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Tuba player Aaron
Staack finds it really hard to hold
his tuba during the Homecoming half-
Rating SuperioR time song "Puttin' on the Ritz ". The
Homecoming game was the windiest
game of the season and all band mem-
-wend! hansen· bers remember how cold it was and
how hard it was to perform. (H. Kin-
It was inevitable that one the season, it was the contests gham)
could hear the band's tired be- that really counted. "You know
ginnings at 7:30 a.m. every the most stressful day of your
morning of the football season. life is the State competition. For
The long mornings of prac- instance, once you're done
tice and dreadfully hot days of with it, you can't change it, or
band camp finally paid off be upset about your perform-
when the marching Mustangs ance because mistakes hap-
received a superior rating at pen. However, you have to
the Nebraska State Bandmast- know what they are so you can
ers Association State Contest. eliminate them from your next
Senior Angie Netzel said, "The performance," Senior Shelley
whole sea on was very frustrat- Boyer.
ing but the final results were the Sometimes marching band
best part of it all.'' was not the greatest thing to
Band Directors Jim Johnson be doing that early in the morn-
and Bob Patterson said that ing, but the commitment of be-
because the band worked ing on the practice field that
hard they deserved a top rat- early helped in achieving the
ing . Even though the band re- superior rating, "The band
ceived only an excellent rating members that were on the field
at the NSBA Contest in Platts- at 7:30a.m. to practice were
mouth the preceding week, the ones who were committed
Jatterson said, " I think the '2' and on the days we performed
we received at Plattsmouth you could tell who had been at
-node them wake up and practice, and who was not,"
-node them realize they could said Senior Kri sta Schwarting.
jo better and they did." When marching season was
Even though mistakes were over, Johnson said, "The sea-
node like a Flag Corps mem- son was great, the band mem-
)er dropping her flag, a flute bers worked hard, and the tro-
)layer playing the wrong note, phy from this year is on the
)r a drummer out of step during shelf." •

Flag Corps members Jen- Junior Stacy Uden, one of
niter L yda, Jennifer Morris, the drum majors , takes con-
and Juli e Ledford keep them- trol in getting the band to practice "In
sieves warm during one of the morning the Mood", before going outside to
practices. The Flag Corps members practice marching. (M Brookstein)
found it hard to keep warm when they
had to wear their uniforms on game
days. (L. Custer)
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