January 26, 2005

The Schedule

See here.

Bring Stands

We're often a few stands short each week at Hillsdale, especially when doing works for large orchestra. If possible, you might want to think about keeping an extra stand in your car so you'll have it with you.

Rehearsal Schedule on your Cell

You may already know that our rehearsal schedule is available to Palm and PocketPC handheld users via a free web service provided by Avantgo. (If not, you can find details here.) But did you know that you may also be able to view the schedule on your cell phone? If you have the if you have a phone with internet access and a web browsers, just download the following page: www.redwoodsymphony.org/avantgo And if your phone allows you to store web pages, you'll always have our schedule with you!

Do You Post Fliers?

-- George Yefchak

For each concert, we print 1500 color postcards. About 1200 of these are sent to folks on our postal mailing list. The remaining cards are distributed to orchestra members, etc. so you can hand them out to your friends, coworkers, the cable guy, etc.

Since the cards are fairly small, however, they're perhaps not well-suited for posting on a bulletin board or hanging in a window. So I've also been providing 100 "old-style" 8½" x 11" photocopied fliers, and I make the filer available for downloading as well. But almost none of these appear to be taken by orchestra members. (I don't track how many copies are downloaded.) So...

I'd like some input on which of the following three options I should pursue:

Continue to provide photocopied fliers
Make the flier available for downloading, but no longer print out copies
Skip the fliers altogether.

We will continue to provide the color postcards in any case, of course.

Prokofiev Movements

Act I: 1, 3, 4, 10, 12, 13, 19-21 (played as a single span)

Act II: 22, 32-36 (played as a single span)

Handel Movements

Concerto No. 2: 1, 5 (Allegro ma non troppo), and 4 (Largo)

Concerto No. 3: Final two movements (3/4 and 12/8).

This is a Web version of text from the newsletter "Redwood Symphony Notepad" which is distributed to members of the Redwood Symphony at rehearsals. The newsletter and this online version are edited by George Yefchak.

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