This past weekend, dozens of Kenai Peninsula students attended an event in Anchorage for which they and their teachers and coaches had been preparing them for weeks, maybe even months. It was a competition of sorts, and an assessment from the top professionals in their fields, to see how our students measure up to the rest of the state. This was the musicians' version of State Track Meets -- the ASAA Solo/Ensemble event that takes place locally at the individual school level, and finally in early May, culminates in the events in Anchorage.