From http://thewholenote.com/wholenote/band_win.html
Band Stands (& Podiums)
Four of a kind?
by Jack MacQuarrie
For some years now the BandStand column in WholeNote has striven to serve one particular segment of the music community. It has been our goal to provide timely information for both performing groups and their audiences. In our musings over the summer break we have had time to reflect on our coverage and contemplate how we might better serve our constituency in the months ahead. That lead us to the need to define our community.
Since its inception, BandStand has focused almost exclusively on the activities of community concert bands and their all brass counterparts. But what about community symphony orchestras and the many other instrumental groups active in our area? While their numbers have grown significantly in recent years, they have not had the voice they deserve in this column.
As a preliminary step, I pulled four diverse instrumental organizations from the hat, so to speak, in order to reflect on the ways their philosophies and activities are similar and the ways in which they differ. From the band side we picked Milton Concert Band and The Koffler Concert Band (aka Resa’s Pieces, after director/founder Resa Kochberg); from the orchestral side, Orchestra Toronto and The North York Concert Orchestra.
