Band Update

So I'm in a high school band of 17 wind players and 5 or 6 percussion. I currently play trumpet for marching, yet I'm usually a euphonium/baritone player. At the end of last school year, I offered my services of adaptability and said that I wouldn't mind switching to trumpet from baritone...but just for marching balance purposes (there would have only been one trumpet, so I thought it would be nice to take one for the team). I hadn't played trumpet for 5 years, but I wasn't about to let something as trivial as the passage of time, lack of experience, or the possession of a fading middle school treble clef knowledge stop me. Oops...within around 2 days of playing, I was able to play the entire first-chair part of our marching show for next year. I knew that the other trumpet player would be getting his braces off soon, so his sound and volume would improve as well. So I figured the switch wouldn't be so bad, and it was just for marching season, right?

Wrong. I just got told today that I am expected and "needed" to stay on trumpet for concert season. Now, I enjoy marching and all that, but concert season is what I look forward to in band all year long. And I was expecting to play my beloved Bartholomew (yes...I name my instruments) and getting to play my loud, low, repetitive, rhythmic parts of concert band. Allow me to put this in terms that are more easily related to the general audience: Imagine happily sitting on a couch and watching some TV. Your wife is in the chair adjacent to you, and she is shivering. Now, you're a nice guy, so you walk over, turn up the thermostat, and get her a blanket. Problem solved. A sacrifice was made, a long-term solution was applied for when you aren't there, and a short-term solution was applied because you were there that time. Now I'm being asked to stand there away from the TV, ready to cover the band with a blanket even though the heat is on. Meh...hope this doesn't interfere with the baritone auditions that I've have to do.

On the bright side, trumpet parts are always more exciting, and the band director is talking of taking us seniors for more challenging things while he works with the underclassmen.