Isn't it a great show? Mr Starnes, our director, always came up with the shows himself, then paid a pretty well-known composer (whose name I seem to have forgotten) to write the music and someone else to write the drill. It was a very big deal. You would have loved the one my first year...it was all about colors. I'll bring it to show you, if you'd like. =D
But yes. Those runs were so hard to get right. It took us months to really be able to play them without flubbing through. Quite the accomplishment. I can still hear the director yelling, "Play louder, clarinets! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!" at practices. I can also still play those damn runs, too, they were pounded into my head so hard. See, that's why we beat Lassiter in music that year.
The basics block was the perfect touch to the show despite how repetitive it became since that movement was supposed to be all about band camp and hard work. I know you couldn't tell from this video, but we weren't wearing our shakos then, either. We put them on at the end of the second movement (when we all spread to the very edges of the field; the trumpets had theirs put on by the guard when they were in the heart) to get ready for the "performance" part. Very clever.
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Date: 2008-09-15 02:42 am (UTC)But yes. Those runs were so hard to get right. It took us months to really be able to play them without flubbing through. Quite the accomplishment. I can still hear the director yelling, "Play louder, clarinets! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!" at practices. I can also still play those damn runs, too, they were pounded into my head so hard. See, that's why we beat Lassiter in music that year.
The basics block was the perfect touch to the show despite how repetitive it became since that movement was supposed to be all about band camp and hard work. I know you couldn't tell from this video, but we weren't wearing our shakos then, either. We put them on at the end of the second movement (when we all spread to the very edges of the field; the trumpets had theirs put on by the guard when they were in the heart) to get ready for the "performance" part. Very clever.
God, I loved this show so much.