Just for Fun!

This weekend I was at the IMEA Festival in Peoria.  One of the sessions I attended featured a list of different web sites which are useful in the music classroom (see the links list).  Most of the sites are great for music research, games and other stuff.  In the other stuff category is Wordle which lets you make cool word designs from text about anything!  And because I got side-tracked there earlier today, here's a horn wordle:

January 22nd, 2011

Hello Hornists!
I am reporting on our last rehearsal (which was earlier this morning).  Thanks to everyone who came and played!  For those of you who missed, several things were decided:

1. The official concert date for our spring concert is April 16th at 7 pm.  We will have our usual 5 pm tech rehearsal before the performance.  Please be sure to mark your calendars!
2. A motion has been made to have more Cor members conduct pieces, so think of which piece you would like to conduct.
3. After playing through several pieces we have arrived at a tentative program for the coming spring concert:

• Academic Festival Overture: Brahms/Shafer (8 hns)
• West Side Story Medley: Bernstein/Orbison (14 hns)
• Bohemian Rhapsody: Mercury/Bissill (16 hns)
• Nimrod: Elgar/Mitchell (8 hns)
• Horn Quartet: Tscherepnine (4 hns)
• A March ??

Keep in mind that we may pare down the size of the ensemble on some of these pieces, to ensure that everyone has time to rest their chops, and elevate our performance.  We will also need some quartets or other small ensembles to play some additional music (so keep your favorite small ensemble pieces in mind!).

Our next rehearsal will be February 12th, see you then!