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The Top/Bottom draw for area is starting to take effect in 2024. UIL marching band committee just approved it this past winter.

Remember though, finals is a top half/bottom half draw, So, if Foster places into the top 5 in prelims (not impossible) then they’ll go on 6th in Finals.

That last movement looked to be thrown on this week. Part of their cleanliness seems to come from some easier drill. Quite a bit of standing on yardlines and directly inbetween. I really hope their closer comes out with some spice. They do sound very good.

They're sooo clean, would be surprising but Cedar Park is always clean.

Anyone who isn’t excited for this is lying.

No audio but you get a good idea of their visual effects. Love the sunglasses drill. The guard looks to be bigger.

Guys, Leander is BACK. They did 7 Minutes of their show tonight and it was GOOD!!!

ChatGPT is putting a lot of stake in Dawson. 3-7-3-5 Oak Ridge is getting a rough go there.

New director and designers. They're going in a good direction.

I will do top 5 in each block, Finalists underlined First Block: 1. Cypress Ranch 2. Klein Cain 3. Cypress Park 4. Angleton Second Block: 1. Pearland 2. Clear Brook 3. Klein Oak 4. Foster 5. Brazoswood Third Block: 1. Claudia Taylor Johnson 2. Friendswood 3. Ridge Point 4. West Harrison 5. Clear Springs Fourth Block: 1. Ronald Reagan 2. Bridgeland 3. Cy-Fair 4. Seven Lakes 5. Dawson (Dickinson)

They are only taking 12 bands to finals per the "Daily schedule" on the MFA website.

It has officialy been moved to Freedom Field per UIL.

Official TMEA 6A Honor Band results: 1. Dawson 2. Coppell 3. Flower Mound 4. College Park 5. Claudia Taylor Johnson 6. Waxahachie 7. Lake Travis 8. Marcus 9. The Woodlands 10. Shadow Creek

1. Flower Mound 2. College Park 3. CTJ 4. Marcus 5. Shadow Creek 1. Dawson 2. Coppell 3. Waxahachie 4. The Woodlands 5. Lake Travis (from a director in the room) (Apparently) A correction has been made from TMEA, Dawson placed first yesterday in Zone 2.

Alright folks! For the few people who check this forum every once and a while lets see those predictions!

TMEA 6A State Semi-Finals will take place at a high school in the San Antonio area on Wednesday, July 24th. The 22 competing bands will be split into 2 rooms of 11 bands. The top 5 bands from each room will advance to the state finals round taking place on Thursday, July 25th at the Texas Bandmasters Association annual convention.

-----LIST OF HONOR BAND SEMI-FINALS SUBMISSIONS (Alpha order)----- Cedar Ridge: American Salute (Gould/Lang) Enigma Variations, Opus 36 (Elgar/Patterson) Redline Tango (Mackey) Claudia Taylor Johnson: Jupiter (Holst) J'ai ete au bal (Grantham) The Glory of the Yankee Navy (Sousa/Fennell) College Park: Barnum & Tesla's Tandem Bicycle (Svanoe) Angel of Mercy (Maslanka) Symphonic Dances, Op. 45, Mvt. III (Rachmoninof/Lavender) Coppell: Hands Across the Sea (Sousa) Masks and Machines (Dooley) The Firebird [1919] (Stravinsky/Nefs) Dawson: Masks and Machines (Dooley) Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks (Strauss/Morita) Hands Across the Sea (Sousa) Flower Mound: The Battle of Shiloh (Barnhouse) Fireworks Fantasy, Op. 4 (Stravinsky/Rogers) Symphony in Bb for Band (Hindemith) Haltom: The Glory of The Yankee Navy (Sousa) Circus Overture (Schuman/Owen) Enigma Variations, Opus 36 (Elgar/Patterson) James E. Taylor: On Parade (Sousa) Paris Sketches (Ellerby/Reynish) The Sorcerors Apprentice (Dukas/Hindsley/Patterson) JJ Pearce: The Glory of the Yankee Navy (Sousa) La Procession du Rocio (Turina/Reed) Symphony No. 4 - Unforsaken (Walczyk) John B. Alexander: The Gallant Seventh (Sousa/Bourgeois) Overture to "La Forza del Destino" (Verdi/Suzuki) Wine-Dark Sea (Symphony for Band): (Mvts 2&3) Lake Travis: The Gallant Seventh (Sousa) Lincolnshire Posy (Grainger/Fennell) Equus (Whitacre) Marcus: The Glory of the Yankee Navy (Sousa) Masque (Hesketh) Symphonic Metamorphosis (Hindemith/Wilson) McKinney: Commando March (Barber/Collinsworth) L'isle joyeuse (Debussy/Mashima) Give Us This Day (Maslanka) Permian: Entry March of the Boyars (Halvorsen/Fennell) La Procession du Rocio (Turina/Reed) Traveler (Maslanka) Rock Hill: Commando March (Barber/Collinsworth) Laboring Songs (Welcher) Rocky Point Holiday (Nelson) Seven Lakes: In Storm and Sunshine (Reed/Bourgeois) Paris Sketches (Ellerby/Reynish) Jupiter (Holst) Shadow Creek: Children's March "Over the Hills and Far Away" (Grainger/Rogers) Finale (from Symphony No. 5) (Shostakovich/Righter) L'isle joyeuse (Debussy/Mashima) Steele: Gallop from "Moscow, Cheremushky" (Shostakovich/Hunsberger) Famishius Fantasticus (Markowski) El Camino Real (Reed) The Woodlands: The Glory of the Yankee Navy (Sousa/Fennell) Symphony in Bb for Band (Hindemith) Overture to "The School for Scandal" (Barber/Hudson) Tomball Memorial: The Battle of Shiloh (Barnhouse/Paynter) Fiesta Del Pacifico (Nixon) J'ai ete au bal (Grantham) Waxahachie: The Glory of the Yankee Navy (Sousa/Fennell) Hammersmith (Holst) Southern Harmony (Grantham) Wylie: Comrades Of The Legion (Sousa) Firefly (George) Symphonic Metamorphosis (Hindemith/Wilson) (1,3,4)

Area D was: 1. Waxahachie 2. JJ Pearce 3. Cedar Ridge Area F was: 1. Tomball Memorial 2. College Park 3. The Woodlands

Freedom Field is in Iowa Colony not New Caney. That has been a rumor for a few years now but nothing has changed.

Schools in this Area: 30 Alvin, Shadow Creek, Manvel, Brazoswood, Channelview, Clear Lake, Clear Brook, Clear Falls, Clear Creek, Clear Falls, Deer Park, Dickinson, SFA, Bush, Clements, Dulles, Elkins, Hightower, Ridge Point, Travis, Goose Creek Mem, Fulshear, George Ranch, Foster, Dobie, Pasadena Memorial, Sam Rayburn, South Houston, Pearland, Dawson

Champions: 2018: Pearland 2020: Pearland 2021: Pearland 2022: Pearland 2023: Pearland I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Pearland will win.

Important to note that Menard is on their second director change since they won state in 2021. Last year they were unable to even field a show... Incredible.

UIL has the wrong system on their website. They are working to get that fixed now.

They will be 5A next year as they will have 4 complete grade levels in 2024. Right now they have freshman, sophomores, juniors and SOME seniors.

Panther Creek doesn't even have senior in their school and they got 3rd in State prelims. What. The. Heck.