MSBOA District IV

Band & Orchestra Festival

Date | Friday , February 28, 2024

Location | Lake Orion High School

Transportation | BHS School Busses

Concert Band/Wind Symphony Performance Time | TBD

Symphonic Band Performance Time | TBD

Student Attire | Concert Black e.g. a solid black dress or solid black dress shirt, solid black dress pants, solid black socks, and solid black shoes.

About the Festival

MSBOA stands for Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association. Berkley High school is a member of MSBOA in District IV. Band and Orchestra Festival provides participating bands and orchestras with the opportunity to perform and receive feedback from four professional music education adjudicators. Participating bands must perform three pieces of music. 1) a concert march, 2) a composition from the MSBOA Basic Music List, and 3) a composition at the discretion of the performing band to be adjudicated by three different judges who will assign an overall rating of the band's performance, i.e., three judges three different overall ratings.

After the stage performance, each band will transition to a new space to sight-read and perform a music composition that the students and the director have never seen before. The band has five minutes to practice the piece without producing sounds on their instrument before playing the music composition for an adjudicator.

Sample Itinerary- Concert Band/Wind SYMPHONY

12:40 pm | Lunch, change into concert attire.

1:25 pm | Meet in band room, attendance, start loading equipment.

1:30 pm | Load the bus and take attendance.

1:40 pm | Depart Berkley High School

2:40 pm | Arrive at Lake Orion High School

2:50 pm | Unload the bus and head to the homeroom area.

3:20 pm | Concert Band/Wind Symphony set-up concert arcs in the homeroom area.

3:25 pm | Concert Band/Wind Symphony transition to the warm-up room.

3:30 pm | Concert Band/Wind Symphony warm-up.

4:00 pm | BHS Concert Band/Wind Symphony Stage Performance

4:30 pm | BHS Concert Band/Wind Symphony Sight-Reading

5:00 pm | Transition back to the homeroom, pack-up musical equipment.

5:15 pm | Load Bus

5:20 pm | Depart Lake Orion High School

6:20 pm | Arrive at Berkley High School

Itinerary- Symphonic Band

6:00 pm | Band Room Open

6:15 pm | Meet in band room, attendance, start loading equipment.

6:25 pm | Load the bus and take attendance.

6:35 pm | Depart Berkley High School

7:35 pm | Arrive at Lake Orion High School

7:45 pm | Unload the bus and head to the homeroom area.

8:15 pm | Symphonic Band set-up concert arcs in the homeroom area.

8:20 pm | Symphonic Band transition to the warm-up room.

8:25 pm | Symphonic Band warm-up

8:55 pm |BHS Symphonic Band Stage Performance

9:25 pm |BHS Symphonic Band Sight-Reading 

9:55 pm | Transition back to the warm-up room area and begin packing-up musical equipment.

10:05 pm |Transition To Bus 

10:15 pm |Depart Lake Orion H.S. and transition to Berkley H.S.

10:45 pm | Arrive at Berkley H.S. and unload equipment and Dismisal.