A number of members asked that I email out Nancy’s announcement regarding the folders after Sunday’s concert. Please take a look before our Dress Rehearsal tonight.

Here again is the rep for the February 29 concert at Kol Ami, with notes regarding the status of each piece in your folder. Some pieces will stay in your folder, and others will be swapped out.

All of these pieces should be in your folder currently.
KEEP THESE IN YOUR FOLDER:

• These will be performed on the February 29 concert at Kol Ami:
  • Sparke – Jubilee Overture – from November concert.
  • Giroux – One Life Beautiful- from November concert.
  • Warrington – Original Dixieland Concerto- from November concert.
  • Svanhoe – Steampunk Suite- from February concert.
  • Rodgers & Hammerstein Medley – from Caramoor 2019. This was distributed a few weeks ago.
  • King – Barnum & Bailey’s Favorite- from February concert.
• This will be performed on the May 16 concert at TMH:
  • Maslanka – Distributed in the fall to everyone playing May concert
• This will be needed for Caramoor on July 4:
  • Smith – Star Spangled Banner
  • Svanhoe – Steampunk Suite- from February concert.
  • King – Barnum & Bailey’s Favorite – from February concert.
  • Meacham – American Patrol – from November concert

These pieces will be collected by Nancy when we do the swap.
BE READY TO SURRENDER THESE:

• Burns – Fantasy on Salve Regina
• Dashnaw – Rhapsody for Clarinet
• Hanson – Volver
• Hanson – Seis Manuel
• Dashnaw – Quintet
• Markowski – Joyride
• Holmquist – Within Our Reach
• Higgins – Trombone Rag
• Saucedo – Shooting Stars
• Oquin – A Solemn Place
• Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue
• Bolcom – Graceful Ghost Rag
• Copland – Down a Country Lane
• Grainger – Country Gardens

The remaining pieces for May and Caramoor will be handed out when we do the swap.

If you have any questions about the rep on each program, click here for the Season Repertoire page, or speak to me if you have further questions.

See you tonight for our Dress Rehearsal at 7:30 pm at TMH.

I don’t want to jinx it, but it looks like we’re going to have a decent weather week for our concert. We are so fortunate!

We have rehearsal on Monday, the dress rehearsal on Wednesday, and the concert on Sunday. Everything is updated on the front page. Please be sure to take a look. We’ll have Trish and Josh with us again on Wednesday, and of course on Sunday.

My birthday fund-raiser on Facebook met the goal of $1000 rather quickly, so I doubled the goal to $2000. As of this afternoon, $1300 has been contributed. I’ll keep it up through concert day, and maybe the expanded goal will be met. I’m very grateful to the members of the band who contributed — thank you so very much!

See you tomorrow evening!

I’ve been notified that there is construction going on inside the Music Hall, related to their general maintenance upgrade. It will affect us in these ways tonight:

• The marquee entrance will NOT be available for entering or exiting the Hall tonight. Use the stage door at the back of the Hall when you arrive and depart. 
• The apron of the stage has been removed for maintenance.
  • Percussion stored under the apron is available for our use. It’s currently stored somewhere at the front of the orchestra. We’ve been instructed to return all percussion to where we found it tonight.
  • This means we have less stage space, and everything will be pushed upstage a bit I recommend that you leave non-essential items for the rehearsal in the wings.
  • This also means we will likely not be able to pull the Steinway to the front of the setup for the Gershwin. Most likely, it will remain stage right for tonight only. I’ve been assured we’ll have it in the correct place for the dress rehearsal, the next time Josh comes to play with us.
  • We MAY use the front orchestra seats for cases and coats. There is no restriction tonight as there was 3 weeks ago.
• The lights will be on when we arrive and MUST STAY ON AS IS following our rehearsal. Do not touch any light switches in the building.
• The Board meeting will go on as scheduled, in the Studio upstairs above the marquee at 6:15 pm. My guess is that we need to use the Main Street staircase entrance on arrival, then depart down the staircase after the meeting, and walk around the building to the stage entrance when time to move to rehearsal.

I think (and hope) that’s it. See you all in a little while.

I think my fears of losing TMH on Monday to the snow date for the children’s theater have passed. This system seemed to generate nothing but rain in the mid-Westchester area, and I’m sure they will not need to schedule a snow date on Monday. 

On Monday, we have both of our guest artists joining us. Trish Cornett will be coming up from Temple University to conduct her set of three piano-inspired pieces (Bolcom, Copland, and Grainger), and Josh Pierce will join us to play the Rhapsody in Blue for the first time. Note that we’ll set up as normal for the 7:30 start, then move the piano into place before the Gershwin.

I’ve added the press release and concert flyer to the Resources page. Download and share them liberally. I’ll also be bringing 100 printed copies of the flyer for distribution at rehearsal Monday, In addition, Rachel will have tickets available for sale on Monday as well.

The concert is two weeks from tomorrow, Sunday! See you all on Monday!