Hi everyone,
Hope everyone had a great weekend. Tomorrow night our fabulous accompanist, Deb Hollis, will be back with us. Welcome back Deb! We missed you! Please take a moment to read the announcements below:
Chamber Choir Auditions: Tomorrow night at 9:30PM, Laura will be holding auditions for Chamber Choir. The excerpts we will be singing are from Earth Song mm. 26-end, and Sing My Child mm. 54-69.
Spring Concert Review: Susan Brown (A2) shared excerpt from an email sent by Lana Walters, the composer of our commission, Sparks of Divinity (performed last fall for our 30th anniversary concert), after she listened to our Spring Concert:
“Well, I opened my email this morning, saw there was something from you and decided to just jolly well start my day by listening to your beautiful concert. I really couldn’t stop. It was exquisite from start to finish. I’m so impressed by the improvement in your group, which I had already thought was quite good but by now has really surpassed anything I heard of yours before. The things that stood out to me were the group’s blend, articulation, pitch accuracy, part balance, and dynamic range, in which there was no loss of tone quality at either end of the volume spectrum. This all sounds quite dry and technical, but I can’t help but listen for and be impressed by the outstanding choral technique, and I know how much work went into achieving that. However, perhaps most impressive is the sensitivity you all have in expressing the text, and most of all, the love you show for the music and for each other.”
WOW! Thank you for sharing, Susan. Thank you Laura and Deb for making us shine!
Fundraising Update: Sarah will be setting up a Zoom meeting for the committee sometime in the next week or two. Please contact Sarah at pedritasf@yahoo.com, 347-334-2842 if you would like to attend and /or be involved in fundraising efforts.
Ireland Survey: LAST CHANCE!!! If you have not done so, please take a moment to complete the concert tour survey. It’s really important to hear from everyone, even if you weren’t able to go on tour this time. Your honest feedback helps us plan for the next tour and helps us convey to Music Contact International what worked well and where they can improve. Please complete your survey by tonight, September 15. Your tour committee thanks you!
Shout-out: This week’s shout-out goes to Karla Byrnes (A2). Karla is instrumental to the functioning of WVC. She volunteers as our Treasurer and is our Operations Manager. The amount of work she accomplishes behind the scenes is amazing and we are so grateful for her dedication to our chorus!
Zoom: If you need to attend rehearsal via Zoom, please remember to let Laura, your section leader and membership liaison know. You can join the Zoom Rehearsals here. Meeting ID: 858 3293 4624; Password: 121074.
See you all tomorrow night 😊
Janet