Band Concert

I sometimes play Magic with a group of folks.  We officially get together every other Wednesday night for a few hours.  It's a lot of fun.  Not everyone makes it every time, but somewhere around 6-10 usually do.  I'd like to make it every time, but realistically I shoot for about once a month.  Today was going to be that day for me ... but Ben had his Christmas band concert tonight.

The concert was good.  I mean, it was a high school band so it sounded like a high school band.  On the final number, a piece called Winter Storm, or something like that, Ben got to play timpani and he sounded fantastic.

The concert was really short.  In past years, each of the school's bands played about 15-20 minutes or so.  It would last a total of about an hour.  There's just not room in the auditorium to accomodate all the attendees, though. So this year they split it up.  The auditorium was a little over half full for the one band and they got to play for a full 1/2 hour.

Last year Ashwaubenon approved a school funding referendum to build a new auditorium.  It should be done by next year and will have the capacity to support a concert with all the bands again.  It'll be nice.