Cornet Conspiracy 2007
Final Schedule & Presentations
Update: 04/27/08
SUNDAY, JUNE 3rd
| Before 6:00 PM - We will be hanging out at the hotel on Sunday to meet you guys as you come in and coordinate rides to the Capital Ale House. We will probably leave there around 6:00, so if you arrive after that, you are on your own! Sorry there is no free "Happy Hour" at the hotel like last year, but there is a restaurant/bar where you might find us! |
| 6:30 - We will begin with a Meet and Greet dinner at the Capital Ale House at - www.capitalalehouse.com. There are 2 Capital Ale Houses. The one we are going to is in Downtown Richmond. Driving directions from Doubletree Hotel Richmond, 5501 Eubank Rd, Sandston, VA to Capital Ale House, 623 E Main St, Richmond. It has one of the the best beer/food selections in Richmond and they are giving us the back room. |
MONDAY, JUNE 4th
| 8:00-10:00 - We will be spending most of the day on Monday at the Doubletree for displays, presentations, and show and tell. A nice continental breakfast will be served outside the conference room from 8-10 am. The room will be open at that time for set-up, etc. |
| 9:00-11:30 - Display Show & Tell in the Hotel Conference Room. Moderated by Nick DeCarlis. This will be an opportunity for participants to present their most interesting instruments to the group, and explain why they are meaningful -- how they were discovered and/or restored, why the design is unique, etc. Each person wishing to participate will make a presentation on one instrument no longer than 5-10 minutes (so we have enough time to respond to any questions), after which we will proceed to the next participant. We will make subsequent rounds of presentations, as time permits, for those with multiple instruments to discuss. |
| 11:30-1:00 - Lunch (provided) from Roma's Restaurant at the hotel. |
| 1:00-3:30 - Presentations at the Hotel Conference Room (Double Tree at Richmond Airport) from. |
| 3:30-6:00 - Free Time in afternoon |
| 6:30-? - Dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings and Grill. Buffalo Wild Wings Locations on Virginia Center Parkway just north of Richmond. Steve has reserved the outdoor deck for us with our own bartender! |
TUESDAY, JUNE 5th
| 9:30-11:30 - Tuesday will be a day in Petersburg, which is 25 miles south of Richmond. More presentations at the Davis Recital Hall (Virginia State University where Rick teaches). |
| 12:30-1:30 - Lunch in Old Towne Petersburg, www.petersburg-va.org |
| 2:00-4:00 - A CC'07 Brass Band performance on the steps of the Siege Museum, a historical Exchange Building dating back to 1839 which contains exhibits on Petersburg's contribution to the Civil War, complete with a movie narrated by actor, Joseph Cotton, a Petersburg native. |
| Tuesday evening we will be dining at Wabi-Sabi (Wabi Sabi :: music schedule), a sushi, steak, fusion restaurant with a jazz bar. The best jazz trio in Richmond, the Steve Kessler Trio, will be providing our rhythm section for our jam session from 7:00-10:00 . |
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6th
| 12:00-2:00 - The Brass Band will be performing in the courtyard of the Civil War Museum (at the Old Tredegar Iron Works) http://www.tredegar.org in downtown Richmond. There should be time enough to visit the museum, which specializes in a wide variety of period displays (North, South, and African American). Both museums will give our members free admission and will publicize the event in the newspapers and on the Richmond/Petersburg official events calendar for the Jamestown 2007 Commemoration. |
| Wednesday evening we will have a Louisiana style dinner at Steve and Phyliss Ward's. |
THURSDAY, JUNE 7th
| We hope to meet in the morning for breakfast and then you are on your own, since many people will be departing that day. For those of you who are staying the extra day and not leaving until Friday, we are arranging a casual place for dinner and possible mini jam session in downtown Richmond. So please let us know if you will be staying through Thursday evening. |
PRESENTATIONS:
At the Hotel Conference Room (Double Tree at Richmond Airport) Monday 4 June 2007 (1:00-3:00 pm)
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Richard Schwartz: Unexpected Inaccuracies: A short discussion of misinformation about the cornet |
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Jeff Stockham: The Life of A Civil War Cornetist |
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Dutch Uithoven: Joseph "King" Oliver's Mute Techniques |
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David Sager: Jules Levy |
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Steve Ward: Elden Benge |
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Tom Meacham: Orphan Instrument Makers: Lesser-known makers of cornets |
At Davis Recital Hall (Virginia State University) Tuesday 5 June 2007 (9:30-11:30 am)
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Richard Schwartz: The Normaphone or Not |
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Dutch Uithoven: Selling Corronets and Tromphitts on Ebay (or selling Instrooments and Pettina for fun and profit) |
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Robert Wagenknecht: "If It's too Loud, You're too Old." A discussion to combat this notion about hearing loss |
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Nick DeCarlis: Z. Albert Meredith and his "Open Tone" Cornets |
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Robert Eliason: D. C. Hall and Hall & Quinby |