Plainville Wind Ensemble

Looking Forward

Ken Bagley — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 05:00:39 +0000

Hi All,
I need music!!! While I am rally trying to be a good teacher, father, and husband I find that I have put musician in the back seat. But that is whats making me stir crazy. I need to make some music.
I miss making music with you on Tuesday nights. And while I am disappointed that our concerts have been cancelled for this spring, I am already looking forward to making music with you in the fall. Our Veterans Day Concert will be titled “Let Freedom Ring”. The idea for this concert centered around another new symphony for wind ensemble titled Freedom by Jeff Herwig. Freedom is an uninterrupted, three-movement work detailing the struggles associated with Post-Traumatic Stress in the lives of American heroes, and the process of overcoming it. The 3 movements are titled 1. A Heroes Return, 2. Trapped in a Memory…, 3. Freedom. The Charity we will be hosting in the lobby is a suicide prevention veterans group. This gives this piece a very poignant meaning.

Here is the program for the Veterans Day Concert:
Star Spangle Banner Arr. TBA
Armed Forces Salute Arr. Bob Curnow
Let Freedom Ring Ryan Nowlan
Freedom Jeff Herwig
Freedom Michael W Smith Arr. Bocook

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A House Divided Brian Balmages
Of Our New Day Begun Omar Thomas
– With Special Guest Latanya Farrell & TBA
Let Freedom Ring Arr. Bierschenk

Follow this link for a YouTube playlist: LET FREEDOM RING

I hope that you are still making music. I wish there was a good way for us to do it together, but the digital means do not make it feasible. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help in your music making. I would be happy to help.

Please take care of yourselves, this social isolation will end soon and we will all be back together making music once again.

Ken

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Staying Well

Ken Bagley — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 14:34:00 +0000

I hope you are all staying well. These are new and uncharted territories we are all exploring. It feels a little like Star Trek. May we all boldly go where no one has ever gone before.

I continue to be impressed with the creativity of the music teachers trying to navigate online learning. I also follow other community bands and find a little comfort in the fact that they are all in the same boat as we are. As we move forward I will continue to share ideas and plans with you. If I find some interesting lesson plans that I think you might like I will share them along. Please feel free to reach out to me if there is something I can do to help you practice and continue to grow as a musician.

Below is a quote I took from the director of the Southern Winds Concert Band. It is a nice musical recipe for all of us.

Before this is over with, we will all have a story to tell.

Everyone needs to be personally responsible for doing what needs to be done – like we do in the Southern Winds Concert Band:

TONE – make yourself pleasant to be around
BALANCE & BLEND – balance your physical needs with your spiritual needs, at this time everyone’s goals need blend together for the common good.
INTONATION – listen and adjust, be in tune with what is happening
PRECISION – watch and adjust, do things (like go to the store) at the correct time, be very precise with your personal hygiene.
PHRASING – realize that life is a series of ups and downs – breathe.

We will get through this. HOWEVER, the title of the march we last rehearsed is most appropriate – AMERCIANS WE. There is no way that We Americans will be defeated by this thing.

Stay well. Check in on each other. Let me know if there is anything you need.

Ken

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No rehearsal. So now what?

Ken Bagley — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 19:46:00 +0000

Hi All,

I hope you are all well and safely going about as much business as you can. I keep returning to this post from Travis Cross – Director of Bands at UCLA:

I will be posting different ideas as we go along. My thoughts to share with you today is all of your hard work this fall. I have, for some reason, had time to post our fall concert on YouTube. Take a moment to listen to the playlist and just enjoy how great you all sound.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZJlgbo109nMJHs5FNWKz1mETvJrSKQoh

Keep practicing. I will be posting more ideas later.

Ken

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Lux Aurumque lyrics

Ken Bagley — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 20:18:00 +0000

Hi All,
Back to putting information on the blog.

Here are the lyrics for Lux Aurumque and how they line up in the score:

LUX AURUMQUE
English poem by Edward Esch
Latin translation by Charles Anthony Silvestri

Lux, Light,
calida gravisque warm and heavy
pura velut aurum as pure as gold
et canunt angeli and the angels sing softly
molliter modo natum. to the newborn bane.

Measure Text Translation
1 Lux Light
9 calida warm
13 gravique heavy
17 pura pure
21 velut as
23 aurum gold
30 angeli Angels
36 canunt they sing
42 molliter softly
44 natum newborn
50 modo ?way
52 natum babe

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