A large crowd gathered by the Cannon River in the center of Northfield, Minnesota to witness a popular attraction at the 2010 Vintage Band Festival (VBF): The Battle of the Bands. Staged at high noon on Saturday, August 7, 2010, the two participating bands, the 1st Brigade Band of Wisconsin and Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band, […]
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It’s taken quite a while to edit and upload the videos, but here are more excerpts from the concert program that the Newberry Band performed at the 2010 Vintage Band Festival in Northfield, Minnesota. More videos will be added to this post when they are online. Stay tuned! For the record, here is the concert program
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In the tradition of that old Willie Nelson song, I’m getting ready to “go on the road again” to “make music with my friends” in Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band at the 2010 Vintage Band Festival in Northfield, Minnesota. We had a great time at the first Vintage Band Festival in 2006 and we’ll be out
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In case anyone who reads this blog might be interested, I wanted to mention that I will be hosting the Maryland Early Brass Festival this Saturday (Feb. 27, 2010) at Goucher College. Through the generous sponsorship of the college’s Laura Graham Cooper Lecture Fund, all events are free and open to the public. The
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At long last here are English translations of the concert tour reviews courtesy of Jennifer Northup, a clarinetist in my orchestra, the Frederick Symphony, who is also a professional German translator (she’s an amazing musician, too!). I would have posted them sooner, but the beginning of the spring semester and five feet of snow (a
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Thanks to the ever-amazing Kurt Oberschäfer, I now have a PDF copy of the review of last Saturday’s concert from the Leipziger Volkszeitung (see link below). I also want to take this opportunity to thank the wonderful students from the Detmold Hochschule für Musik for their artistry, professionalism, and great working attitude. It was a pleasure and a privilege
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We performed the final concert of the tour in Leipzig tonight. It was such a privilege to perform in the Thomaskirche. As you can see, we performed from the balcony in the back of the church which was much larger than I thought it would be. Everyone is clamoring for video from the concert, so
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Hot off the presses, and courtesy of the dynamic Kurt Oberschäfer, here are two reviews from the local newspapers here in Paderborn, Germany. The first one (above) comes from today’s Neue Westfälische Paderborner Kreiszeitung. The second review (below) comes from the Paderborner Kultur section of today’s Westfälisches Volksblatt. I apologize that these images are not
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Courtesy of Christopf Pülsch, the Kantor of the Zionskirche in Bielefeld Bethel, here is the review of Sunday’s concert from the Neue Westfaelische Lokalausgabe Bielefeld. Vielen dank, Kantor Pülsch! Click here to read the Bielefeld Review
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Last night we performed the third in our series of four concerts at the Abdinghofkirche in Paderborn, Germany. Once again we had a large and enthusiastic audience and the church was beautifully decorated inside with tall Christmas trees, a glorious Star of Bethlehem, and a large, lifelike nativity scene (or “Krippe,” auf Deutsch). I especially
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