Commercial Street Performace Time & Christmas Party

I have two important updates for you.

 

1. Commercial Street Performance. We will be performing on Commercial Street on Dec. 7 from 3-3:30 inside the old Vallis Hotel (where Morgan Academy of dance used to be). We need to have all choir members there at 2:45 pm sharp so we can quickly warm-up (literally) and get ready to perform. I'm not familiar with the building, so I'm not sure exactly where to have us meet. I'll do some looking into it and let you know.

 

2. Christmas Party. Ellen Nielsen, one of our amazing choir parents is helping to plan our choir Christmas Party! She has made arrangements for us to sing our program at the Family Tree on Tuesday, December 17. We will meet at 5 pm at the Family Tree and will be prepared to sing promptly at 5:30 pm. After we sing for the residents there, we will be able to stay afterward for a little party. Please plan on attending, if possible! I think this will be a fun opportunity for all of the kids!

 

Have a great Thanksgiving!!

Updates & Information 11/20/13

Marcato Parents:

 

A few key pieces of information for this week.

 

1. No Rehearsal on November 26. We will not be holding our regular rehearsal next week since Tuesday is the last day of school before Thanksgiving for MES & MGES. I hope everyone has a great and safe Thanksgiving!

 

2. Lyric Sheet. Even though we won't be holding rehearsal next week, I do have an assignment for all choir members. Attached to this email, you will find a lyric sheet for all of our choir songs. If you could please make this available to your child so that they can sing through AND MEMORIZE all of our songs during the break, that would be a huge relief to me. Our rehearsal time is running short and if they don't keep the songs fresh in their minds, I'm afraid that we may not be as polished as we need to be for our concert. Once again, please allow your child access to the lyric sheet in any way that it is easiest for you. (Do I need to beg??)

 

3. Piano Duet. A month or so ago, I sent out a page that included a piano part for one of our songs--"Can You See the Star?" It is to be a duet accompaniment for that song and is to be played in the highest octave possible. I was hoping to have one of our choir members play the duet with our accompanist. However, when I brought it up in choir yesterday, I received blank stares from all but maybe 3 choir members. I have once again attached this special piano part to this email. (It is a jpg file, so if you have trouble viewing it here, it can also be found on the Practice Tracks tab on our choir website.) If your child plays the piano and would like to practice the part during the next two weeks, I will have them try it at our rehearsal on December 3. If no one is prepared to perform it at that time, I will have to do without that part.

 

4. Questions/Concerns? Does anyone have any questions or concerns about the coming concert season? Now is the time to voice them. At this point, I do not know what time our choir will be singing at the Celebration on Commercial Street. I will let you all know when I find out. And please be sure that you have a our concert on your calendar. Thursday, December 12, 6:30 pm at Morgan Elementary School. All choir members need to be there at 6 pm for warm-ups. We are getting flyers made up, and I will email those out to all of you so you can forward them to family members who may like to attend.

 

Thanks so much!

Concert Time Change

We have changed our concert time to accommodate those families who are also involved in the High School band concert on the same evening. So, our concert will be on Thursday, December 12, 6:30 pm at Morgan Elementary School. All choir members need to be at the school at 6 pm in order to warm up.

Thank you!