Author: clarinetguy ★2017
Date: 2014-07-30 07:31
I'm not sure I can top any of these stories, but here goes.
When I was in junior high school many years ago, our band went to band festival. There was a required piece that all bands had to play, a transcription of March and Procession of Bacchus. It's a tough selection for a junior high band, and our band never played it well. At festival, one section (I can't remember which one) started to rush. Before long, the entire band began going faster and faster. Our director tried to get us to slow down, but wasn't successful. I don't know how we managed to make it to the end without completely falling apart, but somehow we did.
In my college band, we once played an outdoor spring concert. There wasn't a band shell or stage, and we had chairs and stands set up on the grass. It was a nice evening, but just before we started the last selection, it started to rain. We all had expensive instruments, but we pressed on. While we were playing, a few flute players got up and left, and it's possible a few clarinet and oboe players did the same. We managed to finish, and fortunately, it wasn't a hard rain. The director (who sometimes had a bad temper) was livid. I'm not sure what went on behind closed doors, but from what I heard, he began to chew out the musicians who had left. Few people had the courage to stand up to him, but these students did. In no uncertain terms, they told him they had expensive instruments, and they weren't going to have their instruments damaged by rain.
It was one of the few times I saw him back down.
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