2025 LG Contest Info

Good Morning Band Parents,

This Saturday, March 8th two of our bands will travel to Teays Valley High School to participate in OMEA's Large Group adjudicated event.  The Symphonic Band will perform in Class B and the Wind Ensemble will perform in Class AA.  Both groups will be assessed in their ability to perform 3 contrasting pieces of music with one of those 3 being a required piece for the respective class they are competing in.  

The evaluation for both groups will look the same. The ensembles will be evaluated on their ability to perform those 3 selections and will assessed using a rubric that uses a rating scale of 1-5.  1 is the highest score possible, with 5 being the lowest possible.  The only difference between each band's performance is the difficulty of the music they will be performing.  

All parents are welcome and encouraged to attend.  The event is quite a sterile environment but certainly another opportunity for you to hear your child perform.  Below you will find the timeline for our portion of the contest.  Please plan on making your way into the Teays Valley Auditorium 5-10 minutes prior to the performance time.  The doors promptly close at the marked times and will not open again until we conclude on stage.  

After the stage performance the band is not finished with the assessment.  We then go to a second location and sight read a piece of music they have never seen before.  This is quite possibly the most stressful part for the students (and myself).  No parents are allowed in the Sight Reading room and we are limited to just directors.  No chaporones or parent volunteers are permitted.  

Once Sight Reading is complete scores are tabulated and ratings are posted in Teays Valley's Cafeteria.  This is a good place to meet your child after the performance as they will all go there once equipment is stored.  

Parent's are permitted to take symphonic band students home after the performance if they can't stay the entire day. Those students will not be released until a written note is handed to a director stating you are taking custody of your child for our transportation logs.  We will pass the notes onto the bus chaperones for transportation logs. 

​​Timeline
Symphonic Band is represented as SB on the timeline
Wind Ensemble is represented as WE on the timeline

Dress Code
Dress for the performance is Concert Black.  This means students wear all black clothing.  We didn't have many issues for the gentlemen at the preview concert, mostly just issues with socks and shoes.  However the ladies in the groups weren't quite as consistent in following dress code instructions.  Our ladies in the program struggled with wearing professional looking black attire.  If wearing a dress the dress needs to be past the knee, especially when sitting down and shoulders need to be covered.  If ladies are unable to follow these simple requests I highly encourage them to seek a nice pair of black slacks.  (As my wife and daughter call them, "girl boss pants".) 

Address for Teays Valley High School
​3887 State Route 752 Ashville, OH United States

I am very excited for this weekend and hope you can make time to support our students.  

I know it has already been mentioned but remember: NO RECORDING of any kind.  You will be reminded many times the day of the event.