An email went out yesterday from Dr. K, sharing some Fancy Band news with us. While the full roster isn't settled yet, in part because there are a number of educators in the band who weren't able to submit their audition recordings during the school year, he still wanted to share the people who are among the confirmed members. He won't release ( Read more... )

The twenty-nine preceding educators certainly were not the only people who have influenced me. Other memorable teachers ( Read more... )

My very last band director ever wasn't Larry. I may have spent over four and a half years with the man, but for my last term Larry went on pro term. Because of that, we also didn't get to take a band trip that year, never mind that we could have done it during Winter Term, which I believe we'd done in the past. Whatever ( Read more... )

History tends to kick my butt. It doesn't matter the genre or era, unless it has to do with classical times (think the golden age of the Roman Empire). I find a lot of it interesting, but I tend not to retain it. That was the trouble I had with Music History; I could never keep it all straight, or some of it just wouldn't gel with my brain. Now ( Read more... )

I've always wanted to play the piano. I was the rare American child who did not have any piano lessons whatsoever. Sure, I had access to keyboard instruments--the foster organ my grandparents kept in their living room, and the Casio keyboard I've had almost forever by now--but actual instruction did not come until I was nearly twenty. I don't ( Read more... )

Of all my teachers, Rufus was probably the wackiest. It probably helped that he was only five years older than me ( Read more... )

I first encountered Brian as a freshman when I auditioned for Cabaret. He was the director; I got miffed when not only did he make us self-choreograph part of the dance audition (which pissed me off because the dumbass dancers had no clue about performing in a set time), but it wasn't like high school where everyone made it into the show. I ( Read more... )

One possible avenue I may have taken, had I not gone down the music/English/art path, would be psychology. I do have a fascination with how people think, and making people think, and bending them to my wiles. This was especially fun while working retail. Also, there is something about me that makes complete strangers feel compelled to tell me ( Read more... )

I've always loved to sing. It comes more naturally to me than even flute playing, and I had wanted to do that for as long as I'd known about the flute. However, it wasn't until I got to college that I joined a formal choir. Even then, I had to wait a year; my summer orientation adviser wouldn't let me sign up for that, and I didn't realize I ( Read more... )

Note: Only 100 days left of the year!Professor Starkey was the teacher I had the most outside of my music classes. It figures that he was an English professor. He was big into poetry, and more often than not I took poetry with him, but I learned other stuff from him as well ( Read more... )