The new band theme, Nocturne, focuses on songs all about the night

“At night sometimes you go out with your friends and have a great time,” Jeremy Rehbein, CCHS band director, said.  “Maybe (it’s) a first date with someone you really cared about or maybe it was the person you married, or sometimes in the night people feel lonely.”

They want to make the shows not overly obvious, but about the audience’s interpretation.

“What we wanted with the show is for the interpretation to be by left open to each listener so that they could form their own idea about,” Rehbein said. “To me this show means this.”

School started a week early and because of that they lost approximately forty hours of instruction. The band is only allowed eight hours a week after school. Then Hurricane Harvey closed the school for a week and knocked them down a bit more. He’s made up some of the time but not all of it.

Rehbein said this means they are behind in readiness for contest season.

“So how are we gonna do in this contest season? I can’t really tell you,” Rehbein said. “In all 18 years that I’ve taught, I’ve never had these circumstances take place. We’ve been behind the whole season, but we’re starting to see the show kinda firm up a little bit.”

The band has memorized the first and second movement of the show, and then they started learning the third show.

“I know that the students here are capable of anything,” Rehbein said. “They’re capable of just outrageous success

They had their first contest Oct. 7. Then, next Tuesday, the band will go to region UIL and try to score high enough to advance to the state level.

“If we make the top 4, that would be a huge thing,” Rehbein said. “That would be incredible. A logical, reasonable expectation would be in the top 10 and I think we’re capable of that.”