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My winter band concert
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Today, I had my winter band concert. For the past four years, I’ve been in concert band, and all year, besides during the marching band season, we practice our music to prepare a concert in which the chorus, concert band and steel drums band performs in.
I am only in concert band, so all year, I am practicing music that seems to get harder and harder as time goes on, but at the same time, it’s easier for me to play. I remember back in seventh grade, when I first joined high school band, I was afraid to play and especially afraid to perform. As time goes on, the anxiety of performing faded away until it’s barely anything, just a nagging emotion in the back of my mind, telling me that I am going to mess up.
One of my favorite parts of band, besides the music itself, is performing. When you perform, you finally get to show everything you worked on to an audience. No matter how many people you are performing with, or what role you play, part of it is yours, and you probably put a lot of effort and worry into that little part you have. Every part, no matter how small, is important.
Like I mentioned, my favorite thing about band is the music. Even if you are not playing at that moment, you can just enjoy the music. When the sound you make with your instrument gets mixed in with others, it is all the more enjoyable. One thing I learned is that after lots of practice, when you put it all together, it sounds amazing. One of my favorite parts of the concert season is the rehearsal before the concert, when we miss a period of class and practice in the gym where we perform, which is the first and last time before that night’s concert that the junior high and senior high classes get to play together.
This morning, I walked into school, and the first thing I noticed was everyone helping set up. And, naturally, I joined them until it was all complete. The first thing I did when I entered the school again that night was get out my flute and wait to warm up. And the last thing I did before I went home was tell everyone that they did a good job, received hugs, accepted compliments and put away my instrument.
The day of the concert is possibly one of my favorite days throughout the school year.