Welcome to one of the most significant experiences of your life! The Fort Hill Band is a very unusual, demanding, involving, and rewarding activity requiring personal commitment, dedication to a common group goal, and discipline.
Fundamental to the group's successes are respect, integrity, class, self-discipline, and pride. Respect for oneself and one's fellow members results in an attitude of cooperation and mutual support.
Acting with integrity leads one to accept responsibility of commitment for being part of this kind of an organization, where everyone depends upon all of the other members of the group for their individual success. It requires honesty and sincerity.
Conducting one's self with class projects to others a quality and excellence of style and an elegance of manner and bearing.
Pride, a sense of dignity and self-respect, is really the fundamental precept of participation in the Fort Hill Band and a guide to responsibility. Those who have pride in themselves will do their honest best to give their maximum effort at all times and will not engage in any activity that will denigrate themselves or the organization.
The Fort Hill Band is not just a musical or physical activity, but also one of the mind and heart. While all members share in the responsibility of being "on" and prepared for performance and rehearsal, all also share in the wide range of emotion, respect, and feeling for one another that comes from working very hard toward a common goal. We each have to give something of ourselves to the group, but in return receive much more than we have given.
In performance the most important thing is not that we "come in first," but that we discover the best in each of us, that we find in ourselves the ability to accomplish beyond that which is easy, to press ourselves to new levels of achievement. If we do that, if we push ourselves to greater individual accomplishment, respect for the group will take care of itself. We will be successful at the game of life as represented by the microcosm of the band experience. We will take the chance of failing and thereby learn what it means to live and breathe the excitement of success.
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