HIGH SCHOOL BAND'S 15 MINUTES NEW NBC SHOW TO SPOTLIGHT STUDENTS' FIGHT SONGS.Byline: ALEX DOBUZINSKIS Staff Writer NEWHALL -- Just as it does every year, the Hart High marching band Noun 1. marching band - a band that marches (as in a parade) and plays music at the same time band - instrumentalists not including string players will get football fans tapping their feet at today's season opener. But the championship-winning band already has music in the can that will soon be heard by a much larger audience: viewers of the upcoming TV show ``Friday Night Lights.'' In a recording session the band did a week ago in the school auditorium auditorium Portion of a theater or hall where an audience sits, as distinct from the stage. The auditorium originated in the theaters of ancient Greece, as a semicircular seating area cut into a hillside. , the students worked through a set of newly composed fight songs, just one day after seeing printed versions of the music for the first time. The band was chosen by composer Rob Walker, 43, who stood on stage while the band played his music, occasionally pumping his legs as if he was marching in Marching In is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story was written at the request of the US publication 'High Fidelity', with the stipulation that it be 2,500 words long, set twenty-five years in the future and deal with an aspect of sound recording. place. ``The dedication you're putting in is why you're so good,'' Walker told the young band members, after thanking them for their work. ``Friday Night Lights'' premiers Oct. 3 on NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. . The show is inspired by the 2004 movie of the same name, itself based on a book about the intense world of high school football in the west Texas town of Odessa. Lauren McWorter, 17, composed a short drum piece with fellow student Doug Bernstein for the recording session, which she enjoyed. ``I think it's a really good opportunity,'' McWorter said. ``Not a lot of stuff like this comes our way. Now that it has, maybe more of it will come our way.'' Their eyes fixed on the sheet music in front of them as conductor Anthony Bailey Anthony Bailey is a British author. Born in 1933 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom, he was evacuated to Dayton, Ohio, in 1940 during World War II. For many years he was a writer for the New Yorker Magazine. , 30, bounced up and down on a platform waving his arms, the band worked through compositions with names like ``Austin Charge'' and ``Alamo Alamo Eighteenth-century mission in San Antonio, Texas, site of a historic siege of a small group of Texans by a Mexican army (1836) during the Texas war for independence from Mexico. Blast.'' Sometimes the work was labored, as musicians started in at the wrong time or lacked verve, and Bailey often had them re-play a piece -- stopping first to direct them on how it should sound. ``Dee, bee, baa, doo, dat. Right, it's short accent -- baa, baa -- long, short,'' he said in a typical between-takes lesson. Bailey, who started leading the Hart High marching band seven years ago, said his students reacted well to getting their music right before the recording. ``I think it just really gave them a real life experience,'' he said. ``That's really how it works in the real world (in music), and often the day of.'' ``I think they were pleasantly surprised how prepared they were.'' The Hart High marching band has won the Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, championship in its division for each of the last four years. The music from the recording session is expected to be used throughout the season on the ``Friday Night Lights'' TV show, although the Hart High band will never appear on screen. Hart was paid for the recording session, money Bailey hopes to spend on new instruments. The players got a pizza dinner after they left the recording stage. alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com (661) 257-5253 CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Becca O'Connor is reflected in a fellow French horn French horn, brass wind musical instrument. Fundamentally a metal tube of narrow conical bore, it is curved into circles because of its great length. The horn ends in a wide flare. It is a development (c.1650) of the small hunting horn. player's instrument during a recording session. The Hart High School Hart High School may refer to:
(2 -- 3) Above, students in the Hart High School marching band record new fight songs for the new NBC television show ``Friday Night Lights,'' based on the book and movie of the same name about Texas high school football. The band's music will appear throughout the series. At left, conductor Anthony Bailey, 30, leads the Hart High School marching band through the recording session, playing compositions like ``Austin Charge'' and ``Alamo Blast.'' David Sprague/Staff Photographer |
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