Practice Tomorrow Night ... Concert on Friday

Tomorrow night's rehearsal is the last one for the performance on Friday.

Be there!!

And if you can't perform this time, come on out for the concert. They're always great fun. Santa Clara High School Performing Arts Complex.

Upcoming concert/concerns

Hi Folks   Many of you have played shows, and if you can picture having opening day in a week and you still haven't run through the play with all of the main actors, that's about where we are for our annual concert.  As this is the smallest performing group we've for our summer concert and every player is crucial, we strongly urge your presence this Thursday to run through the  program. Next Thursday is dress rehearsal and the concert. The band room will be open this Thursday at 7:15 p.m. and downbeat at 7:30.  Most likely, as in the past, the concert will be recorded and you will be taking home a copy of it.  As we'd love the recording to show our best playing we request you woodshed your more challenging sections of the program to obtain our best performance.  We will put our performance folders together at this week's rehearsal and you should be able to take the book home to practice.  Tentative Program   Antiphonal: Echoe Song Ecce Veniet dies illa Verbum Caro Factus Est Canzona Primi Toni Latin: Salsealo Night In Tunisia San Thomas Classical: Hungarian Dance Allegretto Bach Fugue Marches: Washington Post Rakoczy March Showtunes: Medley from "The Music Man" (Vernon Miyata arrangement) As the Mercury News and Chronicle have accepted our notice for the first time, we should have a good turnout. Let's knock 'em dead!   See you Thursday (tonight!)

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4 rehearsals left!

We have a wonderful program planned for our formal concert on the 30th, we need to spend our remaining time polishing the pieces.  From Sousa to Showtunes to Salsa to Bach, we have it all.   Please plan on attending this Thursday to help prepare for  one of the highlights of our year.  Our notice was just accepted by S.F. Gate, managed by the San Francisco Chronicle, so we want to put our best foot forward!   The turnout this week will determine what pieces we play. See you Thursday!

A sad goodbye, upcoming concert

1.  Alex Harline stopped by last week to let us know he and his family are moving to Texas.  We'd like to thank his dad, Hugh, for all the hard work he's done in photographing the group and his wonderful talent for getting us to pose for some great pictures.  For many samples of his fabulous work, check out our website www.southbaybones.org and the wonderful cover he did for our promotional CD.  And our appreciation for Alex's musicianship, this is a fine player who has truly grown with the group musically.  Best of luck and many thanks to the Harline family, please come back and visit us (and Alex, be sure to sit in). 2.  Even though we're pretty familiar with our program for the July 30 (and possible antiphonal) concert, we now have an opportunity to polish our performance by working on the small nuances that make for a great performance.  The only way to do this is by attending rehearsals as much as possible between now and the end of July.  Many of us are beginning to appreciate the wonderful charts we are playing as we approach the marked tempos of the music (click on and listen to our arrangement of the Hungarian Dance, we're almost there: http://www.hickeys.com/cgi/search.cgi - but we may not go quite that fast). 3.  We are seeing more players attending rehearsal as their schedules free up for the summer.  Come help them get familiar with the music (and if you haven't attended rehearsals for awhile, now's the time). 4.  Those of you who borrowed copies from the books for the baseball game concert, please return them as soon as possible.   See you Thursday!

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This week's rehearsal, lots more

1.  Our formal concert date will be July 30 at 8 p.m. 2.  If we have enough players we'll pursue an antiphonal performance at a downtown San Jose cathedral-like venue within a week or so of the concert date. 3.  Julie Bounds, the President of the Santa Clara County High School Band Director's Association, sent out a wonderful posting to the band directors (over 45) about our group.  We may be seeing a good turnout this week and/or the following. 4.  This week's rehearsal will focus on the antiphonal music, the Bach Fugue in C, and a Night in Tunisia.  We may run through some we did last week if we have a good turnout of new players. 5.  The group voted to make a couple of performance rules due to previous problems:      - All performers need to attend at least 4 rehearsals before a performance (not necessarily consecutively) and show a familiarity with the music.      - If a player wishes to perform but cannot meet the above criteria before a performance they may request that they "audition" with the group with the group determining if the sound of the group as a whole is ready.  In other words, if a performer cannot make rehearsals on a regular basis the performer may ask the group if the group feels they are ready. 6.  Our director, Vernon Miyata, found this wonderful website.  Lots of useful information and history: http://www.kimballtrombone.com/trombone-history-timeline/trombone-history-20th-century/   See you Thursday!

Concert date

1.  Thanks to everyone who participated in the Giants game yesterday.  Great job! 2.  We have a choice of 2 dates for our summer concert at the Santa Clara High School Performing Arts Center.  Please let us know as soon as possible (hopefully by this Thursday) if you can not make either Friday July 30th or Friday August 6.    We will schedule the performance on the date we have the most available performers.  As in the past the concert should start around 8 p.m.  We'll also try to schedule a performance around the date for a possible antiphonal concert downtown. 3.  The high school band director letters go out tomorrow, Tuesday, June 1, and we'll be having some of our college students joining us soon, so our numbers should be growing over the next couple of weeks. 4.  If we have at least 8 players by 7:30 p.m. on Thursday we'll practice the antiphonal pieces.    See you Thursday!