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Darwin College
Music Committee
Darwin College website has a music webpage
We are eager to welcome new members to join the music committee.
The music committee
- helps put musicians in touch with each other to form ensembles and bands
- organises occasional informal concerts in college
- organises other musical events in college, eg Brazilian drumming evening
- appoints the director of the college choir
- buys sheet music for the college choir
- buys and maintains musical equipment for the use of college members
music@dar
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Who's who
Music Committee Roles
Chair &
Treasurer: David MacKay (djcm1)
Secretary: books the meeting room, circulates the agenda, and takes minutes of meetings.
DCSA liason: submits a budget on behalf of the music society
to the DCSA (eg for concerts, equipment, sheet music),
and tries to ensure it is spent. One thing needed in the budget is
a count of members of the music society.
Semen Trygubenko sat39@cam
Piano person: arranges the tuning of the grand piano.
Choir coordinator:
Website and email manager:
Freshers' concert organiser:
Informal concert organiser:
Equipment manager. - Rock band equipment, Music stands.
Notice boards and advertisements.
Database: Putting musicians in touch with each other, Freshers' fair:
Giselle Walker gw265@cam
Wise old man: Alan Blackwell- Alan.Blackwell@cl.cam.ac.uk
Organise distribution of free concert tickets -
Charlotte Rusby car22@cam
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Minutes of Music Committee Meetings held in person on Tuesday 24th October
and electronically Thu Nov 30 2006, Thu Dec 14 2006
Present:
Alan Blackwell, David MacKay, Giselle Walker, and Martin Rohrmeier.
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New names.
Giselle collected about 20 names of musical people
on Oct 17th at the freshers' fair,
but none came to the committee meeting.
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Offers of concerts were received from
various performers, including Helen Arnold, Graeme Mitchison,
and Karl Sandeman; Fusae Takahashi (a friend of the vicar of Little St Mary's); and
James Sherlock (who gave a fine concert of piano
music on Wednesday 6 June).
Dates were agreed:
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Martin Rohrmeier and Vee Barbary - 15 November
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Fusae Takahashi - 13th of December this year : Kristian Rahbek Knusden (violin) and Fusae Takahashi (piano)
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James Sherlock - 29th November
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Graeme Mitchison, Karl Sandeman and Helen Arnold - 6 December
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Orlando Singers - 30th November Mozart and Haydn, done as a proper concert (but with a retiring collection for charity, and internal advertising, rather than concert-license-requiring conditions)
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Choir (Orlando singers):
It was noted that the choir failed to deliver a
proper concert for the college in June.
It was agreed to push the choir to deliver
regular concerts for the enjoyment of the Darwin community,
in accordance with the original agreement.
Giselle asked Peter Horley on June 21st to plan to
give Darwin performances _after_ each Orlando public concert.
Ben Lishman is now the official college liaison person for the
Orlandos. [bsrl2@cam]
Notes of further electronic discussions:
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Wed Nov 15 2006
Martin Rohrmeier and Vee Barbary concert was a great success.
(This concert
had an audience
of 65.)
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Wed Dec 14 2006.
A concert by
Kristian Rahbek Knudsen (Violin)
and
Fusae Takahashi (Piano)
went well.
Audience was about 45.
Darwin turnout was probably only 4 on time and 5 late arrivals -
almost all the audience were friends of the performers.
Perhaps it was a poor choice of date for Darwinians.
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There were problems with the other two concerts, leading to both
being cancelled. On one occasion a double booking of the hall had
been made and had gone unnoticed.
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a concert was given by the college choir on Weds 30th
November, to the enjoyment of some of the college community.
Despite a reasonable amount of advertising not many people turned
up, but this may be an accurate reflection of the number of
people in college interested in classical music. Ben is being
encouraged to encourage the choir to give a short concert at the
beginning of Easter term.
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the concert ticket scheme was not well patronised last term,
but is being very well patronised this term - again it seems to
be something that fluctuates unpredictably. The process of
getting concert program/ticket material from Kettle's Yard to
the bursar to the assistant Dean to a member of the music
committee might need optimisation as it frequently leads to the
first concert of term being missed because the music committee
doesn't yet know anything is on by the date of the first concert.
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Music was performed at the dinner after the first Darwin lecture
of 2007, and everyone present seemed to really enjoy it if the
requests for this to happen more often are any indication.. The
funds for this came from the David White memorial fund; and Chester
and Liz were at the dinner and duly thanked in private afterwards.
Minutes of Music Committee Meeting held 5.45pm Thu 23/3/06
present:
Giselle Walker gw265, Alan Blackwell (afb21), Chester White,
Dustin Frazier (dmf30), Martin Rohrmeier (mr397@cam),
Semen Trygubenko sat39@cam
(DCSA liason for music committee), David MacKay djcm1 (Chair, Treasurer).
apologies:
Charlotte Rusby car22
- The committee signed a card to thank David Earl for his fine concert, which was
his third (at least) for Darwin.
The retiring collection raised £63 for the David White Memorial Fund.
- Chester White raised the idea of inviting
a distinguished musician to take on the title of
musician in residence at Darwin, a position
that would carry no financial remuneration.
The committee agreed to
discuss this idea further at its next meeting.
- Concerts.
It was agreed that we would aim to hold a series of concerts
in Darwin next term.
Invitations will be issued as follows
- mc513 Melody Chan (solo violin) and lh336 Myla (Liudmyla) Hvozdyk (piano) - May 10th (DJCM to invite)
- Helen Arnold, Graeme Mitchison, and Hugh (voices and piano) - May 3rd (Alan to invite)
- Dan Tidhar (Harpsichord) - May 17th or 31st (Alan to invite)
- James Sherlock js515 (Trinity, piano) - June 7th (DJCM to invite)
- Orlando singers - June 14th or 21st (Giselle to invite)
- Martin Rohrmeier - June 14th or 21st (to follow a lunch-time talk the preceding week, ideally)
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Choir. The Orlando singers have 3 Darwin members.
Informal / dress-rehearsal concerts have not happened in Darwin, perhaps because
the material performed in the Orlando's main concerts is too challenging.
It was agreed that Giselle, as choir liason, should
emphasize that we do expect informal choral concerts, preferably
one per term.
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Subscription tickets.
Giselle noted that tickets for String Quartet concerts at West Road
have been popular, as have mainstream Kettles Yard concerts.
"New Music" concert tickets have not been popular.
Dustin Frazier agreed to take over the job of ticket-advertiser and lottery-handler
for the rest of the year.
- Accounts and Equipment.
Owing to a lack of music-society members
at the DCSA meeting when the budget was confirmed,
the music society allocation was regrettably reduced to zero.
The DCSA Ents organization had agreed to fund
at least one piece of music equipment repair
that would otherwise have been paid for by the music society
budget. Semen had kindly taken initiative
involving a number of 18-mile trips to arrange
these economical repairs.
It was agreed to ask the College Accountant to pay for
the other expenses incurred since the last meeting,
namely £100 for sheet music and £289 for a Hercules
interface.
Minutes of Music Committee Meeting held 6pm Friday October 14th 2005
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Minutes of the Music Committee meeting held 6th October 2004
Present: Giselle Walker gw265, Alan Blackwell,
Lavinia Low lcl25, Yoon Choi yhc24, Michael Moosberger mpm38,
Michelle Crowe mec38,
Charlotte Rusby car22, Semen Trygubenko sat39@cam (DCSA liason for music committee), Kat Breslin kb319, David MacKay djcm1 (Chair, Treasurer).
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Subscription tickets.
Charlotte Rusby offered to administer these tickets this year.
It was agreed that subscriptions to
Kettles Yard, Endellion, and the West Road Instrument Loan Concerts
would all be nice to have.
[David MacKay has asked the Bursar to order the tickets
for Kettles Yard and Endellion and given him CR's details.]
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Equipment management.
Michael Moosberger volunteered to become manager of the drum kit
and related equipment.
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Rock band practice times.
Because the bar opens at 9pm instead of 10pm, evening practices
in college have become impossible. Because two bands are active
at the moment, the difficulty of finding practice times
is acute.
Other colleges have soundproof
practice rooms, but Darwin has none. Moving the band equipment
to other locations is difficult - insurance normally constrains
the equipment to stay on site, and the gear is very heavy.
The bands would like to practice from 2pm to 6pm on Sundays,
but this request has met with objections from a small number
of individuals.
The committee agreed to recommend that the following compromise
be adopted for a trial period:
(1) The music committee will
buy practice pads for the drum kit, which reduce
the volume of the drums. The bands will undertake to use the
practice pads for 75% of their practice time.
(2) The bands will encourage members of college to let them
know if their practice volume is disturbing them.
(3) The bands should be allowed to practice in the Common Room
from 2pm to 6pm on Sundays.
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Freshers' fair (Monday 11th Oct).
Giselle and Semen volunteered to be the music recruiters, manning
a stall where freshers can record their interest in music,
noting their instrument/voice, and whether they are interested in
joining the choir; email addresses will be collected.
Michelle volunteered to add the emails to music@dar.
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Freshers' concert.
The date of Wednesday 27 October was selected.
Yoon, Alan, and David volunteered to organise.
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DCSA application.
It was agreed to hold another committee meeting - probably
on Thursday 21st October - to discuss the application
for money.
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Website, email, and noticeboards.
The website and noticeboard are in need of updating.
Michelle offered to carry out the website overhaul,
and Alan agreed to give her access details.
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Choir. DJCM has a promising lead for a new Choir Director.
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Outstanding business.
At the next meeting, I hope we can appoint a secretary
to look after the noticeboard and room bookings.
DJCM 6/10/2004.
Minutes of the Music Committee meeting held 21st October 2004
Present: Yoon Choi yhc24, Michael Moosberger mpm38,
Semen Trygubenko sat39@cam (DCSA liason for music committee),
David MacKay djcm1 (Chair, Treasurer).
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DCSA funding application
It was agreed to appoint Yoon Choi as Secretary,
Semen Trygubenko as President, and David MacKay as
Treasurer for this application.
Michael Moosberger would become equipment manager
and conduct an inventory.
The following budget was agreed for DCSA
Tickets for concerts: 200
Choir books (Oxford book of English Madrigals): 348
Silencers for drum kit: 80
Drum front head: 38
New Snare: 15
Electronic drumkit: 800
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Freshers' concert: Yoon will try to recruit people
from last year's concert too.
Yoon will book the piano tuner.
Thanks to Alan for making posters.
DJCM 21.10.2004
Minutes of the Music Committee meeting held Wed 17/11/04
Present: Yoon Choi yhc24, Giselle Walker gw265
Semen Trygubenko sat39@cam (DCSA liason for music committee),
Rob (Drum advisor),
David MacKay djcm1 (Chair, Treasurer).
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DCSA funding.
The DCSA allocated £891 to our society.
(They deducted half of the cost of the music and electronic drums, our two main items.)
DJCM has spoken to Accountant and Bursar who confirm college willingness to
contribute to the cost of the electronic drums.
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Drums and other band equipment.
Our drum advisors confirmed that an adequate electronic drumkit
could be bought for 800 pounds.
It was agreed to spend roughly 868 pounds on
electronic drums, snare, drumhead, mike cable, and waterproof containers to store
everything in.
Of this, DCSA budget will be asked to pay 534. The remainder will be covered
by the College Accountant's Music Committee allocation.
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Items to be purchased at a future date
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Concert tickets:
Anyone on the committee who identifies good concert series
from which to buy tickets, for the use of music@dar people, please go ahead and get
them - we have 200 pounds from the DCSA for this -
please liase with Charlotte Rusby car22, who is our ticket master.
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Choir music:
If Andrew decides to purchase any music up to a cost of 350 or 400 pounds,
that will be covered by the DCSA and by the college funds.
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AOB:
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Freshers' concert:
Thanks to Yoon for a successful evening!
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Choir:
The concert was a good shot in the arm for the
choir, which had had surprisingly poor attendance
for the preceding 3 weeks.
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Mixer:
the mixer used by the band for vocals (value about 400 pounds) emitted
smoke recently. A friendly engineer will be sought to try to carry out a repair.
DJCM Wed 17/11/04
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You can even customize these web pages from the list configuration
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There is also an email-based interface for users (not administrators)
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with just the word `help' as subject or in the body, to:
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To organise a concert you need to
- check with Ian MacTulloch-Gair (Catering Manager) that the Dining Hall
is free that evening.
- put up posters around College (music noticeboard, main noticeboard and
doors in College entrance).
- e-mail music@dar with concert details.
- e-mail dcsa@dar to get concert advertised on What's Up &
DCSA noticeboard.
- people to set-up the hall on the night.
Useful email addresses
catman@dar,
bursars.sec@dar.
Piano tuning
Call Camb Piano Forte Centre (424 007)
and ask them to tune the piano(s).
Good times of day are probably 11am and 4.30pm (avoiding meal times).
Once it's booked, tell the porters lodge 35660 to expect the tuner,
and also to note it as a Dining Hall booking in their book.
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