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The National Band Association awards Cleveland HS Band

Last week the National Band Association bestowed the Program of Excellence Blue Ribbon Award to the Cleveland HS Bands. Our band was one of 10 high school bands in the nation that were recognized for this level of accomplishment.

The NBA Programs of Excellence initiative recognizes quality programs at all levels. Those programs and educators which challenge students and promote standards of excellence will be honored nationally through this initiative.

This award will be presented at a concert sometime in the future this school year.

Congratulations to all of the students that have passed through this program the last five years.  Recordings, concert programs, literature performance lists and achievements from the last three to five years of this program were requested by the NBA in determining if our program was worthy of this award.

It has been (and continues to be) an honor to work with all of the amazing students and families at Cleveland HS!

Musically Yours,
Gary Riler

OSU Homecoming Concert w/Cleveland HS

A great day for our Wind Ensemble on Friday.

We had the opportunity to take some time and rehearse on this stage in the afternoon before taking a short tour of the OSU campus.

The ensemble performed admirably and represented PPS and Cleveland HS with class. They prepared this music in 3 weeks, after performing another set of music on September 27 at our annual Playathon.

The Wind Ensemble has proven to be a fabulous group preparing this first performance in 2 weeks. (4 rehearsals). The OSUMB Spirit and Sound was an absolute blast (literally…we all were issued ear plugs).

Here is a link to a video of the performance.

Cleveland plays first. Gary Riler was given the honor to conduct the Alma mater at the end.

Concert Attire

You should have received an email from Mr. Riler on Friday regarding concert attire.  Here are the bullet points:
  • Review this document to see what the required concert attire is for your group(s)
  • If you just need to replace certain pieces of the required attire, you can do so.  Reach out to Mr. Riler to coordinate which pieces are needed.
  • Payment can be made via
  • These shoes from Macy’s are highly recommended
  • Any Wind Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble or Symphonic Band students who missed the fittings with Mr. Formal and need garments will need to get fitted at Mr. Formal (1103 SE 7th Ave) on their own as soon as they can.