On February 9th, NHBT members and their spouses/partners celebrated the making of music together at our annual New Year social. Such events give us a welcome opportunity to meet and mingle with members of our growing band family that we don’t otherwise see at our weekly bands!
Many thanks to Brian T. who was our host, organizing the party space at his condominium.
In addition to the wonderful selection of food and great conversation, we all participated in a fun activity: forming groups based on shared birthday month, creating a limerick given the first line and then presenting the limerick to the whole group.
It was great seeing everyone and I look forward to wrapping up our season with the annual NHBT BBQ Party, tentatively scheduled for June 8, 2019!
Sincerely,
Randy
President, New Horizons Band of Toronto
Here are some samples of the silliness! The line given to each group is in bold type at the top of each creation.
Practise can drive us insane
It sure is a whole lot of strain
But your teacher will insist
That you must persist
To clear all the must from your brain
Practice can drive us insane
Say Bill, Gary, Mike, and Elaine
We continue to do it
When we want to say screw it
But wine helps us kill all the pain
Practice can drive us insane
And sometimes it causes great pain
I’d like to play less
But in spite of the stress
They say that it’s good for the brain
There have never been any songs finer
Sung by the daughter of coal miners
At the end of the day
The band gathers to play
NHBT music for the local diners
There was a composer named Moisha
Who liked a lot of Noisha
When his timing was off
The people would scoff
And then he would lose his compoisha
Said a musician from Kalamazoo
Whose knowledge of staffs was askew
There are altos and tenors
And basses are better
It was treble he had to work through
