Unless you were an orchestra kid in high school, you don’t understand the joys and struggles of playing Beethoven bright and early first period, your teacher hosting a birthday party for Giuseppe Verdi (trust me, it happened), and the anticipated music field trips and festivals each year. We know the feeling of geeking out over classical music, breaking a string, or constantly searching for rosin to borrow. If you relate to any of these, congratulations you’re an orchestra kid!
1) Getting new music at the beginning of the school year!
2) Were you ever really sure if you tuned your instrument correctly? Eh.
3) Your conductor during a crescendo
4) How you think you sound
5) How you really sound
6) Can’t forget to count your beats
7) The legit STRESS of flipping the sheet music
8) Geeking out over classical music
9) Viola davis appreciation post… (now back to the other kind of violas)
10) Your conductor was extra
11) Playing F# in full confidence when it was an F natural
12) “Do you have rosin I could borrow?”
13) That feeling when it’s pp but the group is playing F
14) Breaking a string.. And feeling like it was the end of the world
15) Canon in the d or hot cross buns anybody?
16) How you feel when the orchestra nails the ending
17) And the scene from The Titanic gets you every time
18) When you’ve been practicing for hours and you keep messing up
19) Losing your place and fake playing
20) You despise, but love orchestra jokes
21) And lastly, what you wanted to do when that one kid could never stop playing/plucking when the teacher was talking
Whether you were team violin, team viola, team cello or team bass, at the end of the day you love your orchestra family and wouldn’t trade it for the world. All of your achievements, failures, jokes and memories could never be forgotten. #Dorkestra for life!
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