Choir Announcements/ Schedules/ Updates
Hey everybody. Happy Weekend! Happy two-day week coming up!!!
I wanted to put something together that would document all the dates coming up in choir. This window of time is super exciting, but a little crazy with the calendar. Hopefully having it all in one place will help you all to keep track. There are several things that all happen over the next two and a half months:
I.NYC: Tour registrations and deposits are due by Monday, November 28th.
II.In order to take a tour like that, we do a lot fundraising to support families who cannot afford it. In the next few days we will be kicking off our “Tour Sponsorship Campaign”. We are asking every family participating in the tour to solicit one donation from a business or family member. A $50 donation buys a business card size ad in the program. Bigger donations=bigger ads. It’s one way you can help make the trip possible for everyone. Ads for the Winter Concert program are due by Friday, December 9th.
III.Winter Concert: I think this is going to be one of the best Winter Concerts we have had in a long time. The repertoire is super cool and the instrumental music students are going to add a lot of excitement to these pieces! We will need to rehearse with them outside of class. Here is the schedule:
The Concert is Wed Dec 14th at 7:30 PM
Rehearsals with the instrumentalists are:
Tuesday Dec 6th and Monday Dec 12 we would follow this schedule:
5:30 Jubilant Song w/vibes player and Women's Choir
6:00 Diemer Gloria and Chichester Psalms with
Percussionists, Concert Choir and Treble Choir
7:30 Vivaldi Gloria w/ Chamber Orchestra, Concert Choir,Treble Choir
9:00 END
We will also run the pieces onstage right after school on the 14th.
Solo Auditions:
We will be auditioning soloists for these pieces at lunch on
Wed Nov 30th or Friday, December 2nd.
IV. Choir/Staff Musical: “OUT”, February 8/9, 2012
Important Dates for everyone:
Performances: Wed and Thurs February 8 and 9
Dress Rehearsals: Sunday, Feb 5, 12:00-6:00, Mon-Wed Feb 6-8 after school.
RETREAT: We will be at YMCA Camp Jones Gulch for our annual retreat to pull the whole show together Jan 28/29.
AUDITIONS: Auditions for the main speaking parts will take place during E period on Thurs and Fri Dec 15 and 16. There are 5 male speaking parts and 5 female speaking parts. (Character descriptions and plot summary will be out soon.) There is also a special group of 6 female singer/dancers, and of course the opportunity for some featured small groups.
If you are auditioning for a speaking part, you will be given materials (a song and a scene) to prepare for the in class audition on the 15/16. If you are auditioning for a featured female singer/dancer or a small group feature, those auditions will be Monday night, January 2nd at 6:00. You will be able to sign up in advance for an audition slot.
Below is the short synopsis of the show we are using for press releases etc.
Decent, Oklahoma is the little town where people are just slightly more American than anybody else. It seems like the ideal place to live until a high school senior boy named Chives starts rocking the pedestal by running for prom queen. Flamboyant and in-your-face, the gender bending Chives is determined to bring Decent into the new millennium no matter how many people he upsets. His antics are so outrageous that even his best friend Maddy Murphy, the most likeable girl on campus, is having trouble sticking by him. When Maddy argues that people are angry with Chives not because he’s gay but because he’s obnoxiously and provocatively gay, Chives calls her naïve and bets that if the All-American-Girl Maddy were gay, no one would like her either. It’s a challenge she can’t refuse and the game is on. What follows is a comedic roller coaster ride of tap dancing ranchers, Ellen DeGeneres leading a gospel choir and a potent test of the power of gay-dar. The result is not at all what Maddy is expecting from her town, her friends or herself. What she and Chives learn is a lesson filled with pain, joy and the realization that, despite all the challenges of adolescence, it really does get better.
V. Chamber Singers Caroling Performances:
Please mark these on your calendars!
Monday, December 5th, 7:00 Performance at the Creche Exhibit at the LDS Church
Tuesday, December 13th, Noon, 1:00 and 4:00 Concerts. Yes, three in a day.
Friday, December 16th, 8:00 AM Concert for the Rotary Club
WE NEED CHAMBER SINGERS PARENTS TO DRIVE ON THE 13TH AND THE 16TH. LET ME KNOW IF YOU CAN HELP TRANPORT KIDS.
Reminder: There is no Women’s Choir or Chamber Singers this Monday night, November 21. If Chamber Singers could please hold Tuesday at lunch open, I would like to run the Gloria at lunch on Tuesday so we don’t go an entire week without running it. Women’s Choir, we will run Jubilant Song at the end of E Tues AM.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
