Last night the Woodinville Community Band met to finish the 2007 season planning. We met at a board member’s house and there was a lot of food and non-business conversation. The director was unable to attend personally so we used Windows IM to connect and conduct a teleconference. I was struck with the thought that anyone can do this now. It has been become intuitive and painless to set up. EXCEPT, everytime she got e-mail, there was a big PING that was louder than her voice. The homeowner who hosted the teleconference had hooked up the audio into his stereo so it was loud.
If you’ve every wondered what one of these meetings are like, the jazz ensemble opened their 2007 season meeting to everyone in the ensemble. It was much more interesting with everyone. But while the jazz ensemble is only 18 people, the concert band is over 60 strong. It might be hard to fit that many people into one of our houses.
We planned for four to five concerts this year, including a trip to Victoria which has become a band favorite in the last few years. We talked about allocating more money for new music purchases. The drum gear is really in need of some more budget. The nice thing is that people in the jazz ensemble donated around $700 this year, which we didn’t have last year. AND Microsoft is paying the band $17 an hour for contributed time in certain categories (performance, but not practice) so we whould be able to fix some long overdue projects.
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