Category Archives: Community

Woodinville Community Band plays de Meij’s Lord of the Rings

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Gandalfe

“A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.” ~ Elvis Presley The Woodinville Community Band is my all … Continue reading →

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New Year Projects 2012 ~ Milk Hill Crop Circles

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Gandalfe

Viewing one of the Milk Hill crop circles I muse, what will be your big project this year? This photo is from a blogger I follow (but who has not been active for a number of years) called “The Serpent”. … Continue reading →

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Gershwin, a Lovely Voice and Bari Fun

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Gandalfe

As part of the “In the Mood” show I got to play bari sax on this lovely Dave Wolpe arrangement of Gershwin’s “Summertime”. The vocalist was the lovely and talented Robin Hilt. It is very rare for me to get … Continue reading →

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Why Don’t You Do Right?

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Gandalfe

Suzy and I spent a couple of months of practice and five weekend daze doing this year’s production of “In the Mood” with the Sky Notes Orchestra. How much fun is that! Suzy covered tenor sax and clarinet and I … Continue reading →

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Bicycle Goals for 2012

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Gandalfe

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey I try to get my New Year’s resolutions down in writing so that I can check and see how I’ve done a year later. … Continue reading →

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Meet the Band, a historical movie

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Gandalfe

The Community Music group on Yahoo just received this post: Hi. I made a movie about 10 years ago called Meet The Band. I profiled four very different community bands from around the country and mixed in a historical narrative … Continue reading →

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Public Domain Band Music

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Gandalfe

I recently discovered the BandMusic PDF Library. It contains musical gems from the time of Gilmore, Sousa, Pryor, Liberati, Goldman, Reeves and other professional bands that were wildly popular in their day. In addition to touring the country, performing in … Continue reading →

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New Casa du Glassa

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Gandalfe

Suzy and I have sold our big house and are purchasing a that is smaller. It is the first step in a five years to retirement program. Suzy worked hard to find us something that we could pay off with … Continue reading →

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Community Big Bands ~ Music for Swing Dance Lovers

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Gandalfe

Suzy and I were sitting in with the “In the Mood” big band last night. We have agreed to play in five of the six theater shows of a USO like production. She is playing the clarinet and tenor sax. … Continue reading →

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Where did your Social Security go?

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Gandalfe

Taken from a rant off Facebook and modified to use less hyperbole. This is mostly for my poorer relatives who worship the conservative party (which today is a misnomer) and think that party can do no wrong. You contributed to Social … Continue reading →

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