Concert Updates and Schedule Reminders

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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

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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

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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

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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

Kids & Music Opportunity

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Hey band members,
 
Flute section member Bev Peterson here.  I currently work with Cascade Festival of Music, and have a great opportunity for you to plug your instrument and CWSB.  Read on:
 
Cascade Festival of Music is having a free Children’s Concert on Tuesday August 28 in Drake Park.  Before the afternoon concert, from 12:45 to 1:30, is a "Petting Zoo" – an opportunity to let kids check out musical instruments up close and personal.  Musicians demonstrate their instruments and can also let kids touch or try them.  Eli, CFM’s event coordinator, assures me that the trying/touching by kids is optional, but if someone has an old instrument to bring that might be better.  I am planning on bringing my current flute for demonstration purposes as well as my starter flute for kids to try.

If you are interested in participating/volunteering or for more information please email Eli Liliedahl-Allen at the festival office:  eli@cascademusic.org.  She would like to know your instrument as well as your mailing address.

Everyone is welcome to stay for the free concert at 1:30; Les Yeux Noirs, which is also playing the evening concert, will be performing.  Their music is a gypsy/klezmer blend that sounds like a lot of fun.  We’d love to see you there!  Feel free to pass thus info along to anyone with kids!