Author: SusanT
Date: 2007-05-04 01:29
I was a high school player, back ages ago, and quite good at the time. I sat eternally second-chair to somebody who was marginally better than I was, thanks I think to the fact that his parents could afford lessons and so on that mine (and many in that town) could not.
Honestly, it's *a* solo. One. One song out of all the songs you will ever play in high school, in your life. While I would agree that in a professional setting, the best player should be doing the solos, this is high school. Twenty years from now, unless your life has gone *astoundingly* poorly, you will not care that one time you didn't get to do a solo.
There's a reason why high schools often do split up solos, because the point is not for one person to be totally spectacular, but to allow many people the learning experience of getting to try it. High school band is sadly often turned into a competition by the students when it should be about learning to be better musicians.
The awards and honors of high school fade away pretty quickly. So do the hurts and heartaches, thankfully. I would worry less about "ownership" of the solo and more about making the end of the year enjoyable. Especially since you're dating this guy, why don't you spend some time practicing it together? You could both give each other help on learning it, and even if you aren't the one who'll be playing it in the end, you'll know that your skill and help is also coming through in his performance.
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