Concert, Equipment, Web Site, and Rehearsals (December
21, 2000)
December 18 Concert
at Roseville Lutheran Church
Well done!
Our joint
concert December 18th with the Roseville Community Band was a success!
Here's the text of an email I received through our RBB web site today:
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My wife and attended the performance at the Roseville Lutheran Church several
nights ago and we loved it. We sat with Pastor George in the balcony. The
view and the acoustics were great.
I was so disappointed to see only about 95 people in the audience that I
have to promise myself that I'll have to go to more of your concerts.
Now I know where your page is and I will visit your site and your performances
again.
Also I am in the National Guard and I understand there are a couple of Guard
band members in your band.
See you again.
Bob Rorke
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Kay
Foster and I figured out that this is the first joint concert in perhaps
20 years. Thanks to all of you for making it a memorable occasion. Special
thanks go to Kirk and Karen
for learning their emcee roles with little preparation time and to anyone
who had to reschedule Monday evening activities to accommodate the concert.
For the bands, this
concert was a good opportunity to reach new audience members. In response
to my question about how many people were seeing each group for the first
time, about two dozen people raised their hands. For the church, it was a
chance to get new people into the sanctuary, increasing the possibility that
they'll come back again for regular church activities.
Attendance at the
concert would have been higher if not for several factors, of which the nasty
weather was the biggest. But in addition, the choir concert at the church
the previous night meant that many Roseville Lutheran Church choir members
who would have otherwise enjoyed hearing us were still catching up on other
responsibilities after putting on their own concert. And unknown to us when
we scheduled the concert, the Roseville String Ensemble was playing a sing-along
concert in a nearby church at the same time on Monday as our concert. Finally,
because of a misunderstanding of the church's role in publicizing the concert,
there was no publicity for the concert in either Roseville paper. Although
I didn't see the publicity myself, I've been told there was an ad (placed
by the church) for this concert and the previous night's choir concert in
the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and using information I supplied, the Roseville
city publicist submitted a description of the concert to the Pioneer Press.
Many more people than
the 95 who were in the live audience will enjoy the concert because it was
videotaped by the volunteers of CTV15 and will be broadcast multiple times.
Volunteer producer John Rusterholz and most of the crew - Keith, Bernie, Lynn,
Barb, Ruth, Dave, and Pat - had already shot numerous concerts and other events
in the preceding two weeks, and we should all thank them when we next see
them for extending their volunteer efforts to yet another night during the
holiday season to capture our concert on videotape.
To find out when the
concert video will air on channel 15, call (651) 481-9554, or check http://www.ctv15.org/CTV/ProgramSchedules/index.html
on the web. (The schedule shown on the web encompasses 8 hours, and it is
repeated in the next two 8-hour segments to make a full day of programming.)
I don't see it on the schedule that now goes through January 13, so I expect
the joint concert will first be aired during the week of January 14. You can
also request additional playback times.
The best way to get
a copy of the concert is to dub it off the air. If you can't do that (because
it's not shown in your area, for example), CTV15 can make a copy for you,
but there is a rather high dubbing charge. If they make you a dub, don't forget
to ask for a stereo hi-fi dub.
This is the first
time we have been able to show the live audience what the TV cameras were
capturing as the concert was being performed. The large screen behind the
altar at Roseville Lutheran church gave audience members another view of the
concert, much like the projection screens do at the State Fair talent contest
finals.
This concert had a
number of firsts for us: First performance of And the Angels Sing, What a
Wonderful World, and Mike Bratlie's arrangement
of Grace Yourself; first performance with vocals of Opus One and Sweet Sue
- Just You. Thanks to Mike Bratlie for contributing Version 2.2 of Grace Yourself
for the RBB to play at the concert. We'll use most of our nine selections
(the ones performed by the RBB alone) in our summer concert series.
For the selections
that we played jointly with the community band, I'd also like to commend those
versatile Roseville Big Band members who played parts other than their usual
instruments to help fill out the instrumentation, especially Harvey
on the French horn, Fred playing 4th
French horn on his trombone, and Jim playing
baritone horn.
Thanks, too, go to
those of you who came earlier than normal to help with setup, especially Bob
Nielsen, Mike Bratlie, and Bill Frank.
It wasn't easy figuring out how to get both bands into a workable configuration
in the sanctuary, and it required setting up some extra risers and moving
some of the church's equipment. But we got everyone into a workable configuration
and the audience could see both bands well because of the slanted seating.
Equipment
I now have the mixer,
power amp, effects unit and EQ unit mounted in the rack that I brought to
rehearsal a couple of weeks ago, and I have the required cables to hook them
all up. We should be able to use the new setup for the Carleton
Winter Dance.
A few people noticed
that during the Roseville Lutheran concert, the live output from our current
sound system sometimes seemed to fade away, then come back, at times; this
shows that the amplifier needs repair. The new equipment should solve that
problem. (Also, because of the way CTV15 hooked up to our equipment, those
live sound problems shouldn't be audible on the videotape.)
I also have three
new small Roseville Big Band summer shirts - ones that would have been the
right size for Dan, Jana,
and Tahran this past summer
and will be a better fit for our smaller subs in the future.
Web Site
The average number
of daily visits to www.rosevillebigband.org continues to increase. From September
through November it rose from 23 to 29 visits per day. Sometimes you may hear
webmasters talk about the number of "hits"; between September and
November, the RBB web site had about 360 hits per day. Oversimplifying a bit,
we could say that a string of "hits" - page or file accesses - counts
as a single "visit" as long as the person viewing the site doesn't
leave the site.
People from around
the world view our web site. For example, from September through November,
we had visitors from the United States, Canada, Slovak Republic, Netherlands,
Germany, Australia, Spain, Russian Federation, Singapore, Switzerland, Belgium,
Mexico, Sweden, Brazil, France, Trinidad and Tobago, Norway, Japan, and Ireland.
Recent improvements
to the web site include revising the roster and sub lists with updated information
and more efficient formatting. These are in the "Members Corner"
section of the web site.
In addition, the RBB
web site now includes a search capability on the home page. This lets you
find any pages on the web site (except those in the Members Corner section)
that include any of the words you put into the search box. For example, if
you wanted to see what our web site says about getting a dub of a concert
video, you could enter "dub" into the search box and click the Search
button.
Rehearsals
Our next rehearsal
is January 2nd, and our year-end dinner is January 9th. If you haven't called
Ann or Carl
with your dinner selections, do it now while you're thinking about it.
I hope you all have
a pleasant holiday! I'll see you in a couple of weeks (... next year ... next
century ... next millennium).
Band Demands Recount! (November 15, 2000)
(This news bulletin was issued during the recounts of the presidential
election ballots in Florida.)
November 15, 2000
--- Dateline Roseville, Minnesota, USA
In a moment of bi-partisan*
cooperation, the Roseville Big Band finished "What a Wonderful World"
together at Tuesday's rehearsal. However, this goal was achieved only after
a manual recount. Section officials noted that the trumpets had seven bars
before the jump to the coda, whereas the saxes and rhythm section had only
six.
Prior to making this
correction, the "Wonderful World" didn't sound so wonderful, but
afterward, the band-endorsed replay represented, if not the will of the people,
at least the will of arranger Jerry Nowak.
It was also noted
that even though the trombones had been playing the coda jump correctly, their
music had the same mistake as the trumpet music. One insider, who declined
to be identified, had this analysis: "Either the trombone section exhibited
outstanding musical togetherness, or they were faking it all along."
*bipartisan = two
parts: the melody and the harmony
No Rehearsal on Halloween, but What a Busy Year
it Was! (October 9, 2000)
RBB members and supporters,
No Halloween Rehearsal
Since some members
will be taking their kids trick-or-treating, others will be handing out Halloween
goodies, and still others will be attending Halloween get-togethers, there
will be no Roseville Big Band rehearsal on October 31.
Summary of Our
Busy Year
What a busy year it
has been! Normally, we try to perform 12-14 times during a full year, so that
we achieve our public service/entertainment goals, experience and fun of live
performing, and yet avoid burnout. But in the eight months from February through
September, we performed 16 times!
Here's a summary:
February 5, 2000 (Saturday):
Carleton winter dance
March 4 (Saturday): "First Saturday" Dance at Tapestry Folkdance
Center
March 10 (Friday): Jazz Festival at Oakview Middle School in Andover
March 21 (Tuesday): Concert at Inver Grove Good Samaritan
April 4 (Tuesday): record ourselves for posterity at RAHS
April 25 (Tuesday): Joint rehearsal/concert with River City Jazz Orchestra
at Monroe Community School
May 20 (Saturday): Confederate Air Force Dance
June 6 (Tuesday): RBB Central Park Bandshell Concert
June 17 (Saturday): Edison H. S. Reunion
July 4 (Tuesday): RBB Central Park Bandshell Concert
July 28 (Friday): Play for Southern Police Institute dance at the Plymouth
Radisson
August 1 (Tuesday): RBB Central Park Bandshell Concert
August 13 (Sunday): RBB concert at Centennial Lakes Amphitheater
August 19th (Saturday): Roseville Lutheran Corn Feed
September 10 (Sunday): St. Michael's Church fall festival and pig roast
September 16 (Saturday): Confederate Air Force Dance
In addition, we held two sit-in nights, moved our rehearsals to a new location,
and developed the band's web site during those same months.
Furthermore, last
fall was busy, with the following performances:
September 12, 1999
(Sunday): Falcon Height 50th Anniversary dance
September 18 (Saturday): Confederate Air Force Dance
October 9 (Saturday): City of Roseville Open House
October 26 (Tuesday): Sit-in night
November 13 (Saturday): Dance of the Decades fundraiser for Roseville Area
Arts Council
Thanks to all of you
for your willingness to play all of these performances or find substitutes!
Now that we have several
weeks without a scheduled performance, you might be experiencing "lack-of-performance
anxiety", but I can assure you that we'll have plenty of performances
in the upcoming year. These weeks give us the opportunity to polish songs
already in our repertoire, learn new ones (including two you'll see this week),
and even bring back some that are in our files.
Remember (as I always say when we hand in music) that the songs in the files
aren't bad songs, just ones that we didn't need to keep in our folders. Now
we'll be exchanging some of them for some that we're through with for a while
and can pass in.
Parks and Rec Moved,
but Our Music is Still Available
The Roseville Parks
and Recreation Department completed its move out of the Arona Street building
to Fairview Community Center this week. I haven't yet seen the space allocation
in the new building, but Lonnie told me it was smaller than the space they
previously had. This gave me concern about the safety and availability of
our music in the cabinets in the old headquarters, so I brought all of that
music home and have been organizing it and putting more of it into folders
this weekend.
We still have some
music in our former rehearsal room at the Roseville Area Middle School, and
I would like to bring that to St. Michael's as soon as convenient. (If anyone
who is in both bands would like to get that music at one of the Monday Community
Band rehearsals and bring it to a Tuesday rehearsal of the Big Band, it will
save me the trip to RAMS to get it.)
No Dance of the
Decades 2000
This year, there won't
be a fundraising dance for the Roseville Area Arts Council, although I did
volunteer us to play for it, if the RAAC wanted to sponsor a dance. To give
you the background about why there's no Dance of the Decades this year, I'd
like to share an email I received last week through the Roseville Big Band
web site that said, in part, "Last year I attended a dance at a Roseville
school where your band performed. I had a great time, and I was wondering
if you are planning to play at that event this year."
Here's what I responded
to the writer of the email:
"Thanks for your
interest in the Dance of the Decades, which we performed for as a fundraiser
for the Roseville Area Arts Council. I'm really glad to hear that you had
a good time.
"Each of the
years we've volunteered to provide the entertainment, and many hours of non-musical
preparations for the dance have been spent by volunteers from the Roseville
Area Arts Council, with CTV 15 public access television volunteers providing
the live television coverage. This year, the RAAC has sponsored so many events
that the core volunteers are feeling "burned out", and even though
they'd like to hold the dance again, they just don't have enough people and
energy to do it.
"I'll pass along
your comment to the RAAC, though, so they'll know of the interest. In the
meantime, please keep checking the Roseville Big Band web site (www.rosevillebigband.org)
for information about our public performances. Right now, it's likely that
the next public dance we'll play for will be next March or April at the Tapestry
Folkdance center, with Confederate Air Force dances in May, August, and September
of 2001. As the details get firmed up, we'll post them on the web site."
Exceptional Sit-in
Night
One other observation:
This past week's sit-in night is the only one I can remember at which ALL
of the regular members of the band were present. And with eleven guest musicians,
it's one of the largest (and maybe THE largest) sit-in nights we've ever held.
See you at Tuesday's
rehearsal!
Glen
RBB Featured on National Public Radio (October
3, 2000)
Roseville Big Band
members and supporters,
Today I received a
copy of the CD of the September 16, 2000, "One Night Stand" show.
It's produced at WUKY-FM, University of Kentucky. Chris Nielsen, the host
of the show sent the CD.
We were the featured
band for this show!
Five of our "Concert
in the Park" CD selections were featured: Waltzing Matilda, Sleepy Time
Gal, Somebody Loves Me, Woodchopper's Ball, and Star Dust.
Here's some of what
Chris said about us on the show:
"Our featured
band this week: we're going up to Roseville, Minnesota, to bring on the
Roseville Big Band, one of the great bands of today, carrying on a very
fine tradition. ...[After Waltzing Matilda:] Opening up the hour, our featured
band from Roseville, Minnesota, the Roseville Big Band, with a nice swinging
rendition of Waltzing Matilda. ... they make some very fine music in a band
of today. [After Somebody Loves Me:] ...the third offering by our featured
band, Somebody Loves Me by the Roseville Big Band from Roseville, Minnesota,
featuring the Rosetones on their vocal, a vocal quartet, and also Glen Peterson
on tenor sax; so refreshing to hear a big band with a vocal group because
not many of 'em do it. [After Woodchopper's Ball:] A great band, don't you
think? They can do some great sounds of today and they bring you some of
those great sounds of yesterday."
After each set of
two or three selections (usually one of ours and one or two from the 30's-40's),
Chris announced the songs and gave credit to all of the soloists.
In addition to making
our first CD sale to Sweden in September, our international visibility grew
as our web site was visited by surfers from Norway, Canada, Japan, Germany,
Italy, Australia, Belgium, Ireland, Mexico, and, of course, the United States.
If YOU haven't visited
our web site lately, I'd invite you to take a look and see some of the more
recent enhancements: the graphical navigation bar, consistent navigation links
at the bottom of each page, lots of visual and text updates, and a few sound
files (with more to come). For example, you can find an MP3 of "My Little
Girl" on both our site (at a low bit rate to accommodate a wide range
of connections) and on the TC Swing web site (at a high bit rate, for highest
fidelity).
Among the updates
is a revised schedule in the "Members' Corner" part of the site.
I'm looking forward
to a fun sit-in night!
Glen
We Made Our First CD Sale to Sweden (September
12, 2000)
RBB Members and Supporters,
Thanks to all who
played in the concert Sunday at St. Michael's! You sounded and looked great!
We've already been approached about playing again next year.
Thanks in advance
to Steve Goranson, Pat
Gefre, and Mark Olson,
who will be filling in on electric bass, 3rd trumpet, and bass trombone for
the Confederate Air Force Dance, and to Sarah
Wasmundt for playing last Sunday and filling in for Bob this coming Tuesday.
Remember that this Saturday there will be swing dance lessons in the hangar
before we play, so we need to be out of the way by 7:00. To make sure this
happens, please be at the hangar no later than 6:30 p.m. on Saturday. As with
our other CAF dances, the dress for this one is black and white, with the
RBB's blue ties and cummerbunds.
Because the CAF was
paying more for renting the risers than for the band, we will be using only
two 4x8 foot risers this Saturday, so they can cut expenses. As you face the
band, the risers will be on the right hand side, at the CD sales area, and
they'll be used primarily by the vocalists. The rest of our setup will be
the same as in recent years --- rhythm section on the left, with the horns
in block formation.
I'd like to remind
you again of the high praise we received from one of the Roseville City Council
members who heard us perform at Centennial Lakes in August and said it was
the best concert he's heard there. He added that the concert made him very
proud he was from Roseville, since we're the Roseville Big Band, and he got
many favorable comments from friends at the concert who knew he was from Roseville
and thus was partially responsible for supporting the band. Because he made
these remarks during the televised council meeting, others in the CTV 15 viewing
area heard them, thus giving us some more good publicity.
Today I got a call
at work from a fellow from Sweden attending a meeting in Roseville, who said
he'd been asked by a Swedish friend of his to buy a copy of our CD to take
back with him. (How fortunate that I happened to have an unopened CD with
me!) Actually, the sale wasn't quite "out of the blue"; the fellow
who wanted the CD is someone from Unisys I've worked with over the telephone,
who learned about the CD from our web site.
Speaking of the web
site, if you go into the "Members' Corner" part of the site (which
is also open to our subs), you'll see that I've put RealAudio versions of
the mixes of In the Mood and
Kiss of Fire. In the coming
weeks I'll be adding more audio (e,g,, I'll have an MP3 of "My
Little Girl" there soon), but there are a lot of tradeoffs related
to the format, so I'd be interested in your feedback on these. If you ARE
able to play them, then also try listening to the clip of Dan Odegaard playing
the trumpet solo. You can find it by going to Meet the Band --> Subs -->
Dan Odegaard (and click on his picture, which takes you to the page that should
have the controls for playing the clip). Harvey gave this a try and found
that getting it to work required a bit of tricky setup on his computer, so
I'm looking into ways to make playback simpler. Let me know what your experience
is if you try the audio.
Finally, keep the
October 3 sit-in night in mind as you talk to your musical friends in the
upcoming weeks. Remember that it will be at St. Michael's, so those who previously
attended at RAMS might need directions to the church.
Glen
Concerts at Centennial Lakes and Roseville Lutheran
(August 13, 2000)
Congratulations on
a fine concert to all who played tonight at Centennial Lakes!
The Centennial Lakes
coordinator said this is the biggest audience he's seen there! By a very rough
estimate, I'd say we had about 1000 in front of the band and another 200 off
to the sides and behind, enjoying the concert.
We certainly won some
new fans, judging from the very positive comments we received after the concert,
too!
As you know from the
announcement I made to the band at the concert, Rich
Eyman is in St. John's hospital with a kidney stone. If you can, please
give him a call to let him know you're thinking about him.
Because Rich was featured
on several of the concert selections, we had to make some last-minute changes
of solos. Special thanks go to Mike Bratlie, who not only filled in for Rich
on the "New Orleans Jazz Portrait" but did so without any music!
I've put the song
and soloist list for the next concert on the Roseville Big Band web site.
Go to www.rosevillebigband.org, then click on Public Events, and finally click
on the date, August 19, 2000.
Remember that there
is no rehearsal before that performance, and Kay will lead the band, since
I'll be out of town.
We're very grateful
to our subs for tonight's concert (Ted
Hermann on string bass) and for next week: Mary
Ewald, borrowing Kay's tenor to play second tenor, while Dan moves up
to first tenor; and Roger Lundberg on bass trombone. If anyone has an email
address for Roger, could you please forward this to him?
The song list for
next Saturday is the same as the one I handed out tonight, but I corrected
the soloist lists on the two songs that accidentally still had Glen
Peterson's name.
If Rich is unable
to play next Saturday, we'll make a few changes in the solo lineup:
On Opus One, if Rich
is absent, Harvey would not only play 31-47 but would continue on to 61.
On All of Me, if Rich is absent, Carl would take both of the solo choruses,
rather than just the second one.
On PA 6-5000, I'm figuring on Rich for the tenor sax solo at D; if he's absent,
it could go to Dan or Mike or Carl.
On Johnson Rag, I'm figuring Rich can do both times through at G; if he's
absent, Dan or Mike or Carl could take them.
On Sing, Sing, Sing,
and Woodchopper's Ball, if Rich is absent, simply omit his solos.
I'll make sure that
someone in the band (Fred, probably) has the shirt for Mary to wear.
Then there are no
rehearsals until September.
Look for information
about a possible additional performance, for a pig roast held by our rehearsal
host, St. Michael's, in September. Fred mentioned that pastor Roland Hayes
had inquired, but we're checking the details.
Glen
RBB Website Generated a CD Sale (July
23, 2000)
RBB members and supporters,
Over the past few
months, the number of daily average visits to the Roseville Big Band web site
has increased from 3 to 13, and the number of pages viewed per day now averages
56. Some of those are visits by web crawlers adding the site to their list
of indexed sites, and other visits are due to my checking the site after making
updates, but most are people interested in the band and its music.
Besides the United
States, we've had visitors to the RBB web site from the UK, Czech Republic,
Japan, Singapore, Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Italy, Spain,
Brazil, New Zealand, Belgium, Sweden, and Germany.
A month or so ago,
I got an email through the "Contact Us" mechanism on the site from
an amateur trombonist inquiring about the pictures of the soprano trombone.
I replied with more information and suggested he and his family, of whom several
besides him are amateur musicians, might enjoy attending a concert. However,
it wasn't convenient, as he lives in Maryland. So he ordered the CD from Groth
Music and after listening to it sent an email including the following compliment:
Today's mail brought
the "Concert in the Park" cd from Groth. We all
enjoyed the first listen very much - there's a lot of fun there.
"Woodcutter's Ball" with the trombone duel is a gooder - actually,
all
the cuts are nice. Good job!
Our credo is that
above all else, the music should be fun. If not, why
do it? Sounds like you and the Roseville Big Band achieved the main
objective.
(I suspect the
reason he singled out "Woodchopper's Ball" is because it includes
a bit of the soprano trombone in the trombone family duel.)
Keep up the fun
and the good music!
Song lists for the
upcoming performances July 28, August 1, August 13, and August 19 will be
available shortly.
I'll see you at the
rehearsal this Tuesday, July 25.
Glen
Confederate Air Force Dance a Success (May
22, 2000)
Thanks to everybody
who played for the dance at Fleming Field on May 20!
I'm still waiting
to hear the final attendance figures, but we really kept the dance floor packed
--- especially during our second set.
The attachments are
two pictures Norma Anderson took of the band. Norma is the lady from South
Dakota who made the "Roseville Big Band" table cloth and contributed
to the big spread of goodies that many of you shared during the two band breaks.
I'll see you at the
rehearsal tomorrow, Tuesday, May 23. Remember that it's at St. Michael's church.
Glen
Our CD Will Be Heard on National Public Radio (April
4, 2000)
Chris Nielsen hosts
several big-band oriented radio shows that originate at WUKY-FM in Lexington,
Kentucky. Here's the way he describes it:
"I am still at
it with "One Night Stand" which went
on the air on June 6,1980. I love doing it and look forward to every
week with this show and the two others I do locally, "Sentimental
Journey" and "Make Believe Ballroom"."
I sent him our Concert
in the Park CD last week. Here's his comment after receiving it:
"The CD is
great!!!! Most enjoyable and what a variety of music. Also
great to hear a good vocal group with a big band as there are not many
around. You should be proud of the effort and I'll use it on the air.
Due to production needs by National Public radio, I am having to tape
shows 6-7 weeks in advance so it will be a bit before I get it on. I'm
am doing a show on tape this weekend called "Something New" so
there
will be at least one cut used there. Will feature the band a few weeks
after that. Thanks again."
Thanks to all of you
who played on that CD!
If anybody hears the
broadcast this weekend, please let me know!
Glen
P.S., I've made a
lot of updates to www.rosevillebigband.org lately, so if you haven't seen
it in a while, you will find some new pages, including pictures from the Tapestry
dance and information about several of our subs and guest performers.
Tapestry Dance, Jazz Notes, and Music Students (March
5, 2000)
Thanks again to all
who performed at the Tapestry "First Saturday" dance on March 4!
The dancers really liked us, and I was especially happy that you performed
some of our newer tunes just as though you'd been playing them for years ---
e.g., "Dance to the Big Band Swing",
"All or Nothing At All" (definitely sounding like "All"),
and "Mas Que Nada",
not to mention the very challenging "Funky Cha-Cha"!
After the dance, Cindy
totaled up the night's receipts, and we calculated that the band will get
a check for over $900! Here's the way the formula goes: The band gets the
first $300, then Tapestry gets the next $100, and the band gets half of the
remainder. Interestingly, many of the people in the crowd were newcomers,
since a competing dance featuring the Jazztronauts attracted most of the regular
crowd. This means that we have lots of new fans. We also sold a tape and a
CD at the dance.
Our recording was
also mentioned in the March, 2000, Twin Cities Jazz Notes (Vol. 22, No. 3),
a publication of the Twin Cities Jazz Society. Here's an excerpt from the
"Big Band Scene" column by Jerry Swanberg:
"The Roseville
Big Band recently released a CD, Concert in the Park. Swing music from the
big band era is its forte and eight of the thirteen tracks are vocals, including
three by the "Rosetones" vocal quartet. The band, formed 35 years
ago, is funded by the City of Roseville. ... The band plays numerous concerts
at Roseville's Central Park during the summer, and two hangar dances a year
for the Confederate Air Force at Fleming Field in St. Paul. ... The Roseville
Big Band's new web site is www.rosevillebigband.org."
One of our important
audience segments is young students who are just learning to play swing and
jazz. We'll be performing for three such groups and their parents this Friday
(March 10) at the Oak View Middle School jazz festival in Andover. Remember
that the first middle school jazz band performs at 7:00 p.m., so if you want
to hear the beginning of the concert, arrive before 7:00. For those of you
with tight schedules, you can figure that we'll probably start playing between
8:00 and 8:15, so arriving at 7:30 should give you a margin of safety and
time enough to warm up, get your music in order, and don your blue tie and
cummerbund.
Then we'll have the
chance to inspire another group of young musicians Tuesday, April 25. Many
of you know Dave Perry, who is now the band director at Monroe Community School.
Dave's students are in 4th through 8th grade, and they will be guests at our
joint rehearsal / concert with the River City Jazz Orchestra (formerly the
Inver Hills Community College Jazz Ensemble) from 7:00 until 8:45 that Tuesday
night. We're still in the early stages of planning that evening, and I'm hoping
we'll be able to get the students involved as players on something, not just
as listeners.
Glen
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