Newsletter #17

Newsletter for 2/5/09

1) Claremont Trio TONIGHT at the Elsinore!!
2) Schedule for next week - sectionals, Boston, All City
3) PIPPIN is this weekend (Fri and Sat) and next
4) Links to pieces we're playing...
5) Chocolate Sunday is THIS Sunday

1) There's an amazing concert tonight... the Claremont Trio (click on the name to see their website) is playing at the Elsinore at 7pm. There is student pricing available. For more info:

http://www.salemcommunityconcerts.org/

2) Here's the rather busy schedule for this next week:

Tuesday 7am (6:50 arrive) Adv. Symph 1st violins
2:30pm All City students
4:30pm Adv. Symph

Wednesday 7am (6:50 arrive) Adv. Symph 2nd violins
3 - 5pm BOSTON TRIP MANDATORY REHEARSAL
6 - 8:30pm All City students - sectionals at South

Thursday 7am (6:50 arrive) Adv. Symph violas
2:30pm Adv. Symph Bass

Friday 7am (6:50 arrive) Adv. Symph cello
2:40pm Adv. Symph
7pm PIPPIN!!!

Any ADVANCED SYMPHONY students who miss their sectional will need to record (video or audio) the section they missed and bring the recording in to Ms. Silberman within 2 days of the missed sectional!! We mean business this round - let's get these notes learned!!!

3) West's Musical, Pippin, is this weekend and next - Friday and Saturday night at 7pm. Come support your friends, both on the acting side and the musician side!

4) Some links for ya:

Bugs Bunny - The Rabbit of Seville (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UccY_0Trfbk

or click here: Bugs Bunny - The Rabbit of Seville (video on google site that's not blocked)

The Barber of Seville - audio (youTube)

or

The Barber of Seville - audio (Symphony Silicon Valley live concert broadcast)

Night on Bald Mountain (From Fantastia... the video on YouTube)

Irish Washerwoman - scroll down and click on the Irish Washerwoman audio file (Real Player)

Death and the Maiden String Quartet - audio recording of the Borromeo Quartet

More links to come...

5) Like Chocolate? Want to come hear your friends play... and you can eat a LOT of chocolate? And, you'd be supporting music in our community? Well, scroll down to see the blog entry before this one, or click here: http://titanorchestras.blogspot.com/2009/02/chocolate-sunday-is-this-sunday.html

Have a great weekend - I'll see you at Pippin this weekend, or at Chocolate Sunday...