Just wondering. I'm a senior in high school by the way.

Festive Overture was composed by Dmitri Shostakovitch. That's one of the possible pieces we'll play in Wind Ensemble. Unfortunately, the euphonium and bassoon sections have a hard time playing their parts. I'm a euphonium bu the way :heh: And the bassoons are a sophomore and freshmen (a current senior quit two years ago and the other from last year quit before this year). Of course, everyone also has a hard time playing their parts whenever we play at the speed our director wants us to play at (the intended speed is just insane). Really, the only major factor that prevents from playing correctly is the presence of insanely high notes (G above the staff is hard for me and this piece goes to A Flat).

Armenian Dances by Alfred Reed was our main piece last year. That was a fun piece. Apparently, we were well-received for playing that particular piece well. The only notes I couldn't play were those G's (ugh, I suck). There were only like two of those anyway. The 5/8 part was nice, but the woodwinds got all the fun there. During spring break we got to go to Carnegie Hall in New York along with a few other invited bands around the nation. I think half were from California though and there weren't that many all together. It was exciting and we got the best score. We even beat a couple of college concert bands. On another note, that same year we played Whatsoever Things, but not in New York.

I never got to play Aurora for Wind Ensemble because I was in Symphonic Band that year. But I just wanted to mention it because it was a really cool piece. The band also seemed to have fun with it because they got to sing and whistle and whoop. It also looked difficult with as much meter changes as our current field show for marching band. And it had super high notes...