Prepare to be amazed and little creeped out this fall, when the Big Blue Band takes the field at half time on Friday nights.
Adrian Acevedo’s Rockdale Tiger band is 67 strong and like the Tiger football team is filled with young players.
“Most of our band are freshman and sophomores,” he said. “Our senior class is small this year. We have seven. Everybody is doing really well.”
This year Marina Costilla, a junior, will be leading the band at drum major, according to Acevedo.
What’s important is that all the students like the band music they will be performing, he said.
“This year we’re doing Grimm Tales. The stories in the show are Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin and Little Red Riding Hood,” Acevedo said. “The music is kind of creepy and suspenseful, but it’s a lot of fun. The kids really enjoy the music.”
This year’s show will take the audience through three different folk tales written by the Brothers Grimm. The audience will hear the original Grimm’s Theme, which is an original composition written by Luke McMillan, throughout the performance.
They’ll watch and hear Hansel and Gretel outwit the witch in Movement 2 and listen as Rumpelstiltskin throws a fit when the millers daughter guesses his name in Movement 3, while Little Red Hood will meet her demise in Movement 4.
“We are going to have some props to help portray the stories as the music is going,” Acevedo said. “We’re still in the planning stages.”
The Big Blue band started its marching season Monday, July 23. They practiced 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. for two weeks at the Murray Street Church of Christ field as in years past.
Acevedo was working going over the entry points for the band in the new stadium with the construction crew last week.
“Our access to the stadium will be better, although we’ve always had good access to the stadium,” Acevedo said. “Once it’s all laid out it’ll be good.”
In the meantime, the band will work on memorizing music and marching from 4:30-7:30 p.m. on weekdays until Monday.
“The challenges we have are making sure they are staying in step. Working on body posture and mostly the physical aspect of marching and their appearance,” Acevedo said. “We work hard every day to try to improve.”
The 2018-19 calendar year is what’s referred to as an off year for the band.
Although they will not be marching for state competition, they will be getting ready for regional competition this October in Giddings, Acevedo said
“We did go to area last fall, competed, and received nineteenth place in Midway,” he said.
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