Thank you, everyone, for an extraordinary experience last night. The care which you showed all the students is a sign of your exceptional professionalism. I am hoping that we are able to schedule another  Side by Side concert at some point in the future. If you are a music educator and would be interested in such a program in your district, please contact me and let’s discuss how we could make it happen.

After the concert last night, I announced that I am CANCELING REHEARSAL this coming Monday, November 25. We had an excellent turnout for SxS and you deserve to have time given back to you. In place of our regular rehearsal, the Gounod and Dvorak chamber ensemble personnel (with whom I have spoken individually) will meet at the Irvington Presbyterian Church, main building in the Parlor. I will email PDF parts to you tomorrow. I will rehearse 7:30-8:30 Gounod, 8:30-9:45 Dvorak. Please bring a music stand and the parts I send tomorrow.

Our next full WSW rehearsal will be on December 2, back at Port Chester Middle School. I was mistaken when I said we had only one rehearsal there before the calendar year ends; because of concerts at TMH we are actually rehearsing at Port Chester on both December 2 & 16. We will read through all of the Winter cycle program. Please click here to see the Arutiunian errata, and transfer these corrections to your parts before December 2.

Also on December 2, I will be discussing the parameters of the current proposal from the Northshore Concert Band (based in Wilmette, Illinois, just north of Chicago) for a concert exchange program in 2015 and 2016. We need to take a  poll of our member to determine if we are going to pursue further discussions with Northshore for this project. Note that you will not be committing to participate at this point, only voting whether or not to continue discussions between our two Boards on the project.

Thank you again for a magnificent experience last night!