CHS marching band to compete in State

Kimberly Del Angel Staff Writer Video by Mason Adams and Chenglei Wu “Now taking the field, the Coppell High School marching band…” The crowd goes wild, and band parents shout out their traditional chant (“Let’s go band!”) as the drum line plays its traditional cadence and excites the flame on the marching field. Every other year, the CHS marching band takes a unified stride onto the selected field chosen for the highly recognized Texas State marching competition. The eight to nine month road to State began last December when director Scott Mason and assistant directors, Brandon Slovak and Doug Grice, along with percussion director Alan Miller, begun designing the 2010 marching show. The following March,…

Fisher marches forth to the beat of his own drum

by Divya Kumar News Editor Travelling across the country, spending nights on a charter bus and performing at different venues across the nation seems like the kind of activity reserved to rock stars and famous celebrities. This image is a difficult one to picture a marching band completing. However, in the case of the Phantom Regiment drum corps, summertime for the members is characterized as such, and Coppell junior Aaron Fisher will be the newest snare drum addition to join in.  Being selected to be a part of the Phantom Regiment drum corps is a difficult feat and high honor since corps is thought by many to be one of the best drumlines in the…