Fort Mill High School Band

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Fort Mill Band

Fort Mill, South Carolina

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In my beginning is my end.

So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years—

Twenty years largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres

Trying to use words, and every attempt

Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure

Because one has only learnt to get the better of words

For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which

One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture

Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate

With shabby equipment always deteriorating

In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,

Undisciplined squads of emotion. And what there is to conquer

By strength and submission, has already been discovered

Once or twice, or several times, by men whom one cannot hope

To emulate—but there is no competition—

There is only the fight to recover what has been lost

And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions

That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

Home is where one starts from. As we grow older

The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated

Of dead and living. Not the intense moment

Isolated, with no before and after,

But a lifetime burning in every moment

And not the lifetime of one man only

But of old stones that cannot be deciphered.

There is a time for the evening under starlight,

A time for the evening under lamplight

(The evening with the photograph album).

Love is most nearly itself

When here and now cease to matter.

Old men ought to be explorers

Here or there does not matter

We must be still and still moving

Into another intensity

For a further union, a deeper communion

Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,

The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters

Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.

In my end is my beginning.

Fort Mill High School Marching Band

In My Beginning

Premiering fall 2026.

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Upcoming

The season's performances and dates.

Sep19
Exhibition of Bands
Saturday · 2:00 PM · Nation Ford HS Stadium
Performance
Sep26
Community Preview Show
Saturday · 7:00 PM · Fort Mill HS Stadium
Performance
Oct2
Home Football Game
Friday · 7:30 PM · Fort Mill HS Stadium
Football game
Oct3
BandBeat by Carolina Crown
Saturday · Catawba Ridge HS
Competition
Oct16
Home Football Game
Friday · 7:30 PM · Fort Mill HS Stadium
Football game
Oct17
BOA Regional Championships
Saturday · East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
Competition
Oct23
Home Football Game
Friday · 7:30 PM · Fort Mill HS Stadium
Football game
Oct24
Competition BOA Regional
Saturday · Tennesee Tech University in Cookeville, TN
Competition
Nov3
Senior Night and Community Show
Tuesday · 7:00 PM · Fort Mill HS Stadium
Performance
Nov7
SCBDA 6A State Championships
Saturday · SC State University
Competition
Dec5
Fort Mill Christmas Parade 🎄
Saturday · 10:00 AM · Fort Mill, SC
Performance
Dec15
Holiday Chamber Concert 🎄
Tuesday · 7:00 PM · Fort Mill HS
Concert

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