Mr. N

Today was a typical day in orchestra.

Basically, it started with ER complaining that she couldn't sleep last night because she had the Triangle dance stuck in her head, and Mr. N responded with the fact that they had just talked about her mental status on Monday.

We began with a warm up in the High Tech book.  Although he keeps making us doing really boring études in complete unison, at least he realizes that we all hate it.  We then turned to the Geometric Dances.  This dance contains a section which goes, according to Mr. N, something like this:

Da, Da, Da da da, Da, Da, Da, Da da da, Da, Da da da, Surprise!!!!!!

The entire class cracked up laughing.  Fortunately, he was able to get our focus back to play the next piece.

Everyone that either is in/has been in orchestra has an opinion of Mr. N.  I love him.  He may not be a orchestra specialist, but he makes a good effort to learn what he needs to learn.  Also, being a piano guy, he knows a ton about the theory behind each of our pieces.  I imagine he is a great teacher of the AP Music Theory class.

Also, his sense of humor is incredible.  Part of the humor is in the fact that when he presents a fact, he is normally all over the place.  Also, he will occasionally crack a really cheesy joke, and make it clear that its cheesy (he and NS worked really well together).

Some people complain that his sense of recruitment is overdone, but that makes sense.  The size of the orchestra is ridiculously small.  I can't imagine the band is much better.  The problem isn't him, the problem is that we don't do anything.

He is one of the major reasons I stuck with orchestra this year.  It's getting smaller and smaller.  I really don't know why.

-NM