My Final High School Band Concert

Tonight was the last band concert of my high school career. It was originally scheduled for Tuesday night, but the threat of a school shooting put a wrench in that plan. However, with the author of the threat in custody with a confession, school was back in progress and so was the concert. I thought it went off quite well, but there wasn't anything particularly special about it.

The Freshmen played first with a march, a folk tune medly, a piece that used a variety of percussion intruments centered around dinosaurs, and a piece called Awakening of the Hills. The Concert band played a march followed by a piece call Choral and Shaker Dance, which was not suprisingly very similar to a piece I played in Freshman Band called Choral and Shaker Dance II. They finished off with a piece that the FVA South Honors Band played in March called Bayou Breakdown. The difference was that they had over a month to prepare, whereas we had three days. The Symphonic Band started with the Overture to Leonard Bernstein's "Candide". We then played a lyrical piece called "Irish Tune from County Derry.", which was followed by a fast, woodwind-heavy piece called, "Shepard's Hey English Morris Tune". We finished the night off with a piece called the Ascension, which I liked quite a bit. During various breaks between pieces, awards were announced for all the bands. I, of course, did not receive one; mainly because I didn't really put much effort into band this year.