Ooof.

[jennlk]

that is all.

Well, not exactly. Chelsea was hosting the MSBOA Band Festival today, and I'd said I'd be available to work, although I needed to leave at 3 so I could pick up DB (who is still in cast/on crutches, and is not doing the bus thing yet). Apparently, I did such a bang up job in the gym last year that he wanted me as the 'public face' of the CHS band team, and put me in as auditorium supervisor. They tell me that last year was a problem, but I had no trouble this year. *I* think it's because we had all high school bands this year, unlike last year when there were some middle school groups as well.

So I spent the entire day on my feet (except for about 45 minutes when I was sitting on the edge of the stage, 'supervising' a nearly empty auditorium while studying my FCB music). I don't think I should wear those boots next week when I do it again for the Orchestra Festival. My feet hurt. Just my feet, which is a good thing.

SR's band got straight 2s. They were not happy about that. Nor was the director. SR and I were talking to him later, and he said that everything was really close, but it was all B+ stuff, not A- stuff. I think the student teacher they had in the fall did them no favors. The band just wasn't as crisp as they've been in the past, nor as intense. As I told SR, it seems as though Ms E had them 'on top' of the music, where C gets them 'in to' the music. That's not something that's easy to quantify, and it's entirely possible that I wouldn't even have noticed it if I hadn't spent the last 15 months playing in the FCB. (It probably also helped that I've recently performed one of the pieces they did (it's actually still in the FCB folder!), and had a pretty good idea of what it was supposed to sound like.)

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[tlunquist.livejournal.com]

Chelsea. I remember Chelsea.

Does Wyoming Park High School go to that festival these days?

I wasn't in their band, but I was a "groupie" -- all my friends were in band. At that time, they had a very small (~80-90 members) but kickass marching band that won the state marching band championship. Twice, I think. Chelsea was one of their chief rivals at the time -- very good, and a whole lot bigger.

[jennlk]

I assume that WP is still doing festivals, but this was a concert band festival, so I expect they were somewhere much closer to home. There are a lot more schools doing those than marching band (and a lot of schools have more than one (with six schools on site Thursday there were 13 different groups)). With so many bands, there are a lot of Festival sites, and the judges are very busy this time of year.

There are rumblings that Chelsea is going to start hosting a Marching Band show in the fall. I'm supposedly on the mailing list, but I've not heard anything yet.