Band students perform at Mizzou football game

Arianna Peper
Editor in Chief

Band students perform before the football game against Parkway South on Friday, Sept. 12. Webster won with a final score of 51-13. Photo by Lucy Fish

Mizzou Band Day is when all of the high schools in Missouri are invited to perform with Marching Mizzou at a Tigers football game.

This year, the day took place on Saturday, Sept. 13th at 12 p.m. in Memorial Stadium on the University of Missouri, Columbia campus.

Associate band director and fine arts department chair Jill Young said via email that she came across the opportunity through an advertisement on Marching Mizzou’s website and allowed students to sign up to attend at the beginning of the year.

The WGHS band department originally had 30 students registered to attend; however, Mizzou changed their game time from 3 p.m. up to 12 p/m. meaning Webster’s students had to leave WGHS at 5:30 am “to get down to Columbia in time to rehearse with the other schools and Marching Mizzou,” Young said.

After the change in time, a few students dropped out, so only 19 of them attended.

About the opportunity, Young said, “I am happy that students got to see what performing with a large university band is like. I also think it is good for them to hear the higher level of musicianship and performance from the college musicians.”