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Middle School Raider Band thrills at Swenson Hall
Ransom Everglades Middle School Raider Band students displayed their musical talents and first-semester progress during the Winter Holiday Concert at Swenson Hall on December 8. The event featured a look inside the learning process for students, audience participation and what director Cathi Leibinger described as the world-premiere of the RE sixth-grade Beginning Band.
The RE Beginning Band played "Homework Blues," then offered instrument demonstrations, section by section, which were accompanied by the projected sheet music. The student-musicians played "My Dreydl" and "Jingle Bells." The RE Raider Band performed "African Noel" and "Island Holiday." Parents downloaded a bells app for the smart phones, then took part in an antiphonal jingle with the RE Combined Bands, which played "Stompin' on the Housetop" and "iJingle."
The concert was the first in Swenson Hall for the middle school band in nearly two years.
Photo Gallery
Beginning Band
CLARINET
Will Brown ’28
Aly Kaplan ’28
Joey Louis ’28
Alex Quintero Kontopoulos ’28
Yiani Tettamanti ’28
The concert was the first in Swenson Hall for the middle school band in nearly two years.
Photo Gallery
Beginning Band
CLARINET
Will Brown ’28
Aly Kaplan ’28
Joey Louis ’28
Alex Quintero Kontopoulos ’28
Yiani Tettamanti ’28
ALTO SAX
Israel Garcia ’28
Eitan Sawicki ’28
Robbie Stieglit ’28
Inti Yankelevich ’28
TRUMPET
HORN
TRUMPET
Samuel Davis ’28
Austin Handler ’28
Joaquim Horvilleur ’28
Anand Melwani ’28
Harrison Sender ’27
Isaac ZIde ’28
HORN
Annabelle Etra ’28
TROMBONE
TROMBONE
Mariah Ables ’28
Edwin Carr ’26
EUPHONIUM
Nico de la Serna ’28
TUBA
Mateo Gomez-Peck ’28
Raider Band
FLUTE
Emilia Awad ’26
OBOE
Salo Sawicki ’27
CLARINET
Aaron Wyler ’27
Avery Zubok ’27
BASS/CONTRA-ALTO CLARINET
Giacomo Chinoy ’27
ALTO SAX
Stella Armstrong ’27
Roberto Erana ’27
Aaron Sadovnik ’27
TENOR SAX
Simone Carrasco ’27
BARI SAX
William Ramirez ’27
TRUMPET
Lorenzo Antoine ’27
Lucas Piedrahita ’27
EUPHONIUM
Santiago de la Serna ’27
PERCUSSION
Middle School
2045 South Bayshore Drive, Coconut Grove, FL 33133Phone: 305 250 6850
Upper School
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.