This is Devon’s fourth and final year at the All State Music Festival. He always strives to get a better chair placement each year. This year, he encountered a mishap. A piece of sheet music was displaced in all the cello folders. When the association had discovered it, it delivered the missing sheet music to the local high school orchestra directors. Unfortunately for Devon, our local high school does not have an orchestra and our band director was unaware of the situation. He showed up on chair placement audition day and noticed an unfamiliar orchestral title on the excerpt announcement. After discovering he did not receive the music, he had to acquire the new music and practice for the audition that would take place in an hour. He made an impressive 8th chair despite of it.
