It’s 2022

and we are

(cautiously)

rehearsing and performing

live and in-person again!

Here’s what’s happening:

CRWE and the Pandemic

(for details please visit our “CRWE and the Pandemic” page)

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By March 2020 we had prepared the third concert of the 2019-2020 season. Our final regular rehearsal was to have been Tuesday evening, March 10, with the dress rehearsal the following Saturday and the concert on Sunday, March 15. Sadly, these all had to be cancelled.

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We kept in touch over the Spring and Summer through a few video conferences. In the Fall, we began our first digital collaboration - the process in which each player records his or her own part (audio and video) and then the parts are merged together to create a virtual performance. The first such performance was in November 2020.

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In early 2021 we began more ambitious project: to record Vicente Ortiz Gimeno’s major composition “Poirot” for wind ensemble. We invited area musicians to join in the project, creating a virtual ensemble of 85 players. The resulting video must be one of the best of the genre, both in musical quality and sophisticated video presentation.

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Finally, in November 2021 we came together in two groups, the brass and the woodwinds, rehearsing on different evenings and in a large space allowing good distancing. On December 14, 2021, we recorded a concert performance - three pieces by the woodwinds and four by the brass - but with no audience present in the concert hall. That video is also now published.

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Now it’s 2022 and we are ready to continue presenting the finest wind ensemble literature, free of charge as always, to our audience.