Upcoming Band Concert

Last year, the band concerts were mainly a fun way to showcase our newly formed musical interest. In our seventh grade year, about half the band has dropped out, and we have a cropped version of last year's inflated band. The winter band concert is mainly just an update on our progress in band. We're doing three pieces where easy rhythms collide to create put together, holiday melodies.

In last year's concert, we had not yet been assigned chairs, and many had yet to discover their talents for their instruments and passion for music. However, it was around the time that I, for example, had started working hard and really practicing, and had started to evolve as a young musician. Even though I was within the top three trumpeters in my band class, which would make me at least twelfth chair in the concert. I was shoved to about the eighteenth chair or so, and so were many other first chair potentials. People who barely knew the instrument and rarely practiced were exhibited as the stereotypical sixth grade first chair, but had trouble squeaking second part out of their instruments. The same happened at the spring concert, and it shouldn't happen this year, as we have been assigned chairs based on ability and development as a musician.

Also, the concert music we played for our spring concert last year challenged our counting skills and our instrumentation. I'm hoping that this year, we'll start working on pieces with challenging rhythms and notes so that our band can reach it's full potential by spring. I think our musical foundations are still viable to be built, and it's important that early development is fully optimized.