Just over a month to go, and we have a fabulous concert series approaching. Click on the link to your left to see our updated and final list of concert repertoire. And, check back in a week for a surprise...

While you are preparing to celebrate the holidays, please take a few minutes to read our latest edition of our eNewsletter, Sostenuto! It can be accessed here or at the link in the menu bar on the left. Don't forget that you can always help the orchestra by clicking on the eScrip link in the menu bar to do your shopping online! Merry Christmas!!

A very Happy Holidays to you and yours! Planning on shopping for loved ones? Please consider clicking on this link:

and doing some shopping with your eScrip card. By shopping with the many stores online through this link, you will be helping the Gateway Festival Orchestra. Each organization will donate a portion of your receipt to the GFO! Check it out! Again, a very Happy Holidays to you, and we look forward to seeing you this coming summer!

Thank you so very much to our patrons who braved the uncertain weather last Sunday evening for the opening concert of our 47th season! A wonderful concert of night music, with a beautiful (and not too wet) setting. Please plan to join us for our next concert, Bach to Basics this coming Sunday, July 18, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. And our apologies for running out of frozen custard- we will try to have more Ted Drewes this time!

MUSICIANS! Please make sure that you have picked up your music for the first concert. It is available at Ivy Allen's house!
PATRONS! Our newest edition of SOSTENUTO! is available at the link to your left. Download it now to catch up on everything GFO! And don't forget to plan your evening with us this Sunday night at 7:30 p.m. at Brookings Quadrangle on the campus of Washington University.

Here comes our 47th season! Check our our complete four-concert season at the 2010 Summer Season link to your left. And, please right-click here to download a free, printable bookmark with our summer season listed for you to keep or give to friends, family and colleagues. Print it on your favorite paper or cardstock today! Keep checking the site for more updates in the next few weeks as we prepare for our best season yet!

Please check out the newest way to hear about what the GFO is up to: SOSTENUTO! the Gateway Festival Orchestra's new eNewsletter! Packed with information about what's going on in the orchestra, Sostenuto will keep you up to date on our concert dates, repertoire, fundraising information, educational activities and more. Be on the lookout for future publications in your email inbox, or check it out at the link to your left!

Happy New Year! A new year brings new opportunities to make beautiful music, and we hope that you will join us in our quest to do just that! A couple of items to note:

Music Lovers! Our February mailing is forthcoming, and with that in mind, please consider giving a lovely gift to your Summer Valentine, the Gateway Festival Orchestra! We are still working towards our Roland Quest Matching Grant of $9,000, and any gift you are able to give will help us reach that goal. Thank you, and have a scrumptiously romantic Valentine's Day!

Business Owners and Representatives! If you love music, and you also like reaching out to a wonderful constituency of consumers to promote your business, then please look no further than the Gateway Festival Orchestra! We have some of the best audiences in the St. Louis area, and by advertising with us, you can guarantee your business gets seen in our 2010 program as well as on our website!
If you are interested in advertising with us, please download the Advertisement Application Form (Right-click and "Save File") to get your business seen by our patrons this year!

Happy Holidays! We at the GFO would like to extend our warmest wishes for you and yours this season. And speaking of seasons, here are the dates we are preparing for the 2010 season. As always, they are Sunday nights in July (plus one August date!) at 7:30 p.m. Make sure you mark them in your new calendars:

July 11, 2010
July 18, 2010
July 25, 2010
August 1, 2010

Please note that dates are subject to change, so please check back here in the new year for more information as we have it available. And, if you are looking for a nice, tax-deductible donation before 2009 is over, please click on the DONATE button to the left of your screen and consider giving a gift to the orchestra. We are still working towards our Matching Grant goal of $9,000, so please consider giving what you can. Thank you for your patronage, and have a Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Happy Kwanzaa and a Happy New Year!

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