This quarter my saxophone quartet was invited to play this piece with the wind ensemble. This piece was a lot of fun and was a hybrid of traditional wind band music and jazz. This was also the first time I have performed a concerto with a large ensemble. It required a lot of work to put this piece together. We had sectionals twice a week along with wind ensemble rehearsals, and with the other pieces I was working on meant I was playing three to four hours a day. I feel like I have grown a lot as a player this quarter and its been great work with such amazing saxophonists.

My first artifact is one of the papers I wrote about the train systems of the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle and how they have historically displaced marginalized groups. Honors 391 is the first big 5 credit honors class I have taken. This class was about the the connections between the physical and cultural landscapes in the Seattle area. In this class we saw that the manipulation of the physical landscape has harmed minority groups in the area. Eventually, we got to work in groups to focus on indivudual neighborhoods and are putting the entire classes research together into a website. This project gave helped me learn how to do research especially on topics without much information. Overall I thought it was interesting to learn some of the hidden history of the areas I have grown up around.