5.17.24

Written By David Mobley

Hello Dragon Band Students, Parents and Families,

This will likely be the final message for the school year! Take a look below…

Spring Concert Recordings

YAC Finals

  • Congratulations to all the finalists at YAC! These were incredible performances from each and every one of you!

  • This year marks the highest student participation in YAC to date. The most students performed, we added ensembles and color guard solos and we added a prelims round to the competition

  • The amount the students learn from working together in a small ensemble, cooperating with an accompanist, in the case of color guard-developing their own solos, performing for a judge - possibly advancing from level to level and getting feedback all along the way - is incalculable!!

  • Results

  • Recordings

Mr. Roeder Retirement Reception

  • Tuesday, May 21st, 2:00-4:00pm, Band Hall

  • Informal, come and go as you wish

  • Everyone please come by anytime between 2-4 and wish Mr. Roeder well!

Next Week in Classes

  • Your lockers must be 100% cleared out of your items when you leave after the final exam time.

  • Take all of your stuff home with you! Every locker, including percussion cubbies, shelves and guard lockers should be completely empty at the end of your final exam time. YES, even if you’ve got camp the week after, or are going to London, etc…

  • Parents - remind your kids to bring their stuff home: Don’t lose those Patagonia jackets, fancy Under Armor pants, really nice pair of Hokas and Ray Ban sunglasses - unless you’d like to donate them to Salvation Army - which is where all of the lost and found will go after next week.

RRHS Graduation - Wednesday, May 22nd

SLIGHTLY ALTERED SCHEDULE!!!

  • HEB Center in Cedar Park, 8:00pm start

  • Next year's WE and WS will perform, without percussion

  • ! 5:00pm Arrive at the band hall, dressed in formal wear with a change of clothes

  • ! 5:10pm Run through graduation music

  • ! 5:45pm Ready to load buses - Flutes, Double Reeds and Saxes bus 1, Clarinets and Trumpets bus 2, Horns and Low Brass bus 3

  • ! 6:00pm Load and Depart

  • 7:00pm Arrive, unload, set up, restrooms

  • 7:45pm Prelude music

  • 8:00pm Graduation begins

  • 10:55pm (approx.) Graduation ends, Postlude music

  • 11:00pm (approx.) Load buses and depart asap

  • 12:00am (approx.) Arrive, unload

  • BEFORE LEAVING FOR THE NIGHT:  Change out of formal wear, store on racks, turn in school owned instrument

Instrument Turn In and Pick Up

  • If you use a school owned instrument:

    • And you’re a senior - keep it until you’ve performed either the Spring Concert or YAC finals, if applicable - all of you turn them in on Wednesday, May 15th - get it done if you haven’t yet!!

    • If you’re going to London - turn it in on Wednesday, May 22nd and we will recheck it out to you on Friday, May 24th between 8-Noon

    • If you’re playing Graduation - turn it in the night we get back from the ceremony, Wednesday, May 22nd - we will recheck it out to you on Friday, May 24th between 8-Noon

RRHS Graduation - Wednesday, May 22nd

  • HEB Center in Cedar Park, 8:00pm start

  • Next year's WE and WS will perform, without percussion

  • 5:30pm Arrive at the band hall, dressed in formal wear with a change of clothes

  • 5:35pm Run through graduation music

  • 6:15pm Ready to load buses - Flutes, Double Reeds and Saxes bus 1, Clarinets and Trumpets bus 2, Horns and Low Brass bus 3

  • 6:25pm Load and Depart

  • 7:00pm Arrive, unload, set up, restrooms

  • 7:45pm Prelude music

  • 8:00pm Graduation begins

  • 10:55pm (approx.) Graduation ends, Postlude music

  • 11:00pm (approx.) Load buses and depart asap

  • 12:00am (approx.) Arrive, unload

  • BEFORE LEAVING FOR THE NIGHT:  Change out of formal wear, store on racks, turn in school owned instrument

Saxophones!

Trombones!

  • Austin Trombone Camp, hosted here at Round Rock High School

  • Register at austintrombonecamp.com

  • See more information here

Texas State Band Camp

  • The Texas State University Band Camp will be held June 9-14, 2024

  • Registration is live here


Tuephas!

Teupha Week | June 11-14 | Cedar Ridge HS

The ultimate Teupha Camp experience! Enjoy 4 days of Teupha with nearly 200 students, led by some of the best low brass instructors in the country. Participate in ensembles of all sizes, attend masterclasses, listen to faculty performances, visit instrument and mouthpiece vendors, and take lessons from the Teupha faculty at a discounted rate. 

Sign up here before May 15th for early bird pricing!

Flutes! - Floot Fire!

Coming Soon

  • Thursday 5/9 Spring Concert, 6:30pm, RRISD Hartfield PAC

  • Friday 5/17 Percussion Concert, Band Hall

  • Monday 5/20 Final Exams begin

  • Tuesday 5/21 Roeder Retirement Reception, 2:00pm, Band Hall

  • Wednesday 5/22 RRHS Graduation, 8:00pm Cedar Park Center

  • Thursday 5/23 Last day of school!

  • Friday 5/24 Instrument Pick Up 8am-Noon

  • Tuesday 5/28-Friday 6/1 Rock Drums and Rock Guard Camps, 9am-4pm

Thank You Everyone,

David Mobley

Band Director

  • Round Rock High School

  • 201 Deepwood Drive, Round Rock, TX 78681

  • 512-464-6028

  • dragonband.com

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David Mobley
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