The Marcus High School Band currently has 4 concert ensembles: The Wind Symphony, The Symphonic Band, The Concert Band, and the Varsity Band. All bands prepare several concerts throughout the concert season, compete at Texas University Interscholastic League (UIL) Concert and Sight-Reading Contests, and send students to audition for All-Region Band. Several students each year advance to Area auditions, and eventually become part of one of the Texas All-State Bands or Orchestras, which perform during the Texas Music Educator's Association (TMEA) Conference in February of each year in San Antonio, Texas.
2009 Concert and Sightreading Repertoire
Ensembles
Wind Symphony
Amanda Drinkwater, Conductor1. Geschwindmarsch by Beethoven - Hindemith
2. Symphony for Band, Mvt. 2, "Marches" - Morton Gould
3. Sea Songs - Thomas Knox
Symphonic Band
Dominic Talanca, Conductor1. A Slavic Farewell - Agapkin/Bourgeois
2. A Hymn for the Lost and the Living - Ewazen
3. Themes from Green Bushes - Grainger/Daehn
Concert Band
David Simon, Conductor1. A Longford Legend - Robert Sheldon
2. Barocco - van Beringen
3. Allied Honor - King/Swearingen
*All Marcus Band concert groups received exclusively first division
ratings at the Region 24 Concert & Sightreading Contest
2010 Marcus High School Band.