Last week, my Concert Choir had their "large choir" festival at Woods Cross High School. We are a very small large choir :-). We have about 30 kids and some of the other schools brought large choirs of well over a hundred students. We were the smallest choir by at least 10-12 singers.The way I announced their scores to them in class was by showing them our progress over the past three years at large choir festival. I is the highest score (superior) and V is the lowest score. Growing and improving every year is absolutely the most important thing to me. They were proud of themselves and I was proud of them. Jean Applonie, one of my greatest mentors from BYU, was one of the judges. She actually interviewed me the first time I applied to hte music ed program at BYU over ten years ago. Having your teachers as judges so many years l after graduation is very intimidating!
Reading their notes from festival proved to be incredibly entertaining.
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| This kids notes were so hilarious. I even sent them to his parents because I got such a kick out of them. This is just a brief part of a much funnier whole.Three schools coincidentally sang one of the same pieces, which is what he is referring to in the top comment. |
My madrigals performed at state on Saturday, along with a couple piano soloists, a vocal soloist, and a male quartet. While our madrigals state scores weren't as high as most of the other schools, it was a very good experience for us. We have improved steadily over the past three years as well. Ironically, one of the judges was Dr. Broomhead, the other person who interviewed me when I applied for the music ed program! Two of my college teachers ajudicated my choirs within two weeks of each other!
I went with a friend to a gourmet taco place called
Taqueria in Sugar House. It was DIVINE. And I almost had a panic attack eating the gluten free Mexican donuts below. So. AMAZING. And SO gluten free!! Eating those little bits of wonder was a life changing event. I could not even speak and had to savor every little bite.
Two of my students from choir last year got married this weekend. I was really grateful for the music note ribbon my grandmother gave me that made wrapping it a whole lot easier, and the gift tags Tina gave me for Valentine's Day from Jer's work (American Crafts). I didn't know very many people there and ended up sitting at a whole table full of my students. It was kind of weird but actually quite fun.
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| There is water in the bottom of that glass square! And pebbles! So cool. |
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| As I was taking a picture of the cake, I realized it was an oppotunity for an epic selfie. Or maybe just an awkward mirror selfie. |
