1) November 2008 Concert Calendar
2) Discounted Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Tickets
3) Three Rivers Community Band Festival accepts applications to
perform - For Bands and from individual musicians for the Festival Band
4) Newsletter Requests

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November 2008 Concert Calendar

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


November 2008:
Sun, 2 2:30pm
East Winds Symphonic Band
Rodef Shalom, Shadyside

Sat, 8 7:30pm
Butler County Symphony Orchestra
Butler Area Intermediate High School Auditorium


Sun, 9 3pm (2pm pre-concert talk)
Aeolian Winds of Pittsburgh
First Baptist Church of Pittsburgh

Sun, 9 7pm
Jeannette Community Band
Jeannette American Legion

Tue, 11 7:30pm
Blairsville Community Concert Band
Veteran's Day Concert

Sun, 16
Aeolian Winds of Pittsburgh
Bower Hill Community Church
Sat, 22 8pm
Westmoreland Symphonic Winds
Cecilan Hall, Seton Hill University

Sun, 30 2pm
Armstrong Concert Band
West Kittanning Firehall

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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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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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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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"

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

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