Westchester Symphonic Winds

Announcements

Monday, February 8 - rehearsal at Tarrytown Music Hall. All personnel should attend this rehearsal.

Please try to come early to help us move our equipment from storage back to the stage, so we can begin promptly at 7:30 pm. We can use help at 7:00 pm to do so.

Rehearsal order:

• Vaughan-Williams

• Hazo

• Chance/I&D

• Whitacre

• Chance/I&C (introduction only, no piano)

• Camphouse

• Tschaikovsky

• Latham

Circle of Fourths exercises

• Ed Lisk - Master of Music Fundamentals

• GMS - Treble C instruments

• GMS - Bb instruments

• GMS - Eb instruments

• GMS - F instruments

• GMS - Bass clef instruments

• GMS - Tuba

Program for March 14

• Vaughan-Williams: Flourish for Wind Band

• Hazo: Black Granite March

• Chance: Incantation & Dance

• Whitacre: Godzilla Eats Las Vegas

Intermission

• Chance: Introduction & Capriccio (Barbara Ciannella, piano soloist)

• Camphouse: A Movement for Rosa

• Tchaikovsky/Cramer: Dance of the Jesters

• Encore - Latham: Brighton Beach March

Resources

If you teach, these are great resources for your students, but some are also terrific for all of us!

• Inspirational thinktank: TED.com

• Download the WSW 2009-2010 Promotional Flyer

• History of the Tarrytown Music Hall

• Ed Lisk's Circle of Fourths philosophy

• Just Intonation Site - Information and resources for the system of tuning based on ratios of whole numbers

• Online metronome - if you find yourself desparate for a consistent tempo

• Blank Staff Paper - Many different sizes, just click and print!

• Essentials of Music - History, Composer Bios, and a large Glossary

• Music Notes - Music History Page - Period by period breakdown

• Music Dictionary - Virginia Tech's Multimedia Music Dictionary

• MusicTheory.net - Lessons, practice activities, and theory resources.

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