1) October 2008 Concert Calendar
2) Fall 2008 Newsletter now online
3) Concert Announcement from the Aeolian Winds
4) Discounted Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Tickets
5) Three Rivers Community Band Festival accepts applications to
perform - For Bands and from individual musicians for the Festival Band
6) Newsletter Requests

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1) October 2008 Concert Calendar

Please visit: http://swpabandpartners.pghfree.net/calendar.html
for links to web pages, updates, and future concerts.

Sat, 11 7:30pm
Butler County Symphony Orchestra
Butler Area Intermediate High School Auditorium

Sat, 11
Washington Symphony Orchestra
Trinity High School, Washington

Sat, 11 7:30pm
Allegheny Brass Band
Westminster Presbyterian Church

Sat, 18 7:30pm
Pittsburgh Civic Orchestra
Upper St. Clair High School Theatre

Sat, 18 7:30pm
Edgewood Symphony Orchestra
Katz Performing Arts Center Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh

Sat, 25 7pm
The Pittsburgh Philharmonic
North Hills. Jr. High Auditorium

Sun, 26 3pm
North Suburban Symphonic Band
Greater Pittsburgh Masonic Center

If you have a concert to be listed in the calendar, please send email
to: calendar@... with the subject "Concert
Calendar"

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2)Fall 2008 Newsletter now online

Fall 2008 Newsletter now online

PDF: http://swpabandpartners.pghfree.net/inconcertfall2008.pdf
WEB: http://swpabandpartners.pghfree.net/inconcertfall2008.html

for past newsletters visit:
http://swpabandpartners.pghfree.net/newsletters.html

for an index of articles visit:
http://swpabandpartners.pghfree.net/inconcertindex.html

If you have any updates for the next newsletter please send
them to newsletter@... by December 20, 2008

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3) Concert Announcement from the Aeolian Winds

The Aeolian Winds of Pittsburgh will present the world premiere of
Greg Bartholomew's "Second Suite from Razamov" for wind quintet at 3pm
on Sunday, November 9th at the First Baptist Church of Pittsburgh.
Greg himself will host a preconcert talk at 2pm which will include a
live performance of the "First Suite from Razamov" for clarinet,
cello, and piano. The rest of the concert will feature wind quintet
works by Georges Bizet, Endre Szervánszky, and Júlio Medaglia. A
post-concert reception will follow the performance. Be sure to tune
in to WQED-fm on Friday, November 7th – Jim Cunningham will interview
Greg about the piece and you'll be able to hear some of Greg's music
on the air! An encore performance of the concert only will occur on
Sunday, November 16th at the Bower Hill Community Church.

For more information, please visit http://www.aeolianwinds.com

This performance is funded in part through Meet The Composer's MetLife
Creative Connections program

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4) Discounted Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Tickets

Discount tickets to The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Save these Dates - The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra welcomes
Southwestern PA Band Partner members! Join us Oct. 31- Nov 2, 2008 for
Strauss' Alpine Symphony, and December 5 -6, 2008 for Bernstein's West
Side Story Symphonic Dances, string trio Time for Three and Copland's
Symphony No 3. Southwestern PA Band Partner members enjoy discounted
tickets and personalized service through Marianne Haffey - call
412.393.3320 or mhaffey@... for further information
on these and any other PSO/Heinz Hall performances. Just mention "Band
Partners"!


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5) Three Rivers Community Band Festival accepts applications to
perform - For Bands and from individual musicians for the Festival Band

The sixth annual Three Rivers Band Festival will be held on Saturday,
May 2, 2009, at Upper St. Clair High School. Four area community
bands will perform, as well as a Festival Band comprised of community
players from greater western Pennsylvania.

We invite area community bands to submit an application to participate
in the festival. Details and an application form can be found on the
festival website: http://www.ewsb.org/festival. The deadline for
band applications is November 10, 2008.

We also invite community players to apply for the Festival Band.
(They are welcome to participate whether their band performs or not.
Applications will be accepted until February 15, 2009.) We are
delighted to have Elisabeth Heath-Charles, Musical Director and
Conductor of the Butler County Symphony Orchestra, as this year's
Festival Band guest conductor. Participation in the Festival Band
does not require an audition. We would like to include players from
all over the region, and applicants will only be turned away when
sections are full. The Festival Band member application and other
details can be found at
http://www.ewsb.org/festival/2009/FestivalBandInformation.html.

If you have questions or would like to be mailed copies of the
applications, please email festival@... or leave a message at
412-741-4698.

Please distribute this information to the members of your group.
There are modest fees for participating in the festival, but admission
to listeners is free. We look forward to having you join us next May.

Sincerely,
Susan Craft
Three Rivers Community Band Festival Committee

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6) Newsletter Requests

Deadline for Winter Newsletter due out January 1st is December 20th.

Band Profiles
13 bands in our region have been profiled in our newsletter, that is
roughly half of our groups. We would like to profile the rest in
future newsletters. If your band has not yet been profiled and would
like to be, please contact newsletter@ swpabandpartners.pghfree.net
with the subject of your message "SWPABP: Profile in Newsletter"

New Music Corner
Are there any new pieces your group has played that think others would
be interested in. Please let us know and we will start including the
names of the pieces in this quarterly newsletter. A brief description
of the piece would be helpful. Please email
newsletter@ swpabandpartners.pghfree.net with the subject
"SWPABP: Music Suggestion for Newsletter"


Articles
We welcome article submissions from anyone on any topic pertaining to
community bands and community musicians. If you are interested in
writing and article or have one you would like to submit to the
newsletter, please email newsletter@ swpabandpartners.pghfree.net with
subject "SWPABP: Article for newsletter"

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Sarah McElfresh
Southwestern Pennsylvania Band Partners
http://swpabandpartners.pghfree.net
info@...