Hi Believers,

Last night’s rehearsal was great!

One of our members shared an idea for inviting our audience to join us at the Jingle Mingle.  Please practice and bring with you “Jingle Bells Forever (773).”  At the dress rehearsal, we will run through this piece and consider it as a possible encore.  

Every concert, someone asks me about why we refer to the rehearsal before the concert as a “dress rehearsal” when we don’t wear our concert dress clothes.  The term “dress rehearsal” comes from the traditions of the theatre.  Actors would wear their costumes prior to opening night to ensure there were no “costume malfunctions!”  We, in the instrumental music world, prepare our music and instruments during the dress rehearsal.  We save our formal uniform for the concert.  

Please put your music in concert order:

758 -American Salute – Morton Gould/arr. Douglas E. Wagner
Presentation of Colors – Boy Scout Troup # 611
533 – The Star-Spangled Banner – Francis Scott Key/arr. John Phillip Sousa
The Pledge of Allegiance
447 – Hymn To The Fallen – John Williams/arr. Michael Sweeney
Welcome – Rev. Jamey Prickett
692 – Semper Fidelis – John Philip Sousa
584 – The Pacific – Hans Zimmer and Blake Neely/arr. Ted Ricketts
458 – Patton  – Jerry Goldsmith/arr. Ralph Ford
194 – Within These Hallowed Halls – James Swearingen – Narrator – Bill Maine
Theme From M*A*S*H – Johnny Mandel/arr. David A. Arvold
775 – America, The Beautiful – Samuel A. Ward/arr. Erik Morales
552 – Armed Forces Salute – arr. Bob Lowden
773 – Jingle Bells Forever – arr. Robert W. Smith – Possible encore

You may want to bring a stand light and a water bottle.

Make note of the changes we made in rehearsal to “The Pacific.”  We all have crescendos and decrescendos in the middle section.  Make it musical.  In “Within These Hallowed Halls,” we permanently added a sixteenth note on the downbeat of measure 97.  In “Armed Forces Salute,” the ties were removed from measures 143-145 in the trumpet and euphonium parts.  

I can’t wait to hear our beautiful music on Thursday, from 6-8 pm in the GFUMC sanctuary.  Be early!  Be prepared!  

Musically, 

David