Band Community
The parent organization that helps with uniforms, and buying/ repairing instruments. They are celebrating their 70th year running!
What is the SSMA (The Shrewsbury Schools Music/Theater Association)
I am make of nickel and sometimes silver
What is a Flute?
A piece that was inspired by the New York City liveliness
What is "Metrodance"
Guess from the bad description: "This 'film' is less a coherent movie and more a two-hour, aggressively styled K-Pop music video that occasionally features supernatural monsters and colabs with a boy band."
What is K-Pop Demon Hunters
This year's fall play
What is Clue?
Name the person who will conduct How to Train Your Dragon in the Spring
Who is Ben Manning
I am a large bowl-shaped instrument, traditionally made of copper, but also aluminum or plastic, with a stretched drumhead made of calfskin or plastic. I can be tuned
What is a Timpani
This piece is a programmatic concert band piece that musically depicts the 1862 Civil War railway pursuit known as Andrews' Raid, relying on driving rhythms and vivid percussion effects—like train whistles and wheel clicks—to create a sense of thrilling, high-speed drama.
What is the The Great Locomotive Chase ?
Their band name is a pun between an insect and a musical term.
Who are the Beatles
The object Ms. Wardwell uses to conduct
What is a baton?
There are two instrument groups that have the same number of people when combined WE and CB.
What are the Flutes and Clarinets
Guess from the bad description: An instrument that requires a truly alarming lung capacity and is almost impossible to carry through a standard doorway without serious personal injury or structural damage. If you stripped a water heater, gave it three pistons you would get this.
What is a Tuba?
The Bands played this piece for the Winter Concert last year that was originally a choir piece but was arranged for band.
What is Lo, How a Rose
This iconic lead singer of Queen was born Farrokh Bulsara.
Who is Freddy Mercury?
The amount of time Ms. Wardwell has been teaching at SHS.
How long is three years?
Name at least one SHS Band kid in WYSO
Who is/are ...
1. Ethan Kim
2. Sid
3. Ben Manning
4. Vaibhav
5. Jeff Z
6. Tony Yang
7. Anushka Thomas
8. Isaiah
I am a small woodwind brass instrument. I am the highest of my family's range. Some people say look like a golden clarinet.
What is a Soprano Saxophone
The name of a composer we have played at least once per year. (Hint: Darklands March, Argentum, and Metrodance)
Who is Randall Standridge
This band released the song "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" in 1983.
Who is Eurythmics?
A composer Ms. Wardwell really likes. He composed Abracadabra which we played 3 years ago for the winter concert.
Who is Frank Ticheli
I am one instrument with a double reed
What is an Oboe/ Bassoon
I was played by the SHS Bands in 2023. I am the Latin word for silver
What was Argentum?
Composed the 1812 Overture
Who is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
In a full score, this Italian term, meaning "suddenly," is often used before a dynamic change to indicate an immediate shift in volume, like from p to f.
What is Subito?