Concert season!

On Sunday, I performed in a concert with the Flint Symphonic Wind Ensemble. It is a local volunteer group I started playing with 4 years ago. I LOVE it. We are playing some good, challenging music and I have made quite a few new friends also! At the beginning of October, I was elected by the band to serve as the President of the board of directors for the group! What an honor! I am hoping to make some changes that are needed for us to continue to move forward and improve!

Anyway, this is one of our first concerts that begin a pretty crazy season! We performed at a senior living center in Frankenmuth and it was a great performance!! Tony has also become involved with the group and is the announcer for us!! At the beginning of our 2009-2010 season, Emma requested we play "Peter and the

Wolf". I mentioned it to our conductor, Roy, and FINALLY this
year, it was on our play list! Tony did the commentating for it and Emma even came to the rehearsal to hear how it was going to go! She gave Roy two thumbs up and was so excited for the concert! On Sunday we performed it, and Emma made Roy a GIANT picture of Peter, the wolf (who had already eaten the duck, so there were only feathers!), the cat and the bird on a tree!! It was
so great, Roy not only showed the entire wind ensemble, but also the audience before we played the piece! Emma just sat next to Gramma and raised her hand so everyone could see who made the beautiful picture!!! I was so proud! :) The concert went really well...and now we start working on CHRISTMAS music for our Christmas concerts we have next month! There's nothing worse than having "Sleigh Ride" in your head in the beginning of November! :)