Dear Band:

Thanks for a super rehearsal last Tuesday.  I think that things are coming together for the concert. 

Please see the following video sent to me by Betty Foster. 

TUPRACTIS – The Miracle Drug for Struggling Musicians [ORIGINAL COMEDY]

We have three rehearsals until the concert.  Please practice – it will bring the best Irish out!

 

This week we will start putting the entire concert together:

533      The Star Spangled Banner

699      An Irish Rhapsody

702      Irish Tune from County Derry

704      Carrickfergus

701      The Irish Baker

Intermission

703      The Wearing of the Green – Tempo 144 – 152

700      The Lord of the Dance

705      The Blessing

698      Dublin Dances

 

Use the following edits:

Carrickfergus

m6-21 – no flute solo

m23 – mp dynamic

m30-38 – no trumpet solo – mp dynamic

m38-45 – no Alto Sax or Horn – mp dynamic

m46-53 – no 1^stclarinet

m63-70 – no flute solo

Add 1^stending measure 67-70 and a repeat from the end of measure 70 back to 54

m70 –  no ritard and 1^stclarinet make beat four a quarter note E

m54 – 1^sttime mp – no flute, clarinet and percussion

            m54 – 2^ndtime as written – no vocal solo until m63 (no flute solo m63)

 – skip first ending (m67-70)

add 2^ndending in m71-73

m71-77 – no trumpet solo

m73 – add fermata on beat 3

The Blessing

            m5-13 – no 1^stclarinet (play 2^nd& 3^rdparts)

            m13-19 – no flute (play oboe part)

            m16-39 – no 1^stclarinet (play 2^nd& 3^rdparts)

m23-end – no 1^sttrumpet (play 2^nd& 3^rdparts)

            m31-37 – no flute (play oboe part)

 

Irish Proverb – If you do not sow in the spring, you will not reap in the autumn. 

Believers Band translation: If you don’t practice now, you won’t be ready on March 17^th!  

David