Normal west high school wind ensemble.
After the students entered and got positioned on stage, a lady came out and lead some warm up exercises. These exercises helped the students with intonation by moving by half step up and down the scale. The students reacted well to these warm ups, even though they were not perfectly in tune with each other. After the warm ups, one of the students stood up in front of the ensemble and tuned the ensemble. After the band was tuned the director came on stage and started the piece. The conductor was very mobile on the podium and did a lot of leaning towards different sections, she also used a lot of right and left hand cues, which the band took very well. The band was very responsive to the conductors and most of them kept very good eye contact on the conductor. Something else that i noticed is that the conductor conducted very leniently and would often stop conducting and just let the band have most of the control of the piece. The students did very well in this kind of position and the result of their music was impressive.
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