Conductor’s Corner by Carmen Narveson

Wayne Eickhoff is

the ultimate in a

band “roadie.” A

former math

teacher, he packs

and unpacks our

equipment with a

precision none of us can match! As a

former farm boy, he can maneuver our

wagon through the narrowest of streets

and line up the hitch to the wagon on

the first try. Wayne lends a helping

hand whenever he can. Thanks,

Wayne! We are glad to have you as a

“roadie” for the Chatfield Brass Band.

81 Library Lane, P.O. Box 578 Chatfield, MN 55923

www.chatfieldband.lib.mn.us 507-867-3275

Fall 2014

Hours: M-T-W

8am—Noon; 1—4pm Central Time

Phone: 507-867-3275

Email: chatband@selco.info

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B O A R D O F

D I R E C T O R S

• Theresa Hayden President

• Ellen Grabau Vice President

• Jim McMullin Treasurer

• Krista Flaig Secretary

• Jerry Barrett

Member At-Large

• Teresa Cerling, Carmen Narveson Ex-Officios

S T A F F

• Carmen Narveson Band Director

• Teresa Cerling Library Manager

• Beth Hennessy Library Clerk

F I N A N C E

C O M M I T T E E

• Theresa Hayden

• Teresa Cerling

• Jim McMullin

• Barb Ames

B A N D

L I B R A R I A N

• Carol Lenz

Printing courtesy of

Computer Danamics,

Chatfield, MN

Chatfield Brass Band Holiday 2013

Concert in Potter Auditorium. Board

member and clarinetist Krista Flaig

wearing the antlers!

Photographs Highlighting the 2014 Concert Season

The Chatfield Brass Band getting ready to

perform in the Rochester, MN Rochester-

fest parade in its circus style bandwagon.

The bandwagon was designed by long time

band member John Willaman.

The trombone section on parade in Chatfield, MN

“Appologgiatura: A composition that you regret playing”

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Library News By Teresa Cerling Library Manager

This year we completed the final

improvement recommended 2 years

ago in an energy audit. The above

grade walls were insulated and 2

new windows were installed. This

has lightened the office area of the library and is expected to

make it a more comfortable work environment as well as

more energy efficient. This was made possible by a generous

grant from the Rochester Area Foundation of Rochester,

MN.

The library received another generous donation from an

anonymous donor this year. This money was used to pay 2

catalogers, Kirby Johnson and Valerie Wilson, to work on

our huge backlog of donated music. They have been working

hard and have added over 1700 new titles over the past year.

I want to thank the volunteers from the band that helped

with the annual fall cleanup at the library and the many

volunteers that came throughout the year to help with

sorting music. We couldn’t do it without you!

2014 accomplishments:

• 1700 new titles cataloged

• 635 volunteer hours

• 276 new and renewing members

• 741 orders to 47 states and 9 foreign countries

• 8668 unique website visits

• 2 new windows and 1 new wall!

Some of the new titles added this year:

Deck the Halls arranged for brass choir and percussion by

Jerry Fielding

Triumphal March from the Opera Aida by Verdi, arranged

for brass choir by Francis Findlay

Oh Susanna Fox Trot by Stephen Foster; special

arrangement for dance orchestra by Will Hudson

Grand Galop Chromatique by Franz Liszt; arranged for

concert band by MGySgt. Thomas Knox

New windows and wall in the library

Check the mailing label. The date is when your membership

dues are paid through. Memberships are in effect for 1 year

from the date paid. Thank you to those who have already

paid this year! We have 4 levels:

Overture $15

Intermezzo $25

Finale $50

Encore $100

The benefit is the same for all levels—reduced fees and

priority order filing. You may pay by clicking the “Join”

button on our webpage. That takes you to Paypal where you

set up recurring payments. Paypal then deducts your

membership amount every year at the same time. If you

don’t want the recurring payments, you may click on

“Donate.” That also takes you to Paypal but for a one time

only payment. Please indicate if you want a membership.

“Allregretto: When you’re 16 measures into the piece and realize you took too fast a tempo”

Help us save!

We encourage those paying with the Intuit Payment

Network to choose the checking account option. It

costs us less than the credit card option.

Stanley Hahn Memorial Library of Piano Music

The Chatfield Music Lending Library became the new

home of the Stanley Hahn Memorial Library of Piano Mu-

sic for use by Rochester Area Keyboard Club Members.

A big thank you to an anonymous donor for the office

furniture and new carpet we received at the library this fall.

New

Windows

At the

library

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The Chatfield Brass Band, Inc. is a 501 c(3) non profit organization that relies on memberships, contributions and user fees

for operations. There are four ways you can help us:

1. Annual Library memberships:

Overture $15________ Finale $50________ Intermezzo $25________ Encore $100________

2. General Library Donations $__________

3. General Band Donations $____________

4. James Perkins Endowment Fund, named after our founder, is administered by the Rochester Area Foundation. It was es-

tablished to provide long term financial stability for the library. $__________

Please make checks payable to Chatfield Brass Band, Inc. Your name or e-mail address will not be shared with or sold to any

organization. Your gift is tax deductible under current tax laws. Thank You!

Name____________________________________________ E-mail __________________________________________

Address___________________________________________________________________________________________

City_______________________________________________ State ________________Zip _______________________

Country___________________________________________________________________________________________

Finding Weidt By Glen Tuomaala

When I arrived at St. Cloud State in 2005 to

rebuild the sports band it was clear that they had

a problem. Since the 1990’s their fight song had

been banned (due to inappropriate lyrics added

by the students) and nobody knew who had

composed it. By the Fall of 2006 the Husky

Sports Band was performing an arrangement of

the incomplete mimeograph copy, but the

composer was still a mystery both to the students

and myself.

When I started my sabbatical in the Fall of 2014,

finding the source of this song was an objective.

The search started with an article from the May,

31st, 1940 edition of the University Chronicle

that listed a band concert that included “College

Pep Song” and a composer named Weidt. An

additional 1959 LP record of Roger Barrett

directing the “College Fight Song” by Weidt took

me to a visit at the Chatfield Music Lending

Library.

At the library I searched band compositions by

Albert Weidt including “Down Main Street.”

When compared to the St. Cloud State Rouser it

was a perfect match – The St. Cloud State

Rouser now had a composer and he was Albert

Weidt. Special thanks to the terrific staff at the

Chatfield Music Lending Library for all of their

help to solve this mystery.

Spritzicato: An indication to string instruments to produce a bright and bubbly sound

This was found on the back of a page of music in our collection.

This was found on the back of some music in our library.

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Why Teach Music?

Music is a science - It is exact and demands

exact acoustics. A conductor’s score is a

chart, a graph which indicates frequencies,

intensities, volume changes, melody, and

harmony all at once with the most exact

control of time.

Music is mathematics - It is rhythmically

based on the subdivision of time into

fractions which must be done

instantaneously, not worked out on paper.

Music is a foreign language - Most of the

terms are in Italian, German or French;

and the notation is not English—but a

highly developed kind of shorthand that

uses symbols to represent ideas. The

semantics of music is the most complete

and universal language.

Music is history - Music usually reflects the

environment and times of its creation,

often even the country or racial feeling.

Music is physical education - It requires

fantastic coordination of fingers, hands,

arms, lips, cheeks and facial muscles, in

addition to extraordinary control of the

diaphragm, back, stomach, and chest

muscles, which respond instantly to the

sound the ears hear and the mind

interprets.

Most of all, music is art - It allows a

human being to take all these dry,

technically boring (but difficult) techniques

and use them to create emotion. That is

the one thing science cannot duplicate:

humanism, feeling, emotion, call it what

you will.

We teach music not because we expect you

to major in music. Not because we expect

you to play or sing all your life.

Not so you can relax or have fun. But so

you will be human, recognize beauty and

be sensitive. So you will have something to

cling to, have more love, compassion ,

gentleness, more good - in short, more life.

Of what value will it be to make a

prosperous living unless you know how to

live?

Gaul Blatter: A French Horn player

Word Search Game - Musical Instruments

BAGPIPES GUITAR SAXOPHONE VIOLA

BASSOON HARMONICA SOUSAPHONE VIOLIN

CELLO HARPSICHORD TAMBOURINE XYLOPHONE

CLARINET MANDOLIN TROMBONE ZITHER

CORNET OBOE TRUMPET

DRUM PIANO TUBA

FLUTE PICCOLO TYMPANI

Music Sudoku

The Music Sudoku solution can be found on page 5.

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Chatfield Brass Band, Inc.

Statement of Financial Income and Expense

October 2013 through September 2014 (unaudited)

Revenues and Gains

Program service revenue 26,131.52

Contributions 15,510.32

Grants & government support 8,606.00

Memberships 8,635.05

Sales 423.47

Investment revenue 505.34

Total Revenue and Gains $ 59,811.70

Expenses

Salary and benefits 28,426.19

Administrative 11,191.64 Occupancy 6,597.72 Artist fees 4,260.00

SELCO contract 2,883.00 Investment, Grant & Other 2,480.14

Total Expenses $ 55,838.69

As of Sept. 30, 2014 (unaudited) Cash & cash equivalents 16,961.69

22,491.59

Accounts Receivable 4,811.06 Sheet Music Inventory 871,184.19 Long term investments 45,106.05 Fixed assets 237,167.33

Total Assets $1,197,721.91

Liabilities 1,835.67 Equity 1,195,886.24

Total Liabilities & Equity $1,197,721.91

Statement of Financial Position

Please contact us if we have made any errors or omissions.

Thank you!!

In Honor of Carol Lenz Roy & Jan Christopherson

In memory of Ellsworth Huper Marjorie Huper

In memory of Patricia Windhorst Peter & Barbara Luccyshyn

Karin Tappendorf

Mae Tappendorf

In memory of Lucy Cerling Margaret Perkins

In memory of Neil Snyder Margaret Perkins

Ramona Snyder

In memory of Orvis Johnson Margaret Perkins

In memory of Lorraine Kohlmeyer Samuel Arsers

In memory of Robert Schmidt Sr. &

Robert Schmidt Jr.

Richard Moskop

$201 - $500 James McMullin

Curt & Barbara Peterson

$100 - $200 Bruce Arnold

J. D. Bartelson

Don Bates

Jerry Baudoin

James Caneen

Teresa & Roy Cerling

Sarah Cole

Mark Crosby

DeVere Fader

James Guilbeau

Bernard Helfter

Angela Hunt

Kenji Kawashima

Mark Myers

Dean Narveson

David Overby

Marion Sanderson

Naomi Sato

J.J. Thoreson

JoAnn Tiedemann

Kent Turner

Evelyn Underleak

Up to $99 Norman Aarsvold

Douglas Amaxopulos

Barbara Ames

Demoree Anderson

Mary A. Arthur

Ann Bunnell

Ed Cable

Joseph R. Car

Chatfield Lutheran Church

Martin Coons

Norman Dahl

Jonathan Denslow

Audrey Duncan

Jim Esswein

Richard Genske

Roger Gerber

Richard Gordon

Ron Grogg

Earl Heartt

Jo M. Hess

Robert P. Hills

Bob Hitman

Karen Huckstadt

Samuel Hudak

Maisie Kohnstamm

Karol Krahn

Bob Kuether

Leland Lillehaug

Judith Lorrig

Joanne Lovejoy

Robert & Barbara Lovett

Douglas MacLeod

Ione McIntyre

Gary Moline

Tobia Monte

Duane Newell

Beverly Noble

Alan Novick

Chis Pedersen

Loren Peters

Carl & Wendy Rosenkilde

Fred Schumacher

Jim Sindelar

Sherdell Snyder

David Stone

J. Robert & Carroll Strain

Kelli Tubbs

Karleen Van Dyke

W. B. Wandel

James D. Wayne

Kermit Welch

Homer Wertz

Patricia Wheeler

Valois Wilbur

David Zehner

Harvey Zoll

Meindert Zylstra

In Kind Donations Robert Boorn

Richard Fisher

DaveHall

Theresa Hayden

Angela Hunt

Kirby Johnson

Paul Lawrence

Lolita Morelli

North American Brass

Band Assoc.

Craig Parker

Mark Rogers

Steve Rumbold

Barbara Smith

U.S. Coast Guard Band

John H. Willaman

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Chatfield Brass Band, Inc.

Chatfield Music Lending Library

81 Library Lane

P.O. Box 578

Chatfield, MN 55923

Nonprofit Org.

U.S. Postage Paid

Rochester, MN

Permit No. 187

The Chatfield Music Lending

Library exists to collect, repair, catalog, store and make available –

on a loan-basis – all types of band

music, especially music no longer

being published.

The Chatfield Brass Band provides an opportunity for amateur

instrumentalists of all ages and

abilities to play in a first rate

performing group. The band strives

to give our members the experience

of playing many types of music, with

special attention to playing

traditional band music. We serve our

community and neighbors by

performing for celebrations and

parades, and we take pride in

continuing the tradition of Chatfield

as “Bandtown U.S.A.”

Check the date on your mailing

label. That is the date you paid your

dues. Library memberships are

effective for one year from the date

paid. So, if there is a 2013 date, you

are paid until next year. The library

depends on memberships to help

support operations, so please take a

minute and send in your dues today.

$100 Encore Level

$50 Finale level

$25 Intermezzo Level

$15 Overture Level

A b o u t U s

Our mission is to preserve band music and continue the legacy of its performance.