Adult Orchestra March 3

I am so pleased, and I hope you are too, about how the whole orchestra sounds. I now have an idea of what the May 16, Sunday concert will look and sound like. Need to have pretty dresses or blouses and shoes, ties and nice pants for the guys.

Continue with your warm-ups on long bows, with scales, and rhythm patterns practice.

This is proposed concert order:
1. Video on water (2 min, if I can obtain it from ONEDROP.ORG called earth's beauty

2. Antartica and new piece Amadare (raindrops) for small group.

3. Cripple Creek, Dervish and Bouree to represent flowing of abundant water.

4. After noting how easy this piece is, we will add Desert Sands here to represent declining fresh and safe water supplies. I will re-hand out music next week.

5. Danny Boy to represent the idea of not fighting over water.

6. Anasazi to represent how much civilizations depend on fresh water.

7. Solos to represent the individual effort that is required to solve big philosophical and ethical problems.

I will send everyone an email and print this out too. Anne Nesse

Adult Class up to Feb. 24

Hurray! We are now playing all of Bouree! Also all of Danny Boy, Cripple Creek, Anasazi (in C Scale). Use middle to tip of bow for Cripple Creek and keep strokes firm and short to do fast sequences. Think scale patterns.

That reminds me. Be sure and warm up on slow and then fast G scale. This will help you in all the songs in G. Continue working on your improvisation on raindrop piece. Dervish practice to DC al Coda.