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| The Bands |
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| Marching Band |
The Grove City High School Marching
Band has received over 30 Grand Champion awards over the last ten years
in OMEA competitions. The band has received superior ratings at the OMEA
State Marching Band Contest every year since the contest's inception in
1980.
Highlights:
- Marched in Tournament of Roses Parade in
Pasadena, California, in 1990 and again in 2000.
- Named the Grand Champion at Music Fest Orlando
in the Parade Division Competition in Florida in 1993 and again in
1997.
- In 2002, the band took 5th place in the finals
of Bands Of America Regional Competition in Louisville, Kentucky as
well as winning Outstanding Musical Performance.
- In 2003 the band was invited to the 42nd Annual
Contest Of Champions in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and placed 5th in
finals.
- Marched in the London New Year's Day Parade,
2005.
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| Symphonic & Concert Bands |
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The Symphonic Band has consistently received superior ratings in Class
AA at both district and state OMEA adjudicated events for over thirty
years (since 1975), as has Concert Band I in Class B, and more recently
Class A, for over twenty years (since 1984). Concert Band II
performs in the Class C level, and earned straight superior ratings at
both district and state adjudicated events in 2005.
Highlights for the Symphonic Band:
- Performed at the 50th Anniversary of the Mid-West International
Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, Illinois on December 19, 1996.
- Invited to perform at the MidwestClinic again in 2002.
- Performed at the1993 and 2001 OMEA State Convention and was the
clinician band for the composer Francis McBeth at the 1995 OMEA
State Convention, as well as for Mark Kelly in 1989.
- Guest band for the Directors' Clinic at Miami University with
Donald Hunsburger of the Eastman School of Music and H. Robert
Reynolds from the University of Michigan.
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| Jazz Band |
The Jazz Band was the Grand Champion Jazz Band of the Fiesta-Val
International Band Contest held in Toronto, Canada in May 1995 and
again in May 1996 in Williamsburg, Virginia. The band received
Outstanding Jazz Band Awards in 1993, 1994 and 1997 at Music In the
Parks competitions.
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