Metro 8 2014 Results

Check your/your parents' emails for a wordy-er version of these simple results!

Congrats, EVERYONE!

All of you have done an outstanding job preparing and performing. Thank you for your dedication. If you were not accepted, please do not be disheartened. We had a lot of competition this year and the orchestra was a little smaller than we teachers were hoping. Be proud of the work you have done - I have seen so many of you working hard before/during/after school, and for that I more proud than anything. :-)

For those of you who were accepted, congrats!! You will be playing "The Unforgiven", October, Toccata (by Girolamo Frescobaldi/Higgins), and the Capriol Suite (by Peter Warlock...yes, the one we played last year!) I will have the music on Monday!

The Audition By The Numbers

Total Auditionees: 105

Total from West High: 37 (+4 from last year)

Total from West Middle: 3 (+2 from last year)

Total First Time Auditioners from West: 14

# of Violins auditioning: 58 First Violins accepted: 16 Firsts from West: 4

# of Violins from West: 22 (+2 from last year) Second Violins accepted: 16 Seconds from West: 5

# of Violas auditioning: 21 Violas accepted: 12

# of Violas from West: 7 (+2 from last year) Violas from FZW: 4

# of Celli auditioning: 12 Celli accepted: 10

# of Celli from West: 4 (same as last year) Celli from FZW: 4

# of Basses auditioning: 14 Basses accepted: 8

# of Basses from West: 5 (+1 from last year) Basses from FZW: 3

So…to point a few things out:

This was the largest turn out in West’s history!

We had nearly 40% of all auditionees.

14 of our 40 auditionees were doing so for the first time.

62 total students were accepted into the Orchestra

19 students from West are in the Orchestra

Listed below are the students who were accepted into the group, listed with their chair number and grade. Congrats again!

VIOLIN I

2 – Julian Lema (9) * first-time audtionee

3 – Aliyah Amerin (8) * first-time auditionee

8 – Safia Amerin (10)

14 – Lesley Golden (12)

VIOLIN II

1 – Emily Vago (10)

2 – Esther Won (12)

3 – Rachel Sengl (8) * first-time auditionee

8 – Leanna Conrad (12)

9 – Monica Marlett (11) * first-time auditionee

VIOLA

6 – Tyler Brugmann (12)

10 – Ed Scalise (10)

11 – Kayla Cunningham (11)

CELLI

4 – Chrissie Clauson (11)

5 – Joey Zuccarello (12)

6 – Hope Horvath (11)

8 – Abby Lewis (11)

BASSES

1 – Chase Mueller (11) * first-time auditionee

3 – Tyler Hoffmann (11)

8 – Johnny Wadkowski (12)