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Pride News12/3/2007
BulletPride Parents' Day. Pride Parents' Day will take place on September 15 when the Sooners take on Utah State. Parents' Day is an opportunity for all Pride member's parents to take part in a gameday experience with their son or daughter. A schedule and order forms were mailed to the home address we have on file on Thursday, August 16. You may also download the information in PDF format if you did not receive the mailing. Please note that these items are very time sensitive so complete them today! We would like everyone to be able to participate! We look forward to seeing you on the 15th. Boomer Sooner!

BulletConcert Ensemble Auditions Update. The audition schedule for concert ensemble auditions has been finalized and is available for you to view. Students interested in auditioning should sign up for an audition slot on the bulletin board between the band and orchestra rooms prior to auditions next week. Audition Materials for positions in the Wind Symphony, Symphony Band and Orchestra are still available for download. Please contact the band office if you have difficulty downloading the material.

BulletConcert Ensemble Auditions. Audition Materials for positions in the Wind Symphony, Symphony Band and Orchestra are now posted. Follow the link to your instrument to print the .pdf file, which includes audition music and a newsletter with audition and calendar information. The files are approximately 9 MB in size so if you are downloading from a dial-up connection, please be advised that it will take a little while. Auditions are scheduled the first week of classes between August 20-22. Please contact the band office if you have difficulty downloading the material.

Bullet2007 Pride of Oklahoma Auditions. Auditions for the 2007 Pride of Oklahoma will begin Monday, August 13 for all members. Audition music is now available on our secure website. In order to access the secure website, prospective members must either be enrolled in marching band (MUTE 1130, sec 900) or - if enrollment is not yet possible - must provide the band office with their 4x4 (we do not need the account password). Upon login, prospective students will fill out an information profile and once the profile is completed and saved, the student will be able to access the audition files. If there is any trouble with the login, please contact the band office and we will return your email as soon as possible. Boomer Sooner!

BulletUniversity of Oklahoma Honors Wind Ensemble and Choir Camp. The University of Oklahoma Honors Wind Ensemble and Choir Camp brings honors music students to the beautiful university setting for professional development with faculty, conductors, and artist teachers. The groups are comprised of outstanding students from Oklahoma and Texas, grades 9-12, who achieve excellence through membership in all-state, all-area, all-region honor groups, or receive superior ratings at solo and ensemble contest. Participants may also be nominated by their director or applied teacher. Students rehearse, attend master classes/sectional rehearsals with University faculty and perform a final concert at Paul F. Sharp Hall in Catlett Music Center on the University of Oklahoma campus. For additional information, please visit our Honors Wind Ensemble and Choir website.

BulletWind Symphony selected to perform at regional conference. The Wind Symphony has been selected to perform for the 2008 College Band Directors National Association Southwestern Division Conference at the Kansas City Conservatory of Music on Thursday, February 28, at 8:00 p.m. CBDNA is comprised of college band conductors who focus on the advancement of bands through performance, teaching, and scholarly activity. National and regional conferences present the latest ideas and literature for the medium and are held in alternating years at selected sites. The University of Oklahoma hosted the regional conference in 1990 and 2000.

BulletPhotos from the Spring Concerts now online. Photos from the April concerts given by the Wind Symphony, Symphony Band, and Concert Band are now available in our photo album. Congratulations on great performances by all three groups. To those students who are graduating, best of luck in all your endeavors. Remember to stay informed by regularly checking this website and the Alumni Band website. We hope to see you at Homecoming 2007. Boomer Sooner!

BulletAn Evening of Winds and Percussion. Monday, April 23 at 8:00 p.m., the Symphony Band and Concert Band will present their final concerts for this academic year. The Concert Band will perform Golden Point Overture, As Summer Was Just Beginning, Visions of Flight, and Invercargill. Armenian Dances (Part I), Down a Country Lane, Igor Fantasy, and Symphony in B-flat will be performed by the Symphony Band. Admission to the concert is free. Get a printer-friendly poster here. We hope to see you on the 23rd!

 

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user Webmaster - Big Red in the Big Apple!  blueArrow
5/20/07; 3:02:12 AM (reads: 8131, responses: 1)
Big Red in the Big Apple!

November just got a lot more exciting for the 2007 Pride of Oklahoma!

On November 22, just six days after Oklahoma's Centennial, The Pride will be in New York City as the state's representative in the 81st annual Macy's® Thanksgiving Day Parade! That's right - the one with the balloons, Miracle on 34th Street, Al Roker, and everything else. Great thanks to the Oklahoma Centennial Commission and university administration for helping with the cost of such a tremendous opportunity.

We'll try to keep you updated with any ways you can help or support the Pride in New York. A quick look at the November 2007 events calendar shows that it's going to be an intense month: OU plays at Texas Tech on Saturday, November 17. Very shortly thereafter, The Pride travels to New York City to prepare for the Macy's Parade on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 22. Then just two days later, it's bedlam as OU hosts OSU at Owen Field - and that could easily be an 11:00 AM CST kickoff for ABC Sports, too! (The Big 12 Championship game is just one week later in San Antonio, to boot.)

And we still haven't seen a definitive announcement about the date for Homecoming 2007! This page from the OU Alumni Association strongly implies that it's been chosen for October 13, but our event calendar had OU at Missouri on that day - but now, SoonerSports.com says the Sooners host the Tigers on that day, so it might be Homecoming 2007. At least it appears that it won't be in November! Stay tuned here for news and information as we get it, and BOOMER SOONER!



Posted by Webmaster on 5/20/07; 3:02:16 AM from the Pride History, Pride of Oklahoma dept.

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user Webmaster - Re: Big Red in the Big Apple!  blueArrow
5/20/07; 3:03:10 AM (reads: 966, responses: 0)

I think The Pride may have been in this parade in the 1940s or 1950s, but I can't pin it down. Even so, it's certainly the first time in decades that our beloved group has headed to the Big Apple for this American tradition - a generational moment, at least. Some of this year's incoming freshmen will undoubtedly have been members of the Oklahoma All-Star Centennial Marching Band, which continues to perform throughout 2007, including at the Centennial Celebration on November 16, 2007. They'll have something in common with any 6th-year seniors in 2007: the only Pride members ever to march in both the Tournament of Roses Parade (2002 for the Pride, 2007 for the Centennial Band) and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade!
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