Evening of Arts & Culture Oct 13

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LACW will perform at 8:00 p.m. in Fuller Lodge.  Please be there no later than 7:30. For those of you coming from the Hill Stompers, please try to be over at Fuller Lodge by 7:45.
The concert order is:
Sokol Fanfare
The Charlatan
Pavane
Elsa’s Procession
Dress for the concert is our blue polos and dark pants. Preferably wear dress pants or dark “non jeans.” Also, please no street shoes or white socks.  You will need to bring a stand.  Cases can be stored in one of the upstairs conference rooms or in the balcony area or in the dressing room and possibly the kitchen area.

2017-18 Season Information

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The repertoire for the Saturday, October 21st Fall concert is (in no particular order):

Bernstein – Overture to Candide/trans. Grundman
Broughton – Themes from “Silverado”/trans. Vives
Khachaturian – Three Dances from the Gayane Ballet Suite/trans. Leidzen
Ravel – Pavane pour une infante défunte/trans. Hindsley
Wagner – Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral/trans. Cailliet
Sousa – The Charlatan
Gillingham – Council Oak
Lopez – Yorkton
Janáček – Sokol Fanfare (brass and timpani only)

Link to audio files

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Summer Sound Files

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YouTube links to music we are playing this summer.  Please use these to familiarize yourselves with the music.

The Sting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyC6PHQ5T3A

Guardians of the Galaxy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41KsJtbC9ac

George M/ Cohan Patriotic Fantasy
(not a great recording, but the best one I could find)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVcDy60qYCs

Taps – Eternal Father
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBvtrlnAQdQ

MacArthur March (this arrangement is not organized the same as ours, but its close enough to give you an idea of the piece.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km9veYIP9Rc

From Sea to Shining Sea
(full piece uses strings and choir, but it’s the same arrangement)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPw0CUBem-E&channel=UCSV1CjxxLu3DfuiZDFi9EWw

Navy Log March (again, put together a little differently but overall close enough)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEVB3IZJseY

2017-18 Officers and Board Members

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Thank you to everyone who attended the rehearsal and general meeting last night. Congratulations to our 2017-2018 officers and board members:
Paul Campbell – President
Heidi Morning – Secretary
Amanda Barry – Treasurer
Julie Elliott – Librarian
Julian Chen, Tracey Speyrer, Alan Hurd (alt.) – Members-at-Large

Summer Concerts

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Thank you all again for a fine performance last night. Very challenging literature and performed quite well. Congratulations!!

Just a reminder, that there is no rehearsal for the next 2 weeks. We will resume on Tuesday, May 9 to read through music for the summer and have our annual membership meeting. Please try to attend even if you aren’t playing this summer as we will be going over plans for next season and as always seeking ideas and input from the membership.

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