[BBCB-Mail] From John Howell

[Ed Schwartz]

I was really delighted to receive this brief message from the woman 
in Latvia (at least I ASSUME that "Janis" in Latvian is a woman!), to 
whom I sent PDFs of my arrangement of the "Concierto de Aranjuez" 
earlier in the spring.

At 10:00 PM +0300 7/28/08, Janis Purins wrote:
>Hi, John,
>
>Lot of thanks for music. We did it with youth band in our camp, in 
>our concerts in Latvia, and also in two concerts in Lithuania, ansd 
>Estonia.
>It was very nice reaction from audience, too.
>
>Lot of Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>
>
>Janis
>

And she also dropped this note to Al Shipley, who is with "Encore ... 
The Concert Band" in London, Ontario, Canada, who put her in touch 
with me. <http://www.encoretheconcertband.ca/>  And I see that they 
included the arrangement on their 10th Anniversary album (sound clip 
on their website).

At 9:49 AM -0400 7/29/08, Encore wrote:
>Hello John - Received this email from Latvia, thought you might be interested
>
>Al Shipley
><http://www.encoretheconcertband.ca>www.encoretheconcertband.ca
><mailto:encore at rogers.com>encore at rogers.com
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:band.jurmala at gmail.com>Janis Purins
>To: <mailto:encore at rogers.com>encore at rogers.com
>Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 3:03 PM
>Subject: greetings
>
>Hello Al,
>
>My thanks for information about Concierto De Aranjuez, aranger John. Howell
>
>I got music, we playef in concerts in Latvia, Lithuania, estonia. 
>Audience loved music, the very surprice about so good music, 
>arrangement.
>
>Tahnks for help. good luck!
>
>Janis
>

This community band world is a lot wider and deeper than most of us 
ever stop to think about!  I just wanted to share these with you, and 
if her English may be a little imprecise, I can tell you that it's a 
whole lot better than my (nonexistent) Latvian would be!!!

John


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John Howell
Assistant Music Director & Orchestra Manager
"Anything Goes," Summer 2008
John.Howell at vt.edu
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Blacksburg Community Band
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