One of the choir tasks in the summer is to finally sort, stack, label and file ALL music from the previous year that is still left over. Due to the crazy Spring & Summer season, I was forced this year to ask my choir to help me put the eight feet of music that had accumulated away so that I can begin thinking clearly about next year.So, last week, Kaitlyn, Madeline & I worked hard for four hours while Madeline's sisters watched Eric and though the wait at lunch was seriously messed up, an uneventful morning yielded good work and a smaller pile of paper. But this week was, er, um, way more interesting. When I arrived to drop of Eric with James for the morning and take the ladies with me to help file, this was the scene I tried to DRIVE through, like a darn fool:
They tell you to NEVER, EVER drive in water you do not know the depth of...well, maybe I should listen to the advice of experts. I did not realize how much trouble my car was in until it started to stall. I got it in reverse, and managed to roll out as the engine died. Fortunately, I was able to get the car re-started, and walk Eric down to their house, and take the ladies with me in my car. Very exciting beginning to our day.
Then there was the paper. Lots and lots and lots of paper. A BIG thank you to all the Youth Choir members who cheerfully helped sort and put away not only OUR music, but also the Adult Choir music and the Junior Youth Choir music as well. I could not have done it without y'all.
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so this is realy late, since I said that I would comment a while ago, but here it is.
I remember the days of sorting music for my days of a ban geek in HS(why did those days have to end?). The scary part is when you have score order memorized in general, and then the little changes that individual publishers do, like switching the order of trumpets and fhorns.
Flute/picc
Oboe
I Clarinet in bflat
II Clarinet in bflat
III Clarinet in bflat
Clarinet in Eflat
Bass Clarinet
Soprano Sax
Alto Sax
Tenor Sax
Bari Sax
I Trumpet in bflat
II Trumpet in bflat
III Trumpet in bflat
I Horn in F
II Horn in F
III Horn in F
IV Horn in F
I Trombone
II Trombone
III Trombone
Bass Trombone
Baritone in Treble Clef
Baritone in Bass Clef
Tuba
Timpani
I Precussion
II Precussion
Mallets
Now for some stories that thats out of the way. I really think that there is no use to putting the music away once it is sorted... I was putting away music from my freshman year band class during my senior year. It all comes out of the woodwork all year round...
One last thing- the pubilshers can't agree on a common order. They sometimes like to switch the Tpts and FHorns on us...
If you can't tell, I am a band geek (and proud of it!)
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