Our first outdoor concert!
Past Concert Highlights
June 24, 2012
June 14, 2012
October 12, 2011
Pictures from Resa's Pieces 1st Gala Concert - 2001
Some of the Original "Pieces" are STILL members!
June 14, 2010
November 30, 2009
Baycrest - November 29, 2009
On Sunday, November 29, 2009, Resa's Pieces returned to play in the Winter Garden Atrium of Baycrest’s Apotex Centre. The sound soared to the upper floors – everyone had fun! People danced and enjoyed Fiddler on the Roof, Mama Mia, Sholom Aleichem and Waves of the Danube Waltz; clapped along to the beat of Latin Gold; enjoyed hearing What a Wonderful World sung to them by the talented Al Fitleberg; joined in singing along to The Sound of Music and finally, were treated to an early Hanukkah celebration with the tunes Hanukkah Highlights and The Three Moods of Hanukkah.
Playing for the Baycrest
Community is such a rewarding experience for the Band’s members.
And some pictures of our illustrious percussion section:
I was at Baycrest yesterday with my wife, visiting her Bubby (age 101). Your band did a great job!
Here's a photo (phone camera quality, unfortunately), from an unusual angle.
D.G.
June 03, 2009
What a wonderful evening - 10th Annual Gala Concert is a huge hit!
The audience was popping actual paper bags during 1812 Overture and it sounded like a cannon went off like it should! The band was giving ovations to their director, Resa Kochberg. And the crowd went wild at the end of our show. All in all it was an absolutely stellar finish to the 10th year of Resa's Pieces Concert Band! Soon we will have musical highlights from our concert on the Listen Up page, but for now here are some fun pictures before the show, during the show and afterwards. More pictures will be loaded soon into our Photo Gallery.
John and Itz before the concert.
Al and Harvey pal around before the show.
Resa at her best, introducing another piece with style, grace and wit.
The Original Resa's Pieces sings along with the band on their Anniversary Medley.
John Liddle plays a wonderful, Spanish-themed song.
Making music happen, and growing young while doing it.
March 02, 2009
Baycrest - March 1, 2009
What a concert! Resa's Pieces played their hearts out in snappy, black-on-black outfits to a standing (and sitting) audience at the Baycrest Retirement Home this past Sunday, March 1 2009. The whole concert lasted over an hour and a half featuring a klezmer break from KlezKonnection. The audience was excited to see us again, as we were here in several previous years. Most of the audience were the elderly who are living in the home along with their loved ones listening to a concert together on a bitterly cold February Sunday afternoon. What could be better?
We played new selections including some of our new big band numbers, and received wonderful ovations. Reas received compliments about how we played. We're invited back again soon, and that's always a good thing.
After we played several songs, KlezKonnection played some great Klezmer as well as had a few of the Resa's Pieces members feature their singing and playing chops. Al Fitleberg hammed it up as always and their rendition of "By meer bis du schoen" was amazing.
Here are some pictures and videos of the successful gig at Baycrest.
December 07, 2008
Hanukkah Concert @ Beth Tzedec
Resa's Pieces performed a Hannukah Concert at the Beth Tzedec Synagogue on December 7 2008. Lots of families with lots of kids filled the room. The kids got a great education on the different families of instruments and of course there was lots of great music. Here are a couple of pictures of Resa and the band. There's also a video of the kids at the concert keeping the beat with maracas during "Star Wars." Good times were had by all at the Hannukah Carnival afterwards as well.
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