District MSBOA Performance 2/7/2015

Good afternoon. I am here to give a quick post about what happened yesterday at District MSBOA (Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association). I got a 1 on my ensemble performance on Presto from String Quartet Op. 18, No.3, which is my second 1 rating for ensemble performance in my high school years. 

For any of you that don't know about MSBOA, it is basically when a musician or a group of musicians would perform a song in front of a judge for a rating. There are four categories that a judge would grade on: Tone, Intonation, Rhythm, Technique, and Interpretation. There are three ratings (from highest to lowest): 1, 2, and 3. To get the highest rating, you need to get at least three A's in  three of the four categories. Yesterday, my sax quartet group got that 1 from getting those three A's or more in those categories.  

I first thought that we wouldn't do good because of the small number of rehearsals together, but we did it anyway, ending it with a good rating. Below is a picture of the medal that we got yesterday.

Since we got a 1 on that performance, we are invited to play our song at State level, which is the same idea of District. Tomorrow, I am going to talk with my group if they want to go to State again this year, because it is the same group that I formed last year for the sax quartet and got a 1 in both District and State level. I am planning to go to State to try to get another 1 rating.  I will let you guys/gals know about that choice.

That is it right now I guess. I hope that you enjoyed reading this post and I will see you in the next post.

Peace out brothers and sisters. -MNM

A New Years Has Came

Hey hey hey hey! Long time no talk. Sorry for not posting for a while nor on New Years Day.
I hoped that you all had a good Christmas break and a New Year. I wonder what you all did. I am here to describe what I did for my break outside of blogging.
For me, I had a wonderful time with my family up in Colorado for about 3 weeks. The first part of the trip was driving for two days to my grand-mother's house up in Colorado Springs and staying there for a week. My uncle, aunts, and nephews came to stay at my grand-mother's house for about a week.
It was a good feeling to see them again after seeing them in person about 1 to 3 years ago. Just seeing how much they had changed while my family and I were living in Michigan just left me speechless. Anyway, we all caught up with each other about our lives and celebrated Christmas on December 23. My uncle and mom had to get back to their job. My uncle had to fly back to Texas, for he works as a helicopter pilot in the PHi Air Medical. While my mom flew back to Michigan to work back in the RadissonWe didn't see him until New Years Days (9 days after he left) we met up at his wife's family's house up in the mountains. The trip up there was quite snowy and windy. It took us about 4 hours to drive through the sunny and cloudy hours to get to my grand-pa's house in the mountains.
When we got there, we planned to sled everyday by ourselves and with my nephews. The depth of the snow on the golf course was about 3 feet up to my knees; the perfect depth for sledding on small hills, all while making it hard to walk out onto the pathway. Two nights, we would head over to my aunt's house nearby to have dinner and relax in the hot tub. Nothing but easy going with the family.
For New Years Day/Eve, we just had hot chocolate and played some board games. We did miss the ball fall on television in New York. Whoopps.
After our family time up in the mountains, my dad, little sister, and I drove back to Colorado Springs to spend one more day with my grand-mother before driving back to Michigan. The rest of the time was just driving back to Michigan.

That was my break. I hoped that you all have plans for this new year. Keep going and never stop going forward.

That is it right now I guess. I hope that you enjoyed reading this post and I will see you in the next post.
Peace out brothers and sisters. -MNM