Notes from the President
Spring is here and so is spring cleaning.  After rehearsal recently, I gathered some of our archives stored at the Salvation Army and brought them home for more careful scrutiny.  I hope to find time to look through the multiple stacks of paper that tell a part of our history.  I have already organized a file of past programs and back issues of the BUGLE and other documents.  While this chore is necessary and at time a little tedious it is at the same time interesting.

Here is a letter dated June 25, 1986 addressed to our conductor Greg Heltman and signed by Sam Pick, Mayor of Santa Fe.  The mayor wrote "I am undertaking a program to promote the use of city facilities as well as make the community more aware of the existence of community groups such as the Community Concert Band.  I would appreciate your help in this effort."  He then invited us to perform at the Fort Marcy Amphitheater on August 3, 1986 at 6:30 PM and in exchange for our participation he would declare Sunday, August 3, 1986 as Community Concert Band Day in Santa Fe.  I hope our new mayor has a similar idea.

Since the first of the year band members have been rehearsing as usual every Tuesday evening.  Greg has been diligent with helping us to improve our ensemble playing and encouraging us to pay more attention to listening as we play.  Multitasking is important to every performance and performer.

Some of the band members multitask in a different way prior to and after each performance by setting up and taking down the chairs and moving the percussion.  I am hoping that we might be able to assemble a team of non-performing volunteers to help with the set-up and take-down for each performance.  This would remove the distraction that this task has for band members who should be paying more attention to the music rather than movoing equipment.  Please let me know if you would like to help the band with this important and necessary task.  Perhaps I will hear from a spouse, partner, or friend of a band member or even an interested supporter.  We could sure use some help.

                            Paul