Here’s the deal. $5… 7:30 pm… Cosby High School. Buy tickets early, they are known to sell out! There are still plenty left as of right now. Get them at the front office of the school.

Broadway’s Ivan Rutherford will be singing his signature tune from Les Misérables, and two Michael Buble songs! We have 10 tunes we will be doing, and of course, our patriotic finale! …Oh, and your’s truly… will be narrating some lyrical text while the band plays American The Beautiful.

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The Fifth Annual Concert of The Titan Band will be held on Friday May 20, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. in the Cosby Theater. This show will be a Hollywood-styled production that promises to be a memorable evening for the entire Cosby community. A celebrity guest master of ceremonies, a professional soloist from Broadway, and the bands patriotic finale will make this a truly special evening. Tickets are available at the school beginning May 16and sell for $5.00 a seat. Due to previous sell-outs, it is highly suggested to get them early.

Our featured soloist for the evening is Ivan Rutherford, star of the Broadway smash hit “Les Miserables”. He will perform his signature “Bring Him Home” from that show, as well as “Sway” and “Feelin Good” as recorded by Michael Buble’. In addition, a wide variety of other musical styles will be covered by the band. Additional highlights for the evening include “Inchon” by Robert W. Smith—a spectacular tribute to Korean war veterans, “The Crosley March” by Henry Fillmore—from the bands unanimous “Superior” rated State Concert Festival performance, “Selections for the Wizard of Oz”, “Song for Lyndsey” by Andrew Boysen, “Sedona” by Steven Reineke, “Pachinko” by Paul Yoder, “America the Beautiful”, and the bands’ traditional and well known patriotic finale featuring the Service Songs of the Armed Forces of the United States and our National March, The Stars and Stripes Forever.

Mr. Rutherford will have his own CD’s for sale and will be available to sign them after the show.

The band will also be presented with their plaques for SUPERIOR ratings at the State Marching Festival (2 years in a row), State Concert Festival (5 years in a row), and their second Commonwealth of Virginia Honor Band plaque.

Mr. Andrew Brock, Director of Bands at Tomahawk Creek Middle, and Mr. Christopher Fens, Director of Bands at Bailey Bridge Middle will serve as guest conductors for the evening. Photos of the band and of the guest artist are available on request.

The Cosby Titan Band’s holiday concert will be on Friday Dec 10, at 7:30 pm in the Cosby High School Theater.

We will be performing all kinds of great music, and of course, some classic Christmas songs. The Cosby Jazz Ensemble will also be performing 3 songs. The concert will be followed by a reception.

Tickets will be for sale at the door for only $5, while supplies last. You are encouraged to get your tickets in advance! In the past concerts have been sold out.

Press release:

The Cosby Titan Band will present its holiday concert on Friday, Dec. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the Cosby Theater. All seats are $5. The 125-member Titan Band, Percussion Ensemble and Jazz Ensemble will be featured in this concert. The show should run about one hour and a reception will follow in the school commons.

A wide variety of musical styles will be covered. The “musical menu” consists of :”The Thunderer” by Sousa, “Jig” from “English Country Seettings” bu LaPlante, “Salvation is Created” by Tchesnekov, “Sea Songs” by Vaugh Williams, “Soaring” by Shaffer, “Sleigh Ride” by Leroy Anderson, “A Fanfare for Christmas” by Curnow as recorded by the Mannheim Steamroller, and “Christmas Music for Winds” arranged by James Ployhar. The Jazz Ensemble will perform some classic big-band styled selections.

The Titan Band, in their fifth year of existence, has again earned a unanimous rating of “Superior” at the VBODA State Marching Festival this fall and is half-way toward their second ever “Commonwealth of Virginia Honor Band” award. The band also performed by invitation at a home game of the nationally-ranked football team of the College of William and Mary, and is awaiting the release of “Game Day 2010″, the Titan Marching Bands’ full-length compact disc recorded earlier this fall.

Today, most retail stores have motorized wheelchairs or at least some type of wheelchair for their customers to use while shopping their stores. Strange’s Florist does not have anything at all.

Strange's Florist West Broad Location

As you can see, the above location on West Broad Street is a big store. Without some type of wheelchair it makes it difficult to navigate the building.

On Facebook, a Strange’s customer posted a status saying she is really upset with them for not providing a wheelchair even after asking many weeks before! Some other comments on that Facebook status include:

“I’m gonna protest,” “Never did like Strange’s. Poor customer service,” “I thought for sure they would take care of that!”

What are your thoughts on Strange’s Florist? I think it’s important that this is brought to their attention!

“I spoke with Mrs. Daphne personally in April concerning the improvement. We are currently communicating with the necessary people to make this happen. I can assure you the improvement has not been disregarded as the mobility of all of our customers and families are important.

The communities patience and understanding are very much appreciated as well as the open dialogue which allows these improvements to be addressed.”

Thanks for getting back to us William! We hope to see the changes soon!

Alan Chez

Alan Chez from the Paul Shaffer Band on the David Letterman Show came to Richmond, Virginia and performed with the 120 member Cosby Titan Band on May 21st, 2010. It was a sold out crowd of 900 with many people outside hoping to get in. He did 3 songs, St. Louis Blues, Let The Good Times Roll, and Somewhere Over The Rainbow.

Each year the award winning Titan Band puts on an amazing show on the 3rd Friday of May. If you missed it this year, you wont want to miss it next year!

Professional dvds and cds are available of the concert.

Here’s the clip of him on the news today:

Cosby Titan Band 2009

The Cosby Titan Band is having its Fourth Annual Concert tomorrow (Friday May 21st) at the Cosby High School Auditorium in Midlothian, Virginia near Woodlake. It starts at 7:30 pm and is expected to sell out. Presales have already sold over half of the tickets (auditorium seats 900.)

This is your chance to hear one of the best trumpet players in the world right now, Alan Chez of the Letterman Show right here in Richmond, Virginia. Its also an opportunity to hear one of the best high school bands in the area. This year the Cosby Titan Band was awarded their Virginia State Honor Band which is the highest award a band can get in Virginia. This means that the band got a superior rating from the judges in marching as well as the concert contests. The show has gotten a lot of press from many newspapers and Channel 6/CBS is doing a report on it as well.

Here is the official press release from the band.  – Side note, the one and only Austin Prime is in this band. 3rd chair trumpet player.

Tickets are $5.00 all seats

This is a Hollywood-styled band concert and we are proud to feature:

Alan Chez—the trumpet player on the David Letterman Show

Mike Goldberg—Richmond’s Musical Meteorologist and Clarinet Soloist

Andy Brock, Guest Conductor

Steven Barton, Guest Conductor of a piece that he composed

Plus—many guest clarinetists

The evenings’ musical menu consists of:

The Chimes of Liberty/Goldman
Solo de Concours/Messager, featuring Mike Goldberg on Clarinet
Shenandoah/Tichelli, Andy Brock Guest Conductor
Brazil: Ceremony Song and Samba/R.W.Smith
St Louis Blues and Let The Good Times Roll—featuring Alan Chez

Intermission

For the New Day Arisen, composed and conducted by Steven Barton
Clarinet Candy/Anderson, featuring the Titan Clarinet section plus about 15 guest clarinetists
Selections from Wicked/Schwartz
Over the Rainbow/Arlen, featuring Alan Chez
Our Traditional Concert Finale: featuring the Service Songs of the US Armed Forces and the Stars and Stripes Forever

Hope to see you there!

The snow is not that bad yet, but the wind is really bad! The video kind of shows the wind but not very well. So far it has knocked over tons of large branches in the area. Here are a few pics that I took. Enjoy .

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