New to Marching Ads, Smith brings ‘Heart of Glass’
To round out the camp, a public performance is slated for 7 p.m., July 25, on FHS’s Bill Clabo Field inside Eddie Courtney Stadium.
Since Monday, July 14, 152 band members have been on the field and in classrooms being instructed on this year’s show, “Heart of Glass,” based on the 1980s’ song performed by Blondie.
“I think the audience and the people are going to love it,” said Andrew Smith, who takes over this school year as the band’s new director, replacing Kenneth L. Carrico III. “It’s a song almost everyone will be familiar with.
“This show is going to have some music by Blondie; a little bit of music by Nirvana, the ’90s rock band that people will be very familiar with,” the new director said. “The theme is a play on words, too.”
He explained the show also will feature American classical music composer Philip Glass and described the story as “imagine a heart on the field … is going to literally break and then it will come back together at the end of the show.
“We’ll have this really cool telling of the story through music of someone going through heartbreak and loss and recovering from that,” Smith added.
