thursday rehearsal

1.  The group wishes to rehearse this Thursday (Veteran's Day for some of us) so we'll meet and work on our Dec. 18 performance (not too many rehearsals left).  Please come join us!   2.  It looks like Trombone Day at California State East Bay will not happen this year - there's been no notice about it - but there will be a big one state wide in February.  We'll discuss possible attendance at reheasal: http://www.tromboneday.com/

6 days 'til Christmas

Only 6 rehearsal days until Christmas in the Park, that is. Let us know if you are out of town but would like to join us and we'll put music in the mail for your.  The music requires at least 3 rehearsals for a passable performance, at least 4 (with the help of our regulars) for one we should be proud of. See you Thursday!

concert recordings done

1.  The CD's of our July concert are finally done and will be available at this week's rehearsal, no charge.  If you are away at school but participated, answer this email with an address and we'll send you one. 2.  We start rehearsing some pretty challenging and fun holiday charts this week, the better we know them the quicker we can work with the younger players when they're done with football season.  We'd like to focus on resolving some of the problems that appear on the concert recording.  Those of you away at college but want to join us (if you have in the past you know how much fun Christmas in the Park is) we'll send you rehearsal copies, just give us an address.    New and exciting charts are on the way! See you Thursday!

Chart Library

As of right now, this is the chart library for the tbone choir.  As said in the previous post, we're always looking for new pieces.  Specifically looking for something new for Christmas.  If you have any suggestions, comments, thoughts, etc, don't hesitate to let us know!
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1. Achieved is the Glorious Work - arr. Miller - 4

2. Adagio from Symphony No. 3-Saint-Saens - arr. Greenawalt - 8

3. Allegro - Symphony No. 2-Rachmaninoff - 8

4. America the Beautiful - 4

5. Andante from Libera Me-Verdi - 6

6. Awakening Chorus - 6

7. Body and Soul - 6

8. Canzona for 8 Trombones-Hartley - 8

9. Dance of the Tumblers - 5

10. Ecce veniet dies illa-Palestrina – 8

11. Echo Song - 8       

12. 76 Trombones - 4

13. Fading Lights - 5

14. Finale from Faust - Gounod - 4

15. Rakoczy March - 4

16. Fugue in C minor - Bach - 5

17. Holy is God the Lord - 12

18. It’s All Right With Me - Kai Winding - 8

19. Funeral March - Grieg - 5

20. Laudamus Te - Vivaldi - 5

21. Minuet - Handel - 5

22. Night On Bald Mountain - 8

23. Smile - 4

24. Pavane - Ravel - 5

25. Pie Jesu - Faure - 4

26. Mein Junges Leben Hat Ein End - Verholst - 4

27.  Verbum caro Factum est Hassler - arr. Mathie- 6

28.  Pagent w/Sirens - Frith - 4

29.  Allegro Scherzo Symph. #8 - Beethoven - 6

30. Slavonic Dance #4 - Dvorak arr. Kaucher - 4

31. Magic “Trombone” Overture - Mozart - 4

32. Hungarian Dance - Brahms - Elkjer

33. Bermuda is Another World - McDonough - 4*

34. Rubber Duckie - 4

35. Saturn: The Bringer of Old Age - Holst - 8

36. 7 Quintettes - 5

37. High School Cadets - Sousa - 6

38. Speak Low - 6

39. Strong to Save - 4

40. A Sunday Afternoon Meditation from the Beer Tent - 8

41. Thaxted - 8

42. Trojan Trombones -6

43. Um Mitternacht - Bruckner - 5

44. Vorspiel Act III - Wagner - 8

45. When the Saints Meet Lassus Trombone - 5

46. All the King’s Men - 4

47. Mask -4

48. Monochrome II (Schikele) - 7

49. Debussy Minstrels - 4

50. Ballad by Shep - 5

51.  Shostakovich Prelude 20 - 5

52. Star Spangeled Banner - arr. Moffit  8

53. El Cangrejo  6

54. Mahler Finale from Symphony No.2 - arr. Zugger - 5

55. I’m Beginning to See the Light - arr. Elkjer - 4

56. The Big Splash - arr. Pederson - 6

57. Stravinsky Firebird Suite - arr. Buckmaster - 8

58. Neapolitanshes Tanzlied - Tchaikovsy - 4

59. All About Ronnie - 4

60. Salselo - Trombones de Costa Rico - 4

61. Two Almaines by Holbourne - 5

62. Prince of Attica - 6

63. Rose of Tralee – McDonough - 4

64. Xenomorphic Blues - 4

65. When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam’ - 5

66. Ac-cent-chu-ate the Positive   5   

67. It Had To Be You  5

68. Finlandia  8

69. Bygones  5

70. Hymn for Trombones - Pederson  6

71. Nunc Dimittis - Holst - 8

72. Barber Adagio   6

73. War of the Priests - Mendelssohn

74. Super ‘Bones Jazz Suite Vol. 2 - Minor Excursion  4

75. Meaning of Swing - 4

76. Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring - Sauer  6

77. Carmen Suite - Prelude  12

78. March to the Scaffold  12

79. Jaco - 6

80. 63rd St. West - 8

81. Mambazo - Trombones Costa Rico - 4

82. You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away  6

83. I’m Getting Sentimental Over You   4

84. Last Tango In Bayreuth - Shickele - 4

85. Hymne by Vingalis* -Dvorak - 7

86. Angel Eyes - Elkjer - 4

87. Over the Rainbow - Elkjer - 4

88. All the Things You Are - Elkjer - 4

89. Saint Thomas - Elkjer - 4

90. Dolphin Dance - Elkjer - 4

91. Night in Tunisia - Elkjer - 4

92. Mr. Jums  8

93. Another Cat: Kracken  8

94. Summertime arr. DeSimone  5     

95. Frescobaldi Tocatta  6      

96. Big Spender  5

97.

98. Easy Winners - 5

99. Fox Fanfare for Trombones - 5

100. Great Lakes Octet - 8

101. Courant - Praetorius - 4

102. Tower Music - Nelhybel - 8

103. Yorkshire Ballad - 7

104. Blue Topaz - 6 + Bass Solo

105. No More Blues - 4

106. Reflections - 5

107. Two Pieces - Isaac - 4

108. Flight of the Four Kings - Brubeck 4

109. Alma Llanera - Costa Rico Bones - 4

110. Ave Maria - Verdi/Hartman - 4

111.

112. Joshua Fit the Battle – Woods - 5

113. Autumn Leaves - Kosma/Cross -4

114. Dance of the Dolphin - Pederson - 6

115. Elsa’s Procession - Wagner/Hanson - 6

116. Georgia - Carmichael/Luis - 4

117.

118. Fantasia (Hypodorian) - Stoltzer/King - 5

119. My Funny Valentine - arr. Cross - 4

120. Pronouncement - 6

121. Someone to Watch - 8

122. Peter Ring -A-Dem Bells - 4

123. March Pontificale - 8

124. Ave Maria - Biebl - 7

125. God Bless America -5

126. Pater Noster - Sauer - 8

127. Super Bones Jazz Suite - 4

128. Washington Post - 6

129. Canzon Primi Toni -Gabrieli-8

130. 2 Selections from All Night Vigil - Rachmaninoff – 8

131. Remnants of a Fugue - 8

132. Longhorn-Davis-4

133. Foghorn Leghorn -Davis -4

134. Serenata - Albeniz - 4

135. Tango - Albeniz - 4

136. Maleguena - Albeniz - 4

137. Variations on “New World”

138. Nimrod - Elgar - 6

139. Benediction -4

140.

141.

142. Fanfare and Bone Dances - Gilroy - 8

143. March From 2nd Suite in F - Holst - 6

144. Uncle Remus - Macdowell - 6

145. Allegro Maestoso eVivace- Mendelssohn-8

146. Music Man - 5

147. St. Louis Blues - Holcombe - 4

148. Dolcissimo Mia Vita II - Gesualdo - 6

149. Abschiedslied - Coleman - 6

150. Pausenstomp - Azzopardi - 4

151. Back To The Fair - Reichenbach - 6

152. Take Me Out to the Ball Game - Elkjer

153. God Bless the Child - 8

154. Peg ‘O My Heart – Praetorius - 4

155. I’m Always Chasing Rainbows - Nelhybel

156. April Showers - Nelhybel

158. Green Dolphin Street - arr. Elkjer

159. That’s A Plenty - arr. Elkjer

160. Take 5 - arr. Elkjer

161. Watermelon Man - arr. Elkjer

162. Here’s That Rainy Day - arr. Elkjer

163. Royal Garden Blues - arr. Elkjer

164. Fantasy and Double Fugue - Ewezan

Upcoming events

1.  Our rehearsals this month have been well attended and we've had the opportunity to play more arrangements with larger voicings.  They've been great fun - people are choosing their favorites for future performances.   Attached is a current list of our library (there will be some new charts added permanently to the folder soon), feel free to bring some suggestions this week. It's in notepad to accomodate most word processing programs.  Only a couple more weeks or so left of playing charts for fun before rehearsal begins for Christmas in the Park. 2.  We're looking to purchase a new arrangement or two for San Jose's Christmas in the Park (our Trombone Christmas) which will take place Dec. 18 at 8 p.m., Saturday before Christmas Eve and the largest crowd for this event.  Check out www.hickeys.com and click on trombone ensembles to make suggestions (or for any other time of year). 3.  Copies of our concert are now being made, coming to a rehearsal real soon. See you Thursday!

Fwd: Christmas in the Park

1.  Once again we are invited to play San Jose's Christmas in the Park the Saturday night before Christmas, Dec. 18 at 8:00 p.m.  Please put this on your calendar (for the first time they actually called us).  Rehearsals for this event will begin, as usual, in October.  This is one of their best attended evenings and one of the largest audiences we play for.  Feel free to suggest new charts for this performance. 2.  Despite our special guest not showing, we had a huge group and everyone was very happy to play the larger-voiced arrangements. This can happen again this Thursday if everyone shows up that showed up last week - there are more great charts in the books we haven't played through in a while. 3.  Those of you who like movie music, particularly the James Bond themes, check out this trombone group from the University of Arts Berlin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyJZKuWKwb8&feature=related   See you Thursday!

Tony Clements from Stanford ...

Tony Clements will be joining us at rehearsal this Thursday, apparently news is getting out about us.  Mr. Clements is professor of tuba and instructs lower brass at Stanford, the director of the Silicon Valley Brass Band, and tubist with Symphony Silicon Valley.  And he wants to blow trombone with us!  We'd like everyone to be there if they can this Thursday (if you thought last week was fun....), this could be the start of something great.

The new music is in so we'll be playing some great charts.

See you Thursday!