haha lets try this

i'm doing this out of curiousity.... so here it is... lol and yes i copied this (except for some small changes) from my dear sisters blog...

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me. My choice. For you.

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

1- I make no guarantees that you will like it .

2- It will be just for you.

3- It'll be done by the end of December (maybe ).

4- You have no clue what it's going to be.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must re-post this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and have proof will win.

new things (this was going to be posted in october haha )

i've realized (with the help of my loving and caring family) that i haven't updated for a while. so here's the scoop.

my last vocal recital was at the end of august. i performed: if i were a rich man (fiddler on the roof) and in a quintet: the creation of man ( from the scarlet pimpernel) i also did a duet: a little fall of rain ( from les mis)

as long as i'm discussing vocal. this time for lessons i am learning largo al factotum. or. the figaro song. you may know this from tom and jerry. idk. but it is from the opera the barber of seville by rossini. and that recital is in a very short 26 days.

in band:

homecoming is this next weekend. the band sounds really good. 12 trumpets are at the front of the formation. we will march in the parade friday afternoon and march halftime that night. the following monday we will begin music for winter concert in december.

in my life:

i'm old. 18. the funny thing is that i don't feel different. haha i guess thats how it goes though...

post summerfest.... sad day................:'(

well summerfest went by very quickly.... let me give an accounting.

Sunday:

check in. meet my group. devotional. after devo we toured the HFAC. since it was my 3rd year it wasn't that interesting. but it was fun seeing people i knew.

monday:

auditions. i BOMBED mine. mine was scheduled for 9:30. the one that was scheduled for 8 hadn't gone by the time mine was supposed to start. all the practice rooms were full because of string players stressing (string players: i still like you but you over practice sometimes). i finally decided to warm up in the hall. but as luck would have it... they (the people in charge of summerfest) decided to have a dictation class for kids who completed their auditions. dictation is when someone plays some song for you, tells you what key its in and you have to write it out. well to do this it kinda needs to be quiet. well like i said it was held in a practice room. which is kinda not smart... so i started to warm up in the hall and someone came out and told me to wait for practice room. i had been waiting. and my audition was in five minutes! so i stopped. but turn finally came. when i went in my reed was dry. and i hadn't warmed up. :-( so it didn't sound good... oh well. after lunch results were posted. i was assigned to wind ensemble, which i wasn't surprised about, but i was on clarinet. i was also assigned to the 2nd big band. which was kinda a disappointment... anyway i went to the instrument office ( ok story time. to get to the instrument room you go down to the 2nd floor, which is the first basement, you go down a hall way and up some other stairs. so you end up going to the third floor again even though its not... does that make sense??) and got a clarinet. i went to wind ensemble and got some crazy music. one piece that we played alternated time signatures every other measure. so it switch from 4/4 to 3/4 then it had a section of 5/4 then a measure of 6/4 then back to 4/4 3/4 . that was only the first movement. the second (a waltz) switch from 3/4 to 2/4 then had some 4/4's and at the end it went like this: 4/4, 5/8 , 4/4, 7/8 then it repeated. hopefully i will be getting videos on here soon. but we got a new camera and we haven't figured it out completely. and we have some other music too. we also got music during big band. but i'll just move on. monday night we had a bbq then had a speaker.

tuesday:

practice and rehearsals all day.

then that night we had Dance!!! haha it was awesome. before the dance there was a recital from faculty members. it was really good.

wednesday:

we went to a silent movie. hahaha i love silent movies. we had a live organist too!! after we had free time. which was weird. we don't usually get nighttime freetime...

thursday:

there was the student solo recital. i had a piece prepared but during my audition, well, like i said: i bombed it. there were some great performances!! like a xylophonist and an awesome cello player and a way good violinist and a cool flute song and some other stuff... after the recital we all went to activities that we signed up for on wednesday. my friend and i went to play board games. oddly enough we didn't play board games we played this awesome card game called the totally insane card game (one of my new faves!! check it out at www.totallyinsanecardgame.com it is awesome!!) after that we played catch phrase music edition which was really fun too

friday:

the jazz concert.

there were some others too... but it takes forever to load..........

after the concert was the last dance and it was so FUN!!!!!!!

Saturday:

final concerts.

for the chamber concerts i was running all over the hfac to see friends in their performances.

my concert went well. i might get videos sometime. we got a camcorder and we're still not sure how to work everything.... so please be patient.

after the concert mom and drove home.....

now i have less than a year to prepare to go back.

to help me prepare for that and college i have started taking sax lessons from the BYU sax professor. this summer i am practicing 2 hours on sax. one hour on piano and half an hour on oboe. with other instruments coming whenever i can find time........ wow O_o

pre summerfest

WARNING: THIS POST HAS NOT BEEN EDITED. THEREFORE THE CONTENTS ARE SUCH THAT THEY ARE WRITTEN AS THE THOUGHTS CAME TO THE AUTHORS MIND. BEWARE. AND DON'T GET CONFUZZLED. basically that means that this post may be a tad confusing......... have a nice day!! :-D

so summerfest starts on sunday and there are things that need done.

1. practice

i have a solo that i'm practicing ( fantasia for saxophone by heitor villa-lobos) and i really want in the solo recital. hard core. so hopefully..... yikes.

2. pack

besides the obvious such as clothes, toothbrush, pillow, etc. i am taking my saxophones( tenor and soprano) my oboe, lots of my music, including piano music and my song that i'm singing in the next recital. ( i think that this is an excellant time to talk about that. my teacher who is very good had suggested that i sing close every door from joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat ( who also did phantom of the opera) but my problem is that i like the musical (which is good since that is what we're doing next fall) but that song is not my favorite. quite frankly, its boring. so i asked if i could change. she said yes and then asked me my dream broadway role. well i already did it. i sang the phantom of the opera 2 recitals ago. so i was thinking and i came up with tevye from fiddler on the roof. so i am now singing if i were a rich man for the recital!! ok back to the point of this post: summerfest!! ) i might take my tenor recorder just for fun but idk. i got two new shirt today which i'm saving for next week. one says: you don't have to be crazy to work here, they'll train you. haha the other one just can't be described.

3. practice

the saxophone professor always asks if i can double on other instruments( he asks everyone.). so since i play sax, clarinet and oboe i need to practice them so if he want me to play one of the extra's ( sorry about my random tangents i get on but you may have noticed (if not don't be sad) that i am not taking my clarinet. this is because if i need to play the clarinet for whatever reason i can rent one of the college's and it will be way better than mine. bar none.) i will be ready to since i have practiced.

4. don't get overexcited

this is probably the hardest one. cuz summerfest just rocks!!!!!!!! there is one minor setback...well....i can't think of a better word. but my counselor from last year got married. and this is bad because he was the coolest counselor ever!! oh well.......... but the countdown has started. this time sunday i will be touring the HFAC ( harris fine arts center)

drum major. oh yeah...

so as of the other week.... i don't know the exact date.... at the band concert the new drum major was announced. and i would ask for a drum roll but if your smart... and i think you all are... you would know that i wouldn't be writing this post if the new drum major wasn't ME!!!!

so as the days continued way too slowly...

the solo recital/awards banquet was the next week. i think. it was again announced that i am the new DM. 

finally, at the end of a long march through town in the memorial day parade the baton was passed from the previous dm to the new dm. me!!!

and as long as i'm writing this i will tell a tiny bit of the homecoming show for next fall.

we will be playing 

star wars main theme

and

 

the imperial march (vaders theme)

so i'm pretty stoked to be leading this way cool sweet awesome show!!!

there are a lot of things being considered to add to the coolity of the show.

most aren't for sure. but i can tell you a few things. this is confidential.

we aren't using the stuffy, old, hot, stinky, and unfitting uniforms. we will be making jedi robes!

how cool is that!!!

 

haha

thats all i'm telling you for now.

haha sorry....

i'll post some more secrets soon...

may the force be with you.

lol

ps. only 3 weeks until summerfestival!!

diamonds

well so this has nothing to do with anything that i've posted or usually post...

it rained last night and some droplets got stuck on the bleeding heart plants... the result is that it looks like we have diamonds growing in our garden

prom

here's some pics... it was fun!!

changes...and updates

many many changes have happened... lately or otherwise. for one thing the high school auditorium caught fire about a month ago... it burned the insulation in the ceiling and the walls (and made the whole school stink somethin fierce). alice in wonderland then became a hope and dream. it was cancelled due to lack of venue for performance. (the middle school auditorium is under construction). for me it was kind of a relief because my schedule was incredibly busy. so i am no longer having dual personality problems with the gryphon. =-)

the fall musical is still hush hush until may 5th(ish). however, due to my amazing snooping skills(jk i was lucky) i believe i stumbled onto the title. i won't reveal what i think it is just in case i'm wrong. however i will tell you what i'm playing in pit orchestra. the band teacher told me so i know that this is fact. i will be playing soprano sax, clarinet, and bass clarinet. flute will have to wait. i now have a bass clarinet in my house that is in a beater case that doesn't stay shut. its name is tsunami because of the spit it collects.

i will be going to prom this year. this is something that i said i would never do. i'm doing it. i'm going with katie ellgen. her dress (which she won't let me see) is brown with teal accents. my tux will be black with a teal vest and tie. a group of my friends and i were going to go to dinner at someone's house but then more people wanted to come with us. there are now 32 people (16 couples) going to dinner. so our parents are making dinner and decorating at the church. after prom i'll put up some pictures. if i remember.

i'm also very excited for summerfestival this year. only 58 days!!!

i will also soon have a post about music i am working on.

who knows what else will happen...

branching out....scary

the last year has been one of branching. and will continue this year. last year in addition to piano and saxophone i learned clarinet and oboe. i had about three months to do so. i was invited to be in the pit orchestra for the fall musical... but i had to learn two new instruments... i now play oboe in concert band because our oboe player moved away. this year i will be adding flute to my list.

i've also taken up voice lessons. so i'm now a music nerd not just a band geek. (i will not be changing my blog title)(i like being a band geek)

i auditioned for the spring play: alice in wonderland. i auditioned for the chesire cat. i unfortunately did not get the part. i did however get the role of Gryphon. a little known character. for more information please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gryphon_(Alice)

to the right is the gryphon and alice listening to the mock turtle, another lesser known character. for info follow the links in the previously named link

i do promise to keep my blog updated...(at least i will try.)

efy (rox sox)

so i'm not going to say much about efy. but i'll post some pix.
mike (up)

my counselor jason (up)

Banner (our cheer was to thriller. hence the tombstones)

lovely ladies (my friends were jealous...)

hot hunks (eh...)

don't ask. idk

j'dizzle

me in the variety show. i sang you raise me up. (josh groban)(scariest performance of my life.) (bar none)