WOW!!!! The blog is back! It's been a long while since a PSWE blog post, and since the departure of our much-missed Music Director, Marc Crompton, the crickets have been chirping loudly out here in the PSWE blogosphere.
Yesterday we PSWEenies got up early and headed out to UBC to have a full-day rehearsal with Dr. Robert Taylor, our guest conductor for our upcoming concert. Sure, it was early, and yes, it was lousy weather...but as soon as we got on stage, and the lights came up, we were warm and toasty. Partly from the lights, and partly from the excitement of spending the day together making real musical progress.
The program that Dr. Taylor has put together is really enjoyable to play, and audiences are going to find it very accessible at the same time. This concert features music from Britain, by British composers or about British subjects. Super fun, especially because I love playing Holst and Grainger. As an added bonus, the music (to my ear, anyway) sounds really, really festive without being a "Christmas Concert." No Jingle Bells, no holiday music - and yet, when we're playing this stuff, I swear I can smell snow in the air. It'll be a wonderful antidote to the clamour and "holidayness" of this time of year.
It was a great day of hanging out, making music and getting to know one another, or getting reaquainted with each other. We've got some new members, and some long-timers (if I say old-timers I'll be smacked at our next rehearsal) and it's great to get to make connections, musically and socially, with people. That's the beauty of playing in this group...the notes don't matter.
Anyhow, I'll stop before I start getting too mushy. But before I leave you, a shameless commercial plug:
Come on out and hear the results of our hard work - British Invasion with Dr. Robert Taylor will take place Saturday, December 10 at 8 pm at the Evergreen Cultural Centre. www.evergreenculturalcentre.ca
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