BAND: 2016 Music Festival Concert Reflection

What is expected of me as a performer:  

1. What are my responsibilities leading up to the performance, in terms of my own practicing?  

The responsibilities that are contributed leading up to the concert included listening to the music at home and playing along, review the counting, double checking if the correct notes are played, and going to the after school rehearsals.

1. What are my responsibilities on stage during a performance?

My responsibilities on stage during a performance is to make sure I don't talk or make any noises after a song has played, to make sure I follow and look at the conductor, and be prepared for when to play or switch pieces.

1. What will I do differently in preparing for the next concert?

Next concert I will make sure to look up at the conductor more to check timing while playing and to notice when other instruments have important parts. Therefore, it will keep me up to part and know when to quiet down or become louder during a piece.

What is expected of me as an audience member:

1. What do I need to be doing while someone is performing?

While other groups are performing, as an audience member I make sure that I am quiet and if other people are talking I will remind them to keep quiet. As well as, to keep seated in my seat and not moving a lot or getting up.

1. What should I do if people around me are not being good audience members?

Remind them to quiet down or stop what they are doing. If they don't listen, you can ask to get the chaperone to remind them as well.

1. What will I do differently as an audience member for next concert?

Next concert I will make sure to keep my instrument quieter, so if I shift in my seat it won't bang and make a lot of noise.

These are some of the things I learned from Dr. Cross:

With Dr. Cross's lessons, some things I learned included how to listen to other instruments and how it is important to know the people who share the same parts as you. As well as, we learned new breathing techniques and the use of your jaw while playing which could be practiced by singing the pitch of the notes.

I am most proud of playing the high notes in Rites of Tamburo. Sometimes during practices, while playing the high notes in Rites of Tamburo the sound and tone would crack or cut while playing the really high notes. So, I was proud I played them correctly in the concert.

Photo Credits: Mr. Starker(photographer) from https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://drive.google.com/open?id%3D0BwmQH8b5LlBTSlFQUmxTUkhTbzQ&source=gmail&ust=1478661497699000&usg=AFQjCNHQvKbY9CZnA9lxhZQ5DPwe0BKSYA