Parading on our butts
I've played my first performance with the LaFayette (NY) Concert Band. For three months we've been rehearsing a folder full of music; on Monday morning we played... none of it. We sat alongside the route of the LaFayette Memorial Day parade and sight-read marches. Without a conductor -- he was sitting back in the trumpet section. His main instruments are euphonium and bassoon, I believe, but the trumpet section was heavily depleted that day, so he sat in.
It went okay, though my sight reading skills clearly could be better.
The parade may have lasted 20 or 30 minutes. I didn't see much of it, being busy looking at the music. There was the LaFayette High School marching band (we shut up while they went by), some baton twirlers, Boy Scouts... your basic small town parade, I guess. Oh, and a couple fire engines that suddenly broke formation and went elsewhere in mid-parade.
First of the real concerts is in two weeks.
It went okay, though my sight reading skills clearly could be better.
The parade may have lasted 20 or 30 minutes. I didn't see much of it, being busy looking at the music. There was the LaFayette High School marching band (we shut up while they went by), some baton twirlers, Boy Scouts... your basic small town parade, I guess. Oh, and a couple fire engines that suddenly broke formation and went elsewhere in mid-parade.
First of the real concerts is in two weeks.