Here are the basics on the Suffolk County (NY) Music Educators Association's 33rd Annual Day of Tuba and Euphonium on Friday, Nov. 1:
Guest artist, Phil Sinder of Michigan State University.
300 High School, Middle School and Elementary School participants expected.
Rehearsals and clinics begin 3:30 pm.
Free concert begins 7:30 pm featuring Sunnyland Jazz Quartet with Bob Barta, John Klumpp, Art Hovey and Bob Hovey http://sunnylandjazz.com/, Long Island Tuba Quartet with Michael Canipe, Don Sherman, Jeff Furman, Zach deVries plus Tim Eckstrum http://longislandtubaquartet.com/, High School All-Star Ensemble, Phil Sinder in recital http://music.msu.edu/faculty/profile/philip, a Faculty Ensemble and the Massed Ensemble Finale.
Matt Walters will be there from Dillon with a display ... and there will be a great door prize raffle, including a 3 Piston E-flat Couesnon tuba, but you have to be there to win!
At Smithtown West HS, Smithtown, NY. https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl.
Information http://www.scmea.org/festivals.cfm?subpage=107390
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It's our first Day of Tuba without TexasTubaBill Troiano ... we're forging ahead, but we miss him!