ALUMNI BAND NEWS
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UCLA Alumni Band – Celebrating 39 Years of providing music for UCLA Athletics, Alumni, and football fanatics
October 24, 2014
HOME FOOTBALL
vs.
University of Arizona Wildcats
Saturday, November 1, 2014
Call Time: 2:45pm
QUALIFYING EVENTS / u$c TICKETS
The Bruins return home to the Rose Bowl
hoping to duplicate their 2012 demolition of
the Arizona Wildcats and keep alive their
hopes for another 9-win season. This day is
also the Band Alumni reunion and many
Alumni Band members will be rehearsing
with the student band after 4:00pm so we
are going to try to have a Porta-Sons concert
from 3:00pm to 3:45pm. The Alumni Band
will play its regular concert from 4:30pm to
6:30pm and then the Court of Champions
concert from 6:45pm to 7:15pm. Those
Alumni Band members participating in the
band reunion rehearsal should come to the
Alumni Band area as soon as possible after
the reunion rehearsal. This is an ambitious
schedule but the weather will not be over
100 and if we drink enough healthy fluids we
should float through the day without even
noticing the blisters on our feet, sunburn,
and split lips. It will be way fun.
Since the u$c football game is at the Rose
Bowl this year, band members who perform
at 7 or more of the 13 Qualifying Events will
earn a free ticket to the game. All members
may order up to two tickets even if they did
not earn a free ticket. Extra tickets or tickets
for those who did not earn free tickets cost
$105. Those who qualify for free tickets must
inform Rochelle that they plan to use the free
ticket. Please bring a check for these tickets
no later than pregame before the November
1 Arizona game. If you want more than two
tickets, bring payment for those in a separate
check and the band will attempt to fill those
orders. Please try to bring UCLA guests.
Trojans are great comic relief and police
blotter, but they are really annoying at
football games. If you have questions about
your qualifying status for a free u$c ticket,
please email Charlie Yacoobian, our Band
president, at [email protected].
MEMBERSHIP
ROSE BOWL SEATING
The Alumni Band would like to welcome
10 new members to the Alumni Band Family
this year! We will have pictures and
biographical information for the newsletter
as soon as we remember our cell phone
password. We hope to continue this exciting
trend, so be sure to tell all your friends and
co-workers who are fellow Bruin alumni
about how much fun you have playing with
the Alumni Band. When bringing prospective
or new members to an event, please
remember to contact Rebecca in advance so
she can make arrangements and ensure they
receive a proper welcome.
When inside the Rose Bowl please take care
to sit in the band’s assigned seats. These are
seats up to row 7 in section 2-L (single and
double digit seat numbers) and up to row 9
in section 1-H (triple digit seat numbers). I
know this sounds complicated, especially to
North Campus types. I just ask Marty
Campman where to sit, but not everyone in
the Rose Bowl can do this because even
though Marty has memorized the lyrics,
chords, and bass (tuba) line to every song in
the Alumni Band song book, he has not yet
memorized this week’s Rose Bowl seating
chart.
GATE ENTRY PROCEDURE
BAND ALUMNI REUNION
If you are participating in the Band Alumni
Reunion, see Rebecca for pamphlets you can
distribute at the rehearsal to anyone
interested in joining us. After the rehearsal,
bring your band alumni friends back with
you to play with us at our pregame concert!
MUSIC
We will continue to have our new music
available at the remaining games. If you need
individual pieces of music replaced or need a
new folder, please contact our Librarian, Lee
Panman, at [email protected]
prior to your next event so he can have your
music ready for you.
EXTRA GAME TICKETS
If you require additional guest tickets please
arrange the tickets before the day of the
game because it is very distracting for those
of us who play wind instruments to say “NO “
and blow (blat?) simultaneously.
There was some confusion at the gate
entrance at the Memphis game because the
procedure for entering the stadium is stored
in Brett Hundley’s secret health file and will
not be published until kickoff, but Rochelle
will be at the gate to help guide the band
members and guests into the stadium.
MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL
PLEASE RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP – those
people who have not paid membership will
not be given tickets at the game, so please
pay when you arrive at the pregame concert
either by check or cash (no coins) since you
did not spend it on fried bad food at the
County Fair.
NEW WEBSITE
Thanks the to hard work of our newlywed
Nerd-in-Chief Carlos Sandoval, the band has a
new website and will have a new sign-up
system very soon. Watch for instructions to
be sent out shortly.
NEW MEMBERS WELCOMED
NEW TAILGATE LOCATION
Our new tailgate location has worked out
very well this season. For those who did not
attend the first games and watched them on
television, it was hot, and we hope both your
central air and cable service flaked out. The
new location is about 100 yards west of our
old location and is close to the restroom
building. It is really hard to miss. If you
cannot find us, you will receive an honorary
geography degree from u$c.
The band always welcomes new members to
join us in our musical fun. Please encourage
anyone you know who qualifies for the band
to join us. For details send email to
[email protected]. We will
have membership pamphlets for prospective
members at the games, so see Rebecca
Panman if you would like to get some to give
to your friends.
FAVORITE MEMORIES
BAND EXPANDS GEEK PRESENCE
The UCLA Alumni Band has a website
www.uclalumniband.org
and a Facebook page at
www.facebook.com/uclalumniband
and an Instagram account
uclalumniband
and a Twitter page
uclalumniband
So now there are four UCLA Alumni Band
methods for you to spend your time on the
internet instead of watering your chia pet.
We are still requesting that band members
send us information on their favorite UCLA
Band or Alumni Band memories so we can
post them in a future newsletter or other
band publication. If the memories are not
appropriate for a family publication send
them in anyway and we will publish them on
the internet instead. We are also collecting
pictures of band members wearing their
Alumni Band shirts on their exotic vacations.
So if you went someplace exciting like
Tulare, Delano, Modesto, or Katmandu, and
wore your band shirt, and remembered to
take a picture, and have not deleted the
picture off your camera, please email it (the
picture, not the shirt) to Rebecca Panman at
[email protected].
2014 Band Schedule
Day
Date
Sun
12/8/13
Sun
1/19/14
Mon
12/30/13
Sat
2/8/14
Sat
2/22/14
Sun
3/16/14
Sat
4/5/14
Sat
5/3/14
Sat
8/23/14
Sat
9/6/14
Sat
10/4/14
Sat
10/11/14
Sat
11/1/14
Sat
11/22/14
FRI
11/28/14
Opponent/Event
Gymnastics
Meet the Bruins
Gymnastics
vs. Oregon State*
Women’s Basketball
vs. U$C
Gymnastics
vs. Arizona State*
Gymnastics
vs. Stanford*
Gymnastics
vs. Utah* and Bowling Green
Baseball
vs. Long Beach State
Softball
vs. Stanford*
Annual Rehearsal/BBQ
Football
vs. Memphis
Football
vs. Utah*
Football
vs. Oregon*
Football
vs. Arizona*
Football
vs. U$C*
Football
vs. Stanford*
Location
TV
Call
Time
2014 Qualifying
Event
Wooden Center
YES
Pauley Pavilion
YES
Pauley Pavilion
YES
Pauley Pavilion
YES
Pauley Pavilion
YES
Pauley Pavilion
YES
Jackie Robinson
YES
Easton Stadium
YES
Hirsch Castle
YES
Rose Bowl
YES
Rose Bowl
YES
Rose Bowl
YES
Rose Bowl
ESPN
2:45 PM
YES
Rose Bowl
PROBABLY
TBA
NO
Rose Bowl
ABC
8:30 AM
NO
*PAC-12 contest
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