List #234: Band memories

List #234: A woefully inadequate list of EHS Band memories

1. Torm
2. The French Horn sectionals and defecting to the FHorn section in Wind Ensemble
3. When the 2nd Trumpets had 17 total notes in the giant all-music-department holiday concert finale.
4. The UMD jazz combo that played at the after concert party
5. Pops concert with Steve Vecchi
6. Pops concert with Ruth Dodge
7. Playing a Barry Mannilow medly when he was in the DECC giving a concert
8. 2nd Suite in F, The Lord of the Rings music (De Meij), Dies Natalis, and Valdres March
9. The Norwegian thing that Brad Bombardier wrote for torm
10. Vice Presidenting senior year
11. Looking up to/Idolizing Nick and Nate and Andy B.
12. Jumping out the window by the French Horn shelf on the last day
13. The Blues Brother's and pizza party
14. Being 2nd chair in concert band in 10th grade and sitting next to Chris Russo (and being called Superfly)
15. Getting a letter from the Edina band (see list #233)
16. Concert Band, Jazz Band and Wind Ensemble (with a study hall that overlapped with both Red Band and Symphonic Band) senior year
17. Making jokes about the choir and choir director during the holiday concert
18. super awesome friends
19. #19
20. Hans' dyed-white choppers for Christmas City
21. Florida (see Sub List A

Sub List A: Florida Trip memories
a) Taking pictures in the "backstage" areas of Disney (when they told us not to)
b) wearing those awful furry black hats and suits in the 98 degree heat/humidity
c) completely jumping the gun on an entrance in the contest piece (in the spot where Torm specifically told us not to screw up.... yeah... that was me... sorry)
d) 'My main concern right now is getting everyone on the tram(p)'
e) Hans' autograph book for his younger sister (and how "Sam Addams" signed it)
f) the beach
g) the crowd of boys that followed Sarah Fisher every where at the water park (and how just rumor that she was going to the pool was enough to get our trumpet sectional cancelled)
h) playing a really good solo on Samba De Carrera in the jazz band concert
i) running into my good pal Chad at the Waterworld boat
j) learning Cribbage from Paco on the flight home