​四月份，我们11年级的交响乐团和12年级的管乐队前往了加利福尼亚州的洛杉矶和安纳罕。这个由189名优秀的乐队学生组成的代表团以出色的音乐才华、优雅的表现和良好的公民意识代表着Western（某个学校）。在旅行中，他们与加州洛杉矶大学和California State Fullerton的世界级指挥教师进行了工作坊，因其音乐才华受到了极高的赞扬。

两个乐团都经过了试听，参加了迪士尼表演艺术的电影配乐工作坊。在这些工作坊中，他们与工作室导演合作，排练并录制了各种不同的迪士尼电影配乐片段。同样，两个乐团都因其快速学习和适应音乐录制过程的能力而受到迪士尼表演艺术教师的赞扬。最美妙的经历是能够同时观看六个不同配乐片段与电影片段的播放。

在加利福尼亚期间，学生们还欣赏了洛杉矶爱乐乐团演奏的贝多芬第九交响曲，欣赏了好莱坞大道上历史悠久的帕塔奇斯剧院的《歌剧魅影》表演，并参观了格蒂博物馆，欣赏了马奈和梵高的作品，同时还欣赏到了洛杉矶最华丽的景色。交响乐团和管乐队最终在迪士尼进行了表演。

学生们以各自的表演为西方加大，CBE（某个学校系统），卡尔加里和加拿大赢得了巨大的荣誉。不止一次在旅途中，我们都听到了他们的优秀以及他们如此年轻就是如此出色的音乐家的赞扬。我们祝贺11年级的交响乐团和12年级的管乐队在这次令人惊叹的经历中成为我们学校最杰出的榜样。

​In April, our Grade 11 Symphonic Band and Grade 12 Wind Ensemble toured to Los Angeles and Anaheim, California.  This delegation of 189 of our finest band students represented Western with tremendous musical excellence, class and citizenship.  On the tour they workshopped with world-class conducting faculty at UCLA, and California State Fullerton where they received incredible praise for their musical excellence.

Both ensembles auditioned to participate in film score workshops with Disney Performing Arts. In those workshops they worked with studio directors to rehearse and record six different segments of various Disney film scores.  Again, both groups were praised by Disney Performing Arts faculty for their quick ability to learn and adapt as musicians through the recording process.  The icing on the cake was being able to view the six different recordings played back with the film reel simultaneously.

While in California, the group also took in a mind-blowing performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic performing Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, a beautiful performance of Phantom of the Opera in the historic Pantages Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard and an enriching visit to the Getty Museum where they could take in the works of Manet and van Gogh while taking in one of the most stunning perspectives of Los Angeles available.  The Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble finished off the experience with performances at Disney.

The students did Western, the CBE, Calgary and Canada incredibly proud with their respective performances.  Time and time again throughout the trip, we were told how fabulous our students are and what incredibly strong musicians they are at such a young age.  We congratulate the Grade 11 Symphonic Band and Grade 12 Wind Ensemble for being the finest examples of our school through this amazing experience.