Hill Country Community Band Christmas Concert

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On December 17, 2010, the Hill Country Community Band performed it’s Christmas concert at First Baptist Church in Wimberley. The following files represent the music performed. I used my older recorder that doesn’t capture the full audio fidelity, but I need to find my original recorder before the next round of concerts in February for both the Comal Community Band as well as the Hill Country Community Band.

If you are a member of the band and would like the full MP3 packages, please contact me and I’ll give you a link.

For more information about the HCCB, please visit their website

Let it Snow/Winter Wonderland
Old Churches
Holiday Portraits
…And the Antelope (play)
Jingle Bells

Roadie

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Well, maybe not quite…  I’ve been learning a lot of the background of sound engineering from the friends at church.  It is a much different world than what I am used to and I can definately say that it is fun.  :)  (Fun isn’t a word you normally hear out of my mouth).  It can be work, especially with transporting the equipment and the teardown, but it is a good labor of love.  Especially when it is for a good cause.

Link of the Week:  Stagelight – How to Do Cable Wrapping – I learned this one from Philip, Jeff, and Doug last night, but the video helps to reinforce the idea.  This will show you how to wind cables in such a way that you could hold one end and throw the rest of it to unwind it.

This post is also my attempt to renew my blogging.  This blog is strictly for my personal and non-computer-techy thoughts.  I haven’t been the most active person the past few weeks/months/years.  I’m hoping that this will act as a part of my re-engaging my passions of life that I have been either purposefully or unconsciously been ignoring to my detriment.  I feel like I am so behind in what I could and should be doing.  It’s time to stop being so regimented in things that must get done.  I’m living in a such a world that I will be (and have been) buried by the self-imposed obligations that are of little importance in the long term.  (And no, this doesn’t mean I am ready to quit just yet…  Sorry…)

More later as I try to follow this latest path.

P.S. My Network Blog should get a bit more active, but I have been so out of it lately that I don’t feel qualified to post anything there…

Tropical Storm Hermine Redux

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My official total as of 8 AM Wednesday morning is 6.89 inches of total rainfall.  We are expecting more this afternoon.

This is an excerpt of an email I sent to my office staff:

In the (immediate) aftermath of Tropical Storm Hermine, I thought you might like to know the total precipitation that has fallen as a result of this storm.  This data was obtained by individuals using high accuracy manual rain gauges and are part of the CoCoRaHS network (Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network) – I’m station TX-CML-38.  The graphs below indicate the total precipitation recorded in the prior 24 hour period.  For the purpose of determining the total rainfall, add up the two values from both maps.

Additional data like this is available at http://cocorahs.org/Maps/ViewMap.aspx for different counties and different days.

Total Precipitation for Bexar County as of 7 AM Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Total Precipitation for Bexar County as of 7 AM Tuesday, September 7, 2010:

CCB Concert: 6/27/10 Summer Concert – FUMC

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The Comal Community Band performed it’s “Thank You” concert for First United Methodist Church in New Braunfels for the use of Wesley Hall as it’s summer practice facility.

Like my last set of recordings from the Hill Country Community Band, this is recorded from the crowd perspective.  I’m sorry for the lack of volume on the first few songs as the venue was a bit loud at times.

The ZIP file with all of the songs can be downloaded here.

Manhattan Beach
Broadway
Gerona
Big Band Signatures
Florentiner March
Soaring with John Williams
Karussellbrise
Latin Celebration
Armed Forces Pride of America
Stars and Stripes Forever

HCCB Spring Concert 2010

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The following files were recorded at the Hill Country Community Band Spring 2010 Concert held on May 14, 2010 at First Baptist Church in Wimberly, TX.

These recordings are different than my normal ones – I placed the recorder to the rear of the sanctuary and left it running throughout the concert.  Therefore, these recordings sound like they would if you were in the audience.  The turn out was great and the concert went well.

This completes the long concert circuit of the months of April and May.  The  next performance will be by the Comal Community Band at the end of July and then both groups are busy on the 4th of July weekend.

If you want the full collection, you can download the full ZIP file at http://www.jeffreyrandow.org/mp3audio/hccb-spring10.zip (Corrected URL 5/15/10)

Puenteareas
Appalachian Morning
Second Suite in F: Movement 1 – March
Second Suite in F: Movement 4 – Fantasia on the ‘Dargason’
Dance of the Banished
Saddle Up!
He’s Gone Away
Galloping Ghosts
Turkey in the Straw
Bravo!

CCB Concert: 05-02-10 Stone Oak Presbyterian Church

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I have been neglecting posting concert MP3′s lately.  This first batch is from a Comal Community Band Concert at Stone Oak Presbyterian Church on May 2, 2010.  This is perhaps the best set of recordings that I have due to the acoustics of the performance venue.  The second song (Texas Star) has a bit of a problem in the middle due to my recorder being knocked off of my stand.

As always, remember these songs are recorded from my perspective.  Thus the sounds of certain sections will seem to be louder than what you would here in the audience (ahem, trumpets…).

The National Anthem
Texas Star
That’s Entertainment
An American Songbook
The Summit
Swings the Thing
La Calesera
Comal Reflections
The Symphonic Beatles
Karussellbrise
God of our Fathers
Armed Forces – The Pride of America
Stars and Stripes Forever