Please see the rehearsal schedule for the final TWO rehearsals before our recording session.

Please note you may have a staggered arrival and departure time at these rehearsals if you are not assigned to certain pieces.

Those musicians playing on the Rodrigo…. At the first reading session we spoke about needing  a little more time to finish putting this together. Please let me know if you are able to stay until 12:45 on 6/1.

Thanks very much and see you all on Saturday!!!
T

REHEARSAL ORDER – 5/18/13 — MONTGOMERY HS

9:00 – 9:45 —Rodrigo Adagio

9:45 – 10:20 — Solitary Dancer

10:20 – 10:30 — BREAK

10:30 – 11:00 —Sectionals on Mannin Veen and Give Us This Day

Woodwinds with Adam and Brass/Percussion with Todd

11:00 – 11:40 – Give Us This Day

11:40 – 12:00 — Serenade for Band

REHEARSAL ORDER – 6/1/13 — MONTGOMERY HS

9:00 – 9:10 —His Honor

9:10 – 9:30 – Red Tail Skirmish

9:30 – 10:10 – Mannin Veen

10:10 – 10:30 – Serenade for Band

10:30-10:40 — BREAK

10:40– 11:30 – Give Us This Day

11:30 – 12:00 – Solitary Dancer

12:00-12:45 — Rodrigo Adagio

Our recording schedule is now finalized. With three weeks to go, I hope this gives you ample time to prepare your personal schedules in advance of our session. At this time, no additional individual accommodations can be made. The schedule will not be adjusted from this point forward.

2013 EWS RECORDING SESSION SCHEDULE

EWS Klavier Recording Session Schedule

Thank you very much for your patience throughout this process. My goal is to make this recording session as smooth and stress free for you as possible. To achieve this, the pre-session planning must be done right. It takes a large amount of time and the schedule must be approved by our engineer and producer. Accommodating the needs of an exceptionally large portion of our membership required weeks of preparation and shuffling. Regardless, the schedule is now ready and approved by Klavier. 

Rehearsal notes and the rehearsal schedule for 5/18 and 6/1 will be posted tomorrow….. 5/15/13.

Thanks very much and I am looking forward to seeing you all this Saturday at MHS!!!

All Best Wishes,
T

Please see the rehearsal schedule for the next TWO weeks. As we prepare for this incredible recording session, please take a look at getting all of your music prepared prior to these rehearsals. We are on a very tight schedule and need every second to get these pieces ready before the session.

Please note you may have a staggered arrival and departure time at these rehearsals if you are not assigned to certain pieces.

Thanks very much and see you all on Saturday!!!
T

REHEARSAL ORDER – 5/4/13 — MONTGOMERY HS

9:00-9:45 —Rodrigo Adagio

9:45-10:30 — Solitary Dancer

10:30-10:35 — BREAK 

10:35 – 11:50 — Give Us This Day

11:50 – 12:00 — His Honor

REHEARSAL ORDER – 5/11/13 — MONTGOMERY HS

9:00-10:20 — Give Us This Day

Rehearsal will be with Adam

10:20-10:30 — BREAK

10:30– 12:00 — Red Tail Skirmish and Serenade for Band

Rehearsal will be with Bruce Yurko

Thank you for an excellent rehearsal last week. Please see below for this Saturday’s rehearsal schedule. Please note we will begin work on some of the recording session music as well.
I will have final details for you all for the Bordentown concert on Saturday.

Thanks and see you all this weekend!
T

REHEARSAL ORDER – 4/20/13 — MONTGOMERY HS

9:00-9:05 — His Honor  — Run Through

9:05-9:20 — Second American Folk Rhapsody

9:20– 9:25 — El Capitan

9:25 – 9:40 — South Pacific — Run Through

9:40 – 9:45 — American Patrol — Run Through

9:45-10:25 — Mannin Veen

10:25-10:35 — BREAK

10:35 – 10:55 – Lincolnshire Posy — Run Through

10:55 – 11:30 — Give Us This Day

11:30 – 12:00 — Serenade for Band

I hope you are all doing well. I am really looking forward to getting started on our next project together tomorrow. It will be great to see you all. Please take a look at your parts…there is a lot of music between the Bordentown concert and recording session. Some music will be on both programs. We will be working mostly on the Bordentown music tomorrow. Below is the rehearsal order for tomorrow and also the list of what is on the Bordentown concert and recording session.

Thanks and see you all tomorrow!
T

REHEARSAL ORDER – 4/13/13 — MONTGOMERY HS

9:00-9:10 — His Honor 

9:10-9:35 — Second American Folk Rhapsody

9:35 – 9:45 — El Capitan

9:45 – 10:25 — South Pacific 

10:25-10:35 — BREAK

10:35-11:25 — Mannin Veen

11:25 – 11:35 – Armed Forces Salute

11:35 – 11:45 — American Patrol

11:45 – 11:55 — Red Tail Skirmish

11:55 – 12:00 — Slava!

* Please note…we will run Lincolnshire Posy on 4/20. 

PROGRAMS

‘Bordentown Goes PoPs!           61 minutes of music

Red Tail Skirmish - 4:30

Lincolnshire Posy - 12:00

Movements 1,2,4,5,6

Slava! - 3:00

Mannin Veen - 10:00

South Pacific - 12:00

His Honor - 3:00

Armed Forces Salute - 4:00 

Second American Folk Rhapsody - 4:00

El Capitan - 2:30

American Patrol – 3:00

ENCORE

Stars and Stripes - 3:00

KLAVIER RECORDING SESSION          61 minutes of music

Commission

Red Tail Skirmish (for wind ensemble) – Bruce Yurko – 4:30

Chamber/Reduced

The Solitary Dancer — Warren Benson — 7:00

Adagio — Joaquin Rodrigo – 10:00

Significant Band Works

Give us this Day — David Maslanka – 16:00

Serenade for Band — Vincent Persichetti - 7:00

Listenable Works

Mannin Veen — Hadyn Wood - 10:00

Slava! — Leonard Bernstien- 3:30

March

His Honor –Henry Fillmore - 3:00

#1 — Let’s start with some incredible news!!!!! – I had to open up the final section of Carnegie (the top balcony) yesterday. This means we are certain to have close to or even over 2,000 people at this performance! I believe this might be one of the largest audiences EWS will have ever played for so far!!!!! Not to shabby!!!!

#2 — We will have two very important and historic gentlemen with us that we will honor — Two Tuskegee Airmen….Roscoe C. Brown Jr. and Wilfred DeFour. Mr. Brown was a lead fighter pilot and featured character in the George Lucas film Red Tails. Mr. Brown is 91 and Mr. DeFour is 94. You can read the bios on these historic gentlemen here…

Tuskegee Airmen Bios

REMINDERS AND FINAL INFORMATION

1. Equipment/Music – You are responsible for transporting your instruments, accessories, concert dress, and music. There will be no copies of music or any means to make copies of the music at Carnegie Hall. You must bring all your music. PERCUSSION — See Jasmine for all info on Percussion equipment.

2. Dress – You may come dressed in street clothes or concert dress. It is your call. We will have plenty of time to change, but space is limited backstage. We will have the entire 4th floor to ourselves as a dressing room. It is tight though. Again, whatever you are most comfortable doing is fine.

3. Tickets – Tickets for the members of EWS will be given to Rebecca Gentile. She will hand them out to you in the dressing room after our sound check. If you would like to go listen to some of  the high school bands (which would be great if you could) you will need your ticket to enter the audience part of the hall.

4.  Arrival / Stage Door – Please note you must always enter and re-enter through the stage door and check in at the security desk. The address of the stage door is as follows….On 56^{th Street}, between 6^th and 7^th, closer to 7^th.    56^th and 7^th are one way streets.

 5. The following files should address the rest of the information you need including schedules for both the rehearsal and performance, location of dressing rooms, etc.

Rehearsal Schedule MARCH 15 2013 – REHEARSAL – final

Performance Schedule MARCH 15 2013 – PERFORMANCE – final

Dressing Room Info Backstage Map – Dressing Rooms final

Now for the most important stuff…..

I would like to thank you all for what you have done to make this concert a reality. You are all consummate professionals and wonderful musicians. I am incredibly grateful to have the opportunity to work with you each and every week! I know for many of you this will be the first time you have ever performed at Carnegie Hall and I know that this has been on the bucket list for EWS for many years so with that in mind….the goal for the evening is quite simple….

Make incredibly great music with incredibly great friends!!!!

Congratulations everyone!!!!! Enjoy every single second of this!

T

9:00-10:30 – *Grainger

*We will rehearse each movement in order – then run the entire piece straight through

10:30-10:40 – BREAK

10:40-11:00 – Wagner

11:00-11:40 – *Yurko

* We will rehearse with Bruce and then play Red Tail straight through

 11:40-12:00 – *Bernstein

* We will spot check some things and then play Slava! straight through

Thanks,

T

Thanks for a really great rehearsal yesterday! With one rehearsal left until Carnegie, things are looking to shape up fabulously for our NYC debut!!! Please continue to iron out as many details in your parts as you can this week.

Also…..I wanted to let you know that Bruce contacted me yesterday an he is VERY happy with how the ensemble is performing Red Tail Skirmish. Thanks for all your hard work preparing this challenging new work!

Below you will find the tentative call sheet for the Carnegie Hall Concert. I do not anticipate any times changing but, there are few details that I will finalize this week so that you have complete information before arrival in the 15th. For now you should have plenty of information to prepare your travel plans in and out of the city. Please click on the following link  for the document.

2013 EWS Carnegie Call Sheet

Rehearsal order for 3/9 will be posted early this week.

Thanks and have a wonderful week!

T