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After
teaching Carrick
High School Marching Band in Pittsburgh for five years, and showing up
to the City Band Festival at South Stadium and overpowering the other
schools, I was hired at Brashear High School to help to bring them up to
that standard.
This was my first opportunity to do everything
involved in putting a competitive high school band on the field, including
arrangements, developing the horn-line and drum-line, and teaching and
choreographing the color guard. It was an incredible amount of work, and
finding subcontractors to help fulfill obligations was hard. The drum-line
was easy! I actually had most of the line in a class three times a week.
The big excitement for me, was having all five bass drummers there
together, all school year! Many other drum-lines I taught would have benefited from such an
arrangement. Brashear
Winter Color Guard
Another worker and I designed the first winter guard show in the
schools history. The routine was set to the music of: Fantasy, by Earth
Wind and Fire. I still remember the big beginning with the giant pom-poms
in the big wedge! This was the first time Diane
Bowser worked the color-guard with me, which led to her participation
in Odious
Dyne, that I managed and helped to start. Broadway,
by George Benson was opener for show
I used all my experience and all the tricks I'd learned teaching the
past years at Carrick to start to plan and write the new show. Brashear had twice
as many horns, and with having that bass drum line line together all winter, an
exciting show was anticipated. Carrick always had less than twenty horns, and
created tenure in beating up on horn-lines that were twice their size, so
this had promise. The bass line at Carrick was never set in stone, so
those 80 rehearsals during first period for the drum-line was a good
program.
The drum-line started with a 16 bar solo into an exciting fanfare I'd
pulled from Broadway, then into Broadway straight up. It sounded great!
The students even knew what their drill was for the sections of music they
knew, as the drill and basic show design were complete. The soloists had
never had the chance to do the kind of ad lib we were asking for,
and they were enthused to a new level, happy that they were in control of
using their strengths to sound better.
Music Resume of Vince Schaefer
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