Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Job Well Done!


Congratulations to the Mankato East High School Concert Choir and their director, Robin Hughes on an OUTSTANDING performance at the Minnesota Music Educators Association Mid Winter Conference!

Monday, February 2, 2009

Goal: 100%


I must be on a theme of percentages lately! The last post made me think about how we have to always strive for a goal of 100% in music - we need 100% attendance at rehearsals and performances to be successful giving 100% effort in order to achieve as close to a 100% accuracy on our music as possible!

Will we achieve 100% accuracy? Probably not. But we need to push ourselves to do our very best each rehearsal which will translate into an excellent performance. Here is the equation you need to know: Concert Performance = average of performance during rehearsals. How scary is that?

Think of how 100% is applied to other things. How many pro basketball players or teams shoot 100%? If a team shoots 65% from the floor they are said to be having a "great game." If we settled for 65% accuracy on notes and rhythms we wouldn't sound very good!

Thank you for striving to give your best everyday. The word that pays this week is 100%.