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BLUE NOTES FOR TUESDAY, MARCH
24, 2009
Let’s continue to wear name tags, please. Make
a temporary one, and/or order a permanent one by signing up in the
narthex.
Tonight a summary of our current financial status is available
in the narthex. This summary includes specific income and expense
numbers, plus a narrative overview. Please take a copy and
familiarize yourself with our fiscal picture. This material
has been compiled by Treasurer Gary Hendrickson, whom we thank for
his efforts and who welcomes any questions about this report.
Don’t forget to complete your evaluation of David Stech’s
performance as our second guest conductor. This may be done
electronically or by hand; copies are available in the Gathering
Place this evening. Completed forms can be given to Karen Rigotti,
who is tabulating all our numbers and recording all our comments.
She can receive them by hand at rehearsal; by email at rigotti@earthlink.net;
or by regular mail at 421 3rd Street, Wilmette 60091. The sooner
the better, please.
Also in the Gathering Place are copies of our 2008-2009
season brochure and the program for our March 1 concert. Help yourselves.
On Saturday, April 18, Steve Warner is hosting a party to
prepare the spring patron letter for mailing. Let Steve know of your
interest and express a preference on the time: rswarner@uic.edu or
847/866-7396.
Did you know?
The North Shore Choral Society has three special purpose
funds to support the activities of our organization. One
of these--the Gockel Fund—was
begun by Ruth Gockel, a long-time singer and Society president.
Ruth’s intent was that this fund be used in any way the Board
decided, including for normal expenses if necessary. It might,
for example, be used to pay a soloist in a certain concert. Donations
may be made directly to the fund. Ruth was the daughter of the
long-time pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Wilmette,
where the Board still holds its monthly meetings. She died in 2002.
For something in next Tuesday’s Blue Notes:
lenpbarker@comcast.net or 847/272-2351.
Celebrate! Handel, Haydn, Purcell, & Mendelssohn with
Music of the Baroque, conducted by Jane Glover: Sunday March 29,
at 7:30 P.M. in Evanston’s First United Methodist Church; Monday,
March 30, at 7:30 P.M. at Chicago’s Harris Theater. For more
information and tickets, call 312/551-1414.
Chicago Master Singers perform with the Ars Viva Symphony
Orchestra under the direction of Alan Heatherington on Friday, April
17, at 7:30 P.M., and Sunday, April 19, at 7:00 P.M., in the Divine
Word Chapel, Techny. On the program are Schubert’s Mass
in A and Magnificat, and Lauridsen’s Lux
Aeterna. For more information, call 877/825-5267.
Bach Week Festival 2009 comes to the Music Institute of Chicago
in Evanston next month: Friday, April 24, and Sunday, April 26—both
at 7:30 P.M. The former features Bach’s keyboard works, including Toccata
in C minor and Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, with
David Schrader at the harpsichord. The latter date includes Brandenburg
Concerto No. 5 in D major, and Motet: Der Geist hilft unser
Schwacheit auf, performedby the Bach Week Festival Chorus and
conducted by Richard Webster. For more information and tickets, visit
www.bachweek.org.
Silence and Music is the theme of
Bella Voce’s spring concert, to be performed on three occasions:
Sunday, April 26 at 4:00, at St. James Cathedral in Chicago; Saturday,
May 2, at 7:30, at Glenview Community Church; and Sunday, May 3,
at 4:00, at Grace Lutheran Church in River Forest. Featured are folk
songs and anthems of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Herbert Howells, and
others. For more information and tickets, visit www.bellavoce.org
or call 312/479-1896.
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The butcher backed into the meat grinder and got a little
behind in his work.
I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it
turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then
it hit me.
A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for
littering.
A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police
are looking into it.
Don’t join dangerous cults: Practice safe sects!
The roundest knight at King Arthur’s rooud table s was
Sir Cumference .He acquired his size from too much pi.
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
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