• The TUGBBS forums are completely free and open to the public and exist as the absolute best place for owners to get help and advice about their timeshares for more than 30 years!

    Join Tens of Thousands of other Owners just like you here to get any and all Timeshare questions answered 24 hours a day!
  • TUG started 31 years ago in October 1993 as a group of regular Timeshare owners just like you!

    Read about our 31st anniversary: Happy 31st Birthday TUG!
  • TUG has a YouTube Channel to produce weekly short informative videos on popular Timeshare topics!

    Free memberships for every 50 subscribers!

    Visit TUG on Youtube!
  • TUG has now saved timeshare owners more than $23,000,000 dollars just by finding us in time to rescind a new Timeshare purchase! A truly incredible milestone!

    Read more here: TUG saves owners more than $23 Million dollars
  • Sign up to get the TUG Newsletter for free!

    Tens of thousands of subscribing owners! A weekly recap of the best Timeshare resort reviews and the most popular topics discussed by owners!
  • Our official "end my sales presentation early" T-shirts are available again! Also come with the option for a free membership extension with purchase to offset the cost!

    All T-shirt options here!
  • A few of the most common links here on the forums for newbies and guests!

Emotional Response To Music.

The Star-Spangled Banner does it to me - every time!

One of the reasons I like baseball. They always play my favorite song!
 
More "virtual ensemble" performances by the Cathedral Brass . . .




-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​
 
  • Like
Reactions: RX8
Cathedral Brass "Virtual Ensemble" Performance
On A Hymnsong Of Philip Bliss
 
Cathedral Brass "Virtual Ensemble" Performance
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
 
Virtual Christmas Concert by the Cathedral Brass of Vienna VA


The 2020 Christmas concert was recorded outdoors last Saturday (Dec. 12, 2020). The U-Tube program includes selections recorded for some prior Christmas seasons, just to round things out.

It was a strange & strained musical season. I'm glad we could salvage something out of the effort everybody put in.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​
 
Virtual Christmas Concert by ensembles of the City Of Fairfax Band Association, Fairfax VA


"Virtual ensemble" selections recorded specifically for the 2020 Christmas holiday season. Maybe next year, we can once again put on a holiday concert the old fashioned way. Here's hoping.
-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​
 
Cathedral Brass "Virtual Ensemble" Performance.
O Sacred Head Now Wounded.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Cathedral Brass Socially Distanced Outdoor Recording.
Vienna Philharmonic Fanfare.

The Cathedral Brass, Vienna, Virginia, USA
 
For those who like Swing, this is pretty sweet. Is it just me, or do others also think that the Brits do this kind of thing better than anybody else?

 
image.jpeg

Click here for details, plus link for ordering tickets.
-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​
 
The only song that I really like and played when it came out and has become a total tear jerker almost anytime I hear it is Gun's and Roses Sweet Child of Mine.

Bill

 
Last edited:
1670086769182.png

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​
 
Robert Pouliot, the long-time music director of Virginia's City Of Fairfax Band, has retired after 29 years on the podium. It's the end of an era -- a fabulous era.

Bob Poiliot's final concert as director was performed the evening of May 13, 2023, in Fairfax VA. A video of his finale with Fairfax Band is on U-Tube.

Of note in a small way is that the scheduled master of ceremonies for the concert bowed out on account of illness. (He's OK now.) That morning, he emailed me saying he couldn't be M.C. and informing me that the M.C. role for the concert had therefore fallen to me. He knew that I had been M.C. before at a bunch of summertime band concerts, also for a number of performances by The Cathedral Brass and the old Potomac Brass Quintet (Of Virginia). Fortunately, he attached the M.C. script he had prepared, so all I had to do was read it aloud; I didn't have to write anything. I closed the loop with Bob Pouliot via emai, to let him know I would be prepared that evening to announce as well as to play as part of the band. If you tune in to the U-Tube video, the old guy you will see & hear at the lectern is yours truly, AwayWeGo.

Here's the internet link for Fairfax Band's Finale concert . . .


The special committee at work searching for a new music director has already lined up 3 outstanding candidates, so band members have reason for optimism about the future.
-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​
 
Fairfax Band's 2024 Christmas Concert, as of today, is on U-Tube.


The live performance took place on December 21, 2024.
-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​
 
Top