Announcements/Updates

Choir Announcements/Schedules/Updates Wed Sept 29, 2010

Fall Concert Program

Treble Choir: Soli Deo Gloria/Brahms/Rise Up My Love/ Take Me to the Water
Concert Choir: Jubilate (Praetorius) as you enter/Cantate/Ave Maria/Little Man/Bathanandaza
Adv Women: Salmo/Dirait On/La LLuvia
Ch Singers: Ah El Novio/ Ubi caritas/ Libiamo
Women: Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World
Men: TBA
All: Music Down in My Soul (Moses Hogan), It Takes A Village

Treble Choir:
Solo Auditions were fantastic! I hope to announce by tomorrow. I may need to do a few callbacks and stretch that to Monday.

I will be posting the new parts recordings online (South African Songs and Music Down in My Soul). It will be important that you get those parts down ASAP. We are off to a great start, and I know the audience will be impressed with how great you sound so early in the year! I hope to be memorized on as much as possible, so try to memorize a chunk of each piece every day.

Chamber Singers:

Rehearsals Left
Sunday, October 3, 1:00-3:30 PM (No rehearsal Monday Oct 4)
Monday, October 11 6:30-9:00
Monday, October 18 6:30-9:00 (at the church)
The Concert is Sunday, Oct 24 at 7:00 PM

Extra Performance Dates so far (mark your calendars!!!)

Sunday, November 7th, Singing for All Saints Service at Grace Lutheran AM
Recording Session for Holiday CD: Tentative date is Monday Nov 15
Monday, December 6, Concert at the Creche Exhibit
Tuesday, December 14, BIG day, 3 concerts between noon and 6. Keep it open.
Dec 16 is the Winter Concert
Dec 18 is the Donkey Parade (afternoon)

Concert Choir:
Music still to learn: Little Man in a Hurry, Jubilate (easy), Over the Rainbow (Men),
Take Me to the Water (Women), Music Down in My Soul,

I will be posting your parts to Little Man to help you study that on your own.
You will be tested in small groups to make sure you have downloaded it and are working on it a little every day.

Solo Auditions will take place during class as we rehearse each piece. Don’t miss your chance to be heard!

DRESS REHEARSAL AT THE CHURCH IS FRIDAY, OCT 22 DURING MORNING CLASSES.


Advanced Women’s Ensemble:
Yesterday was fun! I am hoping to have parts taped by this weekend so you can have the pitches learned ASAP.

Rehearsal Schedule:
Tues Oct 5: Lunch (not tutorial that day), Thurs Oct 7: Lunch
Tues Oct 12: Tutorial, Thurs: Oct 14: Lunch
Tues: Oct 19: Tutorial ,Thurs: Oct 21 Lunch

I am also hoping that we can put our calendars together and do one night rehearsal the week of the concert. Perhaps the 19th instead of tutorial we do a longer evening rehearsal, or Wed the 20th could work as well.

Italy: Signups were huge!!!!! We are about to kickoff the ad sales and donations campaign. Start thinking about who you can solicit for a donation to the scholarship fund. If you don’t have a passport you need to take care of that ASAP. If you need a VISA to get into Italy, you need to figure that out ASAP.

Party Worth Crashing: Hope to start auditions soon. I will provide short segments of songs from the show for you to use for auditions. The goal is to cast a small group where each person agrees to learn and memorize 2-3 numbers for a 3 performance run in early January. There are many great performances by these composers on youtube. Look at the Kerrigan and Lowdermilk playlist to get an idea of what it’s all about.

Nuts and Bolts:
Please have your sheet music and a pencil in rehearsal every day.
If you are without a folder, please list your name on the white board today.
If you have not paid for your attire, you need to do so ASAP!!!

Chamber Singers 2010-11

Gunn High School Chamber Singers 2010-11

Sopranos
Hannah Alison
Mira Bertsch
Sophia Christel
Jenny Dally
Delia Gratta
Shaina Hammer
Mariam Helmy
Lauren King
Robin Oyung
Stephanie Richardson
Emily Simon
Cat Volpe

Altos
Mor Albalak
Alex Allen
Lainey Bustos
Michaela Gold
Nicole Grimwood
Elise Lee
Annette Marvin
Carly Neugass
Jeahn Paulasa
Shivani Rustagi
Julie Scrivner
Yuan Yuan
Audrey Yung

Tenors
Max Girod
Sam Hayward
Elias Kaufhold
Jun Yeup Kim
David Kou
Oren Kreps
James Oh
Kael Price
Harry Seo
Daniel Wolfert

Basses
Alex Barthelemy
Matt Brooks
Micah Brown
David Chang
Malik Gill
Gabe Greening
Ori Herschmann
Drew Kuokka
Matthew Leong
Matteo Lieb
Tyler Simons
Blake Vesey

First rehearsal is Monday night, 6:30-9:00.

Advanced Women’s Ensemble Auditions will be Tuesday during tutorial.
Many thanks to all who auditioned, and I look forward to a fantastic musical
year with all of you.

Italy Brochure and Appilcations are here!!

The Italy Brochures and Applications have arrived! Yeah. I have enough to send each singer home with their own copy of the brochure, and I am mailing one to each parent as well, but I thought I would post them here electronically for those who are anxious to see it!
http://drop.io/GunnItalyMaterials
For those of you hoping for some scholarship assistance, it will be important that your parent make an appointment to come in and see me so we can talk about it. Registrations are due September 14, so the sooner the better. I can be reached at GunnChoir@aol.com.

So many fun things in store!!!

Here are some of the highlights of the many great things we
have in store for 2010-11, with some awesome video clips of
past shows and concerts.
I. August 30, Monday 6:30 PM Chamber Singers Auditions
Here's a little taste of a typical Monday night rehearsal.
Great voices, a few too many laughs....

II. September 14, Italy Tour Sign Ups due
Here is the Gunn Choir singing in Rome 5 years ago.
(Caitlin Gjerdrum is the Diva!!)
There is nothing like Italy!

III. October 24, 7:00 Fall Concert, Grace Lutheran
I love the excitement of the choir's first performance. Here are
the 2009-10 Concert Choir men in their featured number.
Sam Putney is the amazing soloist.

IV. December 16, Thursday 7:30 PM Winter Concert, Spangenberg
Here's a clip from last year's Winter Concert.
We did Schubert's Mass in G with the awesome
Gunn Chamber Orchestra, and soloists Sophia Christel
and Micah Brown. Fantastic!

V. January 29/30, Choir Retreat at YMCA Jones Gulch
(Sorry, no videos. What happens at Choir Retreat, stays at Choir Retreat!)















VI. February 9/10/11, Wed-Fri 8:00 PM Choir/Staff Musical
Sometimes rehearsing the Choir/Staff Musical is as much fun
as the show itself!

And now the real number, from the 2009 And Then There Were Nuns

At Gunn, all prospective staff are asked to sing as part of their interview!
(Of course that's not true, but you might think it is when
you hear John Bulan sing!)
Duke of Earl from 2010's Heavenly Bandstand

The amazing Mr. Shelby with show stopping choreography by Gay Richard.


VII. March 27, Sunday 4:00 PM Mission Santa Clara
Invitational Choral Festival w/ The San Jose Choral Project
The Choral Project, conducted by Daniel Hughes, is one of
the finest choirs around. We are very thrilled to be
invited to sing in the Invitational Choral Festival.
Here is a clip of the Choral Project singing
in Mission Santa Clara


VIII. April 7-15 Italy Tour
Last year's trip to New York was a blast. Not only did we have
a great time, but all three choirs received Gold Ratings
at the festival! Here is the outstanding 2009-10 Treble Choir
singing "I Went to the Market" at Riverside Church. Awesome piano
work by Nahoko Hashimoto. (Sorry there's no video, but the
audio is really great!)

This year's tour is going to be amazing! Nothing inspires a choir to work
hard and sing well like a tour. Here is a wonderful
clip of the choir singing in Vienna in 2009. Jiri Teml's "Ave"

IX. June 2, Thursday 7:30 PM Spring Concert, Spangenberg
It's hard to imagine June 2, 2011. We will have had so many
great musical adventures together! I can hardly wait to get
started!!

Back to School Info

Greetings! We got the back to school choir packet out last week, so you should definitely have it by now. It's got lots of great information in it about the exciting musical year ahead of us.
I also posted the mailing here as a word doc for those of you who may not have recieved the packet or for those who like to keep track of your life electronically. http://drop.io/BTSchoirINFO2010



A video I made a couple years ago in a tech class at Foothill.

Welcome to 2010-11

Welcome to the 2010-11 school year! I am very excited about the line up of concerts, shows and trips waiting for you. It is going to be a fantastic year! The Boosters and I are meeting tonight to finalize the Back to School packet and you should be receiving all the choir info in the mail by the end of the week.
Can't wait to see you all and to start making music again!
Best,
Bill Liberatore

Check out the cover of the Daily!

I don't think we can get better publicity than what we have had this year. The campus is covered in posters thanks to Don Anderson's awesome pictures, Josh Kelly made us a great video promo, we made it on the cover of the daily thanks to Marilyn Putney's tenacity, there are fantastic signs in front of the school thanks to Amy Christel, and we did two big assemblies yesterday to spread the word out at the middle schools. This is all just awesome.
AND the show is going really well and is going to be a blast!
There will be big crowds so tell your parents and friends to buy early. Especially if they are thinking of coming Wednesday night.
Thanks for all your hard work. I think it is going to be totally worth it!
Best,
BL