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Blue   Notes for Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Please welcome again this evening our two new members: Soprano Chris Hoffmeyer and Bass Kent Fuller.

These five singers have agreed to serve on this year’s nominating committee: Jane Kenamore, Nick Krupp, Erica Sufritz, John Summerhays, and Harry Vroegh. They are responsible for presenting the Society with a slate of officers for the 2007-2008 season.  They also recruit committee chairpersons.

Juice tonight is courtesy of the Barbaras DeCoster and Brantigan. There are still several Tuesdays that need to be provided for.  See the sign-up page on the juice table.

CDs of the March 4 concert may be ordered from Anthony Green this evening. The two-CD set, which sells for $20.00, includes the three works from that concert plus more Nelson (from 1995), Copland, and Bernstein.

These are the Haydn Masses that NSCS has performed/soon will perform as part of its ongoing series:
     on May 23, 1999: Mass in Time of War (No. 10)
                      Nelson Mass (No. 11)
     on May 21, 2000: Harmoniemesse (No. 14)
     on March 11, 2001: Missa Brevis (No. 2)
                      Creation Mass (No. 13)
     on March 17, 2002:    Kleine Orgelmesse (No. 7)
     on June 10, 2007:     Missa Cellensis in Honorem BVM (No. 3)
Please take time to look over the complete list of Haydn’s Masses that Donald Draganski has assembled for us.
    
This Friday, March 23, the Fine Arts Trio performs live on WFMT from 12:15 until 1:00.  Sharon Peterson is joined by flutist Linda Marianiello and cellist Stephen Balderston in works by Bach, Gaubert, Weber, and Martinu.

This coming Sunday, March 25, the choral group Cantate—including NSCS members William Geuss and Ellen Pullin-- joins the Concordia University Kapelle Choir and the Chicago Arts Orchestra in a concert dedicated to the memory of America’s servicemen and women. Featured in the program, which begins at 3:00 P.M. at Saint Luke Lutheran Church, 1500 West Belmont Avenue in Chicago, is Bradley Ellingboe’s Requiem, conducted by the composer. Tickets are $15 if purchased on Cantate's website (www.cantatechicago.org) or at the door, but only $10 in advance from Bill or Ellen.  The program lasts one hour and also contains short a cappella pieces by Brahms and Ives, and Grainger's orchestral arrangement of an Irish tune.
 
On Saturday, April 14, at 7:00 P.M., the Park Ridge Chorale presents selections from and about the earliest years of our country at Saint Luke’s Lutheran Church, 205 North Prospect Avenue in Park Ridge. The program includes Randall Thompson’s Ode to the Virginian Voyage and Samuel Coleridge Taylor’s Hiawatha’s Wedding.  Tickets are $12/$10 in advance and $14/$12 at the door.  Contact Kyle 847/825-5499 or Patti 847/825-2216.

imPerfect Balance, a women's art series, exploresThe Power & Beauty of Creating Art Out of Trauma, at the Irish American Heritage Center on Saturday, March 31 at 7:00 P.M., and on Sunday, April 1 at 3:00 P.M., at the Irish American Heritage Center, 4626 North Knox in Chicago. Dan Tucker, producer of the event, performs in Songs of the Kerry Madwoman, and former Chicagoan Anne Hills performs Beauty Attends: The Heartsongs of Opal Whiteley. An art exhibit, curated by Deb Maris Lader, and a dramatic piece performed by The Angels at the Edges Ensemble are also featured.  The month-long event concludes with an April 21st Memoir Writing Workshop facilitated by Carol LaChapelle. See Karen Rigotti or contact her (847/869-6252 or rigotti@earthlink.net) for tickets ($25) or additional information.  A group rate of $20 is available and could be utilized by a group of ten NSCS members.

For something in next week’s Blue Notes: lenpbarker@comcast.net or 847/272-2351.

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