1:45 p.m. - Welcome
2:00 p.m. - Ensemble Warmup
2:10 p.m. - Starfire Fanfare
2:30 p.m. - Midnight Sky
2:50 p.m. - Break
2:55 p.m. - Plaza de Toros
3:15 p.m. - Announcements / Reminders
3:20 p.m. - Festival Performance Simulation (Recorded)
3:30 p.m. - Clean up
- Set up a 5th row of 18 chairs and music stands in the back
- Quietly and efficiently prepare for rehearsal
- Make sure you are in your assigned seat according to the seating chart
- Section leaders: Take attendance on a piece of paper and place on my podium
- Ask your neighbors how their day is going
- Warm up on your own
2:00 p.m. - Ensemble Warmup
- Concert F Articulation
- Tune
- Festival Band Warmups
- B-flat Intonation
- Rhythm Studies
2:10 p.m. - Starfire Fanfare
- mm. 70 and 74 - flute, oboe, clarinet 1, and trumpets - only Advanced Band players play these measures
- 67 to the downbeat of 78 for context
- full run (take notes)
2:30 p.m. - Midnight Sky
- last note - play as softly as you can play with a good tone and in tune
- last 2 measures - trumpets have the melody!
- 25 to the end
- hold the first note at 21 - balance and tune it
- 17-22 - one breath, no articulation
- 17-22 - one breath, gentle "dah" articulation
- full run
2:50 p.m. - Break
2:55 p.m. - Plaza de Toros
- mark parts:
- 23 - mezzo-piano
- 31 - mezzo-piano
- pickups to 35 - mezzo-forte
- 37 and 38 - mfp, mf
- 39 - piano
- play 39 to beat 3 of 40 - start as softly as you can play with a good tone in tune, wait until measure 40 to start the crescendo
- play 37 to beat 3 of 40
- play 23 to beat 3 of 40
- 13 - option 1 - are all the claps the same intensity?
- 13 - play as quarter notes - are all sections matching intensity?
- 13-14 as written
- 21-22 - similar, but not the same!
- 47-48 - again, similar, but not the same!
- full run
3:15 p.m. - Announcements / Reminders
- Rehearsal Monday 1:15 to 3:00 p.m. - last rehearsal before festival!
- Details for Tuesday's festival (itinerary, attire, behavior, clinic info, etc.)
3:20 p.m. - Festival Performance Simulation (Recorded)
- Starfire
- Midnight
- Plaza
3:30 p.m. - Clean up
- Put away instruments (woodwinds swab please!)
- Woodwinds: rack all chairs
- Brass: rack all stands
- Percussion: VIBRAPHONE TO MIDDLE OF ROOM, cover instruments, put all mallets and small instruments away, clean up and organize