Tennessee Fires Band Director Gary Sousa

You could get guests to lead a concert band?

 

Yes. Period. It's all crap.

 

Lol. Wtf are you talking about?

 

50 church choir directors could pretend to do something as well. Pretending to be directing something is absurd.

 

Teach the band the pregame show, and learn rocky top. There is no other use for them.

 

So all they do is go up there the time of the performance and wave a stick is what you're saying? There's no preparation before hand or any other work involved?

 

Yes. It's crap. It's a bunch of people who've spent a decade doing music. Coordinating that is what back woods choir directors do too. Hell, they don't require a stick or degree. It's a fabricated job.

 

What would happen if we didn't have the role?

 

I'm more referring to concert band - it wouldn't exist at that level without the director. Marching band still requires a hell of a lot of work, practice and leadership to perform the halftime shows.

 

Why is there a concert band at a university?

 

Why wouldn't there be? It even exists in middle and high schools.

 

I must interject that Dr. Julian earned his pay.

That guy had amazing dexterity with a brandy snifter. He was always animated when talking- couldn't say a word without gesturing with his hands (at least every time I saw him). The way he didn't spill the first drop from his snifter while telling a story and consequently gesturing with his hands like he was swatting away at an entire nest of yellow jackets on the attack was nothing short of miraculous. That alone justifies $75k of his yearly salary, imho.


Plus, he let my brother, a member of The Pride, sneak me into games when I didn't have a ticket. Thanks Doc!