Auburn’s Spring Supper Concert to be held Saturday

By Brittany Whitley

Published: March 6, 2008

Visitors to the “Spring Supper Concert” will be treated to music ranging from “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” to smooth jazz by the Auburn school system bands Saturday.

The bands from J. F. Drake Middle School, Auburn Junior High School and Auburn High School will perform at the concert.

The concert will begin at 5 p.m. with J. F. Drake Middle School’s band. After Drake, Auburn Junior High School’s symphonic and honors bands will play.

The Auburn Junior High School jazz band will play from 6:30 until 7 p.m. so people can eat while they listen.

“They’re great too - foot-taping music,” said Dana Morgan, a member of the Band Parent Association and chair of the “Spring Supper Concert” Committee.

The Auburn High School Honors Band, the top band at the high school, will play selections from “Pirate of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,” which is the second movie in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy, a Spanish march and music based on the Odyssey, said Dr. Rusty Logan, band director at Auburn High School.

“It’s been a lot of fun working on it,” he said.

Auburn also has a symphonic band that will perform three selections at the concert, including “Flight of Valor” a song about United Flight 93, the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania on 9/11 killing everyone onboard.

The chicken finger dinner, which cost $5, will consist of four chicken fingers, cole slaw, biscuit, chips and a drink.

“We turn all that money back into the band programs for all three schools,” Morgan said.

There are two concerts a year, one in spring and one in fall. At the fall concert, barbecue is served.

We choose chicken fingers in the spring because it is the students’ favorite item on the lunch menu, Morgan said.

“The kids have always asked us for chicken fingers,” she said.

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