1) January 2009 Concert Calendar
2) Winter 2009 Newsletter now online
3) Three Rivers Community Band Festival accepts applications from
individual musicians for the Festival Band
4) Newsletter Requests

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January 2009 Concert Calendar

Sat, 31 7:30pm
Pittsburgh Civic Orchestra
Upper St. Clair High School Theatre

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

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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Winter 2009 Newsletter now online

PDF: http://swpabandpartners.pghfree.net/inconcertwinter2009.pdf
WEB: http://swpabandpartners.pghfree.net/inconcertwinter2009.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 March 20, 2009

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Three Rivers Community Band Festival accepts applications 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 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
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