
I'm a violist, (for 18 years), and I think orchestra is fun too!
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For me, orchestra is fun. I know a whole lot of you out there would disagree with me, but it's true. Maybe that's because I don't struggle in that class. Well anyway, funny things happened today, in orchestra I mean. Let's see, first there's one about Mr. K. That's all I'm gonna reveal about my music teacher's name. So anyway, Brandon had a piece of rosin in his hands, and threw it. It hit Mr. K, who had no idea who threw it at his head. In fact, he was like, looking up, and then picked it off his head or something. Then he said something like, "Huh? Piece of rosin is like falling out of the sky...." The other funny thing that happened in orchestra today was when the cello and bass section decided to try out Mrs. E.'s little story. The story was that in one orchestra she played in, the violins, and the basses/cellos, were against each other or something. So there came this one part in the music they had to play where the violins had to play something like 16th notes against the cello's and bass's quarter notes. So like I said, they were against each other. The cellos and the basses started speeding up, and so the violins had to. They went faster and faster, until the conductor became really confused as to what was happening and yelled at them. So today in my school orchestra, us cellos sped up, while the basses decided to try to slow down, and we pretty much screwed the violins up. But the violins decided to speed up too, but not more and more. They just sped up and then stopped. So Mr. K yelled, "How much are you guys going to rush before you stop?!!" The cellos, knowing that we did it on purpose (same with the basses) suddenly started laughing really loud and hysterically. It's common for Mr. K. to tell us we are rushing, but not normal for people to start laughing like we did. Everyone was staring at us cellos and basses, some of the violinists actually started laughing awkwardly too. Mr. K. was staring at us too, having no idea what had happened. Overall, you just had to be there. I think you would've laughed too if you have any sense of humor. Comments? By the way, I like one of the casual jokes one of our bass players made yesterday when we were in sectionals (cellos and basses together). He said, because Mrs. E. was saying how bass players don't play much, "With like, an 84 measure rest, we can play Go - Fish back here."