A Special Thanks for Support from:

L.A. Ainger M.S. Administra on  Jeff Harvey, Principal  

Brad Gibson, Assistant Principal & Daryl Konrardy, Dean  

Band Boosters Execu ve Board  

  Veronica Grannan, President ‐ Elana Lamparello, Vice President  Dori Mann, Secretary ‐ Gabriele Extejt & Andrea Mazar, Treasurers

Superintendent Steve Dionisio 

 

Assistant Superintendents Jerry Olivo and Chuck Breiner 

 

School Board of Charlo e County  

District 1, Lee Swi                       District 2, Kim Amontree District 3, Robert Segur                     District 4, Ian Vincent 

                      District 5, Wendy Atkinson Why Music? 

Music is a Science. It is exact, specific, and it demands exact acous cs. A conductor’s full score is a chart; a graph which indicates frequencies, intensi es, volume changes, melody, and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of  me. 

Music is Mathema cal. It is rhythmically based on the subdivision of  me into frac ons which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper. 

Music is a Foreign Language. Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French; and the nota on is certainly not English‐but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The seman cs of music is the most complete and universal language. 

Music is History. Music usually reflects the environment and  me of its crea on, o en even the country and/or ethnic feeling. 

Music is Physical Educa on. It requires fantas c coordina on of fingers, hands, arms, lip, cheek, and facial muscles in addi on to extraordinary control of the diaphragma c, back, stomach, and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets. 

Music develops insight and demands research.   

Music is all these things, but most of all, Music is a fine Art. It allows a human being 

to take all these techniques and apply them to create emo on. That is one thing science cannot duplicate; humanism, feeling, and emo on. 

Proudly Presents

The L.A. Ainger M.S. Music Program

Featuring the Jazz Band, Percussion Ensemble,

and the Cougar Wind Bands

A Winter Concert Directed by Mr. Tim Ostrow

Mr. Jeff Harvey, Principal

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Director’s Welcome Welcome to L.A. Ainger’s annual Winter Concert! If you have not attended an Ainger concert before, you are in for a special treat. The students know me as Mr. Ostrow. I have been teaching at Ainger for eleven years and am very proud of our tradition of excellence in student achievement and performance. Ainger is a top performing school that enjoys continued support from the greater Englewood area.

For all guests, we ask that proper audience etiquette is adhered to for the full duration of the program. This includes: please remain seated while a band is performing, no flash photography during a performance, no food or drinks in the auditorium, and please keep applause polite. Please also remember that our young musicians have worked especially hard preparing tonight's performance and that in order to listen, silence is required.

Beginning band members will show off a variety of skills that they have continued to hone over the semester including tone production, blend, articulation, phrasing, and balance. Percussion students are able to perform on mallet instruments and the snare drum and bass drum. The concert tune you will hear tonight has been learned in less than a week! This means that the students have developed the habits of proper practice at home and at school. I would personally like to thank the parents of these students for encouraging your children to practice daily and develop the habits to be a successful young musician!

Intermediate band members this semester have learned to play four major scales and a chromatic scale (the musical alphabet) in order to extend their range and ability to play more difficult literature. They have also learned to read more difficult beat patterns and play in a variety of time signatures which you will hear tonight. Their overall sound, or sonority, has improved with greater understanding of blend and balance. We also have some students learning a second instrument in this ensemble including our bassoonists and saxophonists. We would like to thank members of our jazz band for helping balance the band by siting in with us on this concert performance.

Advanced band members have memorized seven major scales and two chromatic scales, have become adept at performing more advanced and syncopated rhythms, and have worked on developing ensemble blend and balance. Students in this ensemble will demonstrate their ability to listen to each other in performing “A Song for Friends” without a conductor. In November, 30 students in this ensemble auditioned and made the 2017-18 CCPS Middle School Honor Band. They will have a performance in this auditorium on January 6th beginning at 3pm with other outstanding players from across our county.

At the Conclusion:

Beginning and intermediate band students may be picked up in the black box theater, advanced band students may be picked up in the band room, and percussion ensemble students may be picked up at the front of the stage after the stage has been cleared.

Maestro ($500+) Boca Grande Woman’s Club

sites.google.com/site/bocagrandewomansclub Charlotte County Seawalls

Dredging, Docks, Boat Lifts www,charlottecountyseawalls.com

F.A.M.E. Friends for the Advancement of Musical Education, Inc.

www.famesupportmusic.com

Truex Preferred Construction truexpreferredconstruction.com

Performing Artist ($200) Ala Carte Services

B&C Enterprises 1 LLC Matt and Kathy Abraham

Murdock Stones Paul Mann Custom Pest Control, Inc.

Recycled Plastic Factory The Synergy Group West Coast Church

Principal Player ($100) All Sacco, Captain Austin Lowder & Family, Coastal Custom Construction LLC

Fellowship Church of Englewood, Gabriele Extejt - Realtor Coldwell Banker

Pete & Sheila Dipiazza and Joe Sarracino, Skeet’r Beat’r of Sarasota, LLC

Slack Orthodontics, Steve Moody, Taz Flooring & Design, WC Works, Inc.

Special Thanks To Our Sponsors

Mood-music provided by our Lemon Bay HS Band Mentors! We are holding a silent auction for the gorgeous poinsettias perched on the

stage. Look in the lobby to bid on them! We will draw the winner near the conclusion of the program.

Donations are appreciated! Look for the instrument case to drop off loose change, dollars, or

checks. Please make checks payable to LA Ainger Band Boosters. Our band program uses your donations to purchase instruments,

accessories (reeds, mouthpieces, valve oil), to pay for school instrument repairs and maintenance, to purchase new music for our five ensembles, to purchase paper and toner for our copy machine, to pay for bus fees to performing venues, and much more!

We truly appreciate ANY donation to help keep our program healthy and working hard. Thank you for your patronage!

In the Lobby Jazz Band

Breezin’ Michael Sweeney Peter Gunn Theme Henry Mancini, Arr. By Mike Lewis Polo Rojo Les Sabina Favorite Things Rogers & Hammerstein II, Arranged By Paul Murtha

Percussion Ensemble

What Up Chris Brooks Last Warrior Chris Crockarell

Beginning Band The Making of a Band Narration with Performance Folk Songs: Featuring: Hot Cross Buns Low Brass and Horns Merrily We Roll Along Clarinets and Saxes French Folk Song Trumpets and Flutes Ode to Joy L.V. Beethoven, Arranged By Monty Musgrave

Intermediate Band

Centurion Mark Williams Cathedral Lloyd Conley Diary of a Grumpy Elf Timothy Loest

Advanced Band

Pride and Purpose Patrick Burns Age of Empires Rob Grice A Song for Friends Larry Daehn Ancient Voices Michael Sweeney Minka’s Sleigh Ride Two Ukrainian Folk Songs Arranged By Pierre La Plante

Winter Program, 2017

Beginning Band Personnel Flute

K’anna Brown

Faith Dennis

Jayden Fisher

Hannah Funke

Larry Howarth

Alexandrea McCloud

Mackenzie Smith

Lily Stines

Desirea Wack

Cadence Zalopany

Clarinet Leandra Allbrook

Sierra Andreano

Amber Charbonneau

Sarah Creech

Chris Derezil

Zechariah Gammon

Derek Gavrity

Bo Gibson

Alexandria Harris

Justice Hedges

Caden Hook

Jessica Johnson

Kayla Johnson

Clarinet Cont.

Kirstin Johnson

Devyn Kirsten

Leiland Lovett

Mikala McKinney

Mia Muschelli

Emma Seward

Ryan Szmigiel

Franchesca Torrez

Kaitlyn Wells

Faith Wylie

Alto Saxophone

Donovan Liberto

Polina Zatyazhnykh

Trumpet

Hannah Beesting

Jordin Copen

Sabine Grudzinski

Cadiana Holmes

Lily Morgan

Zaiden Redman

James Riddle

Maverick Smith

Caiden Vogel

French Horn

Hunter Andres

Josh Cervantes

Charlotte Chatham

Trombone

Linnea Barron

Genieva Botelho

Andon Brown

Madeleine Googins

DeFrank Howell

Rose Lowder

Kaden Manning Savannah Schroeder

Kassidie Skidmore

Logan Stevens

Euphonium

Savannah Grannan

Olivia Lehman

Alan Schleden

Tuba

Daniel Black

Novalee Hunter

Wyatt King

Mackenzie McDowall

Matthew Sacco

Percussion

Hailey Cox

Lauren Fraser

Joseph Lopez-Rico

Olivia Roberts

Ryan Rushmore

Chris Rojas

Brandon Van Buren

Tristan Warren

Percussion Ensemble Personnel Alyssa Boley

Justin Brady

Isabel Bruning

Sophia Cherniak ♫

Ariel Cook

Angell Dittmer

Mackinsey Dowd

Seth Dutcher ♫ ♪

Cole Grannan ♫ ♪

Sarah Jack

Lilly Keller ♪

Emma Lambert

Samantha Lavallee

Chloe Olio

Christian O’Malley

Riley Pierce

Jake Reed

Trace Richardson

Joseph Sarracino ♫

Chloe Smith

Ashton Tucker

Ayva Ward

Flute

Jayden Cousins

Summer Gibson

Angel Grubb

Hanna Hekking

Gabrielle Lintz

Kaitlyn Massey

Bassoon

Kaylee Walls

Clarinet

Jaylynn Bennett

Sequoia Caulder

Alyssa Crawford

Clarinet Cont.

Emma Evans

Coralys Garcia

Corey Pooler

Liam Rooney

Grayson Whitmore

Bass Clarinet

Danielle Parla

Alto Saxophone

Kaelin Bussiere

Andrew Joiner

Alexis Macomber

Sydney Saville

Trumpet

Jacob Dagan

Reece Miller

Aleah Pieters ♫

Jonny Roy

French Horn

Ariana Moody

Samuel Peterson

Trombone

Layne Fuson

Euphonium

Jayden Farnan

Tyler Johnson

Kara Rydberg

Tuba

Joshua Gammon

Jonathan Mata-Carrasco

Flute

Elle Extejt ♪

Kaylee Lovett

DeAnne O’Day ♫

Iker Perez-Calderon ♫ ♪

Keeley Plock

Royanna Robejsek ♫ ♪ Chenoa Rodriguez Castro ♪

Madison Weghorst ♪

Oboe

Hanna Hekking ♪

Bassoon

Elexis Lamparello ♪

Clarinet

Isabel Bruning

Yasmeen Diab

Reilly Huber ♪

Clarinets Cont.

Grace Nguyen ♪ Ainoa Perez-Calderon ♫ ♪

Madisyn Perry ♫ ♪

James Roderick ♪

Rachel Sapp ♫ ♪

Nathan Soto ♫ ♪

Kaylee Walls

Alto Saxophone

Brooke Andrews ♫ ♪

Tenor Saxophone

Alexander Fec

Bari Saxophone

Derrek Thibodeaux ♫ ♪

Bass Clarinet

Cassandra Heeg ♪

Trumpet

Evan Deveau ♫ ♪

Ryan Dragon

Elijah Farley ♫

Julia Lehman ♫ ♪

Connor Milliken ♫

Peyton Near

Jake Rushmore ♫ ♪

Avery Witt ♫

French Horn

Sierra Blaney ♫

Mackinsey Dowd ♪

Emma Lambert

Alyssa Patterson

Trace Richardson

Victoria Wood

Trombone

Sara Bauer ♫

Emmalee Louk ♫ ♪

Lanton Tidwell ♫

Euphonium

Gray Lowder ♫

Jaylynn Santacross ♪

Ryan Witt ♫ ♪

Tuba

Rebekah Lopez ♫ ♪

Kiley Rydberg ♫ ♪

Kara Rydberg ♪

Ayva Ward

♫ = Jazz Band Member

♪ = CCPS Honor Band

Intermediate Band Personnel

Advanced Band Personnel