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Terrific work today! Thank you for a full-throttle experience for our first concert of the season. The audience — the largest I’ve ever seen at Tarrytown — was certainly with you all the way, and you really delivered an exciting performance.

Thanks to go our guests, Joe Greco and Rick Henly, for contributing their experience and superb musicianship to today’s program. Thank you also to Gary, Katrina, and Bjorn, and the entire Tarrytown Music Hall staff, for their kind assistance. Thank you as well to our WSW Board, including Eric, Marge, Rachel, and Claudia, who work tirelessly on our behalf to produce these concerts.

But most of all, thank you to you, the performing members of our ensemble, for your devotion, practice, dedication, and belief in our organization. It is this strong sense of belief and pride in yourselves that has truly made a difference in the last four years. I am so lucky to be making this journey with you, and I extend my most sincere thanks to you all.

We start work on our February program a week from Monday, on November 14, at TMH. You already have the Puccini (for Kyunghee) and the van der Roost (which Matt will be conducitng). We will have new music to switch into the folders and old music to collect. We are renting one work this cycle, and it may not arrive in time for the first rehearsal. Please devote available practice time you have this week to the van der Roost; Matt will definitely be working on this piece next Monday (Puszta is for April & May), and we will read through as much of the rest of the February program as time allows.

I will be incommunicado for a few days this week beginning on Tuesday (a little surgery trip), but expect to be back up and running for our rehearsal on November 14. Thank you again for such a wonderful day. Have a great week!