Band members have achieved some great accomplishes this year and are adding to the great legacy left before them.
Over twenty students made Area auditions last semester, and five made their way to All-State in San Antonio. Making All-State band is one of the biggest accomplishments that a Texas band student can make. The five students who made it were freshman Haley Emerson, sophomore Riley Barnes, and juniors Clarissa Medrano, Aric Kline and Molly Livingston, who is also the first student at Argyle to make it to state for choir. The students traveled to San Antonio on Feb. 11 for the clinician and concert.

Continuing with accomplishments made in concert band, junior Nathan Little had the honor to play trumpet with the Dallas Wind Symphony while performing with the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra along with other great metroplex musicians. The group played their concert in the Meyerson Symphony Hall in downtown Dallas in late Jan., accompanied by some of the country’s best musicians, including Argyle band director Kathy Johnson on flute.

Also, sophomore Zach Schermehorn auditioned on trumpet for The Phantom Regiment Drum Core International band on Nov. 10 and received a call back to audition for the band again where he got the news that he had made the band. Drum Cores such as The Phantom Regiment spend all summer touring the country, performing for thousands and often make it to the finals in the DCI competition later in the Summer. Schermehorn and the band leave May 16 to begin learning and touring for their 2014 show.
“I was the only sophomore there, and most of the musicians I was competing against were college music majors.” Schermehorn said. “So, the auditions were very intense. I practiced my trumped two to three hours a day and made sure to run after school as often as I could.”
Performing with The Phantom Regiment had always been a dream of Schermehorn’s, so he was ecstatic when he found out his hard work paid off.
After being awarded the Texas Exemplary High School Band Award, it is evident that the Argyle Band is still continuing to raise the bar and improve their legacy.