MMO End of Summer Tour Party

Party Details:

- Monday August 29th - 6:00 PM until I kick everyone out
- 6466 Stillwater Blvd, Historic Oakdale,MN - Directions below
- Pot Luck - Sign up on the Blog, or if you aren't a blogger, send me what you plan to bring
- Bring a guest
- Bring your ax in case a jam breaks out
- RSVP by August 26th

Directions:
- I-94 to Century Ave/Hwy 120 North exit.
- North on Hwy 120 a little over 2 miles to Stillwater Blvd. (Sarpinos pizza on the right at the
intersection)
- Right on Stillwater, heading east 0.7 mile to 6466 Stillwater Blvd
- We are on the north side of the road. Tomato garden and big white pine in front.
Green house set back.
or
- Hwy 36 to Century Ave/Hwy 120
- South on Hwy 120 for about 3+ miles to Stillwater Blvd (Holiday gas station on the right)
- Left on Stillwater, heading east 0.7 mile to 6466 Stillwater Blvd
- We are on the north side of the road. Tomato garden and big white pine in front.
Green house set back.

Pot Luck Sign up:
Tedd - Pizza appetzers. Root beer if someone brings ice cream for floats. Beer & Wine.

Summer 2011 set lists

Here's the order for the summer 2011 park concerts. The Edina concert is shorter, so we'll skip a few. I'll make an official list and post it on the MMO web site when I get back to my regular computer.

Benvenuto
Ashokan
Seven
Off to MN
My Desire
Please Please
Earth Song
Preludio e fuga
Gallantry
Mill Dam
Corale
Ball Game
Blues of a Summer Night
Catfish
Romanian
Drigo Serenade
Palladio

Davina at Famous Dave's

I announced at the last rehearsal that my son Andy would be playing with Davina and the Vagabonds Saturday night (July 30). I failed to specify that the location is the Famous Dave's in Uptown (Calhoun Square). The show starts at 9 PM (I think I said 10 PM in error). There is a $5 cover, but I'll be glad to buy a drink for anyone from MMO who shows up. (I may be a bit late, but I'll be there!) --Ray Artz

Picnic July 30 at Baha'i Center

Random Mandolins and friends will be playing at a picnic at the Baha'i Center on Saturday, July 30, from 3-4 pm. If you'd like to play with us, a list of possible tunes is below. It's a selection from some of our favorite local composers. If you don't care to play, you can still come to the picnic, which starts at 1 pm. Bring something to grill, if you'd like.

We'll practice on Friday, July 29 7 pm at Inghams'.

All the Rage

Blues of a summer night

Easter Waltz

1st Minnesota Regiment Suite

The Como Park suite

Highlandville

Last Call at Hawley Cooke

Love Notes

Romanian lullabye

Simple gifts

Barcarolle and Under the Tuscan sun from The Italian suite

X-town interchange rag

Dave

Notes from Northfield

We played a good program in Northfield Wednesday. The audience really enjoyed the music. I enjoyed it, too. Of course, things are never perfect. I made some notes about things we could improve.

Off to Minnesota: Needs more plectrum precision. It sounded like the different parts were striking the notes at slightly different times.

Romanian: We're still having a rhythm problem with the dotted quarter G tied to a sixteenth note, found in measures 29, 61, 93, 97, and 101. The rhythm improved as the tune progressed.

Nail that Catfish: Same issue as Off to Minnesota.

Earth Song: Mandola rhythm is not quite right in measures 46-49.

Ashokan Farewell: I heard a few rhythmic errors between F and H.

Fuga: Remarkably good, considering the poor conducting. The problems were my fault, because I lost my place. That won't happen next time.

Northfield set list

Here's the set list for the July 20 Northfield gig:

On the Mill Dam
Blues of a Summer Night
Off to Minnesota
Romanian Lullaby
Nail that Catfish
Earth Song
Please Please Me
Benvenuto
Ashokan Farewell
Preludio e Fuga
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Corale
Palladio

"Seven" mp3 file

I made a synthesized mp3 practice file for "Seven." You can get it here:

http://www.minnesotamandolinorchestra.org/seven.mp3

Parts for new music

Parts for Seven, Please Please Me, and Benvenuto are available here:

http://www.minnesotamandolinorchestra.org/sevenparts.pdf

http://www.minnesotamandolinorchestra.org/pleaseparts.pdf

http://www.minnesotamandolinorchestra.org/benparts2.pdf

100 fiddle tunes

Tate gave me a pdf of a collection of 100 fiddle tunes. They're fun to play, and great for sight-reading practice. The link is shown below. Thanks, Tate!

http://www.minnesotamandolinorchestra.org/100_Popular_Hornpipes.pdf

Seeking Emails for Inactive MMO members

I'm about to send an update on hotel selection and activities for the 2012 CMSA Convention and wish to include inactive members or any other friends of the orchestra.

I have the following list of inactive MMO members assembled from past rosters. Are there others I'm missing? Do you have their email address? Please let me know and I'll include them in the initial distributions.

Also, if you have taken lessons from a mandolin teacher in town, we're also putting together a list of those folks as they may, through their current students, help us build our numbers in the orchestra as we lead into the 2012 season.

There has never been a better time to join (or rejoin) the MMO!

Thanks!

Jay Birulkin
Bill David
Bob Martin
Charlie Maternus
Gary Johnson
Gayle Gilman
Geoff Williams
Jill Veness
John Ellsworth
Ken Kuby
Kevin Le Voir
Leon Erstad
Lisa Abbatomarco
Peter Jackson
Ray Neuman
Ronda Zimmerschied
Ryan Hanley
Tom Pietrs