Maintaining safety with half the band at a time

So we are going to continue with approximately half the band at a time, but instead of lines drawn strictly as sectionals, I’ve created two mini-ensembles with complete instrumentation. I thought of numbering them as 1 & 2, or A & B, but I didn’t want one to appear to be placed before the other.

So — Meet Neiman & Marcus, our sibling American shorthairs. They were rescues from a farm in Brewster. Emily Harrison helped us connect with the angel that found them and bottle fed them after their mother was killed on the road. So we’ll have the Neiman ensemble and the Marcus ensemble.

We’re going to have the Neiman ensemble rehearse on October 18 and the Marcus ensemble rehearse on October 25. Ron MacKenzie endorses this idea. Each ensemble has exactly 33 players, approximately half the total of the full group. Some players (who will be contacted) will play in both ensembles. By doing this, we’ll have a representative collection of the full instrumentation, and the potential of very successful rehearsals. I split each section down the middle. Trumpets, I used the Posy assignments for this division; we’ll just have to accept the unevenness of parts in some of the other pieces.

See the repertoire listed for the rehearsals on my front page. Complete the health screening form on Monday, also linked on the front page.

See below for the two ensemble rosters. See you either on one of the next two Mondays.

Neiman’s ensemble

Marcus’s ensemble