Last Tuesday we started the 5th rehearsal of the Hållsta Suite, unbelievable. I feel that we have just started. In order to keep the heads fresh, and because we also have a program to play after the break on the Easter weekend, namely the CD presentation of Treats, we started the rehearsal with arrangements that …
Website online
To quickly give a lot of clarity about our plans, what we are going to do, why and how, we thought it would be very useful to create a website from our beautiful project. This website allows all interested people, whether they are public or press, to quickly inform themselves about what we are doing. …
Posters ordered
I hope that people do not feel so bothered by our marketing, that they turn away from the project in anger. Because it is really the intention that you see us everywhere until the Easter. For example, we had posters made that will be hung everywhere in the coming period. If you have sympathy for …
Fourth rehearsal Hållsta Suite
Yes, we are now running into the difficult pieces. Much of the suite is beautiful, but some pieces remain persistently difficult. We were also a bit unlucky yesterday with the emergence of a half trumpet section. Of course, that always rehearses a little less pleasantly. What was really nice was that Dennis Elderman could substitute …
Publicity machine gets going
Everyone knows that it is very difficult in the Netherlands to get audiences to jazz concerts. That is not always because not enough people are interested, but also because the concerts are not known to many people. In order to exclude that as much as possible, we intend to use every means to publicize our …
Third rehearsel Hållsta Suite
Last Tuesday, January 30, the entire Stageband came back together to rehearse the Hållsta Suite, which we are now really taking care of. What was really nice was that Steven Sluiter, our regular conductor with a “Stageband sabbatical”, was present at the rehearsal. He had read on our group app that the 2nd altist was …
Second rehearsel Hållsta Suite
While we actually played the suite once in the first rehearsal, we went into the depths last night. It was nice to see that the band had studied properly this week. What was nice was that Will Jasper now plays with the band. Will is a phenomenon on the tenor sax, and he started yesterday …
Jorien van der Laan will help us with publicity
If you make such an ambitious plan as we have done, and so many highly talented professional musicians volunteer a lot of time and study into it, then we must ensure that we reach many people, so that the venues where we do the concerts are full. . And to be honest, this is often …
First rehearsel Hållsta Suite
Tuesday January 16 was the date in my memory. That was the day that the Hållsta Suite I wrote was being played by the musicians for the first time. I had the great intention to really make sure that I would be ready with this composition. Because working with “drafts” is always so confusing, and …
The preparation of the parts
You need a vision to lay out sheets for musicians. It is very important to think about how the notes are delivered. It must be legible, so not too small. But if it is written down too large, the sheets will be too long and the musicians will only turn around the pages. At Big …