Hannah Stoughten After much speculation on how PMEA would approach the Covid-19 pandemic, virtual auditions were held for District and Region concert bands. From Apollo-Ridge, Hannah Stoughton, Daniel Dunmire, Cole Rearick, Anna Sadowsky, Colton Nagg, Maddie Smoyer, and Adam Sproat played their best to try and advance onto the region band. Three students advanced – Dunmire, Rearick, and Stoughton.
The excerpts for the auditions were significantly more difficult than in the past, particularly for clarinets, with excerpts from Lincolnshire Posy by Percy Grainger and Clarinet Concerto in A Major from Mozart for auditioning into state bands. Unfortunately, none of our region instrumentalists advanced onto state bands, but they submitted excellent auditions and played them quite well. Compared to the past, the “festivals” were quite different from the past, as there were no physical festivals this year. Multiple students had attended festivals in the past, and it is saddening for them, particularly the only senior, Hannah Stoughton. Band members did not get to experience them as students have in the past, but they look forward to the future of PMEA.
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