| Hello,
May see some of you on Hallowe’en! Feel free to dress up, or wear orange/black/green!
-Adrian
ANNOUNCEMENTS Band notes are posted on the website at: https://ottawanewhorizons.com/for-members/band-notes/
Full band: Likely Stage (behind music room) from 6:30-8:45PM. Refreshments: Room 142 (Staff Room) from 7:30-7:45PM.
(!) Potsdam, NY mass band: Saturday 04 November, 1-7PM. (!) Concert Date: 10 December, 3-5PM (TBC).
ORDER OF REHEARSAL This week (week 7): Take Me Home, Country Roads Buccaneer Suite, movement 1 Invicta Whispers from Beyond
Next week plan (week 8): I’m a Believer Phantom of the Opera Whispers from Beyond Buccaneer Suite, movement 3
PIECES
Buccaneer Suite http://www.lakestatepublications.com/index.php/buccaneer-suite.html Phantom of the Opera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojNvEnZ1W2c Whispers from Beyond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O7bX1_lYxA Invicta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmtUYDXuKLU I’m a Believer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6j91Feey3E Take Me Home, Country Roads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC2Yj6I7Xbg
SECTION NOTES (refer to order of rehearsal for pieces to practise – same notes as before)
**use the practice files sent out earlier for Invicta and Buccaneer #1**
INVICTA Upper woodwinds/altos@23: note that this rhythm is a straight half and two quarters whereas the bassline has syncopation (dotted quarter, dotted quarter, and quarter per bar). Upper woodwinds@70-78: One is used to associating those notes with a faster tempo, but this section is quite slow. Listen to recording 2:15. Alto saxophones@62-70: One is used to associating those notes with a faster tempo, but this section is quite slow. Listen to recording 1:58. Alto saxophones@78-94: One is used to associating those notes with a faster tempo, but this section is quite slow. Listen to recording 2:30 (listen for the middle horns that share your line). All low instruments@1-6: practise for confidence in changing time signatures, especially for bars 2 and 4. Trombones/TSax@9-13: listen to the recording for this rhythm. Bar 9 must be fluent as I will have no opportunity to help aside from giving the tempo. Bar 11 is an immediate quietening of dynamic. Trombones/TSax@132-144: look over rhythm and pyramid chord 7 bars in. Percussion@25-30: solo passages, to look over. Percussion@124-132: solo passages (SD, BD, Timp), to look over. percussion@last4bars: look over.
BUCCANEER SUITE movement 1 Upper woodwinds/altos@top-5: look over for rhythm; practise with metronome to cross-check. Low woodwinds/low brass@top-B: practise with recording for feedback on time signature changes. Trumpets@C-D: look over; use recording for feedback on rhythm. baritone sax/tenor sax/euphonium: A-B practise melody. movement 2 all good J movement 3 Percussion: SD feature; look over. Basses: E-G. No others have that bassline except bass clarinet (which we do not have).
I’M A BELIEVER Flutes/Obs/Clarinets/Trps@29-35: look over melodic passage rhythm, especially the tie-overs between 30-31 and 31-32. Altos/Clarinets@13-15: practise rhythm Altos/Clarinets@35-54: look over melodic passage rhythm
WHISPERS FROM BEYOND Upper woodwinds@67-73: look over. 3rd Clarinets@17-18: only you are playing here! Enjoy. Notes for other parts withheld for now pending possible changes.
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Everyone except percussion: look over 8-18 Drums@38-58: look over
TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROADS Polishing: dynamics, musicality, etc. Attachments area Preview YouTube video Phantom of the Opera Medley: LMHS Wind Ensemble Phantom of the Opera Medley: LMHS Wind Ensemble Preview YouTube video Whispers from Beyond by Rossano Galante Whispers from Beyond by Rossano Galante Preview YouTube video invicta by James Swearingen invicta by James Swearingen Preview YouTube video Intermediate Band – I’m a Believer Intermediate Band – I’m a Believer Preview YouTube video John Denver – Take Me Home, Country Roads (with lyrics) John Denver – Take Me Home, Country Roads (with lyrics)
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