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 Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:12 am
There are so many things I could talk about, but this one was more recent, say, a week or so ago. We were in the middle of our last song, and then the firsts that sat in front of me just like went back a couple of measures, and the rest of us kept playing what we were supposed to play, and they were totally oblivious.
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:39 am
ugh...we had a christmas concert where there was a flute solo with 32nd note chromatic run. grr....it wasn't me at first, but then the flute that was supposed to play it had to play the piccolo part since the piccolo player cancelled becuz of family issues. haha...guess who got the flute solo! haha me and i can hardly do 16th note runs. i found that out the day b4 the concert and i screwed it all up lol, sounded chromatic until i got from c to f# it was a run from high c to regular octave c. now mr york knows not to put me as the soloist at the spur of the moment lol.
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 7:23 am
Our last concert, we were playing the Waltz of the Flowers from the Nutcracker ballet. So we've just started the piece, we're in front of a bunch of school board bigwigs, and the lights fade out, then fade right back in. I'm thinking "WTF are our tech guys on crack or something?"
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:46 pm
We were getting the drums and stuff downstairs and then the elevator broke. Not fun
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 4:27 am
ace-katana We were getting the drums and stuff downstairs and then the elevator broke. Not fun oo that would suck
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Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 6:35 am
Last year we were bringing everything down for our big Spring Concert, I think it was, and there was no one to bring the gong down. So our BD ended up carrying it, but just as she got down there, someone banged into her and the gond dropped on her foot. >>
She was standing up there conducting us with one shoe off and it was wrapped and swelled up alot. It wasn't funny at the time, but we laugh at it now.
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Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:27 pm
I remember when we had to play with another school. They had more percussionists than us, so I felt a little intimidated.
Well, I found out that the other snare player could hardly do a roll. My confidence boosted.
Well, during our performance, I think we were playing "Pandora", he and I had a few measures of rest. We're looking at the music, totally focused.
CRAAASSHHH!!!!
We jump and turn our heads. Turns out that one of the other percussionists from the other school set the crash cymbals in a precarious position and they fell right smack dab in the middle of the song. He picked them up, looked at us and mouthed, "CRAP."
Well, because of that. We missed the switch to 3/4. So, we both screwed up the 3/4 and, at the end, looked at each other and went, "Dude. The ending sucked."
Then, playing with the same band, we were playing "Amazing Grace." Well, I didn't play for that long. There were two other snare players. So, we had triplets in 3/4 timing. I began to play and the one of the others ones is too fast. I'm trying to slow him down. The girl to my right is just confused, so the song didn't turn out right.
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 5:31 pm
D: In 5th grade the music director stopped us in the middle of a concert and made
us start the song over because "we sucked too much". 5TH GRADE!
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Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:51 am
2 incidents lol these r kinda funny.
Jazz band MPA (kinda like a state test): fire alarm goes off while we're on stage and we had to get off stage and evacuate...it was a drill. it calmed my nerves a lot lol.
Winter percussion: black out. haha we kept playing too! then the lights came back on and they gave us a second chance to start over, i'm new at guitar and i was playing that, and we have a new mallet percussionist.
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Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 4:53 am
haha another one. we had concert mpa's last night and we had about 10 people not come. i also was sick as a dog! i was running a fever all night and coughing like crazy but i still went. we got an excellent overall though and i felt we deserved better so that was good. the ratings were, poor, fair, good, excellent, and superior, so we still did pretty good
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Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:54 pm
Ay few years back the biggest concert of the year w/o any1's normally conducter stops us rite in the middle of the song and tells us 2 set up
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Same conducter this year stopped us during pract this tyme 2 tell us we suck. Boi we felt loved. Good 2 know we suck b4 the concert in the end he ommited it from concert w/o tellin us completly.
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Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 8:50 am
Haha, so were at large group this year, and we were up on stage playing our prepared pieces and everything went well, until the end of our last one. The BD cut us off, and this clarinet played! This is symphonic band, and she just played some notes at the end! Ohhh, everyone was so mad, and to make it worse, when we stood up tp leave, she turned to everyone in her section and said "It wasn't me!". Way to make it obvious. haha.
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Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 9:59 am
Two Thursdays ago, we were playing for a panel of judges to see how we were doing before we got to the real contest. We'd rehearsed the same three pieces for weeks, with one in particular. Everything was going fine until we got to the last one (the one we'd been practicing extra on). At the first transition, the solo horn cracked a few times and the oboe missed her cue. Then, the second transition came, and the person playing xylo didn't go fast enough. None of these things ever happened in rehearsal. The weirdest/worst part was the next day in class, our director told us he thought our first piece was the worst!
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Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 4:45 pm
we were playing "build me up buttercup" in 7th grade, and this arrangement started off with a trombone (that's me) soli. we started at about quarter note = 100 for four measures until the trumpets came in at quarter note = 168. Half the band followed us; half the band followed them. THe conductor made us play it again, telling our parents that we "just wanted to play it once more for the 8th graders in the band that were leaving for high school at the end of the year. As if the entire audience didn't know the song already! it was the greatest epic fail we've ever had at a concert.
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:59 pm
It was a production last march...about the African slave trade to freedom days. We were int eh first scene in Africa and the drum squad was supposed to start a very complicated song...the ensemble was dependent on the squad for the intro. The Squad Director was afraid the choir would mewss up the song...so we went over it one last time b4 curtain.
When we had succesfully done the first two songs...the third tricky one was next...the choir was ready to nail it. The drum squad starts...the beat to song number TWO! COMPLETELY REFUSED TO STOP...and the poor choir was left to attempt to save it by singing the third song to the beat of the second...we were told it was convincing cuz no one knew something went wrong...but the we were all about to murder the whole squad.
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