Chuck's Adventures: Palatine Band Concert

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Palatine Band Concert

Last night was a magnificent evening for the final concert in the Palatine Concert Band's summer outdoor concert season and a large crowd enjoyed the music. The full moon added to the glory of the evening, though the concert venue was on the flight path of outgoing planes from O'Hare and the occasional roar of planes obscured some of the sound.

The variety of selections ranged from show tunes to television cartoon show themes to a Japanese piece and the song used at Princess Diana's memorial. And of course the obligatory closing Sousa number before the final ovation for the standing, smiling players...

Here's a photo of Scott and me...

The band gets 6 weeks off before resuming practice for their next performance. Put November 8th on your calendar and join us as the indoor season begins.

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Adventure begins where your comfort zone ends.

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Nothing adventured, nothing gained!
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The older I get, the better I was!
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Like G. B. Shaw, I want to be all used up when I die!
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I want to die young at an advanced age.
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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. - John Barrymore
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The closest place to heaven is being out in Nature.

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I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

--Henry David Thoreau

But in every walk with Nature, one receives far more than he seeks.

--John Muir

Now voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find.
--Walt Whitman

Every journey has to end, and the end of the journey is always called Home.
--Nelson DeMille

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
--Susan Sontag

Twenty years from now, you will be disappointed more by the things you didn't do, than by the ones you did do. Explore. Dream. Discover.

--Mark Twain

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
--Frank Lloyd Wright

It's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly understood; an inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
--G.K. Chesterton

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.
- -Chinese Proverb

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
--Vance Havner
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