Weekly Update 9/18/09
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Weekly
Update – 09/18/06
Greetings All,
At practice this past Monday we had the following members present:
PIPERS: Jeff Burton, Kevin Byrne, Steve Cochran, Dave Foley, Jack Gardner, Dana Moore and Pete O’Brien. Plus students John Murray, Scott Philben & Bill Ward.
DRUMMERS: Brian Brendel & Jay Rubin
This was week two with John Sprague providing the instruction for our practices. I’m interested in some feedback … and so is John. If you have any comments, good or bad, suggestions to improve practices; things you’d like to see added or deleted, emphasized or de-emphasized; more time spent on this or that. Please let me know.
In the mean time, the homework assignment for this week is to continue working on WINGS with emphasis on doublings on F, D & C and half-doublings on E from every note in the scale. Continue working on the exercises from last week. Also, go over the music for DAWNING OF THE DAY so that you know all the embellishments AS WRITTEN! John is going to work on that for the next couple of weeks so that we are as sharp and together as we can be before we go up to Emmitsburg.
Speaking of Emmitsburg, for our brothers in the Coalition Pipe Band, I should have extended this invitation earlier and for not doing so, I am most heartily sorry, you are invited to join us and participate in the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial weekend. I’m afraid that it may be a little late to get you all rooms on campus, but if you don’t mind the drive, the National Fire Academy is located about 75 miles / 90 minutes from Fairfax. You are welcome to come up Saturday evening to pipe as the families walk from the National Fire Academy to the Basilica next door for the Candle Light Vigil and then join us at the Ott House for food, drink and piping. Or you can come up Sunday morning for the memorial ceremony. The National Fallen Firefighters Memorial is the weekend of Oct. 7 & 8. If you are interested in coming, you will need to get your names to me by the 1st of October so I can get you on the list to get into the Academy.
OTHER NEWS: A bunch of us gathered at The Philadelphia Tavern on Sunday, and presented Tim with a plaque with the patches I had collected from the members of the band. (Photo’s attached -- Of couse while I was in the Philie Tavern today taking the pictures, I had to ahve a Guiness, which may explain the reason for the poor quality of the pictures.)
In return for participating in The Philadelphia Tavern's Halfway to St. Patrick's Day celebration, Tim gave us $500. That money will be donated to HEROS INC. a local charity that provides scholarships (a full boat free ride through college) for the children of slain public safety employees; local, state and Federal from the Washington, DC area.
That’s it for now,
Steve
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Greetings All,
At practice this past Monday we had the following members present:
PIPERS: Jeff Burton, Kevin Byrne, Steve Cochran, Dave Foley, Jack Gardner, Dana Moore and Pete O’Brien. Plus students John Murray, Scott Philben & Bill Ward.
DRUMMERS: Brian Brendel & Jay Rubin
This was week two with John Sprague providing the instruction for our practices. I’m interested in some feedback … and so is John. If you have any comments, good or bad, suggestions to improve practices; things you’d like to see added or deleted, emphasized or de-emphasized; more time spent on this or that. Please let me know.
In the mean time, the homework assignment for this week is to continue working on WINGS with emphasis on doublings on F, D & C and half-doublings on E from every note in the scale. Continue working on the exercises from last week. Also, go over the music for DAWNING OF THE DAY so that you know all the embellishments AS WRITTEN! John is going to work on that for the next couple of weeks so that we are as sharp and together as we can be before we go up to Emmitsburg.
Speaking of Emmitsburg, for our brothers in the Coalition Pipe Band, I should have extended this invitation earlier and for not doing so, I am most heartily sorry, you are invited to join us and participate in the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial weekend. I’m afraid that it may be a little late to get you all rooms on campus, but if you don’t mind the drive, the National Fire Academy is located about 75 miles / 90 minutes from Fairfax. You are welcome to come up Saturday evening to pipe as the families walk from the National Fire Academy to the Basilica next door for the Candle Light Vigil and then join us at the Ott House for food, drink and piping. Or you can come up Sunday morning for the memorial ceremony. The National Fallen Firefighters Memorial is the weekend of Oct. 7 & 8. If you are interested in coming, you will need to get your names to me by the 1st of October so I can get you on the list to get into the Academy.
OTHER NEWS: A bunch of us gathered at The Philadelphia Tavern on Sunday, and presented Tim with a plaque with the patches I had collected from the members of the band. (Photo’s attached -- Of couse while I was in the Philie Tavern today taking the pictures, I had to ahve a Guiness, which may explain the reason for the poor quality of the pictures.)
In return for participating in The Philadelphia Tavern's Halfway to St. Patrick's Day celebration, Tim gave us $500. That money will be donated to HEROS INC. a local charity that provides scholarships (a full boat free ride through college) for the children of slain public safety employees; local, state and Federal from the Washington, DC area.
That’s it for now,
Steve
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