I'm from Indiana so I'm just curious how your honor bands work. Do you get harder music after making that first band?
Because in Indiana we just try out for the top band right away, and to get into a region or district band you apply at different times.
Anyways our all-state try-out music (at least on sax) is much more difficult than yours. When I was working on site-reading a couple of years ago during my lessons, we used your sax audition music for this year. For the Indiana All-State band, we get the audition music about 2 months before the audition date, and it is normally music that no one has ever seen before (not drawn from all these common books). We also have site reading in our audition.
I've always heard that Indiana has the best All-State band, but I've gotta love your marching bands!
