Post-concert joy and thanks

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Dear WSW friends,

I apologize for taking so long to write this note of thanks for your outstanding work last Saturday night. Upon returning to civilian life on Sunday, there was a whole week of stuff that needed my full attention. And I’m just coming up for air now.

It took 27 months for us to return to a full 60-program-minutes-with-intermission concert at TMH. There were many dark days for us, both individually and collectively, during that time. But we managed, and you made this happen, through your tenacity and resilience. I’m grateful to every single player in the ensemble for bringing your A-game to the performance once again.

I’m particularly grateful to:

  • David, for his devotion to all the personnel tasks,
  • All the players who subbed a single rehearsal or the entire cycle,
  • Eric, for managing this large percussion program and helping to recruit additional players, and for managing our website, the web stream details, and helping me to keep this blog/site afloat,
  • Marge, for managing our treasury so adeptly, as well as all the F&F ticketing and Will Call reservations,
  • Ron, for his continuing professional advice during the pandemic,
  • Rachel, for running our most successful 50/50 to date,
  • Barbara and Joy, for the expertise and musicianship on keyboards and harp,
  • Joey & Matt, our amazing guest artists,
  • Barton, our incredible in-house arranger,
  • Rebecca and Greg, our marketing and PR life-lines,
  • Rich, our stage manager,
  • Nancy, our librarian,
  • Mary, for locating and transporting the herald trumpets
  • all of our donors and endowed chair patrons,
  • all members of both the Band Committee and Board for their assistance in running the mundane week-to-week tasks that make this organization click,
  • and again, you — our players. None of this happened without your willingness to go the distance with us.

I apologize if I left anyone in particular off of this list. Please know your contributions are nonetheless critical and appreciated.

There’s no rehearsal again on Monday (TMH is not available). We start up again with the Caramoor cycle on Monday, May 23 at 7:30 pm at TMH. Some music is already available via PDF’s in this folder, more will be posted as the arranger completes them, and the rest will be distributed that night. The rehearsal plan is already posted.