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Roaring Tiger Band sends five musicians to All-State Band concert in San Antonio

KETR
Published February 14, 2023 at 5:29 PM CST
Commerce High School Director of Bands Kara Wallace, along with band members Victor Velez (clarinet), Fernando Medrano (trumpet), Oliver Roberts (oboe), and Elaine Eborn (bassoon) recently made the trip to San Antonio for all-state band festivities. Ben Angel (euphonium), not pictured, was also named to the all-state band.
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Commerce High School Director of Bands Kara Wallace, along with band members Victor Velez (clarinet), Fernando Medrano (trumpet), Oliver Roberts (oboe), and Elaine Eborn (bassoon) recently made the trip to San Antonio for all-state band festivities. Ben Angel (euphonium), not pictured, was also named to the all-state band.

Director of Bands Kara Wallace brought four of the five to KETR's studios for a live discussion.

In this broadcast of KETR’s “FM 889” community conversation series, Commerce High School Director of Bands Kara Wallace and four all-state members of the Roaring Tiger Band stopped by KETR’s studios. Bassoonist Elaine Eborn, trumpeter Fernando Medrano, oboist Oliver Roberts, and clarinetist Victor Velez joined Wallace in the studios. All four students traveled to San Antonio Feb. 8-11 for the 2023 Association of Texas Small School Bands concert featuring all-state musicians at the Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center in downtown San Antonio. Euphoniumist Ben Angel also made the trip, but was unable to visit KETR for the Feb. 14 live program.

More than 10,000 high school band students from across Texas auditioned in twenty-two different regions for a place in their respective all-region bands. The top chairs in each region advanced to one of the five area auditions held this past weekend across the state and only 286 of these students were selected for all-state honors.
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