So, tell me about your band director! If you are out of school or don't have one, relax and enjoy the wildness of secondary school educational phsychos.

or band director is awesome. he has good stories... like how once he worked at a lake in the summer, and every day they would push this annoying girl who worked there to into the lake. So he's going to meet his girlfriends parents and this girl they pushed into the lake was sitting on the porch... HAHA! anyways the girl told the parents about the lake and he had to call them and stuff. But anyways now the girlfriend is his wife.

he told us that story, cuz when we had a sub some of the classes weren't very respectful so and about impressions and stuff...

anyways i know all of you wanted to know that:D

My band director has all sorts of wierd stories too! And he tells us about physics and airodynamics and History and all sorts of random stuff.

Well, my band director is a person =]!

Oh, I've had a math teacher and a french teacher as my band director before.

My band director was very good, and he's a nice guy...He can't stop talking...and since I spent ALL my free time in the music room, I was always late in other classes because I talked with him too much . And then when I became section leader, he started sending notes to the teachers to justify all the times I was late!...But seriousley he never stops talking or making jokes. Sometimes we even had to tell him ''all right, now maybe we should continue our rehearsal, after all we've got a national contest in two weeks!''

Oh and he kind of never combs his hair (and his hair has this particularity of always be in a weird position), except before performances so we kept teasing him about that (like giving him some hair-spray or things like that at the end of the year)...

But apart from those funny details...on the musical aspect, as I said before he was very competent. Oh and he actually composed a (very well written) 5 movement suite for concert band in our honor! Unfortunately he didn't have time to finish composing the full work and then write all the parts on computer and make the layout correctly and everythin, so we just played the first part, and the other movements will probably be played by the band next year...at least we got to play the first movement, which was a slow and very expressive piece (in which I FINALLY got a solo :P). It was a highly emotive experience to premiere a work dedicated to us, plus it was at our very last concert with that band, and for many (everyone except 3 or 4 people me included), simply their last concert ever. Most of us were almost in tears, and we still had our longest and most techincally demanding piece to play to wrap up the evening...

Now I think I'll just shut my mouth (more precisely get my hands away from the keyboard), because as you might have noticed, apart from lots of musical knowledge, he also gave me his habit of talking too much

same here music girl, my conductor/band teacher/wutever you want to call him plays brass(mainly trumpet) and percussion....

I don't know my new band director very well yet cause I'll be freshman. But he seems like a relaxed person, and he has an AWESOME beard.

My band director plays trombone too! HE plays all of the band instruments, but when I tried to get him to play my violin he didn't do so well lol

my directors (have two) main instruments are trumpet and french horn. Too bad, I would have loved to have a reed player, not all brass! Especially the bassoon, lol
she is nice when you aren't rude to others or her, and she also gives very practical advice and really encourages us to do our best

I haven`t really met my current director yet, she`s on maternity leave so we have a sub for the year. But my band directors before he (like tenorsaxist I have two) were amazing. One of them was so devoted to his job, he was also a great teacher. Once I forgot my Bass Clarinet at school and he went on a Sunday morning to open up the band room for me so I could get it. My other director was less strict, more quiet. The other kids walked all over him. I have actually formed a pretty good friendship with him now but at the time it was frustrating. Band was like a free for all. Like a study period where the teacher doesn`t care what happens. I don`t think I learned anything... But if you were to listen to him he had so much knowlege to offer. I feel bad for him now. They are the people who got me started with music, so I am really grateful for that.

everyone here has like such inspring stories... my posts are like not even full sentences.

:D

Thank you so much for sharing your stories! Please keep them coming.

9th graders are in junior high where i live:D Also, sixth grade is still elementary.

I think my band director dropped one band because he was so busy... The ones in school used to be beginning, intermediate, concert, symphonic, but i dont think there is and intermediate one anymore... i dunno.

Ahhh...
My band director was amazing. She cracks jokes all the time, but is also serious and inspiring. BEcause of her, I'm now off to pursuing a career in teaching music in schools, and hope to one day take her position when she retires.
Maybe I just love her because I am her favorite. =)
Way back in seventh grade, I had entered junior high as a flute player. There were way to many flutes, so I was asked to switch to oboe (which of course, I did.) In my eighth grade year, she decided she had to many oboe players...so of course, she turned to me. Now I'm on bassoon. I still don't love it as much as flute or oboe, but at least I have,like, 20 million brownie points racked up now.