Current mood:

annoyed

Pit's mad
So, now I'm a member of two pits: Front ensemble in marching and orchestra pit for the spring musical. What I am going to talk about here is orchestra pit. For those of you who don't know about it, we're the band that plays under the stage during the musical.

So, the last week has been conductor tryouts. Matt and Chris were the ones competing to be conductor. How that works is, a bunch of us students got together and were given concert band pieces, picked out by Chris and Matt. Chris picked a Titanic Medley and Matt chose an easy, 5th grade piece. Then each of them worked with us. Whoever did the best job with running the band and having the piece sound great would win. There were several judges...the one to know about is Jake.

Jake was field commander (aka conductor) for marching band last year. He graduated.

So, after each of them showed the judges what they could do for about 5-10 minutes, the rest of us left and got the pizza that had been bought for us. Obviously, most conversations were about who would be conductor. I could tell something was off when Sarah J. (a flute player) said "I've known who would make is since Thursday." After all, if she knew days ago, why did we have tryouts? Then a rumor started going around that Jake was going to be the conductor. A few minutes later, Chris confirmed it.

A lot of us were pissed. Most people were upset because it had been a waste of the last three hours, not to mention the Tuesday practice last week. I wasn't really angry, but I thought it was really wrong to do to Chris and Matt. They worked really hard, and there was never even a chance either of them would make it. Trevor (plays saxophone) pointed out it was good practice for them, since both want to be professional conductors. He had a point, but I responded that nobody should have gotten their hopes up just to shoot them down...yeah, stuff like that would happen in real life, but not that deliberately. Most of our music group says they won't do pit, because just about all of us thing Jake and whoever else is in charge went about it the entirely wrong way. A few of us still plan on doing it though

The good news is that...apparently Chris, Matt and Ryan promised several people they'd be in pit...which they can't do because there's tryouts. So Jake was like "you guys are all in pit, but if one of us feels you're falling behind, you'll have to try out.". So I'm technically in pit now /o/