EAST TEXAS HANDBELL ENSEMBLE
CONCERT SCHEDULE


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SpringRing 2012

What Is SpringRing?

SpringRing is a one-day ringing clinic designed to bring beginning and intermediate ringers together in a rehearsal setting.  Two divisions will be offered: Division I music is AGEHR Level2, suitable for the novice choir; Division II is level 3/3+, perfect for the intermediate choir.  Each participating choir will select one division to ring with, and all choirs will prepare Massed Ringing selections together.  All bell choirs will present the day's repertoire in a mini-concert at the conclusion of the event. This year's clinicians are Martha Alford and Arnold Sherman.  For more information download the brochure or email us at ethandbells@aol.com.


Saturday, February 18, 2012
8:00 - 4:30
Pollard United Methodist Church
3030 Copeland Road - Tyler, Texas
for more information email us at
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OPEN AUDITIONS FOR EAST TEXAS HANDBELL ENSEMBLE
TO BE HELD
THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 2012 - 7:00 PM
POLLARD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - CHOIR ROOM
3030 COPELAND ROAD - TYLER, TEXAS

The EAST TEXAS HANDBELL ENSEMBLE under the direction of Arnold Sherman is a professional group with fifteen members and was formed in 1994 to provide ringers in the Tyler area with an opportunity to advance their ringing skills and broaden their knowledge of handbell literature. Since that time the group has performed numerous concerts throughout the Dallas-East Texas area and other venues across the USA.  In 1996 and 1998 the ensemble rang the opening concerts for the AGEHR (American Guild of Handbell Ringers) Area IX Festival/Conference in San Antonio, Texas and the AGEHR Area XI Festival/Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, respectively.  In January 2000 the East Texas Handbell Ensemble was one of ten ensembles to give a Showcase Concert during Pinnacle 2000, a handbell event for advanced ringers held in Las Vegas, Nevada.  January 2001 and 2003, the ensemble was showcased as the premier concert at the Handbell Exploration in Hershey, Pennsylvania and in June 2002 the group performed concerts in Reno, Nevada, Grass Valley and Stockton, California.  The group has also presented concerts in Little Rock and Texarkana, Arkansas, Pinnacle 2004 Dallas, Texas, the 2005 HEB Handbell Festival, Hurst, Texas, and Lombard, River Forest & Downers Grove, Illinois.  East Texas Handbell Ensemble has also been feature as the annual Christmas concert on the Tyler Community Concert Association's concert series for the past four years and has already been invited to appear on the 2008 series.

Dedicated to advancing the art of English Handbell ringing, the group performs on 4 1/2 octaves of Malmark and 1 octave of Schulmerich bells, 7 octaves of Malmark Choirchimes and often incorporates various percussive and woodwind instruments into its performances which help to create the group’s unique and dynamic style of musical interpretation.

Equally at home ringing sacred and secular repertoire, ETHE has dedicated a large share of its’ programming to American music, ringing everything from spirituals & folk hymns to ragtime, movie & show tunes. ETHE's first CD, Cafe' Noel, was released in the spring of 2005.  In addition to concertizing, the group has done demonstration recordings for Hope Publishing, Red River Music, Alfred Publishing Company, Bechenhorst Press and Concordia Publishing House.

 

 

 


To order your copy of "Cafe Noel" mail your check/money order made payable to ETHE and in the amount of $20.00 (includes S&H) to 3307 Pebblebrook DR, Tyler, TX 75707 (click on image to download & print order form)

Cafe' Noel - Play List

Gloria     *     Gaudete     *     Greensleeves

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear 

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Mary Had a Baby     *     Patapan

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Jangle Bells     *     We Three Kings

He Is Born     *     White Christmas

Ukrainian Bell Carol


 

If It Ain't Baroque - Play List

Bouree II * Air for the G String

Prelude in F Major * Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

Fughetta * Arioso * Fugue in C Major

Renaissance Dance * Ave Maria

The Hallelujah Chorus * Prelude in B Flat Minor

Allegro Giocoso from Carmen

Sonata in C# Minor * Vivaldi Concerto * Allegro


To order your copy of "If It Ain't Baroque..." by Vibre' Handbell Quartet, mail your check/MO made payable to Vibre' and in the amount of $20.00 (includes S&H) to 3307 Pebblebrook DR, Tyler, TX 75707. (click on image to download & print order form)
 
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