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I've been away Since Thursday at my daughters Florida's ALL STATE MUSIC CONVENTION in TAMPA until Saturday afternoon (fuuny how long it seems I've been gone from the washes in 3 day... the employees manage to break so much!). So I came down here to make the repairs and wait for my laundry to finish running (just fixed the washer's belt) and I'd thought I'd write about the event.
My daughter, Courtney was selected into the Florida All State Honors Band, which is a nomination made band of 120-130 middle schoolers from the entire State of Florida. It's based on their achievements in past performances at all County and Solo Ensamble and there rankings. She made SECOND CHAIR FLUTE out of 14 flutes selected out of the Nomination band. The Convention goes much like any convention with running exibits, classes, courses and selected groups performing continously... the Middle School Band concerts are the largest draw.
I sat for 2 days in rehersals with the kids, watching them, listening to them and occassional helping to copy a piece of music that they forgot. Their pieces were tough, even for a College band. One particular was new and never heard before as it would preview on Saturday for the first time... a piece called SOLARIS.... watch and listern for it as a movie score. It was composed by a local Florida Band Director and Composer Robert W. Smith
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Smith
and I would encourage any of you reading this to read the link. Mr Smith showed up at the end of practice to met these kids and hear his music for the first time (not as an MP3 or MIDI file) live and performed as he imagined it. I never know this composer until yesterday when I heard this other musical peice called THE INFERNO (please do yourself a big favor and download it) based on Dante's rings of Hell which was played by the Small School Band latter in the day. While Robert W. Smith is no John Williams... he has a big start into becoming a classic American Composer of our times.
My daughter, Courtney was selected into the Florida All State Honors Band, which is a nomination made band of 120-130 middle schoolers from the entire State of Florida. It's based on their achievements in past performances at all County and Solo Ensamble and there rankings. She made SECOND CHAIR FLUTE out of 14 flutes selected out of the Nomination band. The Convention goes much like any convention with running exibits, classes, courses and selected groups performing continously... the Middle School Band concerts are the largest draw.
I sat for 2 days in rehersals with the kids, watching them, listening to them and occassional helping to copy a piece of music that they forgot. Their pieces were tough, even for a College band. One particular was new and never heard before as it would preview on Saturday for the first time... a piece called SOLARIS.... watch and listern for it as a movie score. It was composed by a local Florida Band Director and Composer Robert W. Smith
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Smith
and I would encourage any of you reading this to read the link. Mr Smith showed up at the end of practice to met these kids and hear his music for the first time (not as an MP3 or MIDI file) live and performed as he imagined it. I never know this composer until yesterday when I heard this other musical peice called THE INFERNO (please do yourself a big favor and download it) based on Dante's rings of Hell which was played by the Small School Band latter in the day. While Robert W. Smith is no John Williams... he has a big start into becoming a classic American Composer of our times.
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