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 Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 12:20 am
Not really sure if this is considered a repeat thread or not. But I hope not, mainly because it's specifically concert band/orchestra.
Perhaps the best moment happened on a Tuesday night rehearsal, my friend managed to drop her flute off of the stage. XD
She was twirling between her hands with the footjoint on the ground when she slipped, attempted to catch it with her foot, and ended up half-kicking it off of the stage. It was hillarious.
She's blonde too, which just adds to the hillarity of it.
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:43 am
During graduation last year, two of our drummers were getting ready to play the recessional as the graduates were singing the Alma Mater. Then, right in the middle of the song, they dropped the crash cymbal on the floor, stopping the entire ceremony! sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 12:22 pm
That's more...disasterous O.O Yet...somehow still amusing. XD
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:11 pm
I thought the funniest moment in was when my director was directing a fast song and the banton, flew out of his hands, almost hitting the flutes. It was kinda funny also, when we finished a song and the bell rung for lunch right as we finished. Ahh band class my favourite class. I remember all the awesome band trips, like New York, Banff, and California. BAND GEEKS FOREVER mrgreen mrgreen mrgreen mrgreen mrgreen
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:16 pm
I also remeber when i was in grade 8 a girl in my section (clarinet), had her instrument in rest and when we were signaled to put in play postion, her bell on her clarinet fell off, ahh it was hilarious.
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 6:21 pm
When I was a freshman, we broke my BD's baton right before a concert. Our clarinet section leader poked me with it, and it snapped right in half. It was hilarious.
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 5:48 pm
During marching season our lines meshed and then separated...Well, my friend Kait got smacked in the back of the head with a trombone slide...She fell really fast to the ground and screamed out, "Ow! YOU IDIOT!!!" Then she chased after him w/ her trumpet in clubbing position.
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 9:56 am
This didn't happen to the school's orchestra, but it happened to this orchestra that was playing for an opera...
In the orchestra pit...
One french horn player spilled water on the french horn guy next to him, and the guy was like: HEY!
The clarinet player was playing/practicing a scale during intermission, and he played a VERY false note VERY loud. (It was funny/embarassing).
On TV, a violinist sat next to a harp lady, and his bow kept poking the harpist as the violinist was playing. The harpist kept brushing off the bow, and she finally told the violinist to "Stop."
Next time you're at an opera/musical (or anything with a live orchestra/band), watch the orchestra pit. The most random things happen in there.
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:19 pm
Well...
At my first fall concert in high school, we were required to show up an hour before show time...So, I was there, and I got bored sitting in the band room, and no one was rehearsing on the stage. So, a bunch of people were out there screwing around and talking Mr. D. (Our BD...Well, my old BD.)
And I went out there to go talk to my friends...Now, that stage was probably a good three feet high if not higher, possibly nearly four. So, I go to jump off the end of the stage and talk, but someone called my name as I went, I got distracted, and (Because I have crazy bad weird ankles), my leg like, folded under me right at the edge and I just slid right off the stage and onto the floor. It hurt like hell and Mr. D was just like "WOAH!.....=_= Are you okay...?"
And I just started laughing and laughing. I couldn't stop for a minute. Later, after the concert as I was slipping off my concert uniform, we realized I had a huge bruise on my hip and all over my legs. It was really funny till the next day when people kept bumping me in the halls. >.<
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:46 pm
I know a story like that! Only it's less funny sweatdrop
Before I came to the highschool on a Tuesday night rehearsal, a girl was heading to the bathroom or to the sectional lessons and she fell off the stage. Only, this wasn't just any fall, she broke her freakin' leg. Someone called 911 (probably one of our two BDs) and the band kept on playing, ignoring the girl that was being tended to in the orchestra pit where she had fallen.
Ya, ouch either way. xP
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:54 am
freshmen year. we had two BDs at the time, one was mr hale. he was a new one pretty young, the other one which everyone luvs wasn't conducting that song.
he was going over a part in the piece where most ppl didn't play alot, especially the clarinets.. i think my section (trumpets) played more them so maybe that's y i only saw the end of this.
anyways, the head of the 3rd clarnets (also dragovichs, she's main bd, unoffical adopted child that can get away with anything with her) decided it would be funny to use the curtian to cover up the thrid clarinets. and he did. bit by bit. he half covered this girl sabrina. it was freakin funny, he still didn't notice that many clarinets, and a half of one, disappered. rofl then drags (her nickname) comes up from behind and RIPS the curtain from in front of them! in the process knocking all there stands over, music flying everywhere. no one could stop laughing rofl
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Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 10:06 pm
Not necessarily "favorite," but certainly memorable:
My orchestra was performing the third Mozart violin concerto for a concert that was being recorded, and we'd just reached the last part of the first movement, where the full orchestra drops out for the cadenza, so the soloist could do her stuff. Well, the orchestra had hit the lead-in chord (a 6/4? It's been months since theory class), and just then a baby's wail rose from the audience, perfectly timed with us. The soloist waited a moment, fortunately, before going off on her own.
I don't think I noticed it during the performance; you know how when you're playing in ensemble, you just kind of lose awareness of the audience and can only see your music, the conductor, and everyone else on stage? (Even though we weren't actually on a stage. We were performing in a church with great acoustics.) Anyway, I didn't hear that until I had a listen to the final CD, which turned out fine.
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:42 pm
Uh...has to be when one of our trumpets dropped his mouth piece under the stage, and someone dove under the stage to get it. It was quite funny...but of course you would have to be there. xD
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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:27 pm
My district honor band BD told a story about when he was playing timpanis in his college band. He said the cymbal player crashed the cymbals so hard that the leather strap broke and the cymbal was flying towards the trombone player, meanwhile our BD is trying to catch it and prevent the trombonist's death. I can just picture it as a slow motion sequence in a movie: leaping out courageously from behind the timpanis and bellowing "NOOOOOO!!!" Meanwhile the orchestra plays on, oblivious, but the conductor sees what's happening in the percussion section and lets out a silent scream, dropping his baton. Needless to say, I do have ~ahem~ doubts that this actually happened, but it's a great story xd
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Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 11:07 am
So. We're at rehearsal for district band when I was in 8th grade.
We were in full band, except for the flutes and clarinets that were working on a percussive section in another room. The director is in teh back, helping the percussionists work out their line. We're in the Duke Ellington Ballroom at NIU. It's got this lovely hardwood floor (do take note of this fact).
With the flutes and clarinets in another room, the row that I was in was in the front. SO I'm sitting next to these three bass clarinet players who all have fairly new, shiney bass clarinets. And I have my 50-year-old clunker with no pin, just a neckstrap.
We were sitting there in silence, the percussionists in teh background when all of the sudden-
CLANG!!!!!!!
My bell slid off of the worn-out cork and hit the ballroom floor.
The other bass clarinetists just stared at me, I kind of wanted to die. But it was really funny. After the initial shock of "HOLY CRAP MY INSTRUMENT JUST FELL APART," we started laughing.
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