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Xenon - While your presence at the TMEA Honor Band listening sessions is undeniable - one has to question the level of attention given to the actual performances when mistakes are made in the reporting of your opinions. In a post that you made - you compare Coppell High School's performance of School for Scandal with Marcus High School's performance of Tunbridge Faire. I was in attendance at Flower Mound at the listening session, and I hate to report that you never heard Tunbridge Faire. What you heard (and was announced by the recording engineer) was Bach's Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue. UIL Forms is a great resource to find out what everyone is playing at UIL, but it certainly is not an accurate account of what everyone puts on their honor band tape. Mistakes happen. I personally don't mind one way or the other, because I was able to attend and enjoy the performances of all the schools for myself, but many people look to these forums for accurate information and accounts of these events. To confuse a piece written in 1950 by an American composer named Walter Piston that lasts about 5:00 with a piece written in 1708 by a German composer named J.S Bach that lasts about 15:00 is a little scary. I don't mean the tone of this to be rude - just concerned. It just makes one think that you may not have been giving your full attention to the listening as one would hope when they read your accounts of the performances. Thank you for the service you provide all of the readers of this forum but please strive to provide us all with reliable information in the process. Thanks! -Band Enthusiast