The Bands of Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High School
Performing Arts
Recognized as a performing arts academy by The Miami-Dade County School Board, the national award-winning band program at Hialeah-Miami Lakes provides students with a musical education in the areas of wind, percussion, jazz, and guard studies. The Director of Bands is Mr. Eloys George, Jr. The Lakes Jazz Band has achieved consecutive straight superior ratings at the district and state levels for over a decade. Aside from continuously receiving distinguished ratings from the Florida Bandmasters Association, HML Bands have achieved Grand Champion status for the past seven consecutive years at band festivals around the continental United States, most notably at Fiesta-val Music Invitationals.
Wind Ensemble Repertoire
- 2005-2006
- Sea Songs (Ralph Vaughn Williams)
- Symphony on Themes of John Philip Sousa, II. After the Thunderer (Ira Hearshen)
- Overture to Orpheus in the Underworld (Jacques Offenbach)
- 2004-2005
- The 'Gum-Suckers' March (Percy Aldrige Grainger)
- O Magnum Mysterium (Morten Lauridsen)
- Lincolnshire Posy (Percy Aldrige Grainger)
- 2003-2004
- The Thunderer (John Philip Sousa)
- October (Eric Whitacre)
- Four Scottish Dances (Malcolm Arnold)
- 2002-2003
- Commando March (Samuel Barber)
- A Movement for Rosa (Mark D. Camphouse)
- Overture to 'Candide' (Leonard Bernstein)
- 2001-2002
- British Eigth (Zo Elliot)
- Russian Christmas Music (Alfred Reed)
- Overture to La Belle Helene (Jacques Offenbach)
Recently Superseded Non-contest Repertoire
- Spring Concert Festival:
- To Tame the Perilous Skies (David Holsinger)
- Cloudburst (Eric Whitacre)
- Apocalyptic Dreams (David R. Gillingham)
- Ghost Train (Eric Whitacre)
- 1812, Overture Solennelle (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
- Lux Aurumque (Eric Whitacre)
- Norwegian March 'Valdres' (Johannes Hanssen)
- The Slovanic Dances (Antonin Dvorak
Trojan Marching Band Repertoire
- 2005-2006
- Reflections (Richard Saucedo)
- I. Reflections of Form
- II. Reflections of Sound
- III. Reflections of Light
- Reflections (Richard Saucedo)
- 2004-2005
- Hard Corps
- I. Topaz
- II. Tiger of San Pedro
- III. Malagueña
- Hard Corps
- 2003-2004
- Celebrations
- I. Celebrations (John Zdechlik)
- II. Celebrations (Philip Sparke)
- Celebrations
- 2002-2003
- Depictions of Samuel Barber (Samuel Barber)
- I. Prayers of Kierkegaard
- II. Adagio
- III. Media's Dance of Vengeance
- Depictions of Samuel Barber (Samuel Barber)
- 2001-2002
- Way of the Warrior (Stephen Melillo)
- I. Trial by Storm
- II. Crossing the Treshold of Hope
- III. Into the Arena
- Way of the Warrior (Stephen Melillo)