The rehearsal plan is ready to go for Monday. We have the soloists and Tom McCauley coming in tomorrow evening. I will also play “catch up” with the Bernstein movements I couldn’t get to last week.

Rachel will have tickets to distribute tomorrow night. Please remember to push selling tickets beyond your two comps — this concert is always a tough sell. Let’s pack TMH!

Last week Ben Acrish shared this article from School Band & Orchestra magazine, which features 50 music educators from the 50 states. Our guest conductor from Fall 2013, Rich Guillen, is the featured director from New York! Thanks to Ben for noticing and sharing this. Click the photo to see a PDF of the entire article.

I am very happy to announce that Mislav Forrester, trumpet, who auditioned for us last week, is joining us as a permanent member. He’ll be playing the January 25 concert and also traveling with us to Chicago. Please help us welcome him. We are working on filling in our ranks with subs for those who have conflicts with the Chicago trip and these plans are falling together nicely. We’ll announce the final trip roster when the last subs submit their written confirmations.

Be careful driving in the morning. Fortunately, the bad weather should be contained to the morning and we should be good for tomorrow evening.