I want to congratulate everyone on a fabulous concert on Sunday. Thank you for your dedication, endurance, professionalism, and positivity which contributed to yet another successful program. 

My thanks go out to many people, in no particular order (and please forgive any omissions!):

• Thank you to Joe Bergamini for his outstanding rehearsals and performance of the Jager!
• Thank you to Gina Serafin for her beautiful and artistic oboe playing!
• Thank you to Robert Ambrose for his beautiful crafting of the Whitacre!
• Thank you to Tom for organizing the ad submissions and researching the WWI song lyrics!
• Thank you to Ed & Michelle Herko for hosting Robert Ambrose!
• Thank you to David Church for his thorough weekly accounting of our personnel, and especially for leveraging our use of the NRHS Band Room once again, on super-short notice!
• Thank you to Dan Daly for his wonderful introduction of the WWI medley.
• Thank you to Marianne Lepre-Nolan for her outreach research, which brought us Dan Daly and more Westchester County band students in our audience.
• Thank you to Chris Larsen and Jim Savage for their introductions of our honorees, Rob LaPorta and Capt. Ken Force.
• Thank you to Marge Hone for managing our Friends & Family tickets, Will Call, and CD sales. 
• Thank you to Bethany Larsen, Jean Sweeney, Rachel Eckhaus, and all the volunteers who helped with the 50-50 raffle, one of our biggest jackpots ever!
• Thank you to Dan Harrison for the opportunity to hear the NY Phil with Robert on Thursday night.
• Thank you to Emily Harrison for saving my butt on Sunday!
• Thank you to everyone who indulged my whim to program and perform the Schelle. Contemporary work for 2018-2019 . . . CHECK! 
• Thank you to everyone to invited concert patrons, promoted our concert season, sold ads, practiced diligently, and contributed to the positive team spirit of our ensemble!

Our next rehearsal is next Monday, November 19 at Tarrytown Music Hall. We cannot enter until 7:45 pm because of a 6:15 pm children’s theater performance, so please gather under the marquee by 7:30 pm so we can enter as soon as they are done and set up quickly.

Also note that we are holding a second round of auditions/call-backs at 5:30-7:00 pm in the 2nd floor Studio at the Music Hall, prior to our rehearsal on November 19. We are still in the process of casting singers in several roles. If you have someone to recommend, contact me as soon as possible!

I’m writing this from Atlanta, where I’m having a great time this week with Robert Ambrose and his wonderful Symphonic Wind Ensemble and graduate conducting students. Last evening I taught the undergrad Instrumental Methods class. Today, I joined Robert to teach three grad conducting lessons and conducted a rehearsal of the Cichy with his Symphonic Wind Ensemble. The kids were great, and very responsive. I’m teaching the grad Conducting Seminar on Thursday morning, our concert is Thursday evening, and I return Friday morning. See you Monday evening!