Blue Notes for Tuesday, January 4, 2005
Special rehearsals for Haydn's The Creation are available
on these three Mondays: January 17 and 31, and February 7, beginning at
7:30 . NOTE THAT THIS IS A CHANGE FROM WHAT WAS ANNOUNCED AT OUR LAST REHEARSAL.
They will be held at Trinity Lutheran Church , 3637 Golf Road in Skokie
, which is about halfway between McCormick Boulevard and Crawford Avenue
, near the corner of Central Park Avenue .
Anthony Green has CDs of the holiday concert available this evening
for those of us who have ordered but not received ours. A few others may
be purchased for $15.00. Also available during the break are rehearsal
CDs containing the German text for The Creation plus the choral
section of Beethoven's Ninth ; they cost $2.00.
Planning ahead: The next supermarket benefit days are at Dominick's
on February 7, 8, and 9. Thanks to Harry Vroegh for agreeing to handle
this fund-raising activity, from which we hope to accrue at least $1000
this season.
You are invited to attend the Green Lake Festival of Music Choir
Institute this summer from July 21 to 24 at Ripon College in Wisconsin
, just three hours from downtown Chicago . Workshops on conducting, repertoire
building, and musicianship building are offered; the performance program
features Handel and selections from Stanford to spirituals, from Gershwin
to Whitaker, with professional soloists and a baroque orchestra. Contact
Jeannette Kreston (recently retired director of the Chicago Youth Symphony
Orchestra) for more information: 312/893-0506 or jeannette@kreston.org.
In February, Christopher Bell, director of Grant Park Musical Festival
Chorus, is auditioning singers for its summer choral performances. Anyone
interested should contact Jerry Privasky at 312/742-7640 or gpmfchorus@chicagoparkdistrict.com.
Please welcome again the five new members who joined us on December
14: sopranos Laurie Osberg and Amber Hard, tenor Paul Smalley, and basses
Steven Bramson and Tom Westgard.
It's certainly not too early to contact businesses and other organizations
with requests to donate items for the silent auction at our benefit on
April 9. Or-if you have an idea but don't feel comfortable about following
up on it-let a committee member know. We hope to clear at least $5000 on
this enterprise-much of which will come from the bids on auction items.
To do so, however, will take the efforts of many more than just the members
of the fund-raising committee, who are Marj Lundy, chair; Sanna and Mars
Longden, benefit chairs; and Len Barker, David Hunt, Inge Kistler, Julie
McDowell, Jim Miller, Karen Rigotti, Kay Rossiter, Paul Siegal, and Harry
Vroegh.
After our December 14 rehearsal, a pair of black Thermolite gloves
was found. They may be claimed at the back table.
The NSCS Board meets at 9:00 this Saturday at St. John's Evangelical
Lutheran Church , 1235 Wilmette Avenue . Contact David Hunt with any items
of business.
Blue Notes? Contact Len Barker at 847/272-2351
or lenpbarker@comcast.net.
