Update points from Richard:
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Nov. 15: A reminder for everyone to tune in tomorrow night (9-11PM) to hear my radio show on www.977thebeach.ca It is a show about the bass-baritone voice and promoting the concert happening in Owen Sound tomorrow afternoon featuring Canadian baritone, Giles Tomkins and Owen Sound’s own, Kathryn Tremills (longtime Owen Sound piano teacher, Mary Lou Tremills’ daughter) The concert is at 3PM at the Alliance Church on 7th Ave. E. Tickets are $30 at the door. All proceeds go to fund scholarships and bursaries for the Georgian Bay Children’s Choir and the Owen Sound branch of the Ontario Registered Music Teachers Association. Do come and check it out! You may be wondering why my radio show would air AFTER the concert is over? and well you might wonder…Actually this programme was supposed to air last Sunday in anticipation of this weekend’s concert, however halfway through the broadcast the radio station had a terrible malfunction and the was off the air until the following morning! So we’re re-broadcasting it this week!
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Nov. 16: Just a reminder that the re-take photo shoot will be this Monday at rhsl for all players who missed the initial opportunity a couple of weeks back. In addition, Leslie Hallman would like to re-shoot the photos of seom students (see the email for names)
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Dec. 5 Concert: We have three more Monday rhsl’s before the Senior Orchestra has to play our first performance of the year at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church on Saturday Dec. 5th at 2:30PM. I think we are supposed to be there at 1PM. This is a concert for the Senior Orchestra only. This is a special collaboration with the Georgian Bay Children’s Choir – we are their featured guests! There will be an additional DRESS REHEARSAL on Friday Dec. 4th at 6PM at the St. Andrew’s church. If you are not able to be present for this additional rhsl, please let me know asap. If you are not able to perform in the Dec. 5th concert will you let me know immediately! Some of you that do have conflicts have told me already, but regardless would you send me a quick email to confirm this lack of availability. This should be an amazing concert! I’m really looking forward to it! We will be playing a piece of mine, which I will be handing out on Monday! An older piece which I have recently re-worked for this concert, entitled “Ave Maria”! Also, we will be playing our excerpts from Handel’s Messiah as well as several of our own pieces…probably the Beethoven, Prelude and Fugue in D minor of Handel and possibly the Brahms as well?
- Dec. 14Th: We have ‘our own’ concert at Division Street United on Monday Dec. 14th for both the Junior and Senior groups! For the Dec. 14th concert, we’ll play the Beethoven, Brahms, Handel (P&F), Mozart, as well as the Raiders March and some arrangements of mine of local singer/songwriter, Lars Jensen. (I’m also going to hand these out on Monday..they’re easy, don’t worry!) We may possibly do a Christmas piece or two? We’ll see? Additionally the Juniors will play a selection of the pieces we have been playing this term…one of the Leroy Anderson’s, the Bach minuet, Pizzicato Polka? Do let me know/remind me if you have a conflict with this Dec. 14th concert! It will be at 7:30PM (We’ll probably get together for a brief ‘warm-up’ rhsl at 5:30/6:00 on the night) at Division Street United church in Owen Sound. We are trying out Owen Sound’s hippest new venue…the recently acoustically renovated performance space at Division Street. We will be selling tickets for this concert! Only $10! All families will receive two free tickets (for each parent) and all kids will be free, but beyond that we will be selling tickets to the public for the first time! More on this soon!
- For those of you who at one time or another studied with Stephanie Moore, do tune in as you will hear a recent piece of hers that has just been recorded by an ensemble based in Toronto on their latest CD…the Talisker Players Ensemble! Her piece is called “In Flanders Fields” and is obviously of a Remembrance Day theme. She wrote this piece when we first moved up to Leith from Toronto! It was premiered in Oct. of 2005 alongside an arrangement I had made of the John Adams masterpiece, “The Wound-Dresser”. This was immediately prior to me landing the Composer-in-Residence job with the GBS that kept us in Owen Sound!