Story Time!!
D loves to babble about funny stories about band that happened a long time ago. People usually don't remember them, and now is my chance to tell everyone in cyberspace the funny times that I didn't put in the journal! Here goes...!
Symphonic Band Euphonist gets bored...!
Last year, when I was also in Symphonic Band, one of the euphoniumists got sick of rehearsing...and had a devious plan to carry out. Since Vitello was busy tuneing the clarinets, he started inching his chair off the riser. Quickly, he made it to the floor and hid behind the tympani. All the other band members around him are very confused. Joel continued to scoot around the percussion equipment, with only a stand as his shield. All of a sudden, V noticed that one of his precious euphonisms was gone. "Where's Sullivan?" He asked in his usual, sarcastic voice. "He...went in the back room to fix his euphonium." said one of the percussionists. "Well, whatever.." V responded and continued to work on getting the clarinets to play their part right. Joel sighed in relief as all of the people surrounding him tried not to laugh. By this time, Joel had made it off the riser, through percussion land, around the trumpets and was currently residing with the 2nd row of flutes. Carefully and cautiously we moved out of the way to see how far he could get without Mr. V noticing. In one tense moment, a stand almost tipped over, but we caught it, due to suprisingly quick reflexes for a drab period in SB. With his back still turned, Vitello was still oblivious to the euphonium player sitting pleasantly in the 1st row of flutes. When V finally decided to just let the clarinet players play out of tune, the whole band laughed. "Joel!!!! What are you doing?!?!!! Get back there where you belong!!!" Everyone was laughing too hard for V to get mad; and Joel trudged through the band back to his riser. What I still can't get over is that Vitello turned around and asked where he was, and believed that he was in the back room! How did he miss a euphonium sitting in the middle of the trumpet row?! Oh well...
More SB Follies!
In another extremely boring Symphonic rehearsal, D was doing her homework, as always. Since Bill was extremely fidgety, he kept doing things that severely angered Vitello. Vitello finally lost it and told Bill to go away. Smartly, Bill asked "Where do you want me to go?" Frustrated, V said, "I don't care, just get out of my face!". Laughing, Bill headed towards the door. He proceeded to open the door, then closed it; so Mr. V would think he left. Instead, he crouched down by the door, so V couldn't see him! He then found a little kazoo in his pocket, and decided to play a few notes. Just when he was having fun, Mr. E came out of his office. Bill held his breath as Mr. E walked by him and then into the music office. Just when we thought Bill was safe, Mr. Shaw walked into the band room and was right behind Bill. Being a strange guy, Mr. Shaw just looked at Bill and shrugged, and went on with his buisiness.
Squished Spiders
Way back when, in Middle School, the band room had a small insect problem. This was due to always having the side door open, for no reason at all. Mr. Case and Mr. Gawlak were oblivious to the fact that the band room and the practice rooms were crawling with small life forms. After being disgusted with the ants that were infesting the practice rooms, I retreated to my safe-haven, the band room. The next period, in the middle of band, a nervous aura swept across the first row. A gigantic, hairy spider was inching it's way closer and closer to the musicians. It could sense their fear. Realizing the first flutes were in extreme danger, Mr. Gawlak rushed to their rescue. Heroically, he jumped up and stepped on the beast, and smeared it's insides all over the floor. Mr. Gawlak seemed satisfied with his defeat, but the flutes were disgusted. For two weeks the decaying smear plagued the flute section with nausea. They waited and waited for the day that the revolting spider would be cleaned. Finally, that day came, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.
Clarinet Capers!
One normal and boring day in Syphonic Band last year, Vitello was being extremely anal about everything. This gave Dave and Liz a wonderful opportunity to play some jokes. The band was having problems playing a nice, balanced first note on Bacchanale. Sitting in the front row, I overheard Liz B. dare Dave K. to play a B natural instead of a Bb. Upon agreeing, he played the biggest B natural ever! Vitello immediatley stopped the band and asked the trumpets to play their note. Liz and Dave giggled at Vitello's inability to realize it was a clarinet. When the trumpets play perfectly, he asked to hear the clarinets....Dave this time played the right note. Shrugging, V went on to rehearse the rest of the piece! Hehe!
Ill Bandie Vomits During Concert!
It was the day of the summer band concert in the year 1999. D was only a wee little incoming freshie, but she still could participate in the summer festivities! The band was innocentley playing the 1812 Overture *I think*, and all of a sudden, Dave (previously mentioned) stood up in the middle of the song and ran to the side of the shell. Infront of the audience, he emptied his entire stomach beside the flowers on the side of the stage. I didn't even notice, I was too wrapped up in my music! =) Later on, we found out that he had food poisoning. Poor Dave. A few months later, before my first ever Clarence High School concert, I overheard Vitello tease Dave and tell him not to throw up this concert. Me and a few bandies who overheard couldn't help but laugh! =)
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