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