vietnam Rubber Group) backed by foreign investments from Deutsche Bank and the International Finance Corporation have been illegally logging‚ harassing and evicting people‚ obtaining land without the consent and knowledge of those who live
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1987 (aged 69) | Genre(s) | Jazz‚ Big band | Occupation(s) | Musician‚ songwriter‚ bandleader | Instrument(s) | drums and percussion | Years active | 1919–1987 | | | | | Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30‚ 1917 – April 2‚ 1987) was an American jazz drummer‚ bandleader and former Marine. Rich was billed as "the world’s greatest drummer"[1] and was known for his virtuoso technique‚ power‚ and speed. Contents[hide] * 1 Early life * 2 Big band success and later life * 3 Drumming
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The story of Count Basie is very much the story of the great jazz band that he led for close to 50 years (1935-1984)‚ an orchestra with a distinctive sound‚ anchored by a subtle but propulsive beat‚ buoyed by crisp ensemble work and graced with legendary soloists still to date a catalogue of featured players which read like a Who’s Who of jazz. Perhaps the most impressive aspect of Count Basie band’s achievement was his steadfast perseverance in staying strong with a 50-year music run with several
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