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Second page, my best yet.
I just got back from my school orchestra concert, and holy crap it was awesome.
I had a solo in the Philharmonic orchestra (second highest of four), and I nailed it. It's pretty nerve-racking when you're only a step under the # 8 high school orchestra in Texas, (Symphonic, our highest), who is taping again for an even better position, and you've got a solo, none of it in first position, you've got to try and keep the rest of the orchestra from rushing, you're being recorded, and you have to do fourth-finger vibrato. I mean, holy crap.
Symphonic taped tonight at the concert to try to get a better position than last year's 8th in Texas, (everyone else was recorded also, though not for a specific reward), and the last piece they played was the most complicated, but most beautiful thing I've ever heard a string orchestra play. And they did it perfectly. And catch this, the song is -full- of rubato (mood of music causing many tempo changes), firmatas (held notes or rests), and crazy notes, and they did -all- of the last song, WITHOUT THE DIRECTOR.
It was truly one of THE most awesome things I've EVER seen. I don't think anyone -here- knows exactly what I'm talking about, but if you did, I swear, you would be amazed.
[Edited on 10/13/2005]