that could have gone better.

[jennlk]

LCCB concert on Sunday. Bleaah. I mean, for LCCB standards it was pretty OK, but I wasn't happy with my performance. I got lost once, messed up counting *twice* in the same piece (why I was having so much trouble counting in 2 I do not know), and was otherwise just not on my game. I did not miss any key changes, so there's that. And I made an entrance that only one other person did (of the eight or so who were supposed to) -- I can count in 4, and I was pretty sure that the entrance was *here*, and it was very concerning when I only heard one other person playing it. The conductor agreed with the two of us "this is measure...90" he mouthed to the band. A disturbing number of people didn't see that -- by the time of the concert, you should be familiar enough with the music to look up every few measures, and certainly if you can hear that things are "not right". There are more than a few people in this band who just play the notes in front of them and don't listen to what's going on around them. (or they just don't care. either is possible.)

The saxes won the costume contest (the auditorium sound guy has a decibel meter, and voting is done by popular acclaim). I got custody of the trophy (whee?) because the section leader is going to be moving this year. (and she "blamed" the costume on me. My easy costume suggestion was "swans" - white top, black bottom - because we were doing Swan Lake; and she found some quite nice swan hats for <$20, mentioned them to the rest of the section, and most people bought one.) (My favorite was the F Horns, who did a group costume as BoPeep & her Sheep and one of them wore grey with a vest covered with cotton wool as a "wolf in sheep's clothing". hee.)