Hey, they're only a month late...

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Christmas Concert

Last night was my first experience attending a GNO concert without being behind a trumpet. All the pieces sounded wonderful, since I wasn't playing them. Being the jeanyus that I am, I took a camera with dead batteries, so head over to Steve's Random Thought or Ryan's Blog for pictures of the...uh...festivities afterwards.

Good News Orchestra Concert

Here they be:

PICTURES!

Captions please!

What's going on here?
You decide.

Leave a comment with a possible caption (or captions).

The funniest one will get an "LOL."

The one that makes the least sense will get a "Huh?"

The stupidest one will get a "BOOO."

The one that fits the best will get a...uh...um..."I'm Special" award ribbon.

Good News Orchestra 4th of July Concert

Vote for your favorite picture from the GNO's latest concert by participating in the poll on the side.

Remember, YOUR VOTE DOESN'T COUNT, unless you vote.

The person or persons pictured in the winning photograph will receive nothing.

(I am currently too lazy/tired/blah to make captions for all the pictures, so this will have to suffice for now.)

The Denver Brass

One of my birthday presents was tickets to the Denver Brass's "History of the Brass World: Part 1."

I guess it was a spoof on a Mel Brooks movie called "History of the World: Part 1" (to which there never was a "Part 2"). Although I've never seen the movie, the concert was quite funny.

Some of the things they played were:

- Also Sprach Zarathustra (the music on the video clip of my room filled with balloons (and 2001: A Space Odyssey))

- Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho

- Toccata from L'Orfeo by Monteverdi

- The Ride of the Valkyries (The "Kill the wabbit" song)

- The Liberty Bell by Sousa (Like "Stars and Stripes Forever" but better because it's not played as often... :-)

- Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man

- Star Trek's Theme :-P

- Lots more (It was a fairly long concert.)

They actually wore costumes like in the picture (and more...), and for a few parts, they even got up and played around the audience.

The point of this post --- Brass players are weird. Almost as weird as cello players.

But...if you have the chance to go to a Denver Brass concert -- go! (Unless you don't like fun, LOUD concerts with food during the intermission. :-D)

Easter Good News Orchestra Concert

Some blurry pictures of the event:

http://picasaweb.google.com/thebethtub/GoodNewsConcert

Thoughts on the Concert :P

Happy Birthday Ben!

In honor of your birthday:(I just needed an excuse to post this picture. Thanks. :-)