So I'm a Junior in high school and I've been playing flute for 7 years now. I've entered solo ensembles all over Colorado and for all my school concerts I always play the solos. I was the only flute in the whole band for 4 years and I've had the same teacher for 5 years. This year we got a new teacher and I absolutely hate him!! I just learned about the All-State band they have here and I was really excited to audition. Well he offered to buy all the books and music I need and even pay for the audition fee so I was even more excited. He "forgot" about it then when he finally brought all the stuff, the auditions were only a week away! There was NO WAY I could have learned all that music perfectly in like 5 days (I tried). It's ridiculous... and I missed auditions. Now I have to wait ANOTHER year to get in. -sighs- ha ha anyway I'm new here!

ugh that would make me VERY mad!!

At my school(I live in Iowa.. my school is a VERY big public school and we have a crazy good music program) All-State is a pretty big deal. We actually have to audition to be able to audition as each school can only send 28 members from each band, vocal and orchestra. (28 from band, 28 from orch etc) and theres quite a few that want to audition but don't get to.

This year was my first year making All-State and it was A TON of work.. and according to my teacher, its really hard to know where you stand within your whole state if you are at a smaller school.. and having competition (we have an INCREDIBLY competitive school, particularly in the flutes.. at our audition center 5 flutes out of about 40 are selected. This year three of the 5 were from my school) and ya..

But anyway, that really stinks! Start preparing EARLY (our auditions are in october, i started my solo and stuff in June.. and exerpts come out in August for us.. the festival is the week before Thanksgiving

Good luck!!

Our choir teacher is kind of like that (but not as bad). I have an all-state honor choir audition this weekend, and we just started working on the music this week! Everyone in choir is mad because we don't know the music! Our choir teacher is really nice, but I don't like that she is so un-organized!

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I don't mean to sound mean at all, she is a very good teacher, I just don't really like it when she is un-organized.