LHS Bands Prepare for Universal Studios Sound Design Workshop Elowyn Wells Website Editor Big trips aren’t new to the band program, however, it will be the first time Lindbergh High School will perform at Universal Studios. Band members have been beaming with excitement for the past weeks as news spreads about the up-and-coming band trip to Orlando, Florida over Spring Break. Back in 2015, the LHS bands took a trip to Walt Disney World to attend a workshop where they performed an underscore for Disney’s The Lion King. Band members sat under the big screen and played their instruments along with the animations from the popular movie. Band directors have similar intentions this year with hopes to take the band to Universal Studios.
Despicable Me. And we’re gonna start working with it in February, and we’ll try to be as prepared as possible as we lead up to the Spring Break trip,” said Wyss.
Not only will this experience be for the bands, but the directors have also organized an opportunity for the guard students to participate in this trip, too.
Not only will the band be performing the underscore, but they also have the opportunity to add in their own sound effects from instruments and objects provided by the Universal Studio’s program directors.
“The color guard and winter guard students are gonna be doing a dance workshop –working with a professional dance person while we’re doing the sound workshop,” said Wyss. As the trip approaches, band students are becoming more and more excited and curious about the aspects of the role that music plays in the film industry. “On an intrapersonal level, learning about the techniques and nuances behind underscores sounds fascinating. I love learning about how different aspects of a film come together to tell a story,” said Cooper Terrill (11).
“We were like the band behind the movie playing the movie soundtrack; it was really cool. So when we were This experience also aims to prolooking at the Orlando opporvide students with the opportunity tunities and Universal Studios to grow in their skills as a musician came up, they have a similar and gain insight into the world of Daniel Crutcher (10) practices the Despicable Me underscore in one and there’s a little bit of difmusic. preperation for the Universal Studios Sound Design Workshop. ference; it sounded really cool. I’ve heard from other directors “I always love getting to work with that they like this one even more than the “We would get the music soundnew people because everyone has a little bit Disney experience, so we’re really excited to ing as good as we can and then they’ll ask of a different perspective or take on music,” do it,” said David Wyss, the director of bands, students to add in sound effects, and they’ll said Jane Guillot-Beinke (11). marching band director, symphonic band have the stuff to use,” explained Wyss. “And director, and jazz ensemble director. then the other thing that they’ll do with us Not only will this experience help is actually show how they go in and mix the students become better musicians, but it As the focus of the big trip, the music and the foley (sound effects) and mix also provides the opportunity for the bands wUniversal Studios workshop will provide it all down. So we’re gonna be a part of the to become closer as they share this unique students with the ability to perform popular whole production experience as it was all experience creating music together. underscores from some of the studio’s biggest put together…I think that they’ll give us one blockbusters. copy of that with our band playing the music “I wanted to do something that was behind it. I think that’s the final result of welcoming to the entire band,” said Wyss. Feature “I have the what our workshop will be.” “So this workshop is something that fits the 2.25.22 music, and it’s for build for that.”
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