Castro Valley Chamber Orchestra Links

Welcome to our 10th season! Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Berlioz

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Bill Nemoyten - The Horn Man

Audience part for Tchaikovsky 6th

How Community Orchestras Enrich Our Lives 
Bryce Rytting, John Pew, Joel Rosenberg 

Classical 89 invited three of our Utah community orchestra conductors to weigh in on the question of how they and their musicians accomplish so much for so little.

Thoughts of  percussionist playing Ravel's Bolero

Tuning: Ringing Tones

Venezuela Prison Orchestra

Flashmob Bolero

Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary
Dolmetsch Music Dictionary on Line

Odd Musical Instruments Site

Orchestra Etiquette and Protocol/Orchestral Discipline

Article: Be prepared for your coaching session!

String warm-ups from Strings Magazine

Tacit Sheets (mostly used by percussion and brass players in the orchestra...)

Wonderful welcome speech by Karl Paulnack at Boston University on Music and Education

Health and Wellness article:  Want to rewire your brain?  Study music!

Very interesting: Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra

Isaac Stern once played all the violin notes from lowest to highest.  He left no tone unsterned.

Fortissimo and Musicians' Hearing.

New!  Order sheet music from Sheet Music Plus and the orchestra gets a donation!

Article for the San Leandro/Hayward/Castro Valley Newspapers
My Life with the Castro Valley Adult School Orchestra, by Steve Schaefer

Cello Audition!!!

Something to do with your old (or new?) Ford...

Pictures of the Orchestra Party At Chevy's - June 07

Article in the SF Classical Voice Website: The Fine Art of Faking, by Tom Heimberg

Kudos to our own Elizabeth Gaston (flute)! She'll be living her dream this summer by playing at the Keowee Chamber Music Festival in the Carolina mountains! http://www.keoweechambermusic.org/   She'll be performing in all the concerts during the first week of the festival with a fantastic guitarist as well as playing a couple of solo pieces that she performed in Arizona for the Flute Society Competition last November. "This is a renaissance for me! Playing again professionally is a dream-come-true. If you were given a second chance at life, can you imagine the possibilities?" 

Chamber Musicians of Northern California (CMNC)
    Northern California organization promoting chamber music.
    Produces weekend chamber music workshops around the Bay Area
CMNC Links to Music on the Internet

Harmonics (1998 Article by Sue Fowle)
    Article on what string harmonics are and how to produce them.

Amateur Chamber Music Players (ACMP)
    National organization of chamber music enthusiasts

October 06 Article in the Castro Valley Forum

Some Humor
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/jcb/other-instrument-jokes.html
http://www.xtrememusician.com/Community/Entertainment/Humor/

The "Really Terrible Orchestra"
You should read this to prepare yourself, before going to their website....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/11/01/bmmcall101.xml&DCMP=EMC-art_02112007
And here is their website -> http://thereallyterribleorchestra.com/

Annotation of Musical Scores: Interaction and Use Behaviors of Performing Musician

ASCAP "Bill of Rights" for composers and songwriters.

rondeau (RON-do) noun   A poem of 13 lines with two rhymes and the opening words used as a refrain in two places.

[From Old French rondeau (little circle), from rondel, diminutive of  rond (round). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ret- (to run or to roll) that is also the source of rodeo, rotunda, rotate, and roulette.] Various forms of rondeaux may have 10 or 15 lines.

 "If you are new to French forms, you might want to compose a rondeau  or two before attempting the redouble."
  Michael J Bugeja; The Fixed Is In; Writer's Digest (Cincinnati, Ohio);  Mar 1998.

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