TMEA all-state excerpts

[TubaRay]

In Virginia, we have districts that each hold honor bands.
The audition material consists of 2 major scales, the chromatic scale, sight-reading, and a prepared etude.

Two major scales?!? I'm not sure which I find more disappointing. Is it Texas with NO major scales, or is it Virginia with TWO major scales. Is the implication that the vast majority of the music to be performed(by an all-state group) will be in one of two scales. Or do you mean that the audition only listens to two scales with the two being selected from several to be prepared. I understand the difficulties with the audition process that make hearing scales and sightreading a little problematic, however I still believe they should be included.

I wonder what the order of importance is in the adult world for the following skills:

1. sightreading
2. basic technique
3. playing Blazevich or whatever

I don't know why all all-state audition processes don't include sightreading.

[passion4tuba]

congrats. i missed it by one chair. Hopefully my hard work will pay off next year.

[passion4tuba]

i'm a junior. I didnt even try out freshman year and last year I didn't make it past phase 1. Reigon 3 is pretty tough (DFW area) but hopefully i'll get it next year.

[TexasBassBone]

I made TMEA 5A All-State this past Saturday.....they only take 1 bass bone from each area....there are 7...and I am one of them....YAY!

[euphoniumist]

One of my sophmore euphonium students made 5A All-State on Friday, I was very proud of him a great accomplishment. Well I check out his excerpts and what do I see the Damn Gatti etude we have been working on since September! AHHHH MAKE IT STOP!! I was looking forward to put that thing behind us, but its like a bad penny!!

[Getzeng50s]

idk, but I practice my sightreading quite a lot with ...... the copprasch(sp?) book.

Must play it all the time