Feeling slightly less nervous about the concert was we get closer. One of my main concerns was programming for it; I'm following the previous director's footsteps and doing some whole band pieces, each section will do a song, each school will do one, and there will be solos/duets, too. Now that I'm getting the students' requests for what they'd like to do for solos I can more definitively make up the program over break. So far I have 11 students who are doing their compositions on the concert, and quite a few more doing solos/duets. One group even wants to make their own composition for a trio.
In the meantime, rehearsal today will just be woodwinds. Part of this is so that I can focus on them and nitpick things in a smaller group setting. Part is so that it won't be as distracting having a some of the chatty kids there. Another is just for my sanity. After break will be just brass and percussion for these same reasons, then two full rehearsals before our dress rehearsal, then the concert! Ahhh! I'm nervous but also excited; the kids have been working hard and they're going to be great.
Above all, vacation is coming. :). Not that things have been too strenuous here, but it'll be nice to have a week to veg.
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