Counting down
It has been a stressful and unpleasant time at work, for reasons I won’t discuss here, but I have the diversion of looking forward to one of the high points of my year, which is less than a week away.
Dawn Holley, who chairs the steering committee of which I am a member, said today she believes advance ticket sales are going quite well. It looks like we’ll have a good crowd, and a much-improved out-of-town crowd due to better support from papers in surrounding communities.
I touched base with Cascade High School band director David Lucich today to make sure it was OK for me to drop by Monday afternoon, when Nashville Symphony assistant conductor Kelly Corcoran, who will lead Tuesday’s concert, stops by to work with the Cascade band on the two numbers which Cascade will play in tandem with the Nashville Symphony: “The 1812 Overture” and “The Stars and Stripes Forever.” I want to get a photo of her working with the kids so that I can run it on the front page Tuesday as last-minute promotion for the concert.
I am ashamed to say I don’t own any Cascade shirts right now. I went by a sporting good store today to buy one, but they didn’t have anything in XXL. I found a nice faded-orange golf shirt at Wal-Mart; it doesn’t specifically say “Cascade,” but I think it will be quite appropriate to wear to the concert (which we try to promote as being casual and family-friendly). Maybe I could make a badge to wear on the shirt.
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April 24th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
I can report that at Regions, we’ve sold more tickets this year than we did last year. Hope it all goes off without a hitch and the crowd is huge!