Fayetteville Band Week 2006, Day 2

This morning I went to the high school rehearsal again (8:30, on the tail end of a powerful lightning and thunderstorm - some crazy lightning arcing through the mountains on my drive to rehearsal - I loved it).

We only had time for a single run-through, which is all I wanted to do anyway - they know the piece, and I don't like to run things into the ground. I'm looking forward to the concert tonight - they'll be great. Here we are at the end of rehearsal:



After rehearsal, I spoke to the Theory class. Actually, it was the Theory class plus the choir - big group! The theory people just took their AP exam - I looked at an example test. Egad. I don't know how well I'd do on a lot of that stuff these days. Anyway, I think it went over well - I played Hummingbrrd, Loose Id for Orchestra, the first movement of Alchemy, and part of Veo Hex, and we talked about a number of different things related to music and composing. I enjoyed talking to the group - hope they felt the same about being there! If any of you are reading this, and you think of a question you didn't get to ask, or you just want to hang out with other musically-inclined people, here's the BCM Forum I mentioned today - please come by and join up!

Onward to tonight's concert at the Walton Arts Center featuring the three (THREE!) High School bands - show starts at 7pm - come by if you can!