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Events for May, June, July
Tomorrow night, I’ll take a little time at the beginning of rehearsal to give you a few moments to reflect and share your thoughts on Thursday’s performance. Then — it’s time to dig into the new rep!
Important: please note our clinic performance at the 2012 Wind Conducting Symposium:
- Friday, June 1 at 7:00-9:00 pm (Northern Valley-Old Tappan High School, Old Tappan, New Jersey) – WSW Clinic with Dr. Mallory Thompson, Director of Bands, Northwestern University. Repertoire: Whitacre – Lux Aurumque and Vinson – Echoes of the Hollow Square. We will hand out the parts ahead of this date, but there will be no separate rehearsal. Dr. Thompson would like to headline this as a sight-reading clinic. Members of the sponsoring organization, Music Educators of Bergen County, are invited to observe, but you may invite anyone you like as well. You can read more about the Symposium at http://wcs.ebernet.biz.
You may also want to consider these performance and workshop events:
- Saturday, May 12 at 7:30 pm (White Plains High School) – Stanley Drucker, former principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic, will perform Weber’s Clarinet Concerto #1 in F minor with the St. Thomas Orchestra. Weber’s Der Freischutz Overture and Beethoven Sympony No. 3 “Eroica” are also on the program. Tickets are $15 for adults, $5 for students. Go to http://www.storchestra.org for more information.
- Wednesday and Thursday, July 25-26, 8:30 am – 3:00 pm (Northern Valley-Old Tappan High School, Old Tappan, New Jersey) – Workshop for Music Educators: Real-World Solutions for Improving Your Ensembles. I am the facilitator of this workshop, and topics will include: Social-Emotional Leadership in Rehearsals, Score Preparation, Developing Repertoire Study Guides, Post-Undergrad Conducting Boot Camp, Repertoire & Idea Sharing, Technology Strategies, and more. Workshop cost is $350.00 (undergrad music majors may attend for a student rate of $200.00). Download a information flyer/registration form here. Music educators and undergrads from New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut are all welcome. It’s going to be a high-powered two days!
Sound files for May 19 posted
This current site as been labeled as beta since the start. I will be getting to the point of moving it to wsw.ebernet.biz in the next few weeks. Right now, I have to use that site’s server (although the site is still incomplete) to house the page for these sound files, because this current site does not support them. Tech-speak, I know, but I’ll be happy to explain it to anyone in person who’s interested.
Please click here to listen to the five new pieces we will start rehearsing on Monday night. Ignore the header graphic that doesn’t make sense — just scroll down to the media player. I don’t advise copying the interpretation; this is merely to help you feel more familiar with the works immediately, as we have very little time to prepare them.
Please take the time to listen to all 5 while watching your parts, sometime before Monday. This will help immensely!
If you ordered a polo shirt, please remember to claim it on Monday. See you then.
ACB: Congratulations!
Thank you — everyone — for an outstanding performance last evening. It goes without saying that this was a huge milestone for us. I sincerely appreciate the personal sacrifices made by so many of you to take on this challenge; this would not have been possible without your dedication.
Thank you especially to Rick Regan, Matt Kowalski, Eric Joseph, Rachel Eckhaus, Marge Hone, Claudia Mickelson, and the rest of the Board for their support of this performance project For those of you returning to work today, I the memories of last night’s performance “fuel the fire” of your day.
Now the hard part: Remember that Monday’s rehearsal at TMH is critical. We have only 3 Mondays until the Spring Concert on May 19, and four new pieces to add to those already rehearsed for last night’s program. I am working to post recordings of Arabesque, San Antonio Dances, The Solitary Dancer, Beautiful Colorado, and Melody Shop in order to speed up the learning curve. You’ll get notice when these are posted. Please do practice as much of the new pieces as possible before Monday so we are not completely sight-reading.
Lastly, we had all the WSW polo shirts ready to distribute last night (thank you, Claudia, for organizing and tagging them all), but getting them to you was overshadowed by the performance. We’ll have them ready to give out on Monday night.
See you then!