Interested in Playing in the Cascade Winds?

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Cascade Winds

Dear potential Cascade Winds Symphonic Band member:

This is message is going out to everyone who has played or would like to play with the Cascade Winds Symphonic Band. The Winds strive for quality, consistency and balance. To that end the Director, Dan Judd, needs to know well in advance what players are interested in performing this term so that he can best achieve that balance and select music to complement those players.

Therefore, please read and respond, if you are interested in playing with the Winds, to the message below. PLEASE NOTE that you need to reply with your intent to play NO LATER THAN 12 days before the first rehearsal (first rehearsal is on Sept. 22, so make sure you let us know that you want to play before Sept. 10). Feel free to pass this e-mail on to potential players with whom you are acquainted

Thank you for your prompt attention,

Jan Tuckerman, President, Cascade Winds Symphonic Band.
jtuckerman@chamberscable.com

Are you interested in performing with the Cascade Winds Symphonic Band? Great! We are a community band, performing under the auspices of Central Oregon Community College. Our goal is to present the most challenging and entertaining wind band literature in a fashion that will thrill our community, challenge our players, and promote the band movement in general.

Membership in the Cascade Winds is based upon:

1) Application to the band President at least 12 days prior to the first rehearsal of the term. [September 10, 2009 for fall term]
2) Individual confirmation that attendance requirements for rehearsal & performance will be met according to band policy. [See rehearsal and concert dates below] It is expected that you attend all rehearsals. Anticipated absence must be approved in advance (before rehearsals begin) by the Director.
3) Director confirmation that individual membership is consistent with group instrumentation and balance needs and performance standards.

Band membership will be distributed via e-mail one week prior to the first rehearsal. Only those players listed will be included in the first rehearsal.

To apply for membership in this dynamic group, contact band president Jan Tuckerman. jtuckerman@chamberscable.com [593-1635]

REHEASAL & CONCERT DATES:
Rehearsals: Tuesday evenings, Summit HS, 7:00-9:30 p.m. starting September 22

EXCEPTIONS: Thursday, October 8 instead of October 6, NO rehearsal November 24,
FINAL rehearsal, Saturday, December 5, 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Concert: Sunday, December 6, 2:00 p.m. Summit High School.

Concert Updates and Schedule Reminders

Posted on February 17, 2008 by Cascade Winds

Remember: The rehearsal next week which was originally scheduled for Wednesday is now back
to THURSDAY because there is no longer a conflict with
symphony.

REMEMBER to get that extra
rehearsal on your busy calendars for Saturday, March 1, 7:00-9:30 p.m.
at SUMMIT HS.

There were POSTERS to pick up at
rehearsal but it doesn’t look like very many people picked them up. If need be, you can print some up here.

High school students: Take at least one and post it in your band room at
school and give one, or more, to your parents to take to their work.
Adults: Take them to your place of employment
Everyone: Take them to your church, the local grocery store, the local book
store, the library, etc.

Attached is the PRESS RELEASE for the concerts, both a
short blurb and the full release. Pick one and send it to your many friends and
relatives.

Call for the concert on Sunday will be 1:00 p.m.

CONCERT DRESS: Just a
reminder:

Women: black, black and black. Long sleeves, pants or
skirts, black hose, high necks; i.e. the less white skin showing the
better.
Men: Black tux or black suit, white shirt, black tie,
black shoes, black socks.

If you have any questions about dress, make sure you get
them answered on Thursday.

Here’s the list of band set-up assignments for the rest of
the term. Thanks so much to the saxophones (and others) tonight:

Feb. 20: Trombones, Tubas
Feb. 28: Baritones, Horns

Cascade Winds March 2008 (Short Blurb).doc
Cascade Winds March 2008 (Full PR).doc

Updates For Band Members

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Cascade Winds

Thursday we will for sure work on Purple Heart and
Can-Can. Remember that in the Pines we are doing just the last movement,
starting at the pick-up to the 5th measure after 17 with the clarinet solo. And
work on everything else, of course. Only 4 more rehearsals!

We are planning to list all the players in this next
program with their occupation and where they live. Something like:

Jan Tuckerman (math teacher) Sunriver

We don’t need to know what company you work for but just a
general category. The idea is to give our audience a more personal feel for the
fact that we are just regular people who love to make music.

SO…what I need from each of you is what you do (banker,
student, rocket scientist, etc.) and what town you live in. If you could e-mail
that to me, great. I will also have a sign-up sheet on Thursday for people to
fill in.

If you think your boss, your company, your great Aunt
Bertha, etc., would be interested in being a band donor (with full recognition
in the next program) please send Tim Lynch their contact information (Tim: timlynch1992@gmail.com)

The sooner we reach our $12000 goal in the capital
campaign, the sooner we can get started on the tuition fund for the
band.

REMEMBER to get that extra rehearsal on your busy
calendars for Saturday, March 1, 7:00-9:30 p.m. at SUMMIT HS.

REMEMBER that rehearsal NEXT week is on the Wednesday,
February 20, not Thursday.

We will have posters to pick up on Thursday (or you can print them up from here). Be thinking
of places to put them.

Here’s the list of band set-up assignments for the rest of
the term. Thanks so much to the flutes (and others) last week.

Feb. 14: Saxophones

Feb. 20: Trombones, Tubas

Feb. 28: Baritones, Horns

Clarinets & Bassoons will get the first rehearsal of
the spring term.

That’s all I had written down but that’s
enough!!

Jan

Music Humor

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Cascade Winds

All the musicians out there will appreciate this joke that was sent our way.

In order to keep you abreast of the ever-developing world of musical terminology, we provide herewith the latest additions to the esteemed Harvard Dictionary of Music:

ALLREGRETTO When you’re 16 measures into the piece and realize you took too fast a tempo

ANGUS DEI To play with a divinely beefy tone

A PATELLA Accompanied by knee-slapping

APPOLOGGIATURA A composition that you regret playing

APPROXIMATURA A series of notes not intended by the composer, yet played with an “I meant to do that” attitude

APPROXIMENTO A musical entrance that is somewhere in the vicinity of the correct pitch

CACOPHANY [aka CACOUGHONY] A composition incorporating many people with chest colds

CORAL SYMPHONY A large, multi-movement work from Beethoven’s Caribbean Period

DILL PICCOLINI An exceedingly small wind instrument that plays only sour notes

FERMANTRA A note held over and over and over and over and . . .

FERMOOTA A note of dubious value held for indefinite length

FIDDLER CRABS Grumpy string players

FLUTE FLIES Those tiny mosquitoes that bother musicians on outdoor gigs

FRUGALHORN A sensible and inexpensive brass instrument

GAUL BLATTER A French horn player

GREGORIAN CHAMP The title bestowed upon the monk who can hold a note the longest

GROUND HOG Someone who takes control of the repeated bass line and won’t let anyone else play it

PLACEBO DOMINGO A faux tenor

SCHMALZANDO A sudden burst of music from the Guy Lombardo band

THE RIGHT OF STRINGS Manifesto of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Violists

SPRITZICATO An indication to string instruments to produce a bright and bubbly sound

TEMPO TANTRUM What an elementary school orchestra is having when it’s not following the conductor

TROUBLE CLEF Any clef one can’t read: e.g., alto clef for pianists

VESUVIOSO An indication to build up to a fiery conclusion

VIBRATTO Child prodigy son of the concertmaster

We’re Looking For Board Members

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Cascade Winds

The Cascade Winds Band Board would like to invite you to become a member of the board for the 2007-08 season. We would like to have 3 or more new members to join the existing members to oversee the behind-the-scenes business of the band.

We need people willing to step forward and help build the audience for the Cascade Winds, help find some corporate sponsors, brainstorm on some fund-raising possibilities. The band treasury needs to be built up, we need to have funds to pay for use of concert venues, etc.

We aren’t talking about lots of meetings, in fact the fewer the better, but we do need some people able to devote some time to expanding the vision for the band.

AND…board members DO NOT have to be band muscians. If you have a spouse, a relative, a neighbor, a friend who you think would be interested in contributing to music in Central Oregon in this way, please urge them to contact one of us.

We love to play but it’s even better to have people to hear us.

SO…please let Rebecca Borror, Carol Zack, Jan Tuckerman or Michael Gesme know if you are able to support the Cascade Winds in this way.

Thanks for your attention.

Jan Tuckerman