Voices from the Trail » music http://www.voicesfromthetrail.com The School Newspaper of Monterey Trail High School Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:55:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 New Band Director Has High Hopes for MTHS http://www.voicesfromthetrail.com/features/2010/09/02/new-band-director-has-high-hopes-for-mths/ http://www.voicesfromthetrail.com/features/2010/09/02/new-band-director-has-high-hopes-for-mths/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:56:51 +0000 admin http://www.voicesfromthetrail.com/?p=1583 Changes happen every year here at Monterey Trail High School. One of the big contributors to those changes this year is our new band director, Mr. Aaron Smith. Before teaching at Monterey Trail, Mr. Smith taught at Vacaville High School, excelling and focusing on jazz music. Beginning on the percussion at a mere 5 years old, Mr. Smith had an on and off “relationship” with music. After taking a trip to Australia with some of his friends, he began to rethink taking up music as a profession. And thanks to his reconsideration about pursuing music as a career, we now have an amazing band director. As mentioned by Mr. Smith, he has hopes for a growing music program here at Monterey Trail. At the moment, there are only 43 students in the band program, but it’s not enough to make a tremendous and lasting tradition. He assumes that every year, about 60 students from the band organization from Edward Harris Middle School promote onto high school, but as the years pass by, less and less students are becoming active in the band program. Aside from the band program itself, he thinks the rest of the students here are “pretty cool” from afar. I believe that he can see potential everywhere at our school because he knows and supports the quote that “good enough is neither good nor enough”. Even with the small band program here, he’s going to keep trying to help the school grow, but he can’t do it alone. It’s up to us to fill in the empty holes. Because of this monumental instructor, we are all going to grow.

]]> http://www.voicesfromthetrail.com/features/2010/09/02/new-band-director-has-high-hopes-for-mths/feed/ 0 October In Music http://www.voicesfromthetrail.com/arts-and-entertainment/2009/10/08/october-in-music/ http://www.voicesfromthetrail.com/arts-and-entertainment/2009/10/08/october-in-music/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:11:51 +0000 admin http://www.voicesfromthetrail.com/?p=218 We have plenty of new music coming out from different artists this time of year, from a Christmas album to a tribute album to music by the late Michael Jackson.  On October 6, we can look forward to an eighth studio album from the Backstreet Boys entitled This Is Us. Also available starting October 6 is KISS’ first album after more than ten years called Sonic Boom. A tribute album to Michael Jackson will also be available on this date. One other album available on the 6th is The Listening by Lights. Michael Buble’s album Crazy Love will be available on the 9th.

On the 13th, American Idol runner-up David Archuleta will be releasing a Christmas Album entitled Christmas From The Heart. Other albums slated for an October 13 release are Slice by Five for Fighting, Sorry For Partyin’ by Bowling For Soup, and D.N.A. by Mario.

Rock band, Creed, is scheduled to release their 5th studio album, Full Circle on October 20. The much anticipated soundtrack for upcoming movie, New Moon, will be coming out the same day. Country singer, Tim McGraw, will be releasing his new record, Southern Voice on the 20th as well as Evolution of A Man by Brian McKnight.

Country-pop star, Taylor Swift, is scheduled to re-release her sophomore album, Fearless, on October 27, which will include the original tracklisting and 6 brand new songs. 80’s rock band, R.E.M., will be releasing their concert album,

Live At The Olympia, on the 27th as well. Two other rock bands slated to release new albums on this day are Atreyu with Congregation of The Damned and Weezer with Raditude.

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