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Band Booster's Website!
Be
Part of Meet the Director Night!
6:30 - 8:00
Free Hot Dogs, Ice
Cream, Drinks
Tuesday, July 15
Forest Park Pavilion
(East of
University, by Soccer Fields)
All Band Families
Welcome!
WELCOME NEW BAND DIRECTORS
Fort Worth
ISD announced that Mr. Darrin Duff is Paschal's new Head Band
Director.
Darrin Duff just completed his fifth year as the Assistant
Band Director and Percussion Director at Azle High School. During his tenure the
Azle Band has grown from 130 members to now over 270 strong. The
percussion program has also flourished earning high marks at numerous
marching band invitational contests and his percussion ensembles have
received first division medals at the state solo and ensemble contest.
Last summer the Azle Percussion Ensemble was named a winner of the
Percussive Arts Society International Percussion Ensemble Competition, one
of the highest honors a percussion unit, high school or college, can
receive. They were one of three ensembles nationwide invited to perform a
showcase concert at the 2007 PAS International Convention in Columbus Ohio. His concert bands have earned
consistent sweepstakes awards.
Mr. Duff hails from
Salina,
Kansas
where he began his musical career
studying percussion with Dean Kranzler. He then studied at
Kansas
State
University
with Dr. James Strain
where he graduated in 1996 with a Bachelors degree in Music Education. He
soon moved to
Texas as an assistant band
director at
Cross
Timbers
Middle School in Grapevine,
Texas
under the tutelage of honor band
director, Jolette Wine. At CTMS, Mr. Duff started an award winning jazz
band that evolved into an everyday class whose members went on to be Texas
All-State Jazz Band Members, National Grammy Band Winners and University
of North Texas 1 O’clock Lab Band Members. Mr. Duff currently performs
with a swing band based out of Southlake. While at CTMS, he also
instructed the percussion at
Grapevine
High School
, making it to finals of the State
Marching Band Championships twice during his tenure. Darrin has also
instructed band and percussion in the Keller and Birdville school
districts as well. While working on his Masters degree at the
University of
North Texas
he
studied with Dr. Bob Schietroma, Mark Ford, and Ron Fink. Darrin is also a
former member of “
America
’s Corps” - The Troopers
Drum and Bugle Corps. Mr. Duff has been a freelance percussion teacher and
music arranger for many of the top marching bands in Texas, including:
Grapevine High School, Fossil Ridge High School, Richland High School,
Robert E. Lee High School (Midland, Texas), Killeen High School, Birdville
High School and of course, Azle High School. He is a member of Percussive Arts Society, Texas Bandmasters Association, and Texas Music
Educators Association. The Azle Band program has twice been to the state
marching championships during his tenure and the bands under his direction
have won Sweepstakes Awards consistently during four of those five
years.
Mr. Duff is married to LaRae Duff, a band director at
Harwood Junior High School in Bedford, Texas. In his spare time Mr. Duff enjoys
snow-skiing, reading, playing fetch with his golden retriever Morgan, and
watching Kansas State
Football.
See a sample of the Azle band
at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?e=7agv5xuigjo.
Our
new 1st Assistant Band Director
is George Flores from Harlington, Texas.
More information on Mr. Flores will be posted
soon!
We have our new 2nd
Assistant Band Director! Mr. Dave Hall
(formerly percussion private lesson teacher at Paschal, as well as
guest artist for the percussion ensemble concert this past year). Below is
his bio:
Dave Hall holds a M.M. in Percussion Performance from TCU
and a B.M. in Percussion Performance from the University of Nebraska. Mr.
Hall 's experience in music is highly diverse, beginning with piano
at the age of seven and later taking up violin and horn before starting
percussion. This diversity continues today as he performs actively in the
DFW area as a marimba soloist, drumset player, and timpanist, among other
things. He has played snare drum for the Phantom Regiment and Crossmen
drum and bugle corps, the TCU PASIC Champion Indoor Drumline, and the
Dallas Mavericks Drumline. At TCU he also performed in the top jazz
band on drumset, the third jazz band on piano, the Percussion Ensemble,
Symphony O rchestra, Opera, Wind Symphony, and Steel Band. Mr. Hall
appeared as a performer and teacher on the reality TV show Tommy Lee Goes
to College and has also performed with Motley Crue. Besides teaching
private lessons in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, Mr. Hall has instructed the
TCU Drumline, Percussion Ensemble II, and Steel Band, as well as the L.D.
Bell Drumline. As a composer/arranger, he's
written for the TCU
and
University of Nebraska
Drumline/Front Ensembles, and his original percussion quartet Escape
Velocity is pending publication by C. Alan. Dave Hall has been blessed to
study with some of the greatest percussion teachers in the world including
Leigh Howard Stevens, Paul Rennick, Richard Gipson, Brian West, and Joey
Carter.
Darlene Burns
PHS Band Boosters
Communications
Dear VIP's & Friends of the Paschal
Panther Band,
We wanted to include you in this
announcement that the PHS Band Booster organization has a
new email address, for any future communication needs. We would ask
that you please add this new booster address (and delete the old
one). Thanks!
IMPORTANT
ANNOUNCEMENT!
We have changed the PHS Band Booster email service to a
new, stand-alone email account for the Paschal Band Boosters, which
should make our communication system even more effective than it has been these
past few years! Darlene
Burns is your new Communications Chair, and she
has set up this new address for the Boosters: phsbandbooster@yahoo.com
. Along with this message, your email address
has been transferred to Darlene, & from now
on your band email will arrive from our new
address.
Please take the time right
nowto add this new address to you address book or
"safe" list,
so that you will begin receiving mail from our new
address without a problem.
phsbandbooster@yahoo.com
This will ensure that your server will recongize it
and none of your band email will be
blocked as spam or redirected into a bulk mail
file. You don't want to miss any important band info!
One goal of
the band boosters
is to assist with communications between parents & directors to
benefit our students & the success of the band
program. Darlene Burns & your booster
officers will be working to ensure that our email
communication is clear & efficient--but don't forget that it
is all of our responsibility as parents to stay
informed! Bookmark the Band
Booster's website:
http://www.paschalpanthers.org
for
easy access to info.
- Attend
Booster meetings to find out what's going on and get advance notice
of future plans!
- Contact your Freshman
parent liaison Dana Sager, a resource for all new parents who
need info, advice and explanations. dana.sager@alconlabs.com or 817-980-2504. .
It has been my
pleasure to have been the Communications person f or the Panther
Band f
or these past 3 years. Band parents are absolutely
the best group of folks
to work with, and our family has enjoyed being part of the Paschal
Band family during Evan's high school career. My best wishes to the
Band and all of you for much success and another Sweepstakes year
ahead!! I know I am leaving the email in good hands with
Darlene--so, here's to continued great communication!
Thanks,
Trisha Stanfill
stanfill@flash.net
STRONG PERFORMANCES CONTINUE
After 85 years, the Paschal Panther
Marching Band continues from strength to strength. Following a 3rd Place
finish in preliminaries at the DeSoto Classic Marching Contest behind
Duncanville and Plano, and fourth place finish overall, combined with a
strong finals performance at the HEB Marching Contest.
 
(Rehearsal at Elk Stadium)
Bands of America Regional Championship
October
13th
Maverick Stadium
University of Texas at Arlington
1309 W.
Mitchell St -- Arlington, Texas
 
(FWISD School Holiday means Stadium Rehearsal)
UIL
Region 7 Marching Contest
October 20th
Elk Stadium
100 Elk Drive
-- Burleson, Texas
TX-174 South a/k/a Wilshire Blvd (exit # 37 off
I-35W) at the corner of Elk Drive
Paschal Panther Band
85th Anniversary
Celebration
October 26th
Farrington Field
1501 University Drive
-- Fort Worth, Texas
Help Celebrate!
Commemorating the founding of the Paschal Band in 1922,
Head Band Director, the entire Paschal Band and the Band Boosters are inviting
all Panther Band Alumni and friends to join the Texas UIL Sweepstakes
Trophy winning Panther Band celebrate its 85th Anniversary.
Since its beginning as
the Fort Worth High School Cadet Band, the band has had 14 directors
and thousands of students take the field representing Paschal..
Additional information can be found on the
Panther Band website at www.PaschalPanthers.org or by contacting
Band Booster President, Kal Silverberg.
If you are a former member of the
Panther Band, or a Paschal alum and would like to be included on future
email updates about the Paschal Panther Band you can register by sending
an email to phsbandboosters@yahoo.com
and ask to be added to the alumni email list.
PASCHAL BAND BOOSTERS
3001 FOREST PARK BOULEVARD
FORT WORTH, TEXAS 76110
The Paschal Band Boosters PTO is a
registered 501(c)(3) organization
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