Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Saturday!

Hi everyone. Thank you for your great work in rehearsal today. Here are the details for this Saturday: 4:40 p.m. - Gold and Silver Band combined rehearsal 5:00 p.m. - Silver Band rehearsal 5:45 p.m. - break 7:00 p.m. - Call time 7:30 p.m. - downbeat I have made one final change to the program order. I thought it would be better to end on an actual Christmas piece so we're switching the first and last piece. Here's the order: Slavonic Dance No. 8 Holly & Ivy Let it Snow! Cantique de Noel Cambridge Carol See you Saturday!

Monday, November 14, 2011

Christmas Music

A preview of our music for Christmas: I'm aware this might bleed over to the link on the side ---> Just open them in youtube. The Holly and The Ivy Don't mind the quality.

Friday, November 4, 2011

Directions to the Gem of the West Museum

Here are directions to the Gem of the West Museum from CCH where we rehearse.

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Sunday, October 23, 2011

Rehearsal at LCI on Oct 25

Hi everyone, just a reminder that rehearsal has changed yet again to LCI. Every week it has changed to LCI for different reasons. This week the choral program is using the band room during our rehearsal time. Ken Rogers will be rehearsing again. I'll see you all next week!

Monday, October 17, 2011

Tuesday, October 18 at LCI

Hi everyone,

Last Thursday my school was contacted by Disney and they wanted to know if we could provide a 15-piece marching band for a movie they are filming in Fernie called "Santa Pups."  My principal and I quickly got to work to see if this was possible and after clearing it with the school board and superintendent, we got the go-ahead!  The only downside is I will be missing the next two weeks of rehearsal.  So you will be in the very good hands of Ken Rogers and his intern Erin George-Samuels.  Rehearsal will be at LCI this upcoming Tuesday and then back at CCH next week.

Friday, October 7, 2011

November 11 Concert List (not in any particular order)



O Canada
Hymn To The Fallen
Tenth Regiment March
Abide With Me
Simple Gifts, all movements
Heart of Oak
Rest
Midway March

Rehearsal moved to LCI

Hi everyone, some important news: Rehearsal has been changed to LCI

We're still going to have sectionals for the first hour as planned, then rehearse the second hour.

If you want to come early as a section, the building will be available as early as 7:00 p.m.

Here are the sections that each section should work on. Please come prepared with your parts practiced so we can get the most of the sectionals and rehearsal.

Simple Gifts: 
II. Dance 
IV. Simple Gifts 


Midway March 


Hymn to the Fallen 


Flutes, Oboes and Clarinets please look at the following measures in particular:
Midway March m. 45 - 53, 65 to 79
Hymn to the Fallen m. 42 to 59
Hymn to the Fallen (not the Michael Sweeney version that we are playing) Tenth Regiment March
Simple Gifts I. In Yonder Valley Simple Gifts II. Dance Simple Gifts III. Here Take This Lovely Flower Simple Gifts IV. Simple Gifts

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Midway March Rest

Sunday, June 12, 2011

BBQ on Tuesday!

Hey everyone!

Great job on the concert last night. The feedback I've gotten has been very good.

This upcoming Tuesday, we're going to have a BBQ at our place from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. My wife and I will provide the burgers and hotdogs. If woodwinds can provide a side dish and brass provide a dessert to share that would be great! Bring a blanket or a chair to sit. We have plenty of lawn space in the backyard.

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Concert order

Concert order for tonight is:

Also Sprach
A Childhood Hymn
Creed
Celtic Dance
12th Street Rag

Combined pieces:
Soul Bossa Nova
Big Band Signatures

See you at rehearsal at 1 pm!

Call time tonight at 6:30 pm.

Monday, June 6, 2011

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Rehearsal on Tuesday, June 7, 2011 is at LCI at 7:30. See you there!

12th Street Rag

Big Band Signatures

Big Band Signatures by the Honolulu COncert Band
http://youtu.be/UGb3z7gjL4I


Let's Dance


Leap Frog


Woodchoppers Ball


Peanut Vendor


In The Mood

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Superior!

Congratulations everyone! We received a superior rating at festival and many positive comments and feedback from people who heard us. Thanks for all your hard work. You sounded great. See you tonight!

Monday, April 11, 2011

Tomorrow at Kiwanis - Call time changed to 6:30 p.m.

Hi everyone,

The call time is now at 6:30 p.m. and the performance time is 7:15. The address is 1002 4 Ave. South at the Yates Theatre. The Sterndale Bennett Theatre is an adjoining theatre in the same building as the Yates. If you're facing the Yates it's to the left of the Yates. I would suggest if you've never been there before, give yourself about ten minutes extra to find where it is. Here's a google maps picture of the place.

Concert order is as follows:

Flourish For Wind Band
Ave Verum Corpus
Carnival of the Animals
Song of the Hebrides
Spania

I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow!

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Tonight (April 5 2011)

Rehearsal will be at LCI at 7:30! See you there!

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Carnival of the Animals

You can download the mp3 on the following links:

Royal March of the Lions
The Elephant
The Swan
Finale

Rehearsal at CCH

Rehearsal will be at CCH as usual today at 7:30. See you there!

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Next rehearsal will be back to CCH as usual at 7:30 p.m.

Please look over the following for rehearsal:

Song of the Hebrides
Ave Verum Corpus
Carnival of the Animals
Spania
Flourish For Wind Band
Twelfth Street Rag
Carribean

Remember to work on intonation; know the tendencies of your instrument on each pitch.

Hope you all have a great week! See you on Tuesday!

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Festival Music



Flourish For Wind Band by the North Texas Wind Symphony from iTunes

Spania

Tonight's rehearsal

Tonight's rehearsal will be at LCI again.  Next week we will continue at CCH as normal.  Rehearsal times are the same.

Rehearsal order tonight:

Ave Verum Corpus
Sightread
Spania
Carnival of the Animals
Flourish For Wind Band
Caribbean Hideaway
12th Street Rag

See you tonight!

Monday, January 24, 2011

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Tomorrow's rehearsal:

Ave Verum Corpus
Creed
Hand Across The Sea
Carnival of The Animals
Genesis
Spania
Twelfth Street Rag

Monday, January 17, 2011

Welcome back!

Lethbridge Silver Band,

As I said at last week's rehearsal, thank you for selecting me as your next conductor.  I am honoured to be the next musical director for the Lethbridge Community Silver Band.  I look forward to getting to know every one of you and working together to make great music.

Now let's get to work!  After the long list of music that we read last rehearsal, I've narrowed the selections down for festival.  They are the following:

Flourish For Wind Band - R. Vaughn Williams
Ave Verum Corpus - Mozart, arr. Kreines
Carnival of the Animals - Saint-Saens, arr. Curnow
Spania - Shaffer

We will be working on those pieces tomorrow.  In addition to these:

Creed - Himes
Genesis - Curnow
Hands Across the Sea - Sousa
Twelfth Street Rag - Bowman