#orchestra rehearsals that year sucked ASS

[connanro]

i'm listening to a recording of the mozart clarinet quintet my chamber group sophomore year made and it's a little painful....like @ me you're the first violinist did you not practise your solos???????

[autistic-shaiapouf]

I walk past the theater kids at a table yelling lyrics from the musical they're all in but I do so with caution knowing full well that, in a different timeline, I would also be at the table

[firelord-frowny]

speaking of music, and speaking of things i hate,

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so like. 

in the ~classical music~ world, there are these things called ~festivals.~ Not like coachella or whatever. these festivals are mostly an educational thing for music students. festivals can be for specific age groups, or skill levels, or both. they’re almost kinda mandatory - every professional player has attended festivals as a student. I’ve been to four, but a lot of people attend/attended them almost every year, sometimes multiple festivals per year. 

You almost always have to audition to get in. And for more prestigious festivals, those auditions are HELLA selective. Like... they’re only accepting players who are already more-or-less at a professional level. Maybe they wouldn’t win an audition for concertmaster of Berliner, but they could definitely be making a super solid living via gigs and teaching if that’s what they wanted to do. 

The faculty at these festivals are usually ~distinguished~ professors and performers from all over the world. Concertmasters, soloists, esteemed chamber musicians... if you’re on the faculty at a noteworthy festival, you’re Somebody in the classical music world. 

And basically, it’s supposed to be a setting where students can get intensive, higher-level training, and gain experience in collaborating with other players, learning how to function as a unit in a chamber group or orchestra, blah blah. 

But SOMETIMES at these festivals, there will be these random-ass students who just... 

suck. 

They’re nowhere NEAR the level of every other player. And their ineptitude is glaringly obvious in every rehearsal. And their peer are ALWAYS frustrated because it’s just unnecessarily difficult to still do your own best when there’s someone in the group who isn’t playing in tune, or who’s rhythms are off, or who’s just generally unable to keep up at all whatsoever. And then it’s also demoralizing to the one who sucks, because now they feel like shit for being the obvious Weak Link. 

And those sucky students are AAAAALLLLWWWWAAAAAAYS the private student of one of the professors who are faculty members. They didn’t audition to get in, because if they had, they would have been turned away unanimously. But for SOOOOME REASON, these professors think that Their Student is somehow special or important enough to still deserve to participate. Nevermind how it’s going to negatively impact the learning of all the other students who actually auditioned, and who are actually able to play the shit they’re there to play. Nevermind how it’s going to impact the confidence of the student who’s so far behind that they can’t play a single measure without obvious errors. 

It’s so maddening to me bc like...

There are programs suitable for students who aren’t super advanced yet. There are programs for intermediate-level players where they can gain experience in chamber music and orchestral repertoire, and take lessons with gifted teachers. A student who’s struggling to get through Suzuki book 4 and can’t play play the dotted rhytms in Mozart’s “The Hunt” does not need to be at a festival alongside students who are playing Prokofiev Sonatas and Janacek string quartets. It doesn’t do anything useful for ANYONE! It only makes everyone’s experience worse! 

[ao3feed-haikyuu]

They call me "emotional" but I prefer "a musician"

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by Crazyfanboi

“Kage- Kageyama? Hello? You still alive?”

“Five”

“Huh?”

“You have five minutes to get ready and get your fucking ass over here”

“Wha-”

“It’s Saturday”

“Yeeeessss?”

“Of the 5th of July”

“Yes, dates, I am familiar with them”

“.....I- You fucking idiot, boke. WE HAVE REHEARSAL”

It was in this moment that Hinata knew he fucked up…..veeerrry badly.

“OH SHI-”

So basically, I'm your crack narrator(not all the time, I'm pretty chill) and this is a musician AU slice of life for the Haikyuu gang featuring mainly the Karasuno 1st years(Hinata will be the main protag) but mostly everyone is going to make an appearance.

I hope you enjoy!

Words: 464, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Haikyuu!!

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Gen

Characters: Hinata Shouyou, Kageyama Tobio, Tsukishima Kei, Yachi Hitoka, Yamaguchi Tadashi, Karasuno Volleyball Club, Other Character Tags to Be Added

Relationships: Hinata Shouyou & Kageyama Tobio, Hinata Shouyou & Tsukishima Kei, Hinata Shouyou & Yachi Hitoka, Hinata Shouyou & Yamaguchi Tadashi, Hinata Shouyou & Everyone, Hinata Shouyou & Kageyama Tobio & Tsukishima Kei & Yachi Hitoka & Yamaguchi Tadashi, Other Relationship Tags to Be Added

Additional Tags: Slice of Life, Karasuno gang but instead of volleyball it's music, muscian au, just a little bit of crack, ok maybe a lot of crack, Author as narrator, Switches between point of views, I'm gonna try to make it as clear as possible for that part, Ok so my tags got deleted and I'm sad cause they were so fun, Like sooooo much fun, f in chat for my tags, Hinata Shouyou is Sunshine, But he's also sometimes deadass done with life, Tsukki is salty french, Yachi is innocent but not and full of anxiety and I relate, Yamaguchi is wholesome boy that is seriously the MVP for dealing with them, he's the only sane one, sometimes, not really - Freeform, They're all wack, Tsukki plays trombone, Yachi plays oboe, Yamaguchi plays French horn, Kageyama plays marimba, Hinata plays clarinet, both Bb and Eb, he switches between them, I had a hard time picking their instruments, Oboe is perfect for Yachi and you can fight me on that, tsukki reminded me of a trombone player I know, Yamaguchi reminds me of a french horn player, but he also has the sort of stable feel horn players give off sometimes, I gave Hinata clarinet cause one I play it, and two you can sound shit, but there's a lot of potential to sound amazing, I literally chose to write this over sleep, I have to practice tomorrow, I was supposed to research college audition requirements today, I'm actually gonna suck at them, RIP my semi normal sleep schedule, These tags are still chaotic so I approve of them, I'm high off sleep deprivation, I don't know what the fuck I'm doing with this honestly, Help, Sneak peek of the life of a high school musician, Basically my life but Haikyuu, I was gonna make Kageyama play bassoon but nah, I gave him marimba instead, 1st years are all in a chamber group together, It's so unbalanced, Sort Of, Probably weird cause there's no trumpet, Karasuno gang are an orchestra, I'm gonna make Johzenji a jazz band, It's perfect for them, not sure about the others

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