Castro Valley Chamber Orchestra Links
Welcome to our 10th season! Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Chris Cooper will be making a retirement home appearances at Eden Villa on Saturday, April 28, from 1:00-2:00. Chris and Jenny Yang and will play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto and pieces by Mozart, Kreisler, DeFalla, Gershwin, and more. |
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| Upcoming Concert | Rehearsal Schedule (Subject to change!) |
Creekside Middle School directions (Rehearsal venue) |
Directions: CV Adult School Multi-Purpose Room |
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Concert Recordings |
Prep: Concert Sheetmusic |
Rehearsal/Concert Guidelines | Directions: Castro Valley Center for the Arts |
We have dates for our 2012/2013 Season!! Reserve these dates in your calendar!
October 14, 2012 March 24, 2013 and May 26, 2013
October 14, 2012 |
December 15, 2012 Center For the Arts Community Concert |
March 24, 2013 |
May 26, 2013 |
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Audience part for Tchaikovsky 6th
How Community Orchestras Enrich Our Lives
Bryce Rytting, John Pew, Joel Rosenberg
Classical 89 invited three of our Utah community orchestra conductors to weigh in on the question of how they and their musicians accomplish so much for so little.
Thoughts of percussionist playing Ravel's Bolero
Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary
Dolmetsch Music Dictionary on Line
Orchestra Etiquette and Protocol/Orchestral Discipline
Article: Be prepared for your coaching session!
String warm-ups from Strings Magazine
Tacit Sheets (mostly used by percussion and brass players in the orchestra...)
Wonderful welcome speech by Karl Paulnack at Boston University on Music and Education
Health and Wellness article: Want to rewire your brain? Study music!
Very interesting: Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra
Isaac Stern once played all the violin notes from lowest to highest. He left no tone unsterned.
Fortissimo and Musicians' Hearing.
New! Order sheet music from Sheet Music Plus and the orchestra gets a donation!
Article for the San Leandro/Hayward/Castro Valley Newspapers
My Life with the Castro Valley
Adult School Orchestra, by Steve Schaefer
Something to do with your old (or new?) Ford...
Pictures of the Orchestra Party At Chevy's - June 07
Article in the SF Classical Voice Website: The Fine Art of Faking, by Tom Heimberg
Kudos to our own Elizabeth Gaston (flute)! She'll be living her dream this summer by playing at the Keowee Chamber Music Festival in the Carolina mountains! http://www.keoweechambermusic.org/ She'll be performing in all the concerts during the first week of the festival with a fantastic guitarist as well as playing a couple of solo pieces that she performed in Arizona for the Flute Society Competition last November. "This is a renaissance for me! Playing again professionally is a dream-come-true. If you were given a second chance at life, can you imagine the possibilities?"
Chamber Musicians of Northern California (CMNC)
Northern California organization promoting chamber music.
Produces weekend chamber music workshops around the Bay Area
CMNC Links to Music on the Internet
Harmonics (1998
Article by Sue Fowle)
Article on what string harmonics are and how to produce them.
Amateur Chamber Music Players (ACMP)
National organization of chamber music enthusiasts
October 06 Article in the Castro Valley Forum
Some Humor
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/jcb/other-instrument-jokes.html
http://www.xtrememusician.com/Community/Entertainment/Humor/
The "Really Terrible Orchestra"
You should read this to prepare yourself, before going to their website....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/11/01/bmmcall101.xml&DCMP=EMC-art_02112007
And here is their website ->
http://thereallyterribleorchestra.com/
Annotation of Musical Scores: Interaction and Use Behaviors of Performing Musician
ASCAP
"Bill of Rights" for composers and songwriters.
rondeau (RON-do) noun A poem of 13 lines with two rhymes and the
opening words used as a refrain in two places.
[From Old French rondeau (little circle), from rondel, diminutive of rond
(round). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ret- (to run or to roll) that is
also the source of rodeo, rotunda, rotate, and roulette.] Various forms of
rondeaux may have 10 or 15 lines.
"If you are new to French forms, you might want to compose a rondeau or
two before attempting the redouble."
Michael J Bugeja; The Fixed Is In; Writer's Digest (Cincinnati, Ohio);
Mar 1998.
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