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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.

Hi all First of all, thank you all for last Tuesday’s rehearsal! It was really satisfying to be able to gather again and start back into the process of music making together.
We would like to keep the same rehearsal plan for both groups that we followed last Tuesday and see if there may be some more music from the repertoire list to be handed out.
If there are any members that can arrive a little bit early to help move chairs and stands and help set up both rooms, it would be appreciated.
For reference, I will include last week’s rehearsal plan here.
*6:30 *Rehearsal (Part 1) in assigned group and place** *7:30 Five minute break* *7:35 Rehearsal (Part 2) in same assigned group and place* *8:30 Dismissal * *Mark and I will be rehearsing each group for an hour and then trading groups and will be selecting repertoire from the following set of pieces.*
*Dave’s List* *Three Ayres from Gloucester (if available)* *In Their Honor * *Sea Songs* *A Childhood Remembered* *Curtain Call*
*Mark’s list* *We Want It All* *Star Trek * *Mark’s Fugue * *Jump In The Line
Mark’s Notes: * *     Here are the issues I’ll work on at the next rehearsal:* We will be working on the rhythmic figures in “Jump in the Line”. Re-reading and working on “We want it All”. Reading “Waltz in the Old Style”.
Thanks and see you on Tuesday.
Dave and Mark* *

Hi all and welcome back to the remainder of the 2021-22 Halifax Concert Band season (Spring Version).
Assembly 6:30 pm Bella Rose Theatre
I am really pleased to be joining you again to resume rehearsals and to get back to the pleasure of music-making together and look forward to working together to rehearse and perform a fantastic set of music for our Spring Finale concert!! (date TBA).
As Becky has mentioned in the last email that Bob sent to the membership, we have set Tuesday’s rehearsal to come back together in two smaller groups to rehearse simultaneously in two separate spaces. This will allow for some better distancing and safer sizes for now. Mark Cuming and I will be conducting these two groups and members will be placed into either the *Band Room Group* or the *Stage Group.* (see below). Group selections are based solely on equal instrumentation and balance or logistical factors.
Let’s all meet together at 6:30 pm for an assembly in the audience seating of the Bella Rose Theatre to go over the plan for the evening’s agenda, which I am providing in advance.
*6:30 Assembly* *6:45 Rehearsal (Part 1) in assigned group and place* *7:30 Five minute break* *7:35 Rehearsal (Part 2) in same assigned group and place* *8:30 Dismissal * Mark and I will be rehearsing each group for an hour and then trading groups and will be selecting repertoire from the following set of pieces.
*Dave’s List* Three Ayres from Gloucester Sea Songs A Childhood Remembered Curtain Call
*Mark’s list* We Want It All Star Trek In Their Honor (new) Jump In The Line
Here are the Group lists:
*Band Room Group* Cathy Clarke Don Doyle Sarah Muir Maddie Radvanyi Andrea Dale Trina Parker Carman Bright Amanda Disney Elizabeth Gold Bill Hardstaff Melanie Lahey Gerry Melanson Graham Powell Natalie Foster Debbie McGuire Richard Rybiak Chris Chapman Emilie Lebrasseur Heather Rushton John Underhill Garth Watt Janic Bayer Becky Campbell Kim Conway Judith Orr Ken Howells Molly Hurd

Hi
We will be re-starting Halifax Concert Band on Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 6:30 p.m. at Halifax West High School.
In an effort to facilitate an increased amount of distancing for safely playing/rehearsing together, some folks will be in the band room rehearsing with either Mark or Dave, and some folks will be rehearsing on stage in the auditorium with either Mark or Dave.
Mark and Dave are collaborating on concert programming and will be working on the respective groupings.
Protocols that were in place prior to our most recent recess in December 2021: -masked when not playing, -puppy pads for moisture absorption from draining, and -proof of double vaccination, (if you previously provided proof of vaccination, you do not need to do it again.)
These protocols will continue to be in place for the remainder of the concert season.
Looking forward to making music together once again!