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“The Pride of the Hill Country” has a rich history of performance excellence that spans 89 years. The Bobcat Marching Band offers an exciting opportunity for instrumentalists, color guard members and twirlers to enhance their university experience by performing in an outstanding musical organization.
Over the years, the Bobcat Marching Band has established a national reputation for marching and playing excellence. This reputation has led to performances at two Presidential Inaugurations as well as appearances in a Hollywood film and the 1995 video “Best of College Bands.” They are also the first American marching band to have performed for a soccer game in Mexico. In March 2007, the Bobcat Marching Band was selected to be featured on video at the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) National Convention in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Most recently, the band was featured on the award-winning PBS show The Biscuit Brothers.
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Above all, the Bobcat Marching Band prides itself on being an integral part of the excitement of the college game day experience! Under the direction of Associate Director of Bands Caroline Beatty, the band will bring on the spirit during all of the 2008 home football games and will travel to Dallas when the Bobcats take on the SMU Mustangs. Additionally, the band will take their exciting halftime shows on the road to be featured in exhibition performances at the Texas UIL 5A Area D Marching Contest.
For the 2008 season, the Bobcat Marching Band will present two HOT halftime shows! The first, “Caliente!”, features music with a Latin flair. The second show is pure “007!” featuring exciting arrangements of the James Bond Theme, Goldfinger, and Live and Let Die.
Whether before, during or after the game, no band strives to support its team, entertain its fans or play as hard as “The Pride of the Hill Country”, the Texas State Bobcat Marching Band!
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NEWS:
The Bobcat Marching Band has garnered national recognition
for performance excellence.
The
band was featured in a marching band performance video session
at the national conference of the College Band Directors
National Association in Ann Arbor, Michigan on March 30.
The CBDNA made a call for tapes of halftime performances
from last fall, acquiring recordings from college marching
bands across the country.
A panel
of select college marching band directors judged the tapes
submitted for this session, and selected only five bands
to participate. After the judges tallied their votes, Dr.
Schueller received notification from Dr. Kraig Williams
of the University of Memphis, Project Manager for the Athletic
Band Task Force for the national conference.
The
College Band Directors National Association, known as CBDNA,
is the foremost professional organization on college band
issues, dealing mostly with concert ensembles. Over the
past ten years, the association has begun to include sessions
dealing with athletic band performance related items. Additionally,
the CBDNA sponsors a summer symposium that deals exclusively
with athletic bands.
Dr.
Rod Schueller, Director of the 215-member Bobcat Band, submitted
a DVD recording of the band’s performance at the Harlandale
Marching Festival in San Antonio. The band performed in
exhibition for the high school bands that competed during
the festival, held on October 14.
Schueller
remarked, “When I saw the CBDNA e-mail calling for
tapes, I immediately thought about submitting the tape of
that performance. I was judging the competition at Harlandale,
so I did not travel with the band. I did not see them warm
up and was not part of the pre-performance ritual. I stayed
in regular contact with the staff because I thought there
was a good chance a major storm was going to hit before
the competition was over.”
He continued,
“The storm approached as the Bobcat Band took the
field. I have never seen a band march like that, nor have
I heard a band sound like our group did that day. It was
absolutely phenomenal, especially considering it poured
on them for the last three minutes of the show. They were
pros, continuing to give it their all like nothing was happening.
I have never had a band perform in that kind of weather,
it was like the storm made them extra edgy.”
Concerning
the honor of being selected, Schueller said, “This
is a tremendous honor for our students, the School of Music,
Department of Bands and of course, Texas State University.
There were many great bands who submitted recordings, and
we were judged to be on par with the elite in college marching
band.”
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