Good luck with the MD A-S audition. I played in the All-Maryland High School Orchestra back in 1950 (violin) and 1951 (cello). I think it was much easier to get into A-S back in those days. I recall that in 1951 Leroy Anderson was our conductor. In those days, the A-S orchestra meeting coincided with the MD teachers' convention in Baltimore, for which we played our concert. I lived in Frederick in those years, and was also a charter member of the "Hood-Frederick" Orchestra (as a cellist). It combined the few girl musicians at Hood, with "townies" from communities around Frederick and all the way to Hagerstown. The concertmaster was a Hood student who had studied with Persinger.