Hello Elgin Encorsairs,
We’re off to an excellent start and thank you for your hard work and practice these past two weeks. I’m re-sending the big email from week 1 to correct some mistakes and provide some updates! Have a great start to your week!
Note: Food memo below and some SECTIONALS HAVE CHANGED.
Adrian
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Contents
- General
- Rehearsal
- Sectionals
- Practice
- Recordings
1.General
-You will need your instrument, a portable music stand, a pencil (!!), and an Essential Elements method book 2. St. John’s Music offers a special rental rate and purchase discount for ONHB members.
-Please remember that you MAY ONLY ENTER THE SCHOOL VIA THE MAIN ENTRANCE!
-Please bring indoor shoes to avoid making tracks throughout the school when there is rain/snow/everything in between.
-To learn more about Elgin Encores Intermediate Band, visit our website.
-You will find regular weekly updates and important dates under Band Notes. There’s also a general calendar there.
Sunday 15 Dec Concert Bands concert at Brookfield HS
Friday 13 Dec Jazz concert at Brookfield HS
If you’d like to participate in break-time snacks (a good bonding opportunity; just bring a toothbrush!), please bring a once-per-session $2 to contribute so that we can organize purchases of goodies, both sweet and healthy.
- Rehearsal
| THIS COMING WEEK (with the full band) | THE WEEK AFTER (with the full band) |
| Night on Bald Mountain
76 Trombones Star Trek (read-through and a bit) Moana Nessun Dorma |
80s Gold
Fiddler on the Roof Children’s March (from 93 for now) Star Trek |
Sectionals
| 1 –
17 Sept. |
2 –
24 Sept |
3 –
01 Oct |
4 –
08 Oct |
5 –
15 Oct |
6 –
22 Oct |
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| FL | Angela
library |
Angela | Pierre
rm. 110 |
Angela | Angela | Angela | ||
| OB(EH) | Angela | Angela | Adrian
music rm. |
Angela | Angela | Angela | ||
| BSN | – | Adrian
music rm. |
Adrian | Adrian | Adrian
staff rm. |
Adrian
music rm. |
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| CL/BCL | Angela | Angela | Angela | Angela | Angela | Angela | ||
| ALTO | Angela | Angela | Angela | Zac
112 |
Zac
112 |
Angela | ||
| TENORS
who were absent weeks 1-2 |
– | – | Zac
(114)! |
Malcolm
115 |
Malcolm
115 |
Zac
112 |
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| TENORS
who were present weeks 1-2 |
Zac
112 |
Zac
112 |
Adrian
music rm. (large group mode) OR Zac (114)! (individual help/slower pace) |
Adrian
music rm. |
Adrian
staff rm. |
Adrian
music rm. |
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| TRP | Malcolm
115 |
Malcolm
115 |
Adrian
music rm. |
Adrian | Adrian
staff rm. |
Adrian
music rm. |
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| HN/LB/BARI | Adrian
staff rm. |
Adrian
music rm. |
Adrian
music rm. |
Adrian
music rm. |
Adrian staff rm. | Adrian
music rm. |
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| ELECTRIC BASS | Adrian
staff rm. |
Adrian
music rm. |
Adrian
music rm. |
Neil
staff rm. |
Adrian staff rm. | Adrian
music rm. |
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| PERC | Alec
music rm. |
Adrian
music rm. |
Adrian
music rm. |
Adrian
music rm. |
Alec
music rm. |
Adrian
music rm. |
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- Practice
| FL/OB | CLs | ALTO | TENOR/BSN | TRP | HN | TRB/EUP | BASS-all | PERC | |
| Moana | 60-68
84-90 99-107 (FL) |
5-9
18-21 60-68 99-107 135-end |
5-9
18-21 36-62 (solo) 76-90 last 3 |
9-22
99-107 107-117 |
26-31
76-90 106-115 119-127 135-end |
– | 9-22
107-117 |
9-12 | all
(priority) |
| Children’s March | 9-21 (oboe)
93-101 |
93-101 | top-21
93-101 |
top-21 (tenor)
21-53 (bsn) 61-69 93-101 |
93-101
141-149 |
61-69
93-101 |
61-69 (EUP)
93-101 141-149 |
21-53 (lo WW)
93-101 |
93-117 |
| Night on Bald Mtn | 52-60 | 36-44
52-60 |
52-60 | 36-44 (bsn)
52-60 |
52-60
68-coda |
52-60 | 52-60
68-coda |
36-44 (bcl)
52-60 |
52-60 |
| Fiddler on the Roof | 4-11
49-60 84-93 120-124 132-end |
1-11
35-47 84-93 120-124 132-end |
27-35
84-93 120-124 132-end |
19-27 (ten)
84-93 |
11-19
27-40 84-93 |
84-93 | 19-27
84-93 |
84-93 | 158-end
Mallets-all |
| Nessun Dorma | all | all | all | – | all | – | 4-10 (Eup) | – | – |
| Eighties Gold | 7-15 | 7-15
39-47 |
14-23 | 14-23 | 14-23 | 14-23 | 14-23 | beginning | all |
| Star Trek | 23-39
62-72 |
23-39
62-72 |
10-19
23-31 56-62 72-80
|
10-19
23-31 108-end (tenor) |
10-19
56-62 62-72 108-end |
top-19
56-62 72-80
|
10-19
108-end |
23-31 (bari) | – |
| 76 Trbs | notes/leaps | notes/leaps | notes/leaps | notes/leaps | notes/leaps | – | 53-end | – | all |
5 a) Recordings
WORK ONS
Selections from Moana, arranged by Jay Bocook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrzuf3hoVf0
Children’s March by Percy Aldridge Grainger, arranged by Douglas E. Wagner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwVf_Ln9i8Q
Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky, arranged by Mark Williams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnLPu_N98mY
Fiddler on the Roof; words by Sheldon Harnick; music by Jerry Bock; arranged by Calvin Custer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHrmlzaeZz4
Nessun Dorma from Turandot, arranged by Jay Bocook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xIVRE06uME
Eighties Gold, arranged by Michael Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pus_IsMUsZE
Star Trek: Through the Generations, arranged by Robert W. Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVwo2hjOOOw
EXTRAS (fun-offs)
Seventy Six Trombones by Meredith Willson, arranged by Philip J. Lang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBQWsBiM5YY
Secret Agent Sugar Plum by Peter I. Tchaikovsky; arranged by Scott Watson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpqrHkk9LE8
Elf Dance by Matt Conaway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSncskH89BY
b) Section Practice (Moana)
Where You Are (Tenors, Trombones, Euph)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB5i6kgkvCg
How Far I’ll Go (Alto Saxophone, Trumpets)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPAbx5kgCJo
You’re Welcome (Clarinets, Trombones)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79DijItQXMM
We Know the Way (Trumpets)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubZrAmRxy_M
