February 24, 1999

The Schedule

Today In band room

March 3 In band room
Strings only

March 10 In band room
Strings only

March 17 In band room

March 24, 31, April 7 Back in theatre

Saturday, April 10 Dress rehearsal
San Mateo Performing Arts Center

10:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.

Sunday, April 11 Concert
San Mateo Performing Arts Center

3:00 P.M. (2:30 P.M. Orchestra call)

Program Deadlines

March 26
Program notes, donation list, advertisements, bios, photographs, etc. to George (oboe)
March 29
To press

This program is likely to be fairly long (just think of all those bios!), so we must give Cañada College a full two weeks for printing.

Family Concert

Rehearsals for our Family Concert, with the hilarious "Phil Harmonic and His Fabulous Orchestra" begin immediately after the Mahler concert. That is, the first Family Concert rehearsal is on April 14, 1999. There will be two Wednesdays, a Saturday dress, and a Sunday concert on April 25.

This is not an "extra concert" for which we ask for volunteers; this is an important part of our season and mission statement, something that all orchestra members can feel proud of and commited to! Classical music is way to a domain of older people. We must do our part, collectively and individually, to attract tomorrow's audiences, right?

Big Apology from Music Director

--Eric Kujawsky

My most sincere apology to our Jewish colleagues in the orchestra (not to mention the chorus and soloists) for scheduling a rehearsal on the first night of Passover (March 31). This was an inadvertent goof on my part; my calendar lists the holiday as starting on April 1, and since the first night is on the March page, I missed it. I found out only yesterday, and am disappointed beyond imagining that I will be forced to miss my own family's Seder. Since rescheduling will result in many more people missing the rehearsal, we'll just have to leave it as is. Please let Floyd know in advance if you'll be missing that rehearsal, and find a sub if appropriate to do so. Again, sorry about that.

Concert Advertisement

Schola Cantorum and the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra
Saturday (8:00 P.M. Feb. 27) and Sunday (2:00 P.M. Feb. 28) at Spangenberg Theatre.This concert commemorates the retirement of PACO's Music Director William Whitson and is dedicated to the late choral director Carl Sitton. Beethoven Choral Fantasy, Vivaldi Gloria, Haydn Te Deum, and Mozart's piano concerto No. 24 (Paul Hersh, piano).

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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