[PCB Members] Virtual clinic

[Joe Frank]

Hey Band,

I am looking forward to our Monday night zoom meeting and I hope you can attend.  The idea (actually Denise’s idea) is to for me to go over three potential pieces while you have music in hand (and a pencil).   I will provide information on tempos, style, technical considerations and basic info about the piece and composer.  I promise not to be long winded and hope to keep the description of three pieces, with time for questions, under 45 minutes.

I ask your patience as this is the first time I have tried anything of this sort (though someone compared it to the instruction period of sightreading contest).  I will appreciate your feed back and we may try it again if it seems helpful.

The three pieces we will look at are:

Strike Up the Band			Gershwin

Courtly Airs and Dances		Nelson
	
Festive Overture				Shostakovich/Hunsberger

Richard has scanned the parts and they should be available for printing.  I suggest you print the same part as you played on the last February concert.

I have studied multiple reference recording and a here are the links to the ones I found most useful.


Courtly Airs and Dances		https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiAQ4CHS0Yc <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiAQ4CHS0Yc>

Festive					https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26ERmsti8oc <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26ERmsti8oc>.     Band
						
						https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8fQKKh24Gg <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8fQKKh24Gg>.    Orchestra 1

						https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rAzg7Fuuh0 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rAzg7Fuuh0>       Orchestra 2


Strike Up the Band			I was not able to find a recording I though a good enough reference.  There are recordings out there if you want to google them. 

I challenge you to work on your parts and maybe we could celebrate our first rehearsal back with a straight through reading of one of these pieces!!

See you Monday,

Joe


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