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Saturday, May 23, 2009
By Arya Singh
What do the P.A.C., the Band, and Color Guard all have in common? One word, Xcite. Xcite was a performance by the band and color guard that was held in the PAC on May 22 and 23. Tickets were sold online as well as in front of the band room weeks before and rehearsal were mandatory for the band and the color guard and a yard sale was made in the car loop to raise extra money. The show consisted of two acts. Act one was a Wind ensemble to the Korean Folk song and a dance ensemble called 9 chimes. There was also a Percussion ensemble called Technology and Computer, which was a Jazz ensemble. The Wind section and Color Guard performed a song called hide and seek and JV Winter guard separately performed A River So Wide. A full wind cast and Rock band performed a bohemian rhapsody.
Act two had Kalil Bohannon doing a snare solo of Stick Shift, all the jazz band playing All Blues, the Varsity Winter Guard performed the william tell Over tune. The Drum line performed by themselves Fetes and to end the show the Marching Chiefs under their slogan for this year, "Mahadhi Celebrase," performed the songs Puma, Butterfly, Kalimba Suite, part one, and Reza. The people that went to Xcite said they had the best time ever. "if you missed Xcite then you missed a really good show," said Spanish teacher Ms. Tavoletti. "The performance was brilliant." "I went To Xcite, It was pretty good," said Tony Bertram. However, there were students who found flaws in the shows. Lighting, music and falling people made some of the audience critique their performance. "The details were not very accurate," said an anonymous student. "Some people really had no direction and they didn't know when to get off the stage.
Even the band said that as hard as they prepared there still was room for improvement."The band did a really good job and all the people that helped made Xcite the show as great as it was," Said sophomore Saxophone player, Ronnie Woods. "On Saturday, the slide show for one of the acts did not work, so there was some stalling. But overall a great show." "Xcite was amazing," Said Jasmine Bland, a sophomore in Color Guard. "Some of our girls fell and some messed up but they weren't noticeable and we really did put on a great show despite all the difficulties.
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