I went to the estedfords yesterday with band. I played with the Junior Concert, Junior Stage and Senior Concert bands. So thats one of Simon's bands, one of miss Badcok's bands and one of Mac's bands.
The Junior bands were both in the same section, along with Newtown's junior band and Ogalvie's junior band. Our Stage band played first, then our concert band - which is complecated for me and Hayley, cause we have to switch instruments. It's hard to say how good our bands were, cuse they sound different in them than they do when you're listening to them.
Newtown was good (unfortunately, cause I'd love to say they were awful - I'm schoolist against all guy schools). Ogalvie was bad. They weren't together and there was no sign of dinamics.
The Junior Stage Band came first (yay!). Newtown came second, but I'm not sure if thats cause they deserved it, or cause the aduticater felt it would be mean to give both the awards to Claza.
That aduticater really anoyed me. EVERY time she got up to anounce the winners, she would launch into this speach about how we all did well, and it was only her oppinion deciding on the winners, and if we thought we were the best then we were probably right, and to keep playing, and to not get all disapointed if we don't win. But she didn't just give us this speach once. She gave it EVERY SINGLE TIME SHE CAME ONTO THE STAGE. Which means I heared her ten minute speach on NOTHING, ABOUT FIVE TIMES!!!
Senior Concert Band lost to Friends. Thats cause even though the aduticater feels bad about deciding the winner on how well they played, she thinks its completely fair to give the award to Friends cause of their privet school uniform. She didn't like how we were a miss-matched bunch of stste school kids, she didn't like how half of us had our hair loose and 'covering our faces' and she especially didn't like the collection of long-haired boys in our bands. The fact that we were the only actuall state school (Newtown and Ogavie don't count) participating didn't get us extra points now, did it?
But at least this aduticater could hear what we were playing, even if our uniform ment more to her. The aduticater for the Clarence Eatedfords towards the end of the year is nearly deaf. It must be a really hard job to find decent aduticaters...*sigh*
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Presentation is important, carrot. First impressions and all that. Personally, if the hair is under control I don't care if you had long-haired boys in your band (but I don't really like long hair on boys anyway).
ReplyDeleteOgilvie and Newtown are state schools, they just think they aren't. (Just ask any of the old school tie networks about them...*wink*). All guy schools aren't so bad; academically speaking, boys do better when in a single sex learning environment.
I know adjudicators can be boring (and prejudiced!) but that's just part of competing. As I said above, appearances count. I hope that you get a new adjudicator at the eistedfodds later in the year...
Well done on your performances anyway!
Yeah, I know pressention is important. Thats why I was wearing my skirt and had my hair done nicely. Everyone from our school did actually look nice; just there were about five different versions of nice.
ReplyDeleteAnd I completely dissagree about all guy (and all girl, for that matter) schools. What could be more boring than a single-sex school?! And whats the point of them? High-school isn't about learning, so without both genders its pointless!
It is surely better to lose to Friends than to enemies (sorry, I couldn't help myself with that one).
ReplyDeleteCongratulations LadyJane for your skill at reading in context. It took me a couple of seconds to work out what "aduticater" meant - and I'm her mother.
Well thats how it sounds.
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