Updated April 19, 2025

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THIS WEEK:

Tuesday, Apr.22 A:

  7:00-8:20am Leadership Workshop 

  9:00 AM Sym I start for ALL

  4pm Final Banquet tickets sales day; 

Wednesday, Apr.23 B:

  7:00 AM Leadership workshop

  9:00 AM Sym I start for ALL

     Band Placement Auditions for Sym I & Sym II during band class + 9th graders during advisory

Thursday, Apr.24 A: 

  7:00 AM Leadership workshop

  8:00 AM Colorguard leadership auditions

  9:00 AM Sym I start for ALL

      Band Placement Auditions for Sym I & Sym III during band class + 9th graders during advisory

Friday, Apr.25 B: 

  7:00 AM Leadership Phase One auditions; 

  9:00 AM Sym I start for ALL

  Band Placement Auditions for Sym II & Sym III remainders during classes + 9th graders during advisory

Saturday, Apr.26:

  7:15 AM Leadership hopefuls meeting

  8:00 AM Super Saturday for all leadership hopefuls

  2:00 PM Leadership Phase Two auditions

Sunday, Apr.27:

  11:59 PM Senior deadline for scholarship application submissions

THE WEEK AHEAD:

Monday, Apr.28 A:

  8:00 AM  ALL Sym I brass & woodwinds perform for Phase III Leadership Audition Live Conducting

  9:00 AM Sym I start for ALL

  7:00 PM to 8:00 PM: LSWO Chamber Concert & Free Tongue & Cheek Ice Cream

Join us Monday Apr.28 from 7pm to 8pm in the Berkner Band Hall for a special chamber concert specifically performed for the Berkner, Apollo & Liberty Band by the Lone Star Wind Orchestra. The first 200 students, parents & family members that arrive to the band hall for the concert will receive a free ticket for Tongue & Cheek ice cream, which will be served immediately following this short (less than one hour) concert in the Berkner Band Hall! This free concert is provided through a local grant program that partners professional musicians from LSWO with our Berkner, Apollo & Liberty students & their families.

Tuesday, Apr.29 B: 

  8:00 AM Senior Signing Day: BHS Auditorium

  9:00 AM Sym I start for ALL

    Leadership interviews all day & after school until 6:30 PM

  7:00 PM BABC Board Meeting

Wednesday, Apr.30 A:

  9:00 AM Sym I start for ALL

Thursday, May 1 B: 

   9:00 AM Sym I start for ALL

   6:30 PM to 9:30 PM Band Banquet

     First Baptist Church, Richardson

      at Arapaho & Central Expy

     Tickets must be purchased ahead of time

     "Job Interview" attire is expected.

Friday, May 2 A:

    9:00 AM Sym I start for 9th, 10th & 11th graders

Saturday, May 3:

    8:00 AM to 10:00 AM Applebee's Pancake Breakfast