Weird Things my Director has Said
My friend and I noticed that our director was saying some pretty weird stuff, so we started collecting them.
- Even though it’s a song about a dead baby, we still want it to sound lively (about Pavane by Ravel)
- Imagine these eighth notes are babies. Now, we don’t want to squish those babies.
- Oh, come on, now we have squished babies!
- 1, 2, 3, CHINA!
- Wimpo extremo is not a dynamic!
- The reason we are called the advanced orchestra is because we don’t sound like poop anymore.
- You don’t have a snowball’s chance in... any hot place.
- Open E’s are the bane of the string player’s existence.
-If your Halloween costume is just a guy going to school, that’s not a Halloween costume, that’s just you being lazy. (about our Halloween concert)
- Metzo is a code word for boring.
- Pine trees are made out of wood, not flabby rubber!
- The golden rule of shifting is not to pull other people’s hair out.
- Stop looking at the boring things in orchestra and look at the interesting things. Like my face.
- I’ll start a ritardando whenever I darn want to!
- If your biceps tense up, you should hold on to your shirt.
- Once the cellos and the violas have the melody, first violins become second violins, not dancing monkeys!
More coming soon!