Solo and Ensamble
Well, yesterday was reasonably good.
For those of you who aren't familiar with solo and ensamble, it's a place for musicians of a wide variety to be judged. It's a loooong tedious thing that all music directors love and cherish. >_> This is the senior contest I'm speaking of now though, and it seems that the band and orchestra directors here have plans for me to go into freshman contest with my instruments, as I didn't do those here. Only vocals.
^_^ Now to fill you in on all that happened, eh?
Things were good in the morning. I had a nervous butterfly or two, but they drowned in the liter and a half of water I drank. >_> My first piece to perform was a mixed ensamble that started out with eight and ended up as just five, one of whom couldn't stay in tune for the first third of the song. Just my luck too, that we had the one judge Mr. Fox referred to as "Living in the ivory tower." -_- The toughest vocal judge in that building. So, at 9:24, we beboped in and waited for our turn after listening to a terrible rendition of "Love has eyes" by some guy who sang like an American Idol reject. >_<; Then it was our turn. Talen, Josh, Nate, Cricket, and yours truely had to go up and sing in front of quite possibly the scariest guy I've seen. He had a look in his face that said "ye gods I'm bored and frustrated with these kids!" After singing the beginning well, aside from Cricket who was sharp, and then her singing one line alto, we recovered in the end a little. Later on, looking at scores, by some miracle, we got a two. Looking at the list though, the American Idol reject also got a two. X_x So much for him being the toughest judge.
Then came the Touch of Class performance, which was originally expected to do really well... or not well at all. It ended up going as well as singing can go on a carpeted floor though, and we ended up getting a one. ^_^
Aaah, then came my solo. I wasn't nervous, and I sang well. But you see, that wasn't the problem. Mr. Fox was the originator of this problem. He was air-headed enough to, when he signed me up for my solo, put me down for the same song in a DIFFERENT KEY! Damn him. Because of the difference, I wasn't allowed to compete for a rating. Only for comments. And judging from what he said, it was a low one, high two performance. ><;;; Oh well. I don't care too much about the rating, but I would've liked to know where I'd have been put.
*Shrug, wanders off*
For those of you who aren't familiar with solo and ensamble, it's a place for musicians of a wide variety to be judged. It's a loooong tedious thing that all music directors love and cherish. >_> This is the senior contest I'm speaking of now though, and it seems that the band and orchestra directors here have plans for me to go into freshman contest with my instruments, as I didn't do those here. Only vocals.
^_^ Now to fill you in on all that happened, eh?
Things were good in the morning. I had a nervous butterfly or two, but they drowned in the liter and a half of water I drank. >_> My first piece to perform was a mixed ensamble that started out with eight and ended up as just five, one of whom couldn't stay in tune for the first third of the song. Just my luck too, that we had the one judge Mr. Fox referred to as "Living in the ivory tower." -_- The toughest vocal judge in that building. So, at 9:24, we beboped in and waited for our turn after listening to a terrible rendition of "Love has eyes" by some guy who sang like an American Idol reject. >_<; Then it was our turn. Talen, Josh, Nate, Cricket, and yours truely had to go up and sing in front of quite possibly the scariest guy I've seen. He had a look in his face that said "ye gods I'm bored and frustrated with these kids!" After singing the beginning well, aside from Cricket who was sharp, and then her singing one line alto, we recovered in the end a little. Later on, looking at scores, by some miracle, we got a two. Looking at the list though, the American Idol reject also got a two. X_x So much for him being the toughest judge.
Then came the Touch of Class performance, which was originally expected to do really well... or not well at all. It ended up going as well as singing can go on a carpeted floor though, and we ended up getting a one. ^_^
Aaah, then came my solo. I wasn't nervous, and I sang well. But you see, that wasn't the problem. Mr. Fox was the originator of this problem. He was air-headed enough to, when he signed me up for my solo, put me down for the same song in a DIFFERENT KEY! Damn him. Because of the difference, I wasn't allowed to compete for a rating. Only for comments. And judging from what he said, it was a low one, high two performance. ><;;; Oh well. I don't care too much about the rating, but I would've liked to know where I'd have been put.
*Shrug, wanders off*