Solo & Ensemble

Today I had solo and ensemble. For those of you that do not know what it is then keep reading...if you do skip to the next paragraph. Solo and Ensemble is a contest where a person who plays an instrument prepares a piece of music and plays it for a judge to get a rating. The rating tells you what kind of player and such you are but more importantly...tells you what you need to work on. Its the same way with an ensemble except a group of people go and play.

I played Concerto by Franz Strauss and got a rating of a 2. I figured that was what I was going to get because I hadn't put forth all my effort on just my solo because of school, winterguard, etc. On my ensemble though we rocked and played Fripperies No. 4. The judge sayed that we did really well on our music for a group of "youngsters". We waited and waited and got a 1! So that means we qualified for the state competiton which is awesome! We all wanted to make it to state and we did it. So now all we have to do is work work work to get better. There really mean at state. My friend Jennifer went last year and they got a 3. So ya..and the best part is that we are the only all freshman ensemble that went from our school I think.

So all and all it was a good day.