Rehearsal

We return to TMH on Monday for a full rehearsal. Malcolm Jones will join us for the first part of rehearsal to rehearse the Creston. The remainder of the rehearsal will be devoted to the Cuong and Navarro. As usual, the rehearsal plan is posted here.

Tickets for upcoming concerts

Caramoor posted our concert on July 4 for ticketing for Caramoor members. Tickets for the general public will go on sale soon. I posted the coupon code for discounted tickets for our members in our Slack Members workspace, and I will repeat it from the podium on Monday night.

The ticketing page for our May 10 concert will be posted as soon. When I have the Box Office URL, I will share it, and post the Friends & Family coupon code on Slack, as well as announce the code in rehearsal. (We don’t post the coupon codes here to maintain privacy for our members.)

Performance research

Selfless music director that I am, I’ve been in Ft. Lauderdale since Tuesday researching possible performance venues for a future WSW “Tour de la Florida.” We’ll see what develops. Brutal — know — but someone had to do it!

Sectionals!

The sectionals we held at the beginning of the cycle for the fall and winter concerts paid off in spades, and so we are repeating this again. Woodwinds & brass will meet at Irvington Presbyterian Church, 25 North Broadway in Irvington. Percussion will meet at TMH, on stage.

• Woodwinds meet in the annex building behind the main building. BRING A MUSIC STAND.
• Brass meets in the Parlor of the main building (use the side door adjacent to parking). BRING A MUSIC STAND.
• Jessica & Curt will rotate between the two sectionals for winds. Eric will organize and run the sectional for percussion.
• The rehearsal plan is posted here.

Please start to share the 8:00 pm on May 10 concert date with family and friends — let’s aim for a sell-out house! As soon as we have a TMH ticketing page and coupon code, we will share them.

Slack!

It’s not too late to join the conversation on Slack. It’s not only a great communication platform, but it is also an excellent way to to distribute Bandcamp codes for our recordings. If you have not yet done so, you can still join by clicking here.

The parts for the Cuong commission are ready!

Here is the link directly to the Cuong folder.
Here is the link to all the works for the Spring Concert.

See you Monday night!

Ready to roll!

I sent a version of this post that said “tomorrow evening.” Apologies – I keep thinking today is Sunday for some reason. The rehearsal is definitely Monday evening!

OK, so we are finally (almost) ready to roll Monday at TMH starting at 7:30 pm. We’ll be reading the entire Spring Concert program. Find the rehearsal plan here.

Viet delivered the final version of the score for our commissioned work, titled The Man and the Echo this morning. He has promised to send the parts by noon tomorrow, and I will post them immediately. Please check back here in the Spring Concert rep folder after noon tomorrow to download the concert finale. (All of the other pieces are there too.)

Be sure to download/save or download/print all these parts and bring them tomorrow evening for our first rehearsal:

• Creston – Celebration Overture
• Markowski – All My Heart
• Navarro – II Concerto for Clarinet
• Cuong – The Man and the Echo (parts will be uploaded by noon tomorrow, 3/2)

The Clarinet Choir parts will be assigned and links sent out to all those players after Monday. (I can only handle one thing at a time, contrary to popular opinion.) We have 32 clarinetists registered as of now, so I believe this will be another historic specialty ensemble performance!

Kristen Mather de Andrade concert at Chappaqua

Kristen Mather, principal clarinet of the West Point Band, and dear friend of WSW, is presenting a concert of Brazilian music on Sunday, March 30 at 3:00 pm in the Chappaqua Library Theater. Click the QR code for more information, or visit kristenmather.com.