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eve_primeYesterday I hadn't even posted about the district solo-ensemble competition, where D. performed Weber's Concertino, because the house-filled-with-smoke thing was a lot more pressing, and because the performance was over and done with. But it was still a thing.
R. picked him up and took him, and as soon as he started practicing, his teacher came rushing into the room to get him to go perform, half an hour early! So, no warming up. There were certainly some mistakes in the performance (R. recorded it for me), but also plenty of fine moments - he was able to make all the notes appear in the big fancy runs at the end, which he'd been working on in lessons. The main thing is that he was flustered by having to appear half an hour early, which was pretty annoying. It turned out that his teacher had distributed the preliminary schedule, not the final one, grrr.
Anyway, to our great surprise, this evening we found out that he won!!! We completely did not expect it, because L.L. was also performing, and L.L. (although a year younger) has been in youth symphony longer, and is first chair, and all-around more serious about clarinet and more skilled. And we both wanted L.L. to win, because D. didn't want to go to state, which this now qualifies him to do, and having L.L. win would take the pressure off D. Of course I am absolutely thrilled that D. won, but I also sympathize about not wanting to go to state.
Now he has to decide if he's willing to go after all. It's in late April, in a small community west of Portland. It would be pretty funny to have a trophy for clarinet-playing...
R. picked him up and took him, and as soon as he started practicing, his teacher came rushing into the room to get him to go perform, half an hour early! So, no warming up. There were certainly some mistakes in the performance (R. recorded it for me), but also plenty of fine moments - he was able to make all the notes appear in the big fancy runs at the end, which he'd been working on in lessons. The main thing is that he was flustered by having to appear half an hour early, which was pretty annoying. It turned out that his teacher had distributed the preliminary schedule, not the final one, grrr.
Anyway, to our great surprise, this evening we found out that he won!!! We completely did not expect it, because L.L. was also performing, and L.L. (although a year younger) has been in youth symphony longer, and is first chair, and all-around more serious about clarinet and more skilled. And we both wanted L.L. to win, because D. didn't want to go to state, which this now qualifies him to do, and having L.L. win would take the pressure off D. Of course I am absolutely thrilled that D. won, but I also sympathize about not wanting to go to state.
Now he has to decide if he's willing to go after all. It's in late April, in a small community west of Portland. It would be pretty funny to have a trophy for clarinet-playing...