SU Band to Hold Auditions in New Orleans
March 31, 2009
Southern University Band will hold auditions in the New Orleans area on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 , from 6pm-9pm at Edna Karr High School . For more information contact Nathan Haymer, Assistant Director of Bands at nathan_haymer@subr.edu or call 225-771-3528
Edna Karr High School is located at:
3332 Huntlee Drive
New Orleans , LA 70131
For directions to the school, call John Summers, band director Karr High School at 504-915-5929
Dr. Jimmie James, Voice of The Sonic Boom Retires, from Jackson State University
March 29, 2009
There are ghosts in this room.
Five levels of plastic chairs - white, orange, yellow, blue - form a large semi-circle. Dozens of dark blue acoustic boards align the white cement block walls like empty picture frames.
And in the air, as tangible as the wind if one’s imagination is in tune, sounds from the past nestle around you like a warm blanket.
“Is this … ?” a visitor asks.
“This is where The Boom practices,” Jimmie James Jr. nods and smiles, looking out over the empty rehearsal hall.
As in Jackson State University’s The Sonic Boom of the South marching band, which James has announced for since 1966. He has been a member of the band and its assistant director. He helped organize a name-that-band contest among students and faculty in 1971, when The Sonic Boom was born.
James, chair of the Department of Music, is retiring at the end of the school year after 43 years at JSU.
He leaves a legacy. Read more
Auditions are currently underway at The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff!
March 16, 2009
For anyone who’s interested in becoming a member of M4, (The Marching Musical Machine of the Mid-South) you can schedule a date for auditions by contacting the University Band office at: 870-575-8919. Onsite audition dates are scheduled for the last Friday in each month of any day that is convenient for you. There will be an official University recruitment day called Lion Fever Day on April 3rd. students from across the country. Also on that day, Auxiliary auditions will be held as well. Can’t make an onsite audition? Contact the following people for more information!
SU Band to Hold Auditions in Houston March 26
March 16, 2009
The Southern University Band will hold auditions in the Houston area on Thursday, March 26, 2009, from 6pm-9pm in the Willowridge High School Band Hall. For more information contact Nathan Haymer, Assistant Director of Bands at nathan_haymer@subr.edu or 225-771-3528
