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15:16 on 01.13.03
"music and stage"

We all know that I have a passion for music and the stage and theater, etc. But I haven't given a full history. And I feel like writing it. So here we go.

Musical Experiences

I guess that you could say my musical history began when my parents bought me that little kid keyboard and the 'saxophone' that made a couple of sounds and doubled as a bubble blower. It all began then.

No, I'm kidding. As an elementary schooler, I did little things like Christmas choirs and little singing things. (I could sing... The puberty hit and bam! my voice got a lil bit lower - no joke.) I joined the chorus in fourth grade and did six concerts with it, two each year until sixth grade.

In fifth grade, I joined the band. Ans guess what? I played flute. We had our first concert in the spring. It was okay. My band teacher had a habit of choosing pieces in which the flutists would sit out for sixteen or so measures at a time. Hm... I got quite mad about that.

I spent both of those summers playing my flute in a choir camp orchestra. I had just started and could barely play but I did it anyway. 'Twas so much fun. I also played in that camp's handbell choir and I had to sing. Bleck. By then, all singing talent had been lost (or, at least, was beginning to be lost) and it was not fun at all.

In sixth grade, I bean my two year career as a handbell choir member and... You guessed it, I played handbells. Nothing much to it, pick up a bell, make some noise, stop the noise (dampen it, or whatever) and then get assigned to eight of the highest bells. Mucho fun. Then my nose got cut on glass at one of the rehearsals and my career as a handbell-er was promptly ended.

Seventh grade was full of fun. Um... One of the top flutes and the stand buddy of my best friend (who was the piccoloist... joy to my ears). I got to be in the jazz band (but that really didn't mean anything) which was a lot of fun, and I played in the select band. The select band was the group of seventh graders who got to provide live music for the eighth grade moving up ceremony.

That summer I attended Mr. D's band camp and had what was then the time of my life, musically. We played cool music, not the dinky band stuff. And in two weeks we put together a performance that was better than the ones I had done with the school.

Eighth grade was good. Once again, I was at the top. My real disappointment that year was missing the cut for jazz band by, like, a hundredth of a point. Mr. D did this weird scoring system at the auditions (yes we had to audition for middle school jazz band) and I was off by .01 points. But I automatically got into honors band and we had a seperate concert for that.

Ninth grade was the turning point in my life. Musically speaking, of course. I was the top of the freshman band (I know, you have heard this all before, but whatever) and in the top five for the entire school. I met Cheryl, and I became mini-Cheryl. I had no problem with that. Mr. R also chose me for pep band, select band and wind ensemble. *happy*

That summer I was a... thing... um... high school mentor for Mr. D's band camp. It's fun. And I am going to do it again. If only I were payed for it.

This year, I am the principle flutist even though I am a sophomore. I also hold the first piccolo seat. In symphony orchestra, I am one of the two first flutists and the sole piccoloist. I was second flute (and only student musician) in the pit orchestra in our drama group's performance of "Cinderella". In the winter concert, I had a solo in the song "Shenendoah" by Frank Tichelli. Now we are working on a piece called "Movement for Rosa" by Mark Camphouse, which I have the flute solo in. (=

Stage Experiences

I am afraid that I do not have as much stage experience as I do with music, but I will try to make this interesting.

I vaguely remember doing Christmas pagaents and Thanksgiving plays when I was a young girl. Um... Yeah. Other early stage credits include 'Nancy Drew' in a play my friends and I wrote off of a Nancy Drew book. That was third grade.

In seventh grade, I was "Florence" in a comedy called the "XYZ Files" which was a parody of "The X Files". Florence was an over-reactive bouncy fun very-much-like-me information lady at a mall.

In eighth grade, I was Virginia in a really cheesy musical called "Rock around the Block". Yes I had to sing and dance but it was fun. It took place in the fifties and Virginia was a waitress.

I am afraid that that is it.

-Chelsea