Rehearsal Monday at TMH
With two rehearsals remaining before the holiday break, we are back in the Music Hall on Monday for a full rehearsal, 7:30-9:45 pm. We’ll make good use of the progress made in sectionals last week to pull much of those works together one last time in 2024. As always, the rehearsal schedule is posted here.
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Slack
We really had an uptick in the number of members joining the WSW Members Slack Workspace this past week. If you haven’t joined yet, do consider it. Just click here. We are hoping to use Slack to distribute the Band Camp codes for downloading current and past WSW performance recordings, so please consider joining!
Performance opportunity
Priscilla Goldfarb (management@musicatstmarys.org), chair of the Music at St. Mary’s in Cold Spring (no religious affiliation with the church), is looking for small chamber ensembles to perform in their performing arts series in 2025. This might be a nice opportunity for one or more of our section ensembles to perform in an appreciative, low impact atmosphere — possibly the flute quartet, sax quartet, Bear Mountain Brass, or other section/group. Contact Priscilla directly at the email listed above.
Jazz in Vermont
Rob Freeberg, former band director at New Rochelle HS, now lives in Vermont and runs the Vermont Jazz Center Big Band. Rob has attended WSW concerts on many occasions. He sent this message about a performance video from last night:
I had a great time working with vocalist Carmen Bradford last night with the VT Jazz Center Big Band. You should be able to view the video for the rest of this week here.
The music starts around 11:00. The 2nd set begins around 1:22:00.
Donations to support the VJC Scholarship Fund would be appreciated.
I hope you enjoy the music.
Rob
Caramoor 2025
Our rep for July 4 at Caramoor is now set. I’m happy to announce that Mimi Hilaire, who is singing with us on February 9, will be reprising those three vocal numbers at Caramoor this summer. I know the audience will love her!
The program includes three Sousa marches and The Cowboys, by John Williams. I’ve been waiting several years to program this, and I think this is the right year to do it. Check out the entire program here.
