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Hi all, Here are the rehearsal notes for Tuesday, May 3rd. The rehearsal is in the band room of Halifax West HS and starts at 6:30 pm.
1) Warm-up- Scale and Tuning 2) Chorales- Son of Assorted #s 3, 5 and 4 3) Warm-up piece TBA 4) Lincoln 5) A Childhood Remembered 6) In Their Honor 7) Sea Songs 8) Waltz in the Old Style 9) We Want It All 10) Jump in the Line 11) Curtain Call ( if time)
Thanks and see you on Tuesday Dave

Hi all,
Thanks for an excellent run-through of our repertoire this past Tuesday. It’s so good to be back! Here’s our rehearsal plan for April 26th in the band room of Halifax West HS, beginning at 6:30 pm.
1) Warm-up on various scales with rhythm variations and rounds
2) Chorales
3) Ensemble piece-Three Ayres from Gloucester
4)Tuning
5) Praeludium
6) We Want It All
7) Lincoln
8) Star Trek Through the Years
9) Jump in the Line
10) Curtain Call
11) Waltz in the Old Style (if time)
Dave

Hi all,
I am very much looking forward to being back on the podium this coming Tuesday night! Before that happens though, I would like to send out a huge THANK YOU to Mark Cuming for stepping in and running rehearsals for the last few weeks and expertly grooming a very good set of pieces for our upcoming Spring Concert!! Thanks Mark for all that you do!
I thought what would be best for the April 19th rehearsal would be for me to hold a “mock performance” run-through of most or all of the pieces that you have been working on in my absence. Some of these will be a revisit for my conducting duties and some indeed will be more of a sight reading task for me, most notably the Kent Steerwell titles. We’ll run some chorales at the beginning and then I’ll call titles in no particular order to get a good idea of the progress being made.
Thanks and see you Tuesday. Dave

Hello, Halifax Concert Band members.
Here is the rehearsal scheme for this next rehearsal on Tuesday, April 12, at 6:30 pm. It will be in the band room at Halifax West High School, as has been established. On this episode, we’ll warm up with some chorales from the /More Assorted Chorales/ sheet. After that, my plan is to slug through most, if not all of the repertoire candidates for our proposed concert in June.
It would be good to have these tunes in presentable shape for the rehearsal on the 19th., so that Dave can have a good idea about what he would like to program. Yes, he will return on the 19th. and I will return to the ranks.
Here are the tunes we will play THIS Tuesday: /A Childhood Remembered/ /Praeludium / /Star Trek Through the Years/ /Sea Songs/ /Lincoln/ /We Want it All/ /Waltz in the Old Style/ /Jump n the Line/ /In Their Honor/ /Curtain Call/ (We’ll_try_ this, but the band executive may have to free up funds in order to hire an octopus to play the percussion 2 part).
*Note:* This isn’t the rehearsal order, but I can tell you that /In Their Honor/ and/Curtain Call/ will be the first and second selections. After that, tunes will be called as necessary.
I look forward to seeing you on Tuesday. Stay healthy now.
Mark Cuming First Officer- Deputy Conductor

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Hello, everybody:
The next rehearsal of the HCB will be Tuesday, April 5, at 6:30 in the band room of Halifax West High School. In fact, rehearsals from now on will be full band in the band room.
Rehearsals on the 5th. and 12th., will be handled by Mark and from the 19th onwards by Dave.
In these uncertain times, rumours abound as to the possibility of renewed COVID restrictions, or at least, closed schools, but, for now, we are okay and we’ll proceed with preparations for a spring show. That will happen likely in the second week of June.
As for this week coming up, we will be playing through and working on these candidates for that show:
/A Childhood Remembered/ /Sea Songs/ (with a new 1st and 3rd horn part). /Curtain Call/ /Prealudium/ /Star Trek Through the Years/ /We want It All/ /Lincoln/ /Waltz in the Old Style/ /Jump in the Line/ /In Their Honor
/ Wow! Look at that line up! I can hardly wait. See you Tuesday. M.C.