Our concert day – May 14 – is almost here!  Encourage your family and friends to enjoy a beautiful Saturday morning and afternoon and then cap it off with a spectacular concert evening, Music Makes a New Day.  Concert begins at 7:00 pm at Good Shepherd Lutheran on Bogard Road in Wasilla.

Chorus members: call time is 5:00. Bring your beautiful voices and remember to turn in all music at the end of the concert.  Plans are in the works to meet for dinner afterwards, possibly at Haciendas.

Musically yours,

Sandy

It’s getting close to performance time, everyone! Rehearsals have been going great but we still have lots of work to do.  Come ready to run through every song on Thursday night. Remember to s…

Source: Rehearsal on Thursday

It’s getting close to performance time, everyone! Rehearsals have been going great but we still have lots of work to do.  Come ready to run through every song on Thursday night. Remember to spend some time viewing other choral groups online on YouTube. Anna wants us to watch and learn – see how they use intonation, diction, tone and phrasing to make or break a performance.

If you are performing a solo, duet, or group piece at our concerts this term, outside of the music that Anna chose for all of us, please send me an email with the name of the song, composer and/or arranger, and names of all singers. I want to include everyone in the program correctly.  Send it to: sg4967@gmail.com Thanks!

One last thing, if you haven’t gotten your sponsor funds turned in yet, please do so ASAP. Linda will collect those and pass the names on to me for inclusion in the program. We can also include ads in the program if you know anyone who wants to get their name out there. Bring their business card and a check for $50 to practice on Thursday.

I hope you are inviting family and friends to our concerts in Willow on April 30 (4pm Willow Community Ctr) and in Wasilla on May 14(7pm Good Shepherd Lutheran)!

Sandy Gravley

Singers – the MSBSD has closed schools due to icy road conditions in some parts of the borough.  We won’t be able to use Wasilla High for rehearsal tonight.  Lois and Mike have graciously offered to host rehearsal at their house instead.

With some luck, the roads will be good enough to allow safe travel everywhere by this evening.  Hope to see you there.  Thanks Mike & Lois!

Anna Crowther

(719) 588-9814

Wasn’t practice fun last week? Anna was really jazzed up about all she learned at her music teachers’ conference.  Be sure to review the handout on Good Vocal Technique that she shared last week. We can really improve our diction and tone with simple changes. Our audiences will love it!

Homework for this Thursday besides reviewing the Good Vocal Technique handout: number the measures in your music. Just pencil in the count for each measure so we can quickly locate our starting point when rehearsing. Also, practice the pronunciation of words to Ose Shalom. Words are written phonetically on the inside cover.

New members are still welcome to join. Check us out during January and stay through May!  Concert dates are posted under “Concerts,”  See you all Thursday!

Sandy Gravley (907) 355-5836

Rehearsals for our spring concert series begin this Thursday, January 7 at Wasilla High school in the choir room.  See you at 7:00 pm.  Bring a friend.  New members are welcome to come sing with us and check out the chorus. We think you’ll agree this is the best way to chase away the winter blues and gear up for spring!

For membership details, read more about us under membership and the other links above.

See you Thursday!

Sandy

Please share this poster with your social network via Facebook, etc. Spread the word and invite everyone you know to our concert on the 13th of December.

Remember, study tracks are available for the men’s piece, Masters in the Hall and the women’s piece, I’ll Be Home on this web site: www.liberatedsong.com/mcc

Sopranos and Altos:  Amber created study tracks for I’ll Be Home for Christmas and posted them to her web site.  Check them out here www.liberatedsong.com/mcc

Everyone: The sponsors we’ve received funds from are listed below. If you have a sponsor and you want them listed in the Christmas concert program, please bring the donation and their name to chorus ASAP.  Remember, we ask that everyone provide a sponsor under the Sponsor Your Singer program.  Thank you to everyone who has donated already!

SINGER               SPONSOR
Angel Rodriguez      AK Energy Testing, LLC
Phyllis Kircher      Baha’is of Palmer
Karen Zajchowski     Ed & Karen Zajchowski
Heidi Barnes      ABC Rentals
Sandy Gravely      Aurora Dental Care
Linda Loven      Linda Loven
Nan Potts      Cam Potts
Valerie Rettmann     Mary Ann Cockle
Danielle Smith      Michelle Szekely & Lisa Hacker
Paul Krauszer      Phyllis Gielarowski