Brass @ Triadelphia 4/30 Update Again

Good work tonight, guys!

Please plan to arrive at the church at 8:30, so we start practicing between 8:40 and 8:45. Can anyone pick up Joel so he can warm up with us?

See you Sabbath!

Brass @ Triadelphia 4/30 Update

Hello friends,

This evening in rehearsal we selected the following pieces:

Sabbath School
	Special Music:		Sweet Hour of Prayer
Worship Service
	Prelude:		I Know That My Redeemer Liveth
	Call to Worship:		Dear Lord and Father
	Special Music:		Deep River
	Postlude:		Little Fugue

At this point I wish to avoid having an extra rehearsal Friday evening or Sabbath morning. However, I cannot deny the possibility that it would help us. But, if Joel can't be there,…

Brass @ Triadelphia 4/30

Hello friends,

It turns out that TriBrass are scheduled to play at Triadelphia SDA this coming Sabbath. Please make every effort to be at both rehearsals.

I believe that our best plan is to bring back one or two of the hymn settings we've used in the past. However, I would like to use the Bach Little Fugue for a postlude, if we think we can manage it without catastrophe.

So, what do you think?

TriBrass Rehearsal Schedule Update

As the Prophecy Code Seminar Series has come to an end, we agreed to move our Wednesday rehearsal back to 6:00 PM. So our rehearsals are as follows:

• 6:00 PM Monday evenings
• 6:00 PM Wednesday evenings

Please arrive at rehearsals 15 minutes early so that you can unpack and warm up before we begin. I will do my best to have the church open by 5:45.

See you there!

Chamber Music Mini-Festival

Hello everyone,

This weekend we're having, as guests, two fine cellists from the Atlanta area. We'd like to spend Sabbath afternoon reading chamber music at a residence near the Beltsville SDA church. If you're interested in playing, please RSVP by posting a comment here in the weblog, or by sending an e-mail to jdashton@AshtonFam.org.

See you there!

TriBrass Progress!

Excellent work tonight, brass players! I'm very happy with our progress.

For those who have been practicing frequently: It shows! Your investment is paying off. Keep up the good work!

Resources

In rehearsal last night we had a brief discussion on where to purchase music supplies. Here's a short list:

• Woodwind and Brasswind - Pretty much everything you could imagine: instruments, supplies and equipment of all kinds.
• Musician's Friend
• J. W. Pepper - Music and supplies, especially geared toward schools
• Robert King - Huge selection of brass music

What are your favorites?

TriBrass Update

As of last week, we've decided to practice twice a week for the next eight weeks, i.e. the duration of David's evening class. We'll meet Monday nights at 6:00 and Wednesday nights at 5:45.

I'd like to welcome Milton McHenry, who dusted off his trombone to rehearse with us this evening. Thanks for joining us! I'm looking forward to learning some new seven-part music.

More Details on Google Groups

The group/mailing-list is a one-way mirror of what's posted in the web-log. If you reply to a posting using your e-mail program, it (probably) will be distributed to everyone on the mailing list, but it will not show up in the blog itself.

If I could, I would configure the group so that would accept only e-mail sent through Blogger.com. But I can't see how to do that. So I leave it to you: for the majority of posts and comments, please post through the Blogger.com interface. Only reply to e-mail if you're not a member of this weblog (i.e. can't post (although you can still comment: anyone can leave a comment)) or if you want (for some reason) to have your words show up in the group archive, but not in the weblog itself.

[The proper solution would be for Blogger to make it possible to send notices directly to multiple people, but they haven't seen fit to do that yet. Their standard answer is to set up a Google Groups-Beta group, which leads to this kind of confusion. Sorry!]

[Another solution would be for me to set up our own blogging software, possibly based on SlashCode.]

Brass rehearsal days

I let this one sneak up on me: starting tomorrow, I have a class at 6:15 for the next 8 Mondays. Is it OK to move rehearsal to Wednesday? Is it too late to make such a change this week?

Birthday Plans - Vicki

This coming Monday is Vicki's birthday. We're making plans to celebrate by eating supper at Vicki's favorite restaurant, California Pizza Kitchen, in Bethesda. Because of brass rehearsal we won't arrive at CPK until 7:45 or 8:00 PM. Can you meet us there?

Please RSVP so we'll know how large a table to ask for.

Leo Hogendorp Concert this Sabbath

For those who haven't heard: Leo Hogendorp is a gentleman who has been attending our church recently with his daughter and son-in-law, Cindy and Paul Possinger. He owns a collection of violins and violas, and the family has decided to feature a few of these instruments in a vespers concert this weekend. Soloists (tentative list) may include:

• Daniel Ashton
• Evonne Baasch
• Frank Hardy
• Enno Mueller
• Dr. Douglas Potts

with assistance from David Greene and others. Concert details:

• Sabbath, February 19, 4:30 PM
• Triadelphia SDA Church
  12950 Brighton Dam Rd
  Clarksville, GA 21029

Triadelphia Brass: This week?

Hi guys,

It turns out that there's no one scheduled for the special music for church this week. I can cover it, but I thought that, after our rehearsal this week, we might feel interested in playing one of the hymn settings like Deep River, especially since we're already playing along with the hymns.

What is your pleasure?

Group-beta Created

I've created what is essentially a mailing list using the Groups-beta function of Google. Anytime an item is posted to our weblog, a copy will to go all the blog members, as well as to a few who haven't accept membership yet.

Rehearsal Reprise

Here's my understanding of our consensus regarding rehearsals:

• Beginning next week (1/17) rehearsals will be at 6:00 PM on Monday evenings.
• This week we're meeting on Wednesday (1/12).

Happy 1st Wedding Anniversary to Corey and Christy!

Recorders! Strings!

Triadelphia SDA Church invites all interested blockflute/recorder players to join in for two hymns just before the 11 o'clock service December 11. The hymns will be #122 and #124 in the Adventist Hymnal.

Triadelphia SDA Church invites all interested violin, viola, cello and string bass players to join in for two hymns just before the 11 o'clock service December 18. The hymns will be #125 and #132 in the Adventist Hymnal.

The church is at
12950 Brighton Dam Rd
Clarksville, MD 21029-1411

For more information, send an e-mail to jdashton@ashtonfam.org.

Hymns for November 20

This being the third Sabbath of the month, the brass are expected (as I understand it) to play with the hymns. I obtained this morning the list of hymns, and here they are:

• 86 - How Great Thou Art
• 616 - Soldiers of Christ Arise.
• 615 - Rise Up, O Church of God
• 377 - Go Forth, Go Forth With Christ

See you there!

Oops! My bad…

I have received further information about the December 4 concert I mentioned in this earlier posting. I have been made to understand that the ensemble I envisioned would not fit well into the organizer's plans for this event. Mea culpa. Please accept my apologies. I look forward to playing Corelli and much more with you at some future date. And enjoy a free evening.

Calling All String Players

If you're a Maryland-area string player and reading this, please either leave a comment on this posting or send me an e-mail.

We have two opportunities to do "a little something" together. Here's what we have:

1. A family at our church owns a collection of violins. They would like to present a vespers recital in which many different violinists play solos and ensembles using the violins in this collection. I have access to pieces like Eine Kleine, the Pachelbel Canon, the Corelli Christmas Concerto, and the Brook Green Suite. Please let me know whether or not you would be willing to help with an event like this, playing a solo and/or being part of an ensemble. We need violas, cellos and basses for the ensemble numbers, too. If you're willing to play, when? The family was hoping for a Friday or Sabbath evening in November, but I realize that we will have difficulty pulling this off in two weeks. Could you do November? Or perhaps January or February?
2. A concert is being planned for December 4, at Triadelphia SDA, at 7 in the evening. Would you like to throw together the Corelli Christmas Concerto for that event? Plans change: see this posting for a little more info.

Please let me know if you're interested. If it's out of the question, at least let me know that you read this posting.

Thanks!

Practice update

It's been a sparse week for me and brass practice, but I got in about an hour of tuba today, and a few minutes trombone. AND, I broke loose my trombone tuning slide, and greased it properly.

How about you?

My brass practice time I spent playing with the Canadian Brass Advanced Quintets book and CD. This makes for an intense work-out for my lip, as there are no significant breaks between pieces. I highly recommend this as a fall-back activity, for those days when you can't get yourself to drag out the music we're learning. Just three or four pieces with this CD, daily, would make a huge difference in your endurance and tone. Try it!