001I like [Applause] you one Mar [Music] [Applause] s for [Music] [Applause] la [Music] n [Music] [Applause] la [Music] [Applause] [Music] the [Music] la [Music] a [Music] [Applause] all right thank you for coming tonight to our 2025 spring band and orchestra concert that was uh Mozart and next up is all the pretty little horses a American Folk Song arranged for string orchestra [Music] h [Music] n [Music] the [Music] oh [Music] h [Music] [Laughter] [Music] so we had a few soloist on that our last piece for the string orchestra is uh Robert long Field's turning point and after that uh we're going to bring the band up for our combined piece so Robert longfields Turning Point [Music] l [Music] the [Music] n [Music] to you [Music] oh n [Music] [Applause] [Music] l [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music]
002[Applause] uh so that was uh Robert Longfield Turning Point our next piece is going to be the havanera from Carmen by Biz um Mr CLE could you turn the lights down as soon as they're like settled just thanks for for sure [Music] la [Music] la [Music] la [Music] [Applause] [Music] la [Music] la [Music] n [Music] [Applause] Qui and we'll be right back e for next up is the EHS percussion Ensemble with uh Brian Bailey's Pharaoh's Pursuit [Music] d [Music] t [Music] [Applause] so next up is uh Ryan Nan's Fan Fair graum Ryan Allen is the um director of the United States uh the president's own United States Marine Corps band um and a composer so this is Ryan nin's Fanfare graum when the percussion's ready for all ready [Music] la [Music] [Applause] a [Music] oh
003[Applause] [Music] for oh [Music] oh [Music] la a [Music] [Applause] thank you very much um we're going to take a brief pause in the action I'm going to call up Drew Hammond who's going to talk for a couple minutes about our mattress fundraiser now this seems weird and uh because it is it is weird um but this totally works and if you've been getting our getting our Communications you know that like the reason we're doing this is we're trying to buy warmer coats uh for the marching band for uh when we go to say the Dober band show or the holiday parade um we are just short of our goal we've been working on this for a long time and the boosters decided this year that this was the year we we've been working on
004this fundraising for like maybe a decade maybe eight years it's been a while so we decided this is the year we're going to totally do this um and this fundraiser works we had done it in the past we're actually the first High school in the state to do it so but that was 11 or 12 years ago so now we're trying it again uh we're hoping that Sunday you'll come out and help support uh the band uh or you don't need to come buy a mattress to find somebody that wants to buy a mattress um that would be great um anyway there are referral forms back there um I think I'm taking your whole shtick so here I'm going to stop this is Drew from the from the mattress W thank you Tim quick Round
005of Applause for Tim miles and the guys here sounds awesome this is uh this is my 23rd concert since February and I can tell you they do not all sound as good as you guys so congratulations you guys sound awesome so quick show of hands how many of you guys think this is really weird all right keep your hand up if you know someone who sleeps on a mattress so the reason this fundraiser works is every year it doesn't have to be you who needs a new one this isn't like cookie dough or candles or calendar Raffles where it's we're just asking you to shell out 20 bucks to help out the program every single one of you in this room knows somebody who could replace a mattress or is even planning on buying a
006mattress this year it ends up being about 10% of people um so for you guys the opportunity is really easy where you don't have to do any door-to-door selling the kids don't have to fill out order forms I am definitely not asking you guys to sort through and deliver mattresses all across exit are in a couple weeks so all the things that you as parents and students and teachers in the school probably dislike about fundraising really doesn't exist with this fundraiser this is all about just simply getting the word out and just bringing it up whether it's through social media sharing Flyers via text message just simply having a conversation because literally every single person you know has a mattress and the reason this sounds weird is because when you have conversations with people their
007bedroom furniture probably doesn't come up very often so I know it's a weird conversation to be like hey Bill how's your mattress doing like that's a weird thing to talk about but if you talk about that with enough people you will be amazed at how many people tell you yeah actually our kids are sleep sleep on a bed that's older than they are or yeah we've actually been using ropes to pull ourselves out of that divot that's in the bed for the last couple years so whatever the reason it doesn't have to be you it might be a neighbor A co-worker a teacher here in the school but if you get the word out enough and you do the simple easy things we do every day which is text message talk to human beings and
008share on social media I guarantee you will find somebody who's in the market or could replace and would much rather support a good cause save some money and buy something they're already planning on buying so so the way this works is on Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. right inside the cafeteria I'll set up about 35 different mattresses from Brands like purple Helix theraputic Tranquility Eclipse we have pillows sheets mattress protectors adjustable bases box springs platform frames so as weird as it is the only difference between a storefront retail purchase and shopping at the mattress sale is the location we give you all the same products everything is made to order so when you come in you can try out the beds test them out me and my sales staff you guys don't have
009to sell the beds as weird as it would be to watch a bunch of teenagers try and sell mattresses out of their cafeteria all I need you guys to do is find me people to come see us on Sunday for you guys to reach your goal of covering these jackets you know on the way in I said to somebody you know I think have to raise about $7,000 to cover the entire cost that's about 3540 mattresses and she said oh that seems Seems like a lot my average sale right now is 34 bets so when you think about the district having about 16,000 people in it and 10% of those people probably need a mattress there's a couple thousand people in town that are going to go buy a mattress this year we got to
010find 40 to 50 of those people to cover the cost of these jackets for you guys so if you guys all do the quick and simple and easy things which again is just talking about it and bringing it up and just making this information available to the people you interact with I guarantee you we're going to have a solid Day on Sunday and I pretty much do this every year once it goes well so this will become a really good opportunity and easy opportunity for you guys to not only raise money but for some of the community Buys in the last time I was in the district I worked with the sophomore class this was back in 2023 not the greatest sale I think we sold about 16 17 mattresses but that still brought in
011about $3,300 for the sophomore class which is now using for their senior year towards like prom and stuff so I'm not telling you to go out and have a bad day on Sunday but what I am telling you is there's a huge opportunity for you guys if you can simply get the word out and find people to come see us on Sunday now on these flyers there's two different sets the blue copies are what you want to kind of go out to your friends and family the lime green copies I do a special discount for any faculty staff in the district um I do I timid mentioned that there's some confusion on if those are for like just teachers in The District in all reality I am more than happy to support anyone who works
012in education so simply if you know a teacher and they come in with the flyer I will honor the discount for them but in all reality this is how kind of you guys need to get the word out all the information about the sale is on these there's a spot where you can put your students name on the line if a student has a referral so someone comes in and says yeah like Maggie sent me in they get a hoodie they also get some raffle points towards some gift card Raffles so there's some fun stuff for the kids there's some bonus money to you guys to help cover some cost of some stuff down the road but again the only thing I can tell you about this sale it does not work if you don't
013participate so between now and Sunday I need all of you guys to spend 60 to 90 seconds a day sharing on social media texting out this information and having that awkward conversation with your friends and Neighbors um as a thank you for sharing the stage I know you guys are definitely not here to listen to me um whatever you guys raise on Sunday I'm going to add $250 to it for sharing the stage the other thing that I'm going to do as an extra challenge is the front of these flyers there's a QR code that will take you to that Facebook event page um there's a post in there that has like a little video says like spread the word that has five shares right now if that has 25 or more I'm going to
014add another $250 so you guys could earn 500 bucks before I even sell a single bet on Sunday if you just take a couple seconds on the ride home or once you get in bed tonight and just get this information out so I'll be out at the table if you have any questions grab some more flyers I have a bunch of the road signs that'll go out um please grab some of those on the way out put them outside your place of work or in the neighborhood you never know who needs a new mattress until you bring it up so if you guys do your part I will do mine and I will sell a bunch of mattresses for you guys this weekend write you guys a big check and help cover the cost of
015that stuff so thank you again you guys ready for me to stop talking listen to your kids finish the show so I figured thank you guys very much appreciate [Applause] it thank you the next uh piece we're going to play is Wayfaring Stranger by Steve Rouse l [Music] h [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you h [Applause] [Music] a [Music] to [Applause] [Music] [Applause] h [Music] [Applause] [Music] bir [Music] all [Applause] so way fairing stranger is an old American folk song it's been around since about the time of the American Revolution uh and that's a really nice arrangement by Steve Rouse um I should say thank you first of all thank you uh to the administration here at exitor high school for their support and thank you to miss Ramsey who are my colleague
016in the music department uh for her support thank you to Mr CLE for running the lights and sound tonight uh thanks to Rob Gary for playing bass uh with the orchestra uh earlier this evening our last piece tonight was actually a piece that the exodor high school band had a part in commissioning um so I was approached a little over a year ago uh by a friend of mine and another band director um who was starting a Consortium Consortium of schools uh to commission the composer Steve danu and so there are about 12 of us who uh put in a little bit of money and we all got this piece to Premiere this spring um so this is Steve Dan's covered bridges um it was inspired by if you know the piece um Aaron Copeland
017Aaron Copeland was commissioned by Life magazine in the 60s I believe to write a little piano piece called down a Country Lane um and that was Steve Dan's inspiration it's a really beautiful piano piece uh for beginners that um has been transcribed for band and Orchestra so it's a piece that a lot of band students and band directors know he was inspired by this and he in thinking about new Hampshire was thinking about driving down a Country Lane and seeing a covered bridge which is what the piece does there's a there's a drive and then we get to the beautiful bridge and then the drive continues and there's no engagements happening on the bridge which is what we've been talking about in class it's not happening [Music] n [Music] [Applause] [Music] down down [Music] n
018[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] a [Music] [Applause] [Music] d [Music] la [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] thank you all very much for coming that's all we have for you tonight um on your way out one of those yellow signs you want to put it up somewhere around town that'll be great