KMEA State II

March 2, 2006 at 3:35 AM

Ok, fine, here’s a more detailed account of my 2006 KMEA State Orchestra experience. I hope this satisfies for now, Sydney :P

This year we sent seven people to state

Robert Chen - Violin I
Bryn DeKoskey - Violin I
Lauren Burdette - Violin II
Brian Tung (Me) - Violin II
Elizabeth Musil - Viola
Mallory Jensen - Cello
Brian Kim - Cello

Arrived at school around 7:30 on a Thursday mourning, left around 8:00 with Mrs. Elliot. Dropped by Starbucks (they were out of Strawberry Crème :( ) for a quick snack and we were off. Passed the time by watching a movie Lauren brought, the Count of Monte Cristo. Good Movie.

Arrived around 11 o’clock, after dropping of our luggage and eating lunch we went straight to rehearsal. During the first rehearsal they pulled us out to have us audition for seats. Mallory good a good seat, 4th or 6th chair if I remember correctly. However, the rest of the group, including me, did rather mediocre seating wise.

Can’t say I’m disappointed though, I managed to get coolest stand partner ever, Savannah Windham. While I took a couple hours for us to warm up to each other, State wouldn’t have been ¼ as fun without her. :P We did all sorts of strange and not so strange things in effort to pass the time when we got bored. We even traded violins occasionally. I <3 her violin. T.T Oh, and she’s a sophomore at Olathe East, same school Simon Zhang attends (he was at State too).

Anyway, after the first rehearsal we had some free time. I managed to pick up a T-mobile wireless signal to browse the web with; it costs a little bit of money, but well worth it. After dinner and more rehearsals that was a wrap for Thursday.

Friday was pretty much more of the same. Rehearsal. Break. More Rehearsal. Lunch. More Rehearsal. Break. More Rehearsal. Dinner. More Rehearsal. We also had a mixer afterwards, but I chose not to attend. I’m not that into the rave scene. ;)

Saturday was out last day there. I quick mourning rehearsal was followed by break, lunch, and checkout. Then we all moved over to the Century II building for our concert. The auditorium they put us in had horrible acoustics, but was the only one that can fit State Orchestra, Band, and Choir, so meh. I admit, I fell asleep during the band performance, but I was awake for the choir. Finally we played. We did rather well, though my arm was burnt out from all the practice and couldn’t really keep up during the fast passages.

After that, the girls went home with their parents while we guys went back to school with the Mrs. McCullough. I watched the movie Amadeus on the way back. Once we reached the school, I sent the guys back home.

From Sydney Menees
Posted on March 2, 2006 at 9:40 AM

Haha! Sounds like fun! I would've been there, but given my present situation...

Amadeus (sp?) is a grood movie!

From Karin Lin
Posted on March 2, 2006 at 7:58 PM

Ah, memories...I was at KMEA State, 15 years ago. Glad you kids had fun. :D

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