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HCB Rehearsal Notes Tuesday May 14

Hi all,
Because of a conflict with a scheduled concert at the Bella Rose, this coming Tuesday’s HCB rehearsal on May 14th will be held at the Sackville Community Centre from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. There are stands there and we are again able to use the Sackville Community Band’s percussion equipment for the rehearsal. Thanks to Debbie McGuire and Jim Forde for these arrangements.
Directions to the Sackville Community Centre are:
Take Exit 2 off Hwy 101 (highway to Windsor) onto Beaverbank Road. At the first set of lights, turn left on to Old Sackville Road. Turn right (at 2nd stop sign) onto Connolly Road In 300 meters, turn left. The Community Centre is at the top of the hill. It’s the 2nd building. The first building is Sackville Heights School.
Here are the rehearsal notes for Tuesday.
1) Chorales-Bride of Assorted 2) Momento 3) A Walk in the Morning Sun 4) Remembering a Friend 5) Landmark Overture 6) Oblivion 7) Red Covered Bridge 8) Rescue 9) Holst (1.Song without Words and 2. Song of the Blacksmith) 10) Fogarty’s Cove (1st Movement and Jeannie C)
Also, here is the Spring Finale program order for our June 4th Spring Finale concert
2024 Halifax Concert Band Spring Finale Concert June 4th, 2024
1) A Walk in the Morning Sun 2) Cakewalk 3) Memento 4) Second Suite in F Gustav Holst 5) Remembering A Friend 6a) Chorale-Vorspiel 6b) Fugue in G Minor 7) Oblivion 8) Rescue 9) Red Covered Bridge 10) Suite from Fogarty’s Cove (1st Movement and The “Jeannie C”) 11) Landmark Overture Thanks and see you on Tuesday in Sackville. Dave
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HCB Rehearsal Notes Tuesday May 7

Hi all, Here are the rehearsal notes for Tuesday, May 7th.
1) Chorales-Son of Assorted 2) Warm-up Piece-Memento 3) Holst Suite (complete) 4) Oblivion 5) Rescue (new) 6) Fogarty’s Cove (complete) 7) A Walk in the Morning Sun 8) The Red Covered Bridge 9) Welsh Rhapsody (if time)
Thanks and see you on Tuesday. Dave
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HCB Message from Dave Staples

Hi all,
With the news of John Underhill’s passing, I want to express my great appreciation and respect for the life that John led and, of course his skill, dedication and class that he brought to his music. Reading his obituary, I am struck by his many accomplishments and his unswerving dedication to his family.
I first met John when my own son was part of the Scouts and Cubs movement almost 20 years ago. He was, at that time, his son Jack’s pack leader for Cubs and I  could tell then that his “all in” approach to whatever he stepped up for was total and inspirational.
Although his untimely death has been expected, it comes as a very great loss to our Halifax Concert Band community as well as to all who knew and loved him. John served as our band president for many years and held that position with such dedication and class and we will all miss his impeccable leadership and style. Along with that, his musicianship and skill on the trumpet was such a gift for us all and he was excellent at that.
I also want to say just how impressed I was with your performance on Tuesday night at Kiwanis. Congratulations to you all and especially to Mark Cuming for his beautiful and skillful Chorale and Fugue. Thank you all!
As Becky has pointed out to me and I felt it profoundly on Wednesday, John just waited around long enough to see if we were going to get another Gold Standard. This one’s for you, John.
I will see you on Tuesday. Dave
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HCB Message from Perla

Hello,
As most people may have already heard, our dear John passed away yesterday morning. As it is for most of us, music was a huge part of his life. I know he was so happy to be able to keep playing during most of his cancer journey and he was so grateful to all of us for, as he would put it “allowing me to keep on playing”. Currently nothing has been posted on social media from his family. I’ll do my best to provide any other updates regarding his service.
Thank you, Perla
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Thank you from Mark

Hello, everyone in the band. I want to thank you all for making my composition project a great success. It is very humbling to have such a large group of people do you a great service like this. It’s not just the actual performance, although that’s huge- it’s the time that individual players took to work on their individual parts for the greater whole You are dedicated players and there is no doubt that I owe you all a debt of gratitude. Thank-you all so much, really. I enjoyed this night immensely and you people made it happen. By the way, Cakewalk worked great too. Good steady tempo and individual section work was solid. I know that Dave will have some things to add. No more composing work for now. My car is working too well. However, I have at least one piece for Perla to belt out under construction now (Rescue Me- an R &B hit from 1965) and a Mary Tyler Moore medley going at the same time. Some good old pop stuff that should be fun next season. Cheers everyone and congratulations on a fine performance. Mark