This semester is super busy at the Moody Music Building/University of Alabama...and lucky for me too!!!! For ONCE I will not have to add to the Christmas bustle/hysteria, the huge task of doing dress rehearsals and the performance for the Tuscaloosa Youth Orchestra in the middle of December! I feel good! Make no mistake, I LOVE this program! And the girls love it too! Our conductor Andy Pettus is the greatest!!! But it does add to the Christmas pile-up to do the concerts at the end of the semester. Worked out very nicely for me this year that the schedule was so tight for the big concert hall that they ended up having the concert this past Sunday! Hooray! So, now we will just have a few more practices before the end of this semester - no problem! They are on the same day as our lessons.
I also got to leave the little kids with Daddy and actually enjoy this performance for a change! No trips to the toilet, no nosebleeds during the performance, no fidgeting, whispering and complaining! Even made a teeny video with my camera and will try to stick it on here.
Also, in the news...our All-State Audition results were posted yesterday and Abby is in the first violins in the mid-level orchestra, String Sinfonietta, and is listed as an alternate for the Festival Orchestra (the big one!...she would be one of the youngest kids if she gets to play with them) and Hannah is in the first violins in the Consort Strings, the younger level group. So everybody is all smiles here! Practice! Practice! Practice! :o)
Here is a few seconds of Mussorgsky's Great Gates of Kiev...
The TYO conducted by Andy Pettus
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