Changing a well known individual in any occupation is rarely a straightforward job.
For North Lamar Excessive College band director Austin Snow, this 12 months he isn’t simply changing anybody, he’s getting into the sneakers of a legend.
“This 12 months has had many challenges for me,” Snow mentioned. “The most important one being that I’m taking on a program that has been run by one of many legends of Texas Band Administrators in Randy Jones. For the final 37 years he led this program and was liked by the group and the scholars.”
“I take into account it an incredible honor to be getting into this program,” Snow added. “The scholars, dad and mom and the administration at North Lamar have executed a beautiful job welcoming myself and my household to this nice group.”
Whereas there’s a new face main the NLHS band program, that’s not the one factor that’s new this season. This 12 months’s present has a legendary really feel to it, one would possibly even say ‘It’s all Greek to me.’
“Our halftime present is named ‘Mythos’ and it’s a minimalistic musical and visible illustration of Greek deities,” Snow mentioned. “We’ll cowl such figures like Apollo, Zeus, Eros, Aphrodite and Poseidon. This 12 months’s present is completely different from North Lamar reveals prior to now due to the manufacturing. We’ve introduced on a program coordinator to supply a extra polished {and professional} manufacturing in addition to using a brand new marching fashion.”
This season’s drum majors are Jaden Brown, Pleasure Greenwell and Gavin Jackson. Snow mentioned that he couldn’t be extra happy with how his drum majors have helped lead this system this season.
“All of our drum majors have been so essential to the transition we’ve made this season, and all three are mannequin college students.”
