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2004 TKA The Chase
2004 TKA The Chase. This post will chronicle the 2004 season of the TKA Marching Lions and the show that we called “The Chase”. Background 2004 marked my fourth year directing The King’s Academy (TKA) band program. We had some success in 2002 + 2003 at our local/county competitions. The band was seeing modest growth…
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Musical Theater and Me
Musical theater and me. A handful of my chorus students asked me if I was planning on seeing the movie Wicked. I told them that I wasn’t a fan of musicals and wouldn’t be going. They looked at me like I just killed their cat. This post will lay out some of my personal history…
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2000 – 2003 growth
My time at The King’s Academy (TKA) from 2000 – 2003 saw great growth, but most of that growth was unseen. We were establishing strong roots for the years to come. I believe that the key to success is developing a plan and then working that plan. If you don’t like your results then you…
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From Bulldog to Lion
In the summer of 2000 I changed jobs and moved to Florida. I was no longer a Lynchburg Christian Academy (LCA) Bulldog, now I was a Lion from The King’s Academy (TKA). There’s an old saying, The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Moving hundreds of miles to start teaching…
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Moving to TKA
I spent 10 years as the band director at Lynchburg Christian Academy (LCA) and felt that it might be time to leave. The King’s Academy (TKA) had expressed some interest in me. But, was moving to West Palm Beach, Florida my next step. The Courtship My inquiry regarding the TKA job was met with an…
