Holiday Concert Recap
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 10:18AM Hey Gang!!!
POST CONCERT WRAP UP
My congratulations to each of you for an outstanding evening last Friday night at our Holiday concert. We had HUGE crowd in the house to hear you play so well!!! Your performance was very deserved of the great response you received from the audience. It was an exciting night for all, and you know, that is the way it should be!! A band concert is a big deal---or it should be a big deal, and our shows are indeed a big deal!!! This is why we do our concerts on Friday nights, because big events happen on Fridays!!!
AUDIENCE
Like I said before, WOW!!!! We were way over 800 in the house, probably close to 850. My thanks to each of you who helped to promote your concert in the true "Titan way"!!!! Our audience was great in the way they conducted themselves too. Our crowds here are usually great that way!!! It isn't that way at all schools though, believe me!!! Bravo to our wonderful Cosby band audience!!!
A good number of Cosby teachers, and teachers from our CCPS feeder pattern schools were in attendance as well. I was also pleased with the student turnout as well. CHS students should attend the band concerts, and those that did spoke in glowing terms to me afterwards about their experience.
A special thanks to the TMB color guard who were present on Friday night, assisting with ushers and other such things!! It was great to see you all!!!!!
PERFORMANCE
I am looking forward to reviewing the DVD and the CD that we made from Friday. What I remember from the performance is that I thought you played really clean and musically.
I thought too that the music had a lot of spirit and energy behind it. It is a great starting point for us as we grow musically for our upcoming concert series performances!!!! We will need to be better for the State Concert Festival in March in order for us to earn the superior rating that we are used to, but we are well on our way. Great job y'all!!!
RECEPTION
One word. Yummmmmmm!!!! Thanks to all for the wonderful food and for all the fellowship after the show. A great time was had by all. Special thanks to the hospitality band moms for their superior job in setting up and making sure the reception was great!!!
WHATS NEXT
State Concert Festival on Saturday March 10 and our pyramid concert on Thursday March 1 are the next performances by the Titan Band. We will read new music for this event on Monday (tomorrow) in wind ensemble, and Tuesday in concert band and jazz ensemble. CB will be the only time we will meet this week, so we will do some DVD watching and some music reading as well. The rest of the classes will have our DVD session on exam day. We also want to remember our Florida parade ( WOOOO HOOOO) (like we could forget that!!) and you will get that music in January when you return.
New music recording are available on Edline now, with more coming soon. Already "The Ascension" is on Edline for you to enjoy. The others are coming soon.
Check your rehearsal schedule on Edline for state concert and Florida rehearsals as listed there.
Again, congratulations to all for a wonderful Friday night!!! The Cosby community is very proud of this band, and that was clearly apparent when you looked out into the audience!!!
Bravo Titans!!!
ES