Mar 11, 2019

By Conductor Messages

Dear Band:

It will be great to be in the sanctuary on Tuesday. It sounds different than in the choir room.  We need to play confidently like we do in the choir room so be sure to practice. There is a funeral in the sanctuary so we won’t be able to get in until 5:00pm. Please come at 5:00 to help set up. 

This is the schedule for Tuesday:

            5:00 – 6:00 pm – Set-up chairs, stands and percussion in the sanctuary

            6:00 pm – Warm-up

            6:05 pm – Tune

            6:10 pm – Rehearse – Carrickfergus and The Blessing with Lisa

            6:25 pm – Rehearse the concert in order (skipping Carrickfergus and The Blessing)

            7:45 pm – End rehearsal – Pray

Please help put everything away (chairs, stands and percussion)

 

This is the order for the concert:

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

 

This is the schedule for Sunday:

12:30 pm – Set-up chairs and stands in sanctuary and choir room.

1:30 pm – Warm-up in sanctuary – Just to get comfortable with the hall. 

Each piece: beginning, end and transitions.

2:00 pm – Move into the choir room and get changed into Irish outfits

2:30 pm – Finish warm-up, tune in choir room (bring music stands)

2:50 pm – Pray and Enter sanctuary

3:00 pm – Concert begins.  

 

Here are some recordings to help as you practice.  They are not exactly the interpretation (tempos, fermatas, etc…) that we will do:

Irish Proverb – He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses more; he who loses faith, loses all. 

Blessings,

David

 

 

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