Spring Concert

Our final concert of the year is coming up and everyone is cordially invited to attend and support the students as it is always more enjoyable for the students to perform to a packed house with loud applause.

Thursday, May 19th
7:00 PM (Doors open at 6:50 PM)
Clear Springs High School Auditorium

This concert is looking to be a great concert for the whole family. The Concert will begin with the Wind Ensemble performing their UIL Contest music, which we will be recording in order to submit an entry for the TMEA Honor Band Competition.  Following that performance will be the Concert Band, Symphonic Band, and then Wind Ensemble again performing new music.  Selections throughout the evening will include the theme from the hit HBO series The Game of Thrones, a medley of music from various Pixar movies and music from Star Wars: The Force Awakens.  You are sure to leave the concert with a catchy tune stuck in your head.

This will also be the last time our seniors will perform with The Clear Springs Charger Band.  This means that this concert could be the last time some of these seniors will ever play with a band again, so all family members and friends won’t want to miss it.

Important notes for students and parents:
  1. Uniforms will be worn
    • Boys – Tuxedo Jacket, tuxedo pants, tuxedo shirt, black bow tie, black cummerbund, long black socks, black dress shoes or black marching shoes.
    • Girls – black band dress, black close toed shoes with an inch or less heel.
  2. Call time for Wind Ensemble is 6:15 PM on stage
  3. Call time for Concert Band is 6:45 PM
  4. Call time for Symphonic is 7:00 PM
  5. 2nd call time for Wind Ensemble is 7:45 PM

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UIL/Pre-UIL performances Upcoming

The students have been working hard for several months now preparing for the UIL Concert & Sight-Reading Contest which is right around the corner.  However, before they perform at Pearland for judges, they will be performing their contest music at our Pre-UIL concert so that friends and family who cannot attend UIL have an opportunity to hear the contest music.  It is also an opportunity to have a dress rehearsal before we go to contest.

Pre-UIL Concert
Thursday, April 14th
Symphonic call time – 5:30pm
Wind Ensemble call time – 6:00pm
Concert begins – 6:30pm (auditorium doors open at 6:15pm)
Clear Springs High School – Auditorium

Please come and support your child and encourage any other friends/family to come as it is always more enjoyable for the students to perform a concert with a large audience and loud applause.  If you are able, please consider also coming to Pearland and supporting the students at their UIL performances as well.

UIL Concert & Sight-Reading Contest
Symphonic Band
Wednesday, April 20th
10:30am
Pearland High School – Auditorium
Wind Ensemble
Thursday, April 21st
11:00am
Pearland High School – Auditorium

Important Reminders!

  1. Uniforms will be worn for both performances
    • Boys – Tuxedo Jacket, tuxedo pants, tuxedo shirt, black bow tie, black cummerbund, long black socks, black dress shoes or black marching shoes.  BOYS NEED TO TRY ON THEIR TUXEDO PANTS TO MAKE SURE THEY STILL FIT.  MANY FRESHMEN AND SOPHOMORE BOYS TEND TO GROW A BIT BETWEEN EARLY DECEMBER AND MID-APRIL.  If you do not check this, you may end up wearing Pee-Wee Herman pants for pre-UIL!
    • Girls – black band dress, black close toed shoes with an inch or less heel
  2. As these performances get closer please ensure that you are at all after school rehearsals and in attendance at school unless very ill.
  3. Both upcoming Monday rehearsals will be with clinicians.
  4. Students who take private lessons during band class, should reschedule your lessons or postpone them until after UIL so that all students will be in band class the weeks of April 11th and 18th.
  5. Detail times for both events can be found in the event’s description on our Google Calendar.  You can see this description by clicking on the event.

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Season Wrap-up

The band staff would like to thank all of the students, parents, family, and friends for a great competitive marching season.  We cannot say enough how wonderful the students were to work with.  They endured the heat, the rain,  broken-down trucks, tired band directors, tired parents, illnesses, injuries, crazy school schedules, demanding high school teachers, dot books, coordinate sheets, a flip folder to rival War and Peace, parking changes, more parking changes, changes to the routine before school, etc.  Their flexibility and professionalism rivals that of many adults and for that it makes us proud as band directors to call them our students.

The number of parents (especially freshman parents) who stepped up and volunteered this year has been awesome!  We welcome the new faces joining with the experienced (not old) ones to help move this organization along.  If you have not had a chance to chaperon a game or volunteer on a committee, please step up and participate where you can.  You will not regret it!  Not only will you learn more about the band and its directors, but you will get to meet many wonderful parents with which you have things in common.  You will be amazed at how many lifelong friendships have developed between band parents simply because their children were in band together.

As we close the book on Waterways, we would be remiss if we didn’t say something about our performances this year.  While we are disappointed at our second division rating at UIL, we will not overlook the great strides that were made this year.  Waterways got better in every performance and every rehearsal except for one.  Unfortunately it was the one that receives the most attention.  It receives the most attention because UIL is considered to have the highest standards in the country.  While the destination isn’t what we had hoped for, we would not trade in the journey for anything in the world.  It is a journey that saw freshmen go from trying to remember their left from their right and moving their feet out of time to performing at the same level as seniors.  It saw former JV marchers step up and fill in like pros.  It saw a color guard add much excitement and visual impact to the show.  It saw a very inexperienced drum line grow into the best drum line in the history of Clear Springs.  We had 60 people not only pass all of their classes in the first six weeks, but they passed with all A’s.

We are not done.  We still have playoff games and an entire concert season ahead of us.  Next year we have new uniforms and a new stadium.  It may even turn out to be “a whole new world”!

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Game #1 vs North Shore

Schedule/Location:

3:00   Rehearsal
4:00   Dinner/Load Truck
5:00   Depart
6:00   Arrive at GPISD Stadium
7:00   Kickoff
10:00 Depart GPISD Stadium
11:00 Arrive CSHS
Galena Park ISD Stadium

Departure Preparation:
  • All instruments except Flutes and Clarinets go on the truck.  Trombones last on, first off.
  • Do NOT load flip folder on truck. This is checked during uniform inspection.
  • Load truck BEFORE eating dinner
  • Change into summer uniform AFTER eating dinner.
  • We will have uniform inspection in the band hall before departure.
  • Students will be lined up in rows by grade level.  Seniors by parking lot wall, then juniors, sophomores, and freshmen by hallway wall.Please click here and read the Game Day Checklist to make sure you have everything.  Students missing items will either be required to purchase a new item or will be sent home.
Game Procedures:
  • Please read the section in the Charger Band Handbook regarding expectations at football games.
  • Remember that parents, friends, relatives, etc. are not allowed to bring food or drink to a band student at any time before, during or after the game. Any violation of this may result in the student being excluded from the marching band for the remainder of the year. We will be providing an apple or a banana after halftime. Anyone with a medical condition requiring an alternate dietary need should have already contacted Mr. Williams.
  • Students must ask a chaperone for permission to go to the restroom.  A chaperone will accompany them to and from the restroom.
Game Behavior Expectations:
  • Students are expected to treat the chaperones and other parent volunteers with the utmost respect and appreciation. Anyone who does not adhere to this will face disciplinary action.
  • While it is our intent to have a good time and enjoy the atmosphere that comes with Texas high school football, we are there to do a job. Remember our purpose is to support the football team and represent the school and community with dignity and class as well as act as the premier spirit organization on campus.  We also have a job to do at halftime entertaining the crowd and providing excellent support for the drill team during their performance. We are very confident we will succeed. With this in mind, please refrain from visiting with your child or bringing family members up to the band to see them. This goes for younger siblings of the band members as well
Post-Game Procedures:
  • We will send a text message as soon as we leave the stadium letting those know who aren’t at the game what time to pick their child up from CSHS. Please plan to be there no later than five minutes before our texted arrival time. Do not park in drive lanes or against the curb.  If you see someone parking in these areas, please ask them politely to move as they will be in the way and delay the buses and truck from being unloaded.  The band parking lot will have plenty of free parking spaces.  
  • When we arrive at school each student is responsible for getting his or her instrument off of the truck and back into their assigned locker (or for pit, the pit room). Students who leave instruments on the truck will face disciplinary action the following week.
  • Once your instrument is put away, you are free to leave. Remember to take your belongings with you.The band hall will open at 8:30 AM Saturday morning for rehearsal to begin on the field promptly at 9:00 AM.

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Meet the Chargers

This is a community pep rally.  That means that all members of the community are invited to come and show their support for the Clear Springs Chargers Band, Silverados, Cheerleaders, and Fall Athletes.

Schedule:

Wednesday, August 27th
6:10 – Assemble in Band Hall
6:30 – Meet the Chargers in Main Gym
7:30 – end of event
7:35 – Band Hall closed/all students picked up
Clear Springs High School – Competition Gym

What to wear:

Rehearsal clothes are acceptable; however, students may change clothes if they so choose.

Note:

Rehearsal on this day ends at 5:30.  Students may bring a sack dinner or parents may deliver one to school at 5:30.  We will not be providing a meal.

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Drumline Send Off & State Championships

The indoor drumline season is almost over and all the students have been working hard to put the finishing touches on the show.  In preparation for the TCGC Percussion Championship show this Saturday they will be having a send off performance this Friday:

Friday, April 4th
approximately 7:30pm
Clear Springs HS Gym

Please show your support for our drumline by attending the send off performance above.  Also, If you are able to make the trip to college station on Saturday, please come and support them for their TCGC Championship performance on Saturday.

Saturday, April 5th
2:27pm
Texas A&M University-Reed Arena

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