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 Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 6:35 pm
We had a split part in our practice book. Our director was splitting it up different ways and he finally said, and I quote:
"Girls on top, guys on bottom"
The whole band instantly burst out laughing as our BD's face turned bright red. It was awesome.
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 7:18 pm
last year someone knocked over a few stands on accident and it coincidentally went with the music perfectly
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:29 pm
Well, I remember last year in zero period orchestra, the concert master and 2nd chair in the 1st violin section started making weird noises and slapping each other on the cheeks like retards. xD The conductor was amused since it was pretty much a boring, sleepy morning, and it was theory day.
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:50 pm
*remembers fondly* well see our conductor was getting a little feisty cause we were playing too loud...again...(in our defense how can you not play "frosty" loudly???i mean come on christmas music people) but ya anyways he flung his wand and the little rubber end came off, and it hit one of our trumpets, and she got a little angry, and she flung it back at him, however he was trying to chastise us all about our volume, and it landed right in his open mouth.....you cant even imagine the hilarity of the look on his face, the entire band was like literally ready to pee themselves for a good ten minutes....
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Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 12:41 pm
OMG i have loads!
Our concer band the one that actually continue to come every practice are noe after three years really good friends and also as the teachers play too and the best teacher conducts we're kinda all pretty close.
SO we go on tour to france and we all get all these cool t-shirtss and they have our names on them and such and such(LOL. i still wear mine out i'm so damn proud of it) so we got on the bus and we go to france playing on our teachers gameboys and my conductor/teacher has a conversation with malcolm (trombone player) and he suddenly raises his voicee and says MALCOLM YOU ARE STRONG DOWN BELOW and we all laugh.
then after our first concert(the french love us more than the english!) we were all so pshyched that our favourite song (la bamba) we put in different parts and we SANG the parts and made the WHOLE song little did we know that the teachers were recording it! and NOW it's up on the school webiste!!
LOL.
That and my friend ben did the Cymbal kick from school of rock (funny little footnote on my epic a**) xp sweatdrop
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Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 2:41 pm
My director once accidently threw her baton at a student. The whole band started laughing so hard. Another the director was counting off and then she suddenly stops and says "You know what? Have you ever noticed how the wind becomes completely still right before a storm?"
Also when the band was going to festival. Right before we started playing a tenor sax said "wait! My strap is stuck to a key" It took 10 minutes to get it unstuck. Then when the band snapped to attention the barry sax's mouth pice went flying across the stage. The judges and band were laughing so hard.
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Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 5:20 pm
hmm
The day after our concert, 8th grade year, our BD decided to give us a DAY OFF. a female trumpet player and a male trumpet player decided to join us for the block. So we were listening to their duet, when the guy rested, he unscrewed one of the girl's trumpet valves. the girl noticed and yelled MR.[name] HE UNSCREWED ME! the BD, who was at his desk, playing his PSP, looked over and told the guy to stop unless he had protection.
i dont know if it was a 'you had to be there' moments, but the 5 second silence before the BD spoke was the funniest moment of my middle school band career.
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Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 5:35 pm
My orchestra teacher said that when he was playing with his band people, someone hijacked the car full of instruments and he jumped on the car and tried to break the window but it would break and the hijacker got away. It was funny, the he told it but the situation no way. I would have been furious the whole year.
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:29 am
Ha. At last year's Christmas concert, we were playing Let It Snow, and, well, my orchestra is really bad. We started playing, and... it was really bad. Our conductor made us start over. It was really embarassing. And it seems like during the quietest part of the slowest song.. a baby ALWAYS starts crying.
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Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:58 am
My band director and one of the trumpets wrestled each other at the end of the year and the best part was the my friend got it on tape rofl rofl rofl
Oh and right before our first song of the concert this year one of the percussionists dropped all of the sticks and it was so LOUD! Seriously, lik everyone froze and tried not to laugh. Okay we laughed lol!
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Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:47 am
Three days before the winter concert this year, we were playing Silent Night, apart of our "Christmas Singalong" music. So, I went to hit my second to lowest string (I'm a cello player, btw) and I heard this cracking noise. I assumed it was my pegs slipping out of tune. Then all of a sudden there was this loud BANG noise. I noticed that my bridge just totally fell off of the cello some how. I just started laughing so hard. And my teacher said "It's weird. I had a feeling that I should look up at you, and I hardly ever do that because you're a good player and you know what you're doing, but as soon as I looked back at the piano, your bridge fell off."
It was embarrassing, but it was hilarious at the same time. So after that happened, she made sure we had a extra cello and violin back stage incase something weird like that happened again.
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Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 11:49 am
one time at a christmas concert, before it had started, I was talking to a guy im my section when behind us there was a large pop, and when we looked behind us there was a broken flood light on the ceiling, sparks where still flying down to the stage. under the light there was a boy. Everyone started laughing and shouting "WHAT DID YOU DO CHRIS!?!" it was pretty funny. That same concert the trumpets got like 5 beats off, and the BD gave them this death glare. That was pretty funny too.
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 3:49 pm
During our winter concert [Dec. 20], we were playing this cool version of Dech the Halls, and we stripped into different clothes before we started the song, and one of the section leaders, gave our conductor a blonde wig :3
It was pretty funny =]. When I get the picture developed, I'll make sure to post it =3
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:29 am
This all was done on purpose. There was a piece that the advanced Concert band played, I forgot the name of it, where one tuba player tried to play his tuba and out flew a rubber chicken! to make it funnier, one of the blonde flute players just looked shocked and jumped up. blaugh Everyone laughed! Including me! I'm sure the advanced Concert band wanted to laugh too, but they couldn't because they were playing their song. Poor band.
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:47 am
hmmmm.....OH! I got one ^ ^!
It was the last song on the program for our spring concert [Fate of the Gods, by Steven Reineke]....I was playing bass drum.....I mean i was PLAYING [triple forte >.<]
About ten measures to the end....one of my mallets slipped out of my hand: It bounced off the drumhead, beaned me between the eyes, and flew, like, eight feet in the air >.<......I didn't pass out, but all i could think was "I'M NOT DONE WITH THAT YET!!!!!"
It falls behind me, and i accidentally kick it under the curtain looking around for it. BTW...I've had straight quarter notes [in cresendo] going the whole time with the other mallet i still have.
The BD saw the mallet go flying.....then i ducked down to chase after the mallet under the curtain........all he could see was my other hand still hitting the drum.......so he's thinking right now: "Oh....s**t......".......I had the last note of the piece >.< [it was supposed to be that grand finale kinda thing].......and hear i am; out of sight..........
>.>......I got it back with two measures to spare ^ ^v
my friends were crowded around my dad later, cause he video taped it.......they kept watching the "flying mallet" over and over and over.....till i just took the camara away...............someone did feel the need to point out:
I didn't drop a beat through the whole thing XD
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