Thanks to everyone who came out to our Lindenwoods gig on Wednesday. It was definitely one of the high points of our season! I am so proud of everything we were able to accomplish this summer! Once again, we bettered ourselves in a lot of our pieces! Some audience members made sure to express their gratitude for us going out – one lady remarked that it’s obvious that we love what we do, and a gentleman commented on the repertoire: he said it brought back a lot of memories of his children’s band days, as well as happy memories for himself.
We’re down to the end – just one more gig to go.
Details for the last hurrah of 2017 are as follows:
Saturday, September 9
Bourkevale Community Centre – 100 Ferry Rd
Baton drops: 8:30 pm
Call time: 8:00 pm
Concert Dress is (in order of preference – DO dress for the weather!):
- Green Millennium Band T-shirt & Black Bottoms
- Forest Green top & Black Bottoms
- All Black
This will be an outdoor gig, so ensure you have music-fastening devices of some type.
Also, a stand light (battery powered) would be an ideal thing to bring. Please bring extras to share if you have them!
Concert Programme:
11 – Cartoon Symphony
2 – Michelle/Eleanor Rigby/Yesterday
*10 – John Williams Marches
9 – Arabian Dances
64 – Bolero
58 – Les Miserables
*57 – Wade in the Water
***Break***
1 – The 80s
4 – Standard of St George
25 – The Blue Orchid
*34 – The Lord of the Rings
22 – The Stripper
63 – Hallelujah
17 – Eine Kleine Rockmusik
*Please take a look at these pieces in advance as we have not read them this summer. (They’re pretty straightforward and I don’t expect them to cause problems).
I will not be doing any talking to the audience in between songs. We are also slated to play for 90 minutes. There will be a very short break (10 to 15 minutes) in between sets.
As we’ll be playing outside – this time sans canopy – it’s going to be really important for you to watch and trust me. I’ve noticed that we’ve started having some intonation issues in recent weeks and these seem to get more noticeable as we move through our program. This coincides with our outdoor gigs, so I suspect a combination of not being able to hear well and some overblowing earlier on. Please try to pay attention to People can hear us (even if we can’t hear ourselves) – we don’t need to huff and puff and blow the house down.
Before you leave at the end of our concert, please make sure you put your music back in numerical order in the binders, and that you turn your binder in to the library. This is very important so we can have music ready for you next season!
Have a wonderful end to your Labour Day weekend, a fantastic first week of September, and I hope to see most of you out on the 9th!
Happy Playing!
Elizabeth.