Logan Lieurance in Capital Junior Winds

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Big Wal­nut Mid­dle School Eighth Grade stu­dent Logan Lieu­rance audi­tioned for the Cap­i­tal Junior Winds a few weeks ago and he made the cut; and it’s a spe­cial accom­plish­ment for Logan as he is only the sec­ond Big Wal­nut stu­dent to be in the pres­ti­gious ensem­ble in seven years.

Cap­i­tal University’s Junior Winds, con­ducted by James Dowdy, is a band for excep­tional musi­cians in grades seven through nine, with out­stand­ing sixth graders occa­sion­ally accepted.

Rehearsals are on Tues­day evenings which began in Sep­tem­ber. Dur­ing the year there are three Junior Winds con­certs: one in Novem­ber (near Thanks­giv­ing), a Prism Con­cert in late Feb­ru­ary and one the first Sun­day in May.

Logan’s audi­tion included snare drum, bells and tim­pani; he is play­ing a vari­ety of per­cus­sion instru­ments in the band.

Logan is still doing his annual fundraiser for Mr. Holland’s Opus. This year’s event was last Sun­day, Octo­ber 21, at Sun­bury United Methodist Church.

This year’s fea­tured per­for­mances were by the Delaware Com­mu­nity Con­cert Band and the Big Wal­nut Mid­dle School Jazz Band.

Over 150 peo­ple attended the event, and Logan raised $534.59, with a goal to reach $600 in the next two weeks.

Posted by Gary Henery on Oct 24 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.