2013 Marching Band Season Begins: The Preview Show

Update: More photos added 9/28

Concluding a very productive summer of learning and rehearsing, the SPFHS Raider Marching Band & Guard presented a preview of its 2013 program for family and friends on Aug. 29.

The students put on a marching performance and then repeated the music in stand-still formation. Here's an album of photos by Dan Murphy and Jennifer Cherubini.



The show will make its public debut on Sept. 21 at a Raiders home football game in the afternoon. That evening, the band will host a USSBA competition and perform in exhibition.

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NOTE TO READERS: Missing photo albums aren't really missing

Google, which runs the Blogger and Picasa programs we use for this site, has been tinkering with both - sometimes breaking the older photo slideshows on these pages. So you might see some big blank spaces instead of photo albums in posts from the past few years.

But the photo albums all still exist, and can be accessed from our Photo Album index page.

Memorial Day 2013: Singing at ceremony, marching in parade (More photos added 6/6)

SPFHS musicians sang at the Memorial Day ceremonies in downtown Scotch Plains and then the Raiders Marching Band took part in the annual parade to downtown Fanwood.

Here's an album of photos that starts with members of the choir singing the National Anthem and follows the band and color guard along the parade route. There are also a couple of shots of Rhythmsense on a float.



(Photos by Dan Murphy, Susan Schuman and Julie Murphy)

In this video, the band steps off at the start of the parade in downtown Scotch Plains, and later marches into downtown Fanwood.

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Spring Instrumental Program, 5/13/2013

Update: More photos added 9/24/13

Here's an album of photos taken at the Spring Instrumental Program. The first batch was taken by Dan Murphy and the second, mainly close-ups, by Jennifer Cherubini.

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Disney Trip 2013: Videos (Updated 12/15/13)

We're building our collection of videos from the SPFHS Music 2013 trip to Disney World.

Here are three videos of the Marching Band in the Magic Kingdom Parade. The first shows two views of the band marching and playing on Main Street in the rain. The second shows the parade from the opposite side of the street. And the third shows the band marching through a gate at the start of the parade - while they were still dry!







Next, thanks to the Tice family, two clips of the Symphonic Band performing on the Waterside Stage in Downtown Disney.





Thanks to Maria Mulcahy for these clips of the Moonglower's performance. First, some excerpts from songs featuring the group's vocalists.



Next, the Moonglowers perform Black Orpheus, featuring several instrumental solos. Enjoy!

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SPFHS Musicians Take Disney World by Storm (Updated 6/6)

More than 300 SPFHS musicians took part in this year's music department trip to Disney World. The Marching Band took part in the park's nightly parade down Main Street in the Magic Kingdom and the school's various instrumental and choral groups performed at venues around the park.

The weather was rainy on and off, but as seen above, the students soldiered on - and park goers warmly greeted their performances.

Here is an album of photos contributed by a couple of our music parents. We hope to gather more over time from parents, chaperones, staff members and students. Enjoy - and please share your own pics and clips! (More photos added 5/18 and 6/6.)

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