Ridgeview is part of the Heart of Illinois Conference (HOIC), and each year the music teachers choose a handful of students from band and choir to spend a day at the HOIC Honors Music Festival. This year, Sylvia and Caeden were both chosen to play in the band. They spent the day rehearsing at the ISU Center for Performing Arts with a guest conductor, and we went to their wonderful concert tonight.
Sylvia played her horn.
Caeden played percussion, so he switched instruments for each piece and played triangle, crash symbols, glockenspiel, and the concert bass drum.
The two of them had very different experiences today. While Sylvia enjoyed the music, one of the girls next to her insulted and criticized her all day long, and she was emotionally exhausted by the end of the day. Caeden, on the other hand, enjoyed his friends in the percussion section and others he met in the band.
Here is a YouTube playlist of 4 of the pieces they played:
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