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So I have a new addition to the "Best Moments of Senior Year" list.
<3 Tri-State.
I've met so many awesome people. Professor Corporon being foremost.
He was the conductor I got, and yeah. He's really cool. We played a bunch of music that I didn't know, but that's alright; it expands my repertoire. I also had a Master Class with Professor Meighan, and I LOVE HIM. He's so funny! And he was giving us tips on altissimo range/overtones. And we got a copy of the syllabus for saxophone majors, and a list of solos and pieces that we should know. So I showed Smith and we're going to start working on them.
BECAUSE, Admissions is giving me fits. The want me to have ACTs in addition to my SATs because they figured my GPA at 2.988. When the school says I have a 3.566. So I'll be taking the next available ACT and practicing my ass off for my audition. Folsom told me to call Hebson when it gets closer to audition-time and have him listen to/judge me. And then I'm going to play for LaBorde and everyone else I can, because I really don't want to get in to my audition and totally freeze up and/or flip out. I haven't had that problem recently, but I don't want to chance it. If my audition goes well, everything will balance out, regardless of my ACT scores.
I'm kind of pissed because when my mom and I talked to Guidance, they said that it would be fine to take mostly music classes this year, because I had a 3.5 and a 1200 on my SATs. So only English and Gov't are going to help my GPA this year. Some of my music classes are easy, but like Symphonic is a genuinely rigorous course. I mean, we play college-level music and yeah. I'll stop now because otherwise I'm going to get a lot of smart-ass comments about how music is easy.
But the girl in admissions pissed me off when she said that my music classes just "boosted" my GPA. I worked hard in those classes. Harder than I worked in my others, it seems. It's not like I want to be a medical major; the courses I'm taking have merit for my major.
BUT, other than that the trip has been awesome. I found out that IF I get accepted, I won't have to pay tuition, because of dad. So that just leaves room and board, and books. And all the extra band stuff. So I still have quite a bit of money to fork over. I love the campus and the staff and everything. <3
It was so funny, when I went on my walk-through of the College of Music, Mayes saw me in the Music Library. I walked in and someone at the counter was like, "Hey Kathryn!" and it was him! It was weird, because I wasn't expecting to see anyone that I knew. Any friends that I have at FSU aren't majoring in music. But I'd forgotten that Mayes was finishing up his Masters.
But the highlight so far was Prism. <3 AMAZING. The Chiefs Saxes did "Ants Marching" and I was totally freaking out.(And singing along) <333 And when the Big 8 came out.. yeah. They were awesome, like always. Haha, there was this group that came out called "Royal Flush" and it was all tubas. And they did "Camelot" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. They even had one guy at the end do the "I have to push the pram a lot." solo. It was so damn funny. Will Sloan was in a couple of things, including a trombone group that did "The Incredibles" theme, which was pretty cool. (I still don't like him, though.) And the baritones got up and did Garth Brooks' "Friends in Low Places", which I also sang along with. They had a bassoon choir! And it was pretty cool! They did the Harry Potter song! <3 Chiefs Flutes did it too. And the clarinets all filed in and did YMCA, and some of the guys who were brass players got on stage and danced to it. And then there was a really awesome brass group called "Brass Attack" and they did this like, mini-show on stage. They marched and were all dressed up and had a couple of guard girls. It was pretty neat.
But the Saxophone Choir was the best. It was kind of a duel set-up. Everyone was dressed up all crazy-funk-like, and one guy came out and played this really sweet-My Romance-esque lick. Prof. Meighan was there too, all dressed up, and he turns to the other guy, who does this insane run. And the two players go back and forth for a little bit, then the whole alto section of the choir does it, and then the bass sax comes in. IT WAS AWESOME. A couple other sax guys from Tri-State were sitting near me, and we were freaking out. It was freakin' sweet. So anyway, the bass sax comes in, and the baris join, and then the bass guitar and the drums get this 70's-funk beat going, which the bass and baris pick up on, and all the altos and tenors start playing this crazy technical piece on top of it. It was amazing. They were all lined up right next to me, and I was watching their fingers. Oh lord. craaaaazy.
And after the Big 8 had done their thing, they started "Come On and Go" and the Chiefs all marched down the aisles and lined up along the balcony.. they were EVERYWHERE. The played three songs from their shows, one being "Baba O'Riley" which sounded really cool. And then after that, the curtain came up behind the drumline, and the Symphonic Band was still on stage, and they played accompaniment to the Chiefs singing "Hymn to the Garnet and the Gold". It was really, really pretty.
Then they double chief-stepped out. Chief stepping is essentially chair stepping, which is where you march like you're placing you foot on a chair. You bring your foot up really high and your knees almost up to your chest...FAMU does it.
Anyway, it looks really hard. And they did that, double-time. So it looked insane. And the tubas do this thing where when they turn corners, they do a little spin-thing, and one of them almost hit this chick in front of me.
I'm already on the Chiefs mailing list, they signed me up on my walk-through. ;) I want to do it, really bad. I started hating marching band at the end of this year, but it would be a blast in college. Because everyone wants to be there and everything! <3
Anyway, I think that's enough for one post.
I hate high school now, I'm ready for college. Living there for five days has made me really antsy.
-Kathryn out
<3 Tri-State.
I've met so many awesome people. Professor Corporon being foremost.
He was the conductor I got, and yeah. He's really cool. We played a bunch of music that I didn't know, but that's alright; it expands my repertoire. I also had a Master Class with Professor Meighan, and I LOVE HIM. He's so funny! And he was giving us tips on altissimo range/overtones. And we got a copy of the syllabus for saxophone majors, and a list of solos and pieces that we should know. So I showed Smith and we're going to start working on them.
BECAUSE, Admissions is giving me fits. The want me to have ACTs in addition to my SATs because they figured my GPA at 2.988. When the school says I have a 3.566. So I'll be taking the next available ACT and practicing my ass off for my audition. Folsom told me to call Hebson when it gets closer to audition-time and have him listen to/judge me. And then I'm going to play for LaBorde and everyone else I can, because I really don't want to get in to my audition and totally freeze up and/or flip out. I haven't had that problem recently, but I don't want to chance it. If my audition goes well, everything will balance out, regardless of my ACT scores.
I'm kind of pissed because when my mom and I talked to Guidance, they said that it would be fine to take mostly music classes this year, because I had a 3.5 and a 1200 on my SATs. So only English and Gov't are going to help my GPA this year. Some of my music classes are easy, but like Symphonic is a genuinely rigorous course. I mean, we play college-level music and yeah. I'll stop now because otherwise I'm going to get a lot of smart-ass comments about how music is easy.
But the girl in admissions pissed me off when she said that my music classes just "boosted" my GPA. I worked hard in those classes. Harder than I worked in my others, it seems. It's not like I want to be a medical major; the courses I'm taking have merit for my major.
BUT, other than that the trip has been awesome. I found out that IF I get accepted, I won't have to pay tuition, because of dad. So that just leaves room and board, and books. And all the extra band stuff. So I still have quite a bit of money to fork over. I love the campus and the staff and everything. <3
It was so funny, when I went on my walk-through of the College of Music, Mayes saw me in the Music Library. I walked in and someone at the counter was like, "Hey Kathryn!" and it was him! It was weird, because I wasn't expecting to see anyone that I knew. Any friends that I have at FSU aren't majoring in music. But I'd forgotten that Mayes was finishing up his Masters.
But the highlight so far was Prism. <3 AMAZING. The Chiefs Saxes did "Ants Marching" and I was totally freaking out.(And singing along) <333 And when the Big 8 came out.. yeah. They were awesome, like always. Haha, there was this group that came out called "Royal Flush" and it was all tubas. And they did "Camelot" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. They even had one guy at the end do the "I have to push the pram a lot." solo. It was so damn funny. Will Sloan was in a couple of things, including a trombone group that did "The Incredibles" theme, which was pretty cool. (I still don't like him, though.) And the baritones got up and did Garth Brooks' "Friends in Low Places", which I also sang along with. They had a bassoon choir! And it was pretty cool! They did the Harry Potter song! <3 Chiefs Flutes did it too. And the clarinets all filed in and did YMCA, and some of the guys who were brass players got on stage and danced to it. And then there was a really awesome brass group called "Brass Attack" and they did this like, mini-show on stage. They marched and were all dressed up and had a couple of guard girls. It was pretty neat.
But the Saxophone Choir was the best. It was kind of a duel set-up. Everyone was dressed up all crazy-funk-like, and one guy came out and played this really sweet-My Romance-esque lick. Prof. Meighan was there too, all dressed up, and he turns to the other guy, who does this insane run. And the two players go back and forth for a little bit, then the whole alto section of the choir does it, and then the bass sax comes in. IT WAS AWESOME. A couple other sax guys from Tri-State were sitting near me, and we were freaking out. It was freakin' sweet. So anyway, the bass sax comes in, and the baris join, and then the bass guitar and the drums get this 70's-funk beat going, which the bass and baris pick up on, and all the altos and tenors start playing this crazy technical piece on top of it. It was amazing. They were all lined up right next to me, and I was watching their fingers. Oh lord. craaaaazy.
And after the Big 8 had done their thing, they started "Come On and Go" and the Chiefs all marched down the aisles and lined up along the balcony.. they were EVERYWHERE. The played three songs from their shows, one being "Baba O'Riley" which sounded really cool. And then after that, the curtain came up behind the drumline, and the Symphonic Band was still on stage, and they played accompaniment to the Chiefs singing "Hymn to the Garnet and the Gold". It was really, really pretty.
Then they double chief-stepped out. Chief stepping is essentially chair stepping, which is where you march like you're placing you foot on a chair. You bring your foot up really high and your knees almost up to your chest...FAMU does it.
Anyway, it looks really hard. And they did that, double-time. So it looked insane. And the tubas do this thing where when they turn corners, they do a little spin-thing, and one of them almost hit this chick in front of me.
I'm already on the Chiefs mailing list, they signed me up on my walk-through. ;) I want to do it, really bad. I started hating marching band at the end of this year, but it would be a blast in college. Because everyone wants to be there and everything! <3
Anyway, I think that's enough for one post.
I hate high school now, I'm ready for college. Living there for five days has made me really antsy.
-Kathryn out