Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Wind orchestra club♪

I belong to wind orchestra club in Yamanashi University. I play the percussion instruments. I enjoy playing the instruments with about fifteen members. Shiho who write articles on this blog is one of club members.

We practice for five days per a week. It is very busy for us. Even so, all members practice hard because they love music!
In this summer, we performed famous music "Swan Lake" written by Tchaikovsky at wind orchestra contest. We couldn't get the excellent prize. But we could have a confidence to be able to perform the famous music and make a good memory.



Recently, we are going to take part in school festival on November and hold the regular concert on December. We practice many kinds of music for it. For example, classical music, jazz, samba, and so on. In addition, Sometimes we perform not only in a concert hall but also in a hospital and kindergarten. We are very active to encourage many people with music power!

4 comments:

Dave said...

Hi Miho! Being in the wind orchestra sounds like a lot of hard work. I don't play any instruments but have always been impressed with people who do. Recently, I started taking a class where we analyze renaissance, baroque, classical, romance music, and jazz music. This has helped me to appreciate composers and musicians like you even more. It's really cool that you don't play exclusively in concert halls, sharing your music with children and the ill.

Ana Caguiat said...

It's awesome that you're in the orchestra. It must be a lot of hard work but really rewarding at the same time. Which of the songs that you preform do you like best? I hope you have fun at the school festival and I'm sure you'll do very well!
-Ana

Miho said...

To dave
Thank you for writing a comment.
I'm interested in your class! I want to take such a class sometime.
When I played in hospital, many eldery listened to our music with a smile. It was encouraged us to practice!

Miho said...

To ana caguitat
Thank you for writing a comment.
I can't decede the best song that I performed. But I especially enjoy playing movies music. For example, "Pirates of Caribbean", "Star Wars", and so on.
At the school festival, we are going to parade the street around our university.