[Dhsbb-jazz] Lange Scholarship

[tslabaugh at djusd.net]

In honor of Fredrick Lange’s retirement and his legacy, Davis High School Band Boosters announces the establishment of the Fredrick Lange Scholarships.  Four scholarships of $250 each will be awarded to Band students in the 2013-2014 school year, with Band Boosters intending to make scholarships available in the years to come, as well.  The Scholarship Fund is being created to acknowledge the high level of playing cultivated by Mr. Lange during his tenure and the striving for excellence expected from our students.  As well, the Scholarship Fund will help the Music Director to make the DHS Bands the best they can be through alleviating shortages of various instruments.

Scholarship awards are to be used for private lessons, for students taking up a new-to-them and underrepresented instrument in the Band. The student must be choosing an instrument they have played for less than six months’ time, and must state their intention of playing that instrument in one or more of the DHS Bands for at least one school year. This year the instruments a student can audition for will be French Horn, bassoon, and oboe.  Students will audition on their primary instrument but with the above instruments in mind. These scholarships will be awarded based on auditions to be held Wednesday, December 4, 2013 and judged by an outside adjudicator.  At that time, a brief verbal interview of interested students will also take place.

Eligibility: students must be in the Band program at DHS in the 10th or 11thgrade. In future years the Fred Lange Scholarships may be open to 9th graders.

Requirements: students will perform 2-3 minutes of music of their choosing: scales, solo or etude (study piece) material or excerpts from Band pieces—any individual piece or combination of selections that shows the student off to best advantage.  In auditioning for a scholarship for lessons in order to begin study on an instrument that is new to you, plan to perform the audition on your “first” instrument.

Be prepared to describe your commitment to being the best musician you can be.  You may be asked to verbally answer these questions: What qualities do you aim to bring to the Band(s) through your participation? Why are you choosing the new instrument?

Download the application form<http://groups.dcn.org/dhsbandboosters/download-forms-information/Lange_Scholarship_Audition_Application_Form.pdf>. The auditions will take place on Wednesday, December 4th, from 4:00pm to 6:00pm in the Band Room at DHS (PA3).


Mr. S

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Thomas Slabaugh II
Director of Bands
Davis Senior High School
tslabaugh at djusd.net<mailto:tslabaugh at djusd.net>






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