Post by altoclarinet123 on Apr 24, 2009 21:19:34 GMT -5
I'm only a freshman, so I don't have a lot, but here are some:
We had a competition at giants stadium this year. In our show we start facing backfield in a square. I was the backleft corner. Then we turned into a diamond and then rotated so it was a smaller square. Then we do a two count turnaround. I was on the 50 and when I turned around, I was right in front of the NFL symbol and marched right onto it. It was SOOO cool - it felt like I could do anything.
Another would be one day at lessons when I went to the office to tell my bd I was there (I was playing Bb clari at the time) he asked me, "How big are your hands?" I was so confused - it seemed so random. But then he asked me if I wanted to play the contrabass and I practically went in shock - at area band the year before I was like, that's the coolest instrument ever I want to play it but I never will. It was so much fun and my glasses shook when I played it. I play it for our wind ensemble now, but I think it is part of my bd's grand scheme to get me to play bass because our really good senior bass is leaving. Me and altoclarinets joke about that a lot.
Today might make one, too. We had a guest composer who is fairly famous around new jersey/delaware/pennsylvania come in because we were playing one of his pieces, and he told him/us the band that he was the best band director he had ever met, that he was "great" (not like 'that's great' great, but like alexander the great type of great) and he said that he was "part of the minority" of good band directors. I totally agreed with him. The way my bd demands respect and always expects the best from us and wants to better the band program and gives the most inspirational of all inspirational speeches is amazing. I look at him and I see what I would love to be for the rest of my life - a great band director like him. He's only been a bd for two years, too, so this is quite amazing if you think down the road even another three years to my senior year.
I look forward to even better ones!!!!
We had a competition at giants stadium this year. In our show we start facing backfield in a square. I was the backleft corner. Then we turned into a diamond and then rotated so it was a smaller square. Then we do a two count turnaround. I was on the 50 and when I turned around, I was right in front of the NFL symbol and marched right onto it. It was SOOO cool - it felt like I could do anything.
Another would be one day at lessons when I went to the office to tell my bd I was there (I was playing Bb clari at the time) he asked me, "How big are your hands?" I was so confused - it seemed so random. But then he asked me if I wanted to play the contrabass and I practically went in shock - at area band the year before I was like, that's the coolest instrument ever I want to play it but I never will. It was so much fun and my glasses shook when I played it. I play it for our wind ensemble now, but I think it is part of my bd's grand scheme to get me to play bass because our really good senior bass is leaving. Me and altoclarinets joke about that a lot.
Today might make one, too. We had a guest composer who is fairly famous around new jersey/delaware/pennsylvania come in because we were playing one of his pieces, and he told him/us the band that he was the best band director he had ever met, that he was "great" (not like 'that's great' great, but like alexander the great type of great) and he said that he was "part of the minority" of good band directors. I totally agreed with him. The way my bd demands respect and always expects the best from us and wants to better the band program and gives the most inspirational of all inspirational speeches is amazing. I look at him and I see what I would love to be for the rest of my life - a great band director like him. He's only been a bd for two years, too, so this is quite amazing if you think down the road even another three years to my senior year.
I look forward to even better ones!!!!