Thursday 1/5 Rehearsal – POPS Band

Dear friends, Happy New Year! Here is the schedule for Thursday. Warm-ups 4min Washington Post March 10min National Emblem March 15min Duke Ellington 30min with Steve Williams conducting Stars and Stripes Forever 15min Light Cavalry Overture (emphasis on the slow...

LPCB YouTube playlist

All, With regards to the Youtube playlist – you can link to it from the "resources" page from the website ( the same password-protected page you used to go for music) – but here is the direct link to it as well à Link to LPCB Youtube playlist...

Getting ready!

Dear friends, I sure hope Santa was good to you! We’ve gotten sooo much awesome feedback on the Christmas Concert. Looking into the coming year I am excited about the rehearsals and the March 1 concert coming up. With only 8 rehearsals remaining, efficiency in...

Attendance and librarian

Band, 1. tomorrow night is the last rehearsal before Christmas 2. If you don’t plan on playing the Sousa concert and won’t be attending rehearsals, please let me know so I can get an accurate attendance chart created and we can have a better idea of numbers for our...

Thursday Rehearsal

This will be a very technical rehearsal Balance Chords and tuning Washington Post March – emphasis on crisp staccato style 20min Light Cavalry Overture – emphasis on crisp staccato style 25 min Shoutin’ LIza Trombone – emphasis on crisp...

Video link to the Christmas Concert

I’ve never had so much fun on a stage! Thank you all for your contributions. It is essential you be at practice tomorrow. All new music. This was our best performance to date. If you listen critically you will hear moments that I” address tomorrow. I...

New Music for Thursday

This music is going to be posted on our Googledocs page but if you want to get it now here are the links. Don’t be intimidated by Hymn to the Fallen. There are a lot of running 16ths but It moves slowly. We’ll work it out. If we want to play John Williams...

New Music

Dear friends, I am pdf-ing 4 tunes for you. It’s taking time because once I create the pdf I have to email it to myself. Larger files sometimes take hours to arrive. I am now placing all the parts into ONE file which creates a larger file. You can soon expect...