The 2009 Charles Dean Trumpet concert is fast approaching (8 days and counting…).
Here’s the poster. Please print copies and post them prominently up as soon as you can.
2009-09-27 Charles Dean Concert Poster
-Geof
Here’s the spiff invitation Les Smith put together for us to email to our friends, neighbors, family, etc. You can send the invitation as an attachment or point to the copy here by putting this link in your email:
Charles Dean Concert Flyer 2009
Don’t forget to add a cover note similar to the Les’ example:
Hi,
The Gainesville Community Band has a concert coming up next month.
It's shaping up to be another good one, and I sure hope you can come
hear us play.
This will be our annual Charles Dean Memorial Concert, and the theme
is "Music for Band, Organ and Trumpet." Our concert will feature three
soloists and the Charles Dean Trumpet Presentation. We play on Sunday,
September 27, 4 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church of Gainesville.
That's at 300 Southwest Second Avenue (the corner of SW 2nd and 3rd
Street), and there is plenty of free parking directly across the street.
As always, the concert is family friendly, and there is no charge for
admission.
I've attached an information sheet with details on the guest artists
and the program. I know you would enjoy the concert, and if you do
attend, please stop by afterward and say hello.
Our esteemed percussionist, Bill Helms, was quoted by the Gainesville Sun today regarding his engineering work on NASA’s Apollo 11 mission.
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“Forty years later, area residents recall where they were and how they felt as the three astronauts aboard Apollo 11 flew a mission that left us all moonstruck.
Bill Helms was a NASA engineer whose job was to ensure there was no dangerous hydrogen gas leak in the Saturn V rocket that would blast the Apollo 11 crew into space. It’s a mission that is still critical to today’s shuttle launches.
Helms retired in 2002 and now serves as president of the Alachua Astronomy Club. He’ll speak at Santa Fe College’s Kia Silva Pla Planetarium on Aug. 1 about the Apollo program and man’s first trips to the moon.
Apollo 11 will always be special to Helms.
“I don’t think the public realized that this mission involved between 250,000 and 400,000 people around the country,” he said. “That was everyone from the ladies who made the spacesuits in a New England factory to the cadre of scientific experts who made it all happen.”
Good for you, Bill!
Read the whole article: 40 years after Apollo 11: Residents share memories
