Fall Classic Schedule 2009 - 10/3 Trumbull High School

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2009 Event Schedule

Trumbull Fall Classic Schedule 2009 - October 3rd, 2009

* Any questions or concerns check the MAC website for the Official Schedule

 
Time
School
Class
   
4:00
Hillcrest & Madison Middle Schools of Trumbull 
 National Anthem
4:15
Masuk  High School
1
4:30
Central  Bridgeport
1
4:45
North Rockland1
 
 
 
5:00
Somers  High School
2
5:15
Jonathan  Law  High School
2
5:30
Brookfield  High School
2
5:45
Stamford  High School
2
6:00
Shelton  High School
2
6:15
Bethel  High School
2
 
 
 
6:30
Danbury  High School
3
6:45
Naugatuck  High School
3
7:00
West Hill  High School
3
   
 7:15
Intermission 
 
 7:45
Sacred Heart
 Exhibition
8:00
Newtown  High School
5
8:15
Ramsey  High School
5
8:30
Brien McMahon  High School
5
8:45
Port Chester  High School
5
9:00
New Milford  High School
5
9:15
Norwalk  High School
5
  
9:30
Trumbull  High School
Exhibition
9:45
University of Massacusetts
Exhibition

  
10:00
Awards
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
New ! - UMASS Minuteman Marching Band  - New !


The Minuteman Marching Band has long been a source of great pride for the region of Massachusetts that is home University of Massachusetts. George N. Parks, founder of the George N. Parks Drum Major Academy, is their current Instuctor and is assisted by DCI Hall of Famer Thomas Hannum (Cadets of Bergen County, Star of Indiana and Blast!) and musical arranger, Michael Klesch (Cadets, Crossmen and Phantom Regiment),

The Minuteman Band has emerged as one of the nation's outstanding band programs. Each week at home football games, the "Power and Class" performs a traditional post game show for thousands of enthusiastic and dedicated fans who don't leave the stadium until the last note! 
 
The 385 students who experience the excitement of marching part of the "Power and Class" will invade Trumbull High School's Mc Dougall Stadium on Saturday the 3rd of October for THSGEMB's Fall Classic performing music from the motion picture Pirates of the Caribbean.
 
The Minuteman Band has performed for Presidential Inaugural Ceremonies in 2001, 1985, and 1981. In 2004, 2001, and 1993 the band performed at Bands of America Grand Nationals.
 
In 1998, the Minuteman Marching Band received the most prestigious honor bestowed upon college bands, the Louis C. "Sudler Trophy", awarded in recognition of "the highest of musical standards and innovative marching routines and ideas, and which has made important contributions to the advancement of the performance standards of college marching bands over a period of several years."

To say we are in for a treat at the Fall Classic would be an understatement. The list Sudler Trophy winners is a source for consideration by senior music students planning on a degree focused on music for their "short list" of college applications. Recent winners:
  • 2009 Western Carolina University
  • 2007 Indiana University *
  • 2006 University of Arkansas
  • 2005 Penn State University
  • 2004 Auburn University
  • 2003 University of Alabama
  • 2002 Louisiana State University
  • 2001 Texas A&M University
  • 2000 University of Georgia
  • 1999 Texas Tech University
  • 1998 University of Massachusetts

* 2008 No award given

For more information about the Power and Class of the University of Massachusetts Minuteman Marching Band (UMMB), please consult these links:
 
                                                                                      

  

 
 
 

 Think / pray / wish... DRY!!!


The show goes on unless there is more than 1/2 inch of rain or thunder and lightning.

Here's another recollection: Last yeat at the Classic, the weather forecast was VERY similar.  The weather radar was being monitored on someone's cellphone during the entire Classic... and this large rain cell approached from the southwest
split into two and the pieces went to the east and west of the stadium.  We had the smallest amount of drizzle during intermission.

The moral of the story: don't give up hope but pack raingear.     Better to have the raingear and not to need it.  But check the Merchandise booth as there may be some gear there as well.
 
Now the odd thing for me when I heard that same story - was that what I recollect about last year was a beautiful, but cold day that did get even cooler in the evening, so cool that I was forced to make many, many stops over at the Gold Eagle Gear Tent aka Merchandising in order to buy more fleece.  Not such a bad thing either. My point is that this is a good time to watch the optimistic weather channels. 
 
So if you think it helps, then take the following advice and
 
Continue that hoping/praying/finger-crossing/incantations/whatever (at your choice) to banish the rain from 4pm to 10:15pm on Saturday.
 
http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/USCT0233_f.html