Wow, folks! Just WOW! Our Concordia Village concert last evening goes down in history as a smashing success! I had a tough time extricating myself from the mob that descended upon me!
Aside from all the hugs and hand-holding (consider that passed on to all of you!), here are some snippets that I was asked to pass on:
– many, many, many, many Congratulations
– Come sing for us more often! (x2 – plus another 2 variations on this theme)
– My foot hurts! (from toe-tapping)
– George’s Mum was in attendance and seemed especially proud of him
I am inordinately proud of our performance. Yes, there were a couple of small hiccups, but we managed to hold it together very well. People were paying attention, recognised when they were out of sync, and managed to figure out how to fix it. I found that people were trusting my cues a bit more – paying attention if they were unsure of entrances – I’ve always got your back!
If I start going into details, I’ll be here all night. Each and every one of you deserves to be highlighted for your work. No word of a lie – every section, every part, had at least one moment of shining glory last night. You all rose to the occasion. I had literal goosebumps throughout Arctic Fire and Hallelujah. The tears threatened – twice.
And, if you saw me being mobbed (it was orderly – they lined up!), then you can understand how important what we do is to our audience. We brought a lot of light and joy last night. I think it was one for the record books! Let’s do that again, shall we?
Next on our schedule is our Monday evening concert! (Shaftesbury is only having groups in on Mondays as their new policy, so it was either take a Monday or not play for them).
Where: Shaftesbury Park Seniors Residence
905 Shaftesbury Blvd
When: MONDAY, August 27 – Warm up starts: 6:55 pm sharp
Please do your best to arrive at 6:30 pm so that we have time to do perform the Band Shuffle before our warm-up. This is the place where we play in a bit of an alcove, so it’s a tight squeeze for us. We will definitely have to adjust ourselves to fit (probably end up with more narrow rows).
Please be aware that there is an extremely limited number of visitor parking spots on the property, but there is a sidewalk that runs from Litchfield Blvd (turn south onto Litchfield from Taylor) to the residence as a bit of a shortcut. Parking on Litchfield has traditionally been reasonably easy. It is a bit of a hike, so please allocate some extra transit time to account for the constitutional.
CONCERT DRESS:
- Millennium Band (forest green) t-shirt and black lower body covering – this is preferred.
- Forest Green top, black lower body covering.
- All black
CONCERT PROGRAMME:
Bb Concert Scale (we’ll play this twice)
51 – Entrance of the Gladiators
8 – Themes Like Old Times
66 – Arctic Fire
5 – Broadway Journey
54 – The Drunken Sailor
63 – Hallelujah
65 – Moana
7 – Swing the Mood
It’s also the time of year where a trickle of binders are being turned in. Please make sure, before you turn in your binder, to put the music back in numerical order. This makes the Librarian’s job so much easier as he can go on autopilot when updating binders in the early spring.
See you on Monday! (I’ll post Wednesday’s rehearsal plan in a bit – I hope tonight!)