Dear Band:

Thank you for a great wonderful rehearsal yesterday!

Dress for the concert is festive GREEN.

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

 

“Irish Tune from County Derry” put breath marks, between beat one and two, in measures 5, 21, 29, 35, 45 (Tenor Sax and Bass Clarinet put an eighth rest on beat two) and 53.  Here is a recording of the Dallas Wind Symphony:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-1Vvrgk6os

 

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.  

4:30 pm – End concert

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

Use the words to the Rattlin’ Bog:

Ho, ro, the rattlin’ bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.
Ho, ro, the rattlin’ bog,
The bog down in the valley-o.

Here is a video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oFQ76ctfS0

 

Be sure to listen to Larry Preiss on WDUN radio 102.9 this Friday around 7:42 am.                 

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

 

Blessings,

David