Home Again

Back home safe, thanks to our good drivers - a truck tried to run us off the road today! My photos from fleet week are online at MY PHOTOS link on the right. I'm working on getting internet at home, so there will be more videos and pictures of my gig last night when that happens.

Last night it was so fun to play oboe again, I really do love it. I think I finally found the right job, huh. Love and peace to you! God bless, Jenny

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Concert for Donald Trump and Friends

NBNE at the Metropolitan Club
-sorry had to remove YouTube videos, but there are some on the "my photos" link.

Double Header Tuesday

How many of you can say you went to a Broadway show and a Yankee Game in the same day? I can!

This morning Audra and I checked out the USO at the Port Authority, they have free tickets to shows, tours, and such, plus food and amenities for us. Nice. There we ran into three guys from the band who had just entered a ticket lottery for Young Frankenstein - they won! With 6 tickets Audra and I got to go too. It was a musical farce - Mel Brooks of course and much like the Producers, very funny. The pit orchestra was great with full brass, oboe and English Horn! Beautiful. Megan Mulaney was the big star in it, she played Karen Walker on Will & Grace... anyway then it was straight on to Yankee Stadium, where MU3 Gonzales sang the anthem. We sat behind home plate and enjoyed the Yankees kicking Oriole booty 8-0!!

Jenny @ Fleet Week 2008

This schedule is for my friends and relatives who wanted to know where and when I'd be performing, partying, and free to hang out in NYC... here's the latest:

20 May - Tuesday:

• 0900 Depart in super-posh NBNE vans to NYC - I'm a driver, cause I'm so cool.
• 1300 Arrive at Hotel - Hampton Inn, 116 W31st St. NY, NY 10001 212-947-9700
• my roommate is MU3 Audra Ratliff, who has the most beautiful melt-your-heart trumpet sound I've ever heard! And she sings vocals too with the Showband.
  
• FREE EVENING

21 May - Wednesday

• FREE MORNING
• 1630 travel to Yankee Stadium
• Escorting our vocalist, MU3 Gonzalez, to the Yankee/Oriole Game!!! Game time is 1900.

22 May - Thursday

• 1000-1400: Serving as driver to a Ceremonial Band gig for veterans at the Metropolitan Club, 1 E 60th St. NY, NY 10022
• FREE EVENING

23 May - Friday

• FREE MORNING [our vocalist is singing at the NYSE opening bell!]
• FREE EVENING - showband performs in Times Square at 1700, I may be a driver but was going to go watch anyway

24 May - Saturday

• FREE MORNING [Rock Band performs at Blue Angels show...cool]

• 1630 Depart for Staten Island Sunset parade (begins at 1900) where I will play my air clarinet - beautifully!

25 May - Sunday

• 0600 depart for Memorial Day Parade in Greenpoint, NY (begins at 0800)
• [Rock Band plays in Times Square at 1400]
• FREE EVENING, plan to go to showband's 150th Brooklyn Bridge Concert - this is a big deal and will be on PBS and everything

26 May - Monday Memorial Day

• 0900 Driving the ceremonial band to a ceremony - go figure
• 1100 Depart for City Island Memorial Day Parade (begins at 1400) - again marching the clarinet, but not actually playing.
• FREE EVENING

27 May - Tuesday - the day I get to play OBOE!!!!

• FREE MORNING
• 1530 Depart for Crosswinds Woodwind Quintet gig at The National Arts Club in NYC - gig starts at 1730
• FREE AFTER GIG - 1830
  

28 May - Wednesday

• 0900ish Depart for Newport
  

• Home again, home again, jiggity jig!

Trinity Church, Boston

Preparing for Fleet Week

Hello! We are leaving for an 8-day adventure on Manhattan on Tuesday. I don't have internet in my house anymore - will buy my own when we get back from tour. I am sick with a bad head cold, but otherwise things are great. My woodwond quintet played reception music for a Naval War College guest speaker event, it was really nice. It's a series the WWQ always plays at, we have another June 3rd.

I'm excited for Fleet Week, as I don't get to see my shipmates very often, and we'll all be in the same hotel on the west side. I heard it's fun - sounds like an extended SDSU Wind Symphony tour. I'll be driving one of the vans around the city, and down to NYC from Newport. Joy. Our vocalist gets to sing at both a Yankee game and the NYSE bell ringing. Lucky. So that's all I got, have a great Friday!

Massachusetts and Jackie S!

Not really writing a post, I just got out of bed to turn off this machine. Weekend away was wonderful. Love.

First Gig... a Success!

Today was my first gig (actually playing oboe) with Navy Band Northeast. I drove our quintet in a 15-passenger duty van to Hoxsie Elementary School in Providence, RI, where we performed an hour long program for 400 adorable little New Englanders. "You Rock!" a kid screamed at me on his way out, and a class of kindergarteners gave me "air hugs" while waiting for the bus. SOOOO cute. Our Peter and the Wolf was especially entertaining, with the tuba player we brought for his big voice narration, the kids were captivated. One girl told me it made her sad that the wolf ate me up.

We each got to introduce ourselves and had a segment about our instrument - I love this part - and I played the snake charmer bit. One little astute girl said "I know that's from India!" (close enough) I tricked all the kids into saying the oboe is their favorite instrument. Imagine if next week they all told the band teacher they wanted to play oboe. Hahaha - what a nightmare!

So it was a great day, my reeds sounded perfect, and although the duck still got eaten, I played it well. We also did a fun polka, the Carmen Hanbenero, some Vivaldi, some Chaminade, and other stuff. It was fantastic. I love my job.

Tomorrow evening Jackie S. and family are coming to get me for the weekend. Jackie was my beloved Chaplain and landlord at Northwestern ( I lived in Canterbury House). It will be so nice to be among old friends!

Until we meet again, be blessed. Love!!