I just read this and does this mean I can be a member of your band? LOL. I
always wanted to play any instrument it didn't matter which. I just wanted
to play. I marched in our band in high school, but only as a color guard
because I could never learn to READ MUSIC. (hah). I could only memorize the
tune but when it came down to sight reading I failed and had to give it up.
I started with the clarinet, tried the piano and then the guitar. I could
play our teams fight song on my friends clarinet only because I memorized
the tune. So, I guess I could be a member of Not the 1907 Jamestown
Exposition Brass Band? I could carry the colors - hah!
~ Lonny, musically challenged
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Cabell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: Different focus -- Quadra- Quad- 4-by- 400-
Thanks for the note. I thought picking a name was hard, but not THIS hard.
I am now leaning toward adding GRAND March to the end.
The Jamestowne (Something) Grand March
Grand Marches were big in the mid 19th century, with just about everybody
getting one dedicated to them. Lincolon, Jeff Davis, Robert E. Lee, etc.
This elevation beyond the status of a plain vanilla march may ameliorate the
fact that I think it will have to go into waltz time toward the end of the
trio. A MARCH IN WALTZ TIME!!!?!?!?!??! I don't think I have ever heard of
such either, but the final tune in the march medley will be William of
Nassau - Prince of Orange, which at the moment is the only tune that I have
documented which was actually played in the New World before 1609. It went
on to greater fame as the National Anthem of the Netherlands, and like many
patriotic tunes, for some reason it moves into 3/4 time. We cannot complain
since both THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER and AMERICA are in 3/4, but then you
don't usually see people marching to them.
This is really getting to be a lot of fun, thanks in large part to all you
good folks out there in VA-HIST who have helped me. I hope to get back to
working on the march tomorrow -- spent most of the day today designing
band-book covers for another part of the project:
"Not the 1907 Jamestown Exposition Brass Band"
I don't know whether such a band existed, but brass bands were everywhere in
the early 1900's, and I think I recall on the front of Vol II of the
Jamestown Exposition book that I saw last weekend in Jamestowne, a picture
of part of a military band -- trombone and bass -- standing at attention.
That's enough for me. Think of all the possibilities of my creation.
Anybody can not be a member of the band!!!!! If you have always wanted to
play the trumpet, then I can make you:
"Not the solo trumpet player of 'Not the 1907 Jamestown Exposition
Brass Band.'
Thanks again.
Randy Cabell
Bandmaster of Not the 1907 Jamestown Exposition Brass Band
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janet Hunter" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Different focus -- Quadra- Quad- 4-by- 400-
> Randy and all,
>
> I have read some, but not all of the recent posts on the upcoming
> celebrations with great interest. My experience with the names of marches
> is that they
> are usually designed to appeal to the common man, etc., etc.
>
> I'd suggest something a little more plebian like "Celebration Jamestowne
> 400", "For Jamestowne 1607", "Virginia Founders' March" (maybe it'll be
> a state
> march!).
>
> I understand the interest in the "quadra" language, but thinking of famous
> marches, like Washington Post, etc...the names aren't unwieldy.
>
> Also Randy, on a trip from VA to MO in a new car with (finally) a CD
> player I
> listened to the wonderful CD you sent a couple of years ago. Thanks.
>
> Janet (Baugh) Hunter
>
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