Conductor’s Corner by Carmen Narveson

It has been a busy, but

rewarding, fall season as we

wind down from summer

and look forward to our

Community Christmas

concert on December 1st.

I have an article taped next

to my desk entitled “Gratitude is Good for You.”

It is a gentle reminder to conductors and teachers

like me that life remains so enjoyable if you

remember to appreciate those around you. I’m

guessing that the conductors who read this have a

very similar list! Here is a part of my gratitude list:

I am grateful for my amazing, musical, dedicated

band members. In addition to being wonderful

musicians, they are willing helpers, friends, and

just really interesting, nice people. That extends

to Carol, our librarian; Wayne, our very organized

“roadie”; and our hard-working Board of

Directors. I am grateful for the arts supporters in

our community and region. We have great

support from our city, our audience members,

Chatfield businesses and service groups, and

especially our Southeastern Minnesota Arts

Council. We couldn’t offer the programming we

do without all of their help. It’s essential.

I am grateful for our amazing Chatfield Music

Lending Library and the people who work

there. To be able to peruse this vast collection of

band music to discover “treasures” for our

concerts is my idea of heaven on earth. Our

library staff works hard to fill orders, catalog

music and protect our collection. Where else

would we find some of our summer concert

favorites that include Blue Tail Fly, The Drunken

Sailor, Jazz Pizzicato, and Cole Porter on Broadway in

addition to thousands of marches.

I am grateful for my family and all families of

musicians who support us in our endeavors. And

with that, the Chatfield Brass Band and myself

wish you holidays filled with music, good

company, and gratitude.

81 Library Lane, P.O. Box 578 Chatfield, MN 55923

www.chatfieldband.lib.mn.us 507-867-3275

Fall 2013

“Dill Piccolini” An exceedingly small wind instrument that plays only sour notes

Wish List:

• Digital scale

Hours: M-T-W

8am—Noon; 1—4pm Central Time

Phone: 507-867-3275

Email: chatband@selco.info

We’re on Facebook!

B O A R D O F

D I R E C T O R S

• Theresa Hayden President

• Ellen Grabau Vice President

• Jim McMullin Treasurer

• Krista Flaig Secretary

• Jerry Barrett

Member At-Large

• Teresa Cerling, Carmen Narveson Ex-Officios

S T A F F

• Carmen Narveson Band Director

• Teresa Cerling Library Manager

• Beth Hennessy Library Clerk

F I N A N C E

C O M M I T T E E

• Theresa Hayden

• Teresa Cerling

• Jim McMullin

• Barb Ames

B A N D

L I B R A R I A N

• Carol Lenz

Photographs Highlighting the 2013 Concert Season

Waiting in the rain for the Rochesterfest parade. The beautiful woodwind section.

The patient French Horn section along with some saxists.

Printing courtesy of Computer Danamics, Chatfield, MN

Winners of “Most Entertaining Section” award

Library News By Teresa Cerling Library Manager

The library is constantly striving to

improve service to our patrons by

making the ordering and payment

systems easier to work with.

This year we started using the Intuit

Payment Network. Invoices have a

unique link on them that takes the patron to the Intuit Payment

Network website. They can then pay using a credit card or

directly from their bank account. I encourage all patrons to use

this fast and secure method of payment.

I would like to thank all of you that donated to the library this

past year. For those that donated specifically to get boxes

cataloged, we were able to sort, count and catalog 5 boxes in just

the last month. We still have lots of boxes to go through and

have to be selective in accepting music donations, so please

contact us first if you want to donate music. However, we do

appreciate it when our patrons send in parts that we don’t have

with their returned music.

The library received an anonymous $5,000 donation this year to

pay specifically for cataloging music! We were able to hire two

professional catalogers. They cataloged close to 600 new pieces

of music. We are so grateful for our anonymous donor!

We also have a new fundraising tool called “FundMyGroup” It

brings together online retailers that want to generate extra

business with groups wanting to raise funds. Simply go to

FundMyGroup.org to search for an online retailer and begin

shopping. Be sure to select the Chatfield Brass Band and Music

Lending Library as your group. Each qualifying purchase results

in cash back to us!

2013 accomplishments:

• 714 orders to 43 states and 5 foreign countries.

• 267 new and renewing members this fiscal year.

• 721 volunteer hours this fiscal year. Thank you to all of

the volunteers that helped this past year at the library!

• 1200 new titles added to the online catalog.

• New furnace and air conditioner!

We are very excited to finally have a new furnace and air

conditioner. The goal was to stabilize the environment in order

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to better preserve the music. The staff doesn’t mind the more

comfortable working conditions either. Part of the energy audit

that we had a year ago also recommended that we insulate the

above ground walls of the library. We will be working on getting

this improvement accomplished this year.

If you have ever wondered what we have in our collection—we

have 49 categories of music. Most of the categories are cataloged

and searchable in the online catalog. Below is a list of categories

along with their corresponding call letters: Brass Ensembles

(BE), Band and Orchestra (BOA), Cakewalks (CW), Caprices

(CAP), Christmas (XMAS), Circus (CIR), Concert (C), Concert

Marches (CM), Concert Pop (CP), Fanfares (FAN), Funeral

Dirges (FD), Galops (GAL), Gavottes (GAV), Intermezzo/

Serenades (IN), Marches (M), Marching Band (MB), Mazurkas

(MAZ), Novelties (N), Organ (ORG), Overtures (OV), Paso

Dobles (PD), Patriotic (PAT), Patrols (PT), Piano Solos (PN),

Piano Solo Books (PNB), Piano Duets (PND), Polkas (POL),

Pop (P), Quadrilles (Q), Quicksteps (QK), Rag (RAG), Religious

(R), Schottisches (SCH), Stage Band (SB), Silent Film (SF),

Sheet Music (SM), Suites and Selections (SS), Solos with Band

(SWB), Solos and Ensembles (SE), Trombone Smears (TS), and

Waltzes (W).

The categories of music we still need to catalog are: Combos,

Concert Band Books, Manuscript, Orchestra, and Orchestra

Books. We are currently working on getting the Band and

Orchestra category cataloged and now have 3654 titles done.

Many of you have requested “Red’s White and Blue March” by

Red Skelton. We now have this in our collection.

The staff and volunteers of the Chatfield Music Lending Library

wish you the best for the New Year.

The new library furnace.

“Flute Flies” Those tiny mosquitoes that bother musicians on outdoor gigs

Before After

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Over $1,000

Chatfield Athletic Club

$201-$500

Bruce Arnold

Monte Bairos

Robert A. Brown

John W. Goldsmith

John Leipprandt

Jerome & Sheryol O’Connor

James D. Wayne

Terry Zimmerman

$100-$200

Samuel Arsers

Robert L. Boorn

Vesta Buetow

James Caneen

Teresa & Roy Cerling

John Crumley

Richard Davis

Keith Erickson

F & M Community Bank

Kenji Kawashima

Larry Krob

Robert & Barbara Lovett

Roger McConnell

George McGraw III

James McMullin

John Meyer

Matthew Opat

Plano Community Band

Mark Rogers

Richard R. Schwartz

Steven Sooby

JoAnn Tiedemann

Kent Turner

Evelyn Underleak

Patricia Wheeler

Robert Wig

Paulette Wilerson

Up to $100

Al Ackerman

Barbara Ames

Diana Appler

Mary A. Arthur

Carole Blake

William Blayney

L. Anne Browne

Ann Bunnell

Ed Cable

Joseph R. Car

Maurice Carlo

Roy Christopherson

Sarah Cole

K. Lee Collins

Rich Copeland

Robert Day

Carl Ehrke

Jim Esswein

Ron Evans

Devere Fader

Richard Fischer

Theodore Flierl

Don French

Gene Garza

Howard Gluckman

Mark Grauer

William Griffith

Carol Gross

H. Millard Haines

Grady Hallman

Jo M. Hess

Robert P. Hills

Shelley Hillsman

James Hissom

Bob Hitman

Simon Horenstein

Karen Huckstadt

Mary Jones

Ken Kiesow

Edward Kingsbury

Rita Knudson

Erica Kohlmeyer

Don Korte

Karol Krahn

Bob Kuether

Joe & Linda Lancia

Rita LaVictoire

Jan Leschke

Judith Lorrig

Joanne Lovejoy

Byron Macdonald

Douglas MacLeod

Nick & Kelly Manahan

Ione McIntyre

Kermit McRae

Donald Meehan

Lynn Moller

Lolita Morelli

Duane Newell

Ken Olson

Robert Quilliams

Howard Rivenson

Barbara Rudy

Bob Ryan

Charles Schlarbaum

Bill Schuetter

Fred Schumacher

Milton Silva

Mike Simpson

George Sinnott

William Sleeper

Stuart Stephens

Wayne Stucky

J. Robert & Carroll Strain

David Strickler

Lee Stromquist

Curtis Sykora

Ralph Sylvester

Kelli Tubbs

Laura Turnbull

Robert Ullery

University of Notre Dame

James D. Wayne

Russ Weisman

Janice Welch

Harold Wescott

Moe Whittemore

Steve Williams

Alex Wilson

Norman Woodrick

Marie Janet Wurst

Martin Zavadil

Harvey Zoll

Please contact us if we have made any errors or omissions. Thank you!!

Chatfield Brass Band, Inc. Statement of Financial Position

Statement of Financial Income and Expense As of Sept. 30, 2013 (unaudited)

October 2012 through September 2013 (unaudited)

Cash & cash equivalents 22,235.27

Revenues and Gains Savings & short term investments 22,485.06

Program service revenue 28,069.97 Accounts Receivable 4,417.76

Contributions 22,977.92 Sheet Music Inventory 871,839.00

Memberships 8,540.58 Long term investments 43,093.96

Sales 546.97 Fixed assets 231,080.53

Investment revenue 761.27 Total Assets $1,195,151.58

Other 48.00

Total Revenue and Gains $ 60,944.71 Liabilities 885.15

Equity 1,194,266.43

Expenses Total Liabilities & Equity $1,195,151,.58

Salary and benefits 25,931.64

Administrative 11,956.19 Occupancy 5,613.22 Artist fees 4,075.00

SELCO contract 2,658.00 Investment, Grant & Other 1,071.57

Total Expenses $ 51,305.62

Memorials and Honorariums

In Honor of Curtis Peterson Matthew Opat

Dean Narveson

In memory of Clarence, Bessie,

William and Kenneth Arsers Samuel Arsers

In memory of Orvis Johnson Shirley Johnson

Carol Lenz

Carmen Narveson

Marion Erickson

In memory of Helen (Halloran)

Wheeler Samuel Arsers

Carmen Narveson

In memory of Mary Barth Barb Ames

Carol Lenz

In memory of Donna Pease Elaine Lee

In memory of Vivian Thompson Carol Lenz

James McMullin

Ted Olson

Al Ackerman

John H. Willaman

Barb Ames

Matthew Opat

Margaret Perkins

Lana Bernard

Shirley Johnson

Chatfield Brass Band, Inc.

Chatfield Music Lending Library

81 Library Lane

P.O. Box 578

Chatfield, MN 55923

Nonprofit Org.

U.S. Postage Paid

Rochester, MN

Permit No. 187

The Chatfield Music Lending

Library exists to collect, repair, catalog, store and make available –

on a loan-basis – all types of band

music, especially music no longer

being published.

The Chatfield Brass Band provides an opportunity for amateur

instrumentalists of all ages and

abilities to play in a first rate

performing group. The band strives

to give our members the experience

of playing many types of music, with

special attention to playing

traditional band music. We serve our

community and neighbors by

performing for celebrations and

parades, and we take pride in

continuing the tradition of Chatfield

as “Bandtown U.S.A.”.

Check the date on your mailing

label. That is the date you paid your

dues. Library memberships are

effective for one year from the date

paid. So, if there is a 2013 date, you

are paid until next year. The library

depends on memberships to help

support operations, so please take a

minute and send in your dues today.

$100 Encore Level

$50 Finale level

$25 Intermezzo Level

$15 Overture Level

A b o u t U s

Our mission is to preserve band music and continue the legacy of its performance.