I have unfortunate news. I spoke with Amy Wilcox this morning. She started to feel ill on Thursday morning, worked through it at her musical theater pit rehearsal Thursday evening (the reason that she could not attend our re-scheduled dress rehearsal), but felt worse through yesterday to this morning, and went to the doctor. She has bronchitis, but worse, she also has conjunctivitis (“pink eye”) and is contagious through tomorrow. The doctor even recommended that she stay home from school on Monday. So please join me in offering our best wishes to Amy for a quick recovery.

This means, of course, that she cannot attend or perform with us tomorrow. In the wake of this news, I will conduct the Hackett. Since Amy cannot come tomorrow, there is no reason to ask everyone to come in early. So I’m moving our setup time back to 12:30 pm, and our downbeat time for the sound check back to 1:00 pm (the usual times for Sunday afternoon concerts). I intend to stop by 2:00 pm to give everyone a full hour rest before the concert begins. The saxophone section had graciously offered to foot the bill for pizza for everyone, but we are also canceling that. We’ll take the saxes up on their kind offer another day. So please eat before you arrive.

The forecast is calling for light snow in the late afternoon/evening, accumulating 1-3″ by Monday morning. So I think we will dodge that bullet.

Rest up, play a little today to keep your chops in gear, and invite one more neighbor to the concert. Remember to leave a little extra time to find parking in the snow, and we’ll see you tomorrow at 12:30 to set up, 1:00 to start our sound check.