Monday at White Plains again

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This week:

  • Rehearsal this week at WPHS again on Monday, October 23
  • Program ads
  • Joint performance with West Point Band
  • Featured area performers – Cassatt String Quartet

Rehearsal Monday at White Plains High School

We’re back at White Plains HS again on Monday because Pete Davidson booked a last-minute show in TMH again. See the posted rehearsal plan.

Program ads are due Monday

All ads for the season’s programs are due this coming Monday. Please give your materials to Tom Sweezey. For each ad, be sure to include:

  1. Completed ad form – this form is so important because it confirms the details of each ad. Please don’t forget to include this.
  2. Ad copy (the artwork that goes in the ad space). You can upload your PDF or JPG directly to this Google Drive dropbox.
  3. Payment, payable to WSW.

Joint performance(s) with the West Point Band – March 2024

Here is the information I can share at this time regarding our joint performance project. Please mark your calendars. We will put out a commitment form after the Fall Concert performance.

  • Performance in Eisenhower Hall at West Point – Commander Toven has invited us to share the concert with the West Band on Saturday, March 9 at 2:00 pm (snow date is Sunday, March 10 at 2:00 pm). This concert is already on the calendar at Eisenhower.
  • Commander Toven has invited us to consider a reprise concert to bookend the West Point appearance, to be played here in the Westchester area. We’ve booked White Plains High School Auditorium for one week later (Saturday, March 16 at 2:00 pm), hoping to keep the two performances close together. Final confirmation of this date is pending, as we still have to weigh the costs to be shared with the West Point Band.
  • Repertoire – We would play one half of this concert, and (likely) a combined finale. WSW rep will be chosen from works reprised from the Fall or Winter concerts, or programmed for the Spring concert. The combined finale selection will likely be a work that is not on any of the other concerts programmed for this season, to be rehearsed just for this occasion.
  • As you can see, Eisenhower Hall is a formidable theater, with over 4400 seats. This is a singularly remarkable opportunity for WSW.
  • As noted above, please mark your calendars and we will send out a commitment form shortly after the Fall Concert.

Cassatt String Quartet

Chris Larsen shared this information for a performance of the Cassatt String Quartet on Saturday, November 11 at Bethany Arts Community in Ossining (we rehearsed there once). Please consider supporting this performance.
The Cassatt String Quartet Concert returns to Bethany Arts Community this Fall! Join us on Saturday, November 11 at 5pm for an afternoon of Beethoven alongside great works of our time by living American composers, two of which feature trombonist Haim Avitsur.
For nearly 40 years, the Cassatt String Quartet has performed at venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Tanglewood, and Beijing’s Central Conservatory. Named for the great Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt, the quartet consists of violinists Muneko Otani and Jennifer Leshnower; violist Rosemary Nelis; and cellist Gwen Krosnick.
Program
Joan Tower: Trombone Quintet
Victoria Bond: Blue & Green Music (Written for the Cassatt String Quartet)
Adolphus Hailstork: Monuments for trombone and string quartet
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 18, # 1 in F Major
Date & Time: Saturday, November 11, 2023, 5-6PM
Location: Bethany Arts Community, 40 Somerstown Road, Osisning NY, 10562
Tickets: $20 general admission. For tickets, visit BAC’s website: https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/cassatt2/