Jazz I Takes 7th at IJC
Brooklyn Draisey
Columnist
The Iowa Jazz Championship program. Photo courtesy of Molly Hart. |
On Tuesday,
March 31 the Southeast Polk jazz band competed in the Iowa Jazz Championship at
the Civic Center and placed seventh out of fifteen bands. They competed in 4A
category against bands from schools such as Dowling Catholic, Waukee and
Linn-Mar, who Southeast Polk beat to get invited to the competition. A total of
over 1,500 students and 60 bands in attendance.
“We’ve been
practicing the pieces we played since the start
of the semester,” said sophomore Ethan Owens, a trumpet player in the
band. The band played three pieces at the competition; Symphony in Riffs, The
Beautiful, and What You Dealin’ With. The composer of The Beautiful is a
teacher at the University of Northern Iowa.
The band performed
at 8:30 am, then spent the rest of the day watching other bands perform
until the awards ceremony at 5:15 pm.
The top
eight bands from each category were place winners and got trophies, and
according to Owens it got very stressful when the 4A teams started being
placed.
“We didn’t
know when our name was going to be called, and we just hoped that we got
eighth,” said Owens. Luckily they got seventh, and now there’s a new trophy to
store in the case.
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