When do kids in the second band ever get to know how the HBD conducts or rehearses the ensemble, if they're never in his ensemble? What if they move up the next year - they've got more of a learning curve to fit in to the ensemble style.

Furthermore, what about the good-but-not-great kids - they can spend 3-4 years in your program and never have the HBD as their conductor on a concert even a single time?


Marching season? In every program I've worked in the HBD does rehearsals with the full band on music in summer band and on days it's raining outside and we are forced to stay in. Surely the kids in the lower bands can learn how the HBD conducts or rehearses an ensemble from that.