BIEMS Bandestra

11/21/2024

Bravo to our band students for their performance!

We want to give an extra special shout out to our 6th grade who are the first group to perform a really real concert song (Midnight Mission by Brian Balmages) in the fall, thanks to our new schedule, amazing students, and supportive staff, admin, and guardians!

https://youtu.be/PyEaGqRG9fc?feature=shared

Here are all the performances:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hwLQ08Smkt-agU8Q_9zUIYBJBf0gaQlslzUl1QJuSBo/view?usp=sharing

11/17/2024

Congratulations to all who auditioned, especially those whom this was their first time!

We’d love to give an extra special shout out to our 7th graders (asterisk) who worked so hard to bring us to 20/84 spots held by Belle Isle students! Let’s gooooo Bulls!

Updated in the clarinets:

Flute:

Danna Zuniga Moore 2nd
Madison Smith 6th
Delta Mazariegos Monterroso 9th
Mailen Resendiz Rojo alternate*

Oboe:

Aaron 1st

Clarinet:

Di’Marco Norris 10th
Kara Hohman 19th

Bass Clarinet:

Jonathan Alvarado Navarrette 1st
Zoe Blair alternate*

Tenor Sax:

Kayden Smith 3rd

Trumpet:

Caden Gard 4th

Euphonium:

Ler Moo 1st*
Nakaela Wright alternate

Tuba:

Elijah Ollison 1st
Oliver Pool alternate*

Percussion:

Travis Tran 1st*
Brian Nguyen 3rd
Antonio Ortiz 5th*
Chloe Espolt 6th
Mia Jackson 7th*

11/09/2024

Congrats to Oliver for making 7th Grade CODA Honor Band. He will be the 3rd chair tuba!

Give a round of applause to all our auditionees this year. They had some tuff 💪🏽 competition!

We can’t wait to see everyone at Harding Charter Prep next Saturday on the 16th for All City auditions and add some new and old names to our list of honor band performers!

10/02/2024

Come be a part of history!

All alumni, family, and supporters: please join us on Oct 8th at Taft Stadium at 7pm for our FIRST EVER pep band. We will be supporting our favorite football team, THE Belle Isle Bulls to beat our rivals, Classen SAS.

We are also debuting our FIRST EVER drumline with their own song unique song just for them! On top of that, students have been absolutely killing it and managed to learn an incredible 11 (might even get to 12) songs in roughly 3 weeks, so we have quite the playlist which includes:

Plaza de Toros (unofficial fight song)
Radioactive
Kernkraft 400
Zombie
Seven Nation Army
Hey Song
And many more

Tickets are only $5 and come with the best band in the land for free… THE Belle Isle Enteprise Middle School Pep Band. They might look like middle schoolers, but let me tell ya: anyone not at the game will think they’re a bunch of seniors with that beefy sound 💪🏽🔥

Don’t miss out on being a part of history!

08/27/2024

INSTRUMENT DONATIONS OF ANY CONDITION WANTED!!!

Are you an alumni, or a guardian of an alumni that played in band or orchestra?

Did you, someone you know, or their child play in band or orchestra?

Our program which is projected to grow by nearly 50 students in the next 2 years, would greatly appreciate any instruments of any condition (broken or perfect condition) donated to our mission to ensure that every child who wants to play an instrument can play an instrument, whether or not they can afford it!

We are currently working on securing a professional to appraise the instrument and any and all instruments donated will be tax deductible, after they’re appraised. Any instruments that are broken or in need of repair will be fixed by us, as fixing an instrument is generally cheaper than buying new ones and we need to maximize every dollar.

We’re the most in need of flutes, clarinets, and percussion.

Please message us or email [email protected], if you have an instrument you’re wishing to donate!l

If you don’t have any instruments, then help us by sharing this post!

05/16/2024

04/23/2024

Bravo to all on an awesome performance to end the year! Gotta say thanks to the 6th and 7th band who decided it was a good idea to add a story line! Making concerts fun is the BEST!

We would like to give 2 BIG shout outs!:

1) Special shout out to all chaperones, but especially our super chaperones/volunteers: Ms. Patrick, the Ortiz’s, Ms. Marzett, and the Clark’s! Our concerts and events would not have gone near as smoothly without your help and literally dozens of hours of collective support!

2) Our 8th graders who debuted as either a conductor or a for real for real soloist at their concert! Super proud of y’all! Handle it like a champ!

Donation/Mr. Perry’s hair-dyeing update: we well exceeded our goal and raised more than enough to ensure THE Mr. Perry will be dyeing both the top of his head AND his beard! Way to go Bulls!

Enjoy the concert and feel free to share!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18sF6QHVXl5-Dg3qjp15KuOblIQVZho5EV64307KNcCA/view

04/04/2024

A reminder that the band-only concert will be April 16th and the orchestra-only concert will be April 19th!

A LOT of music will be played, and there might be a story or 2, by student/performer request! Make sure to invite the fam and come have fun!

There will also be a fundraiser at Papa John’s that night on April 16th. We encourage everyone to buy pizza for their child’s/family’s dinner so that they can eat and you can give back!

For no particular reason, Mr. Hall’s favorite PJ pizza is thin crust ultimate pepperoni with extra cheese. Do with that what you will. 👀👀👀

04/01/2024

Today begins our annual unveiling of our favorite homework assignment to our 5th graders in music. If you wanna participate, feel free to join and watch!:

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03/30/2024

Congratulate our students who performed today at solo/ensemble! Heard some stinking hard music and everyone got a I or II! Way to go!

03/08/2024

Shout out to the bands! I can personally say that the 8th grade peaked at just the right time and know our 7th grade has been putting in that work! They earned it with a great showing and some excellent scores!

Big shout out to Ms. Kelly, Ms. Patrick, Mr. Ortiz, Mr. Hudson, and Ms. Combs for all of their help to make our celebration at Main Event a success! Even bigger shout out to Mr. Perry for doing so well his in his first year! And, most important of all, Mr. Hall’s red team remains undefeated in laser tag 💁🏽‍♂️💪🏽🔥. See if we can keep the streak alive next year!

TBD CALENDAR UPDATE COMING:

Be on the lookout for some schedule changes for the end of year concert which will be sent out before spring break! We have seen that state testing started a bit earlier this year which always conflicts with rehearsals, so we want to ensure the work students have put in before it begins is shown and means we have to move it up! Likely will only be moved up a week, but wanted to make sure it was posted (remind/email coming when finalized)!

Photo dump below:

03/06/2024

Brava orchestra!

They received II’s on stage and in sight reading!

Tomorrow we see band at Putnam City North High School!

7th is at 10:05am

8th is at 10:30am

Partaaaaaay at Main Event afterward with pick up at 4!

03/06/2024

Good luck to Mr. Perry and our 7th and 8th Grade Orchestra who will be performing at Edmond Santa Fe High School at 2:00pm!

Mr. Hall votes teal and brown!

02/29/2024

A big thank you to our clinician, Mr. Hudson, for all of his help today and to Mr. Craven and Annissa for being such gracious hosts who supported us in using the contest space at Putnam City North High School that we’ll be using at OSSAA next week!

You know what that means! Photo dump of our time at Cici’s!

Next stops on the road to contest (it’s a busy week!):

March 6th: 7th and 8th Orchestra perform at 2:00pm on March 6th at Edmond Santa Fe High School

March 6th: Mrs. Watson comes back to help get the band through our last trek before contest

March 7th: 7th Band performs at 10:05am on March 7th at Putnam City North High School

March 7th: 8th Band perform at 10:30am on March 7th at Putnam City North High School

March 7th: errrrrrrbody celebrates at Main Event!

02/22/2024

You can find all the videos of our Band OSSAA Parent Preview Concert from Tuesday here:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9b6UHkg1VOgMjB_vb-QF3ThzfEjaeFm5&si=7H1pooXxA9_oPjVF

Wanna give a special shout out to our 7th grade band who had their first sight reading of a real piece in 7 minutes or less in front of a whole audience LIVE (see the video in the comments below)! That’s hard to do - let alone well - and they absolutely rocked it!

Next stop: 8th grade band clinic Putnam City North High School on the 29th!

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02/21/2024

Thank you to everyone who came out to watch our Band Contest Parent Preview last night, including our 7th and 8th grade sight reading a whole piece in 7 minutes or less LIVE in front of the crowd!

Videos in the process of being downloaded and posted (hopefully ready tomorrow morning), but here’s a preview of how motivated our kids were for the night!

02/10/2024

Thank you to Mrs. Watson for coming and working with our 7th graders! They are gonna be music-making machines by March!

So many 7th grade band members got to try Cicis Pizza for their first time today after working hard and playing (music) harder! Next stop, the OKCPS Band Clinic on 2/13 at Southeast High School for 7th AND 8th grade!

(No pizzas were harmed in the making of these pics, but some of these kids’ mile times today at track practice might’ve been 😬)

7th band performs at 10:30am

8th band performs at 12:00pm

Guardians/alum, feel free to come watch!

01/27/2024

A little photo dump of your kids hard at work at All City, including Belle Isle alum! Video of the start of the coolest part of the middle school concert in the comments!