I just found a huge error in the text on our Past Directors page that has been there since the page was created, nearly 2 years ago. The error has now been corrected. 50 bonus points to anyone who knows what the error was, or can find my change!
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The Maple Grove Middle School Band is currently selling Papa Murphy discount cards for $5. It would be really great if we could all bring $5 to the concert with them on Tuesday and innundate them with sales. It would be a great show of support to the students, and could possibly bring in several hundred dollars for their program.
I'll see you all Tuesday . . . with my $5 bill in-hand! Rehearsal last night was a hoot! After taking a week off, it was good to see everybody again (well, at least those who were there . . . where was everybody else???)
I also thought the new pieces were great. I’m excited to be working on Flight of the Valkyries. Grease is a nice arrangement, and won’t take much to work up. And I always enjoy playing anything that is directed by the composer (The G.K. March). Gosh, I know there were a couple other pieces we sight read, but I can’t remember what they were. Does anybody have any thoughts about the other pieces? Or can someone remind me what the others were? Please comment! GREAT rehearsal tonight!!! A lot of the music seemed to come together tonight; I am feeling pretty good about this upcoming concert.
Over the past couple days I have been making some changes, and adding quite a bit of content, to the website. Check it out. There will be more to come in the next several days. Probably the most noticable change is that I have gotten rid of the background photo. Although I really like the photo, it did make the site difficult to read. Poke around, check things out, and let me know what you think. Also, if you have any ideas to improve the website, please don't hesitate to let me know! I just corrected the rehearsal calendar. For some reason I had put some wrong dates in there. It is good now. Notice that we only have two more rehearsals until our first Spring concert, so keep working on that Wagner and Williams!
I can't believe we are already coming up on our first Spring concerts. It seems like we just got finished sight reading some of our music. Some of the Wagner stuff feels like sight reading every time we play it!
I will update our 'Upcoming Performances' page in the next few days with details about our first Spring Concert. Tuesday will be the first rehearsal for the Christmas Season, so get those horns (and embouchures) dusted off. I look forward to seeing everybody there!
I just updated the time and location for the Harvest Days performance this weekend. Sorry for the late update . . . because I missed rehearsal last week, I just found out myself a couple days ago.
We are playing 30 minutes later than originally planned, so hopefully if anybody doesn't get the update, they'll just be a little early and will hang out to wait for us. Also, Main Street in Battle Ground (along with many side streets) will be closed until about 11:30 due to the parade that morning, and I hear there is some construction closure on Grace, so traffic and parking is going to be atrocious. Give yourself plenty of time to find a spot and walk in. Approaching town from the south on 199th may be your best bet. See you all Saturday! With Noel moving on (he's traveling so much these days that he doesn't have time
to devote to the website), we needed a new webmaster. Somehow that became me! Not sure how that happened . . . I've never published a website, so this is new territory. Perhaps I should have taken one step backward. I decided to start from scratch with the site, but luckily, I was able to get a lot of ideas and content from Noel's old website. I also decided to migrate to a commercial host. (No, we do not have to pay . . . but notice the 'weebly' ad at the bottom, and the '.weebly' in the address) It's tough that I won't be seeing most of the band for several weeks, so I don't have a chance to get face-to-face feedback. For that reason, I would really appreciate ideas and feedback. For now, I have a few things I would like to do. In no particular order, they include:
Please let me know (via the 'Contact Us' form or a comment to this post) with any feedback or ideas. I'll see you all in a few weeks! |