Letter from Dan (9/28)

Dear Concertino West,

Thank you for a fantastic retreat and rehearsal this week! I hope you were able to meet someone new at the retreat, and you felt like you were able to make some growth in learning your music. At our regular rehearsal this week, we had sectionals for the first part of rehearsal and then brought everyone back together at the end.

At the end of this message, please click on the question of the week and share one thing you learned at the retreat or sectional.

Practice tip: Select a small segment of 3-5 notes and play repetitions until you can get it 3-5 times correct (rhythm, notes, bowing/articulation).

This week’s GTCYS10

• Scale focus: Concert G major and G minor
• Radetsky March
  • Focused practice on mm. 53-92
  • Set your metronome on Half=84 and play in cut time
  • Challenge: How soft can you play but still get a beautiful tone?
• Sarabande
  • Continue practicing:
    • Clarinets – mm. 28-37
    • All others – practice the Placido section to the end
  • Set your metronome on Quarter=74
• Genesis
  • Continue to review mm. 1-45
  • Focused practice on mm. 53-64; set metronome on Quarter=80 and make sure you’re playing the rhythms steady
  • Pay particular attention to bowings and articulations
• Sorcerer’s Apprentice
  • Focused practice on Letter E-G
  • Set your metronome at the practice speed of Dotted-Quarter=86

September Birthdays!

We’ll be featuring birthdays once per month and for those of you who have summer birthdays, we’ll celebrate your half birthday! The following Concertino West members celebrated a birthday in September:

• Lauren, violin, 9/3
• Dexter, viola, 9/5
• Addison, violin, 9/7
• Alex, trumpet, 9/8
• Jiui, cello, 9/17
• Eileen, violin, 9/20
• Leah, flute, 9/21
• Calvin, cello, 9/24
• Dan, conductor, 9/26
• James, violin, 9/29

Fill out the question of the week by this Sunday to let me know you’ve read this week’s email. We had 41 or 37% of members respond. Can we beat that number this week?

Happy practicing!

Dan