Rehearsal This Week

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Monday, June 22 at 7:30 pm – rehearsal in Diller Hall/Allen Center for the Performing Arts and Technology at Hackley School

  • The school is located at 293 Benedict Avenue, Tarrytown, NY 10591. Pull into the signed entrance and then take the left fork immediately ahead of you. There is a large parking lot ahead/on the left. Park and take the stairs up to the Allen Center. Use the doors at the far right to enter the lobby.
  • If you’d like to drop off large instruments/equipment and then park, take the left fork, drive past the parking lot and up the hill, and pull into the covered circle to unload.
  • For concert days: Be aware that there is overflow parking past the Allen Center and up the hill.
  • Use the first 15 minutes to look around and explore. Diller Hall is beautiful and we want you to get to know it right away. Go ahead and use the lobby stairs to go up to the 2nd and 3rd rings and check out the view from there. When you’re ready, access the stage from the side hallways or the short stairway directly from the orchestra seating area to the stage.
  • Please do not leave cases and coats in the seats of the orchestra seating section. Instead, please use the backstage area or go to the second level stage right and use the Black Box Theater. That space will be open and available to us.

Rehearsal plan (tentative) – June 22

  • 7:30 pm – Explore Diller Hall and take selfies in and around the hall and with friends! Click here to open the shared folder created for members and share those photos in that folder. 
  • 7:45 pm – Take seats, Q&A as needed, tune
  • 7:50 pm – Sousa / Stars & Stripes. Have pencils ready for some changes.
  • 8:10 pm – Ticheli / American Elegy, with Jessica
  • 8:35 pm – Stretch
  • 8:45 pm – Tchaikovsky – 1812
  • 9:15 pm – arr. Green – WSW American Overture

Upcoming rehearsals

  • Monday, June 29 at Hackley School/All-Purpose Room at 7:30 pm (Smith/Williams, Green, Sousa – White Rose, all 3 vocal numbers, 1812)
  • Wednesday, July 1 at Hackley School/All-Purpose Room at 7:30 pm (full dress in program order; MaryKay Messenger will attend)
  • Saturday, July 4 at Caramoor/Venetian theater at 4:00 pm, dinner at 6:00 pm, performance at 8:00 pm. All performers should park in LOT E, unless you need to leave after the performance/before fireworks begin. Then tell the parking attendant that you’re with the orchestra but need to park next to the exit in Lot Z.

Music part downloads:
Caramoor parts are ready. Click here for the folder.

Donor campaign info: Annual Giving Campaign

This will support the band broadly in all areas, and will continue all season until next June.

Important links – Find these plus more resources on the Resources Page

LIBRARY/VERY IMPORTANT: We will continue to maintain an all-digital library in 2025-2026. All performing members and subs are responsible to download/print (or download to a iPad or similar device) and bring these parts to all rehearsals. Hard copies of parts will not be distributed. See my August 31 post regarding the two ForScore clinics we are offering to help acclimate new iPad users.

For reference only – rehearsal sites

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Northern Westchester
​236 S. Bedford Road, Bedford, NY 10506

New Rochelle High School, New Rochelle:
Click here for directions. GPS: Use 11 Braemer Avenue, New Rochelle.

Knights of Columbus:
327 Westchester Ave, Port Chester, NY 10573
There is no parking lot, but you can find street parking within a block or so. We typically rehearse on the lower level, which can be accessed directly from the side street, Exchange Place.

Irvington Presbyterian Church:
25 North Broadway, Irvington, NY  10533
There is parking in the circle in front of the church and in the lot along the side. Brass meet in the Parlor in the main building (use the side door) and Woodwinds meet in the annex building behind the main building. For more information, click here.

White Plains High School, 550 North Street, White Plains:
See map below. Use 550 North Street as GPS address. Cross street is Bryant Avenue, which has an exit directly off I-287. Although the address is North Street, it is easier to use the parking lot from the Bryant Avenue entrance because of one-way lanes on campus.
Enter from Bryant, then take the first right into the large parking lot. You’ll see the auditorium at the southeast corner of the parking lot. Depending on the weather, there may be a door propped open leading directly into the Auditorium from the parking lot; if not, use the double doors to the right, and walk around to your left.