Hannah's Orchestra Camp

NEW POST ALERT! ...... Hannah attended a week long camp at UT-Arlington a couple weeks ago and loved it!   They had a concert on the final night and Randy's sister, Joanne, and her family were able to come over from the farm in Arkansas to watch.  They also got to see Abbi play softball the next day.

Here's a picture of Hannah with Aunt Joanne after the concert.

The camp was for students going into 8th-12th grade, and they had 6 orchestras.  BRAG ALERT!  Hannah made the 2nd from the top orchestra and was originally seated 20th chair Viola, but when they re-auditioned on Thursday, Hannah made 1st Chair!  She also rec'd the Most Improved award for that orchestra and gets 1/3 discount off next year's tuition.  Best of all she had a terrific time and made some new friends and wants to go again next summer.

Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra

Hannah auditioned for the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra - www.gdyo.org back in March and was notified recently that she was accepted into the Dallas String Ensemble part of it.  This will start in September and go through the 08-09 school year.   The main orchestra gets to go on an international tour every 3-4 years, so she is hoping she will be able to go in a couple years.  Here's a picture from her final Middle School orchestra concert.   She had a solo and Randy taped it, but I don't know how to post a video.