The Band at a recent concert in Vancouver...
FINALLY!!!!!!
I'm back playing the flute. Just joined the Vancouver Concert Band. Rehearsal last Wednesday (September 4, 2013). I had forgotten how wonderful it is to make music.
Tight Quarters at the High School Strings Room, But the
Band Has a Great Sound.
Flute: a beautiful and elegant instrument.
My flute is a Brannen-Cooper made by Brannen Brothers of Boston, Massachusetts number 571 - silver French model flute with a low B foot joint exactly like the one shown below except made in silver and not gold.
A Gold Brannen Flute
Daughter Vanessa and I used to play this piece from the Bolling Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano when she still lived at home. I so miss playing music with her.
I have played with the Edmonton Cosmopolitan Music Society Concert Band, its Wind Ensemble and the Calgary Concert Band.
The Calgary Concert Band
Rosza Centre - University of Calgary
Two recordings of the Calgary Concert Band made at the Jack Singer Concert Hall in Calgary, Alberta
The piccolo is a really tough instrument to keep in tune. Here there are four of us playing the piccolo solo in Souza's Stars and Stripes March at the Jack Singer Concert Hall
And until we moved to the west coast and aboard Terratima, I played with the Cosmopolitan Music Society.
The Flute Section
Cosmopolitan Wind Ensemble
Edmonton, Alberta
Debussey - Syrinx
Cezar Frank
