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       BLUE NOTES FOR TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

BENEFIT
Just nine more weeks until An Evening of Rising Stars!The Benefit Committee presents us and our families and friends with this opportunity not only to enjoy vocal performances by some of the Chicago area’s best young voices but also, at the same time, to raise money sowe may continue presenting the kinds of quality programs for which we are known. A yellow page is now available with all the details and opportunities to help make this occasion both fun and “fundy.” Each of us needs to find at least one-and-oneway to be a part of this occasion.

REHEARSAL SCHEDULE
Next Tuesday, September 16, the entire chorus will meet to rehearse from 7:30 until the break.  At that time, the men may leave while the ladies remain and continue to sing. On the following Tuesday, September 23, the ladies may leave after the break, and the men will stay.

NEW MEMBERS
Please welcome these folks who sang with us last week for the first time: Pat English, Ann Gannon, Steve LaTour, Scott Paine, and Bob Zahniser.

MEMBERSHIP GUIDES
Didn’t get one last week?  Pick one up tonight.

SOLOISTS
The four soloists for the November concert are Laura Heimes, soprano; Nina Heebink, mezzo-soprano; Trevor Mitchell, tenor; and Ryan O’Mealey, baritone.

SEASON BROCHURES
Extras are available. Pass them along to folks who may not have received one.  By mail, be sure to affix a 42-cent stamp.

CONTRACTS THE FIRST
Take some of these to solicit donations to the silent auction at our Benefit.

CONTRACTS THE SECOND
Take some of these—along with old programs as examples--to acquire ads for our
three concert programs..

CYBERBASS
Several of the works for our first concert are available at www.cyberbass.com: Vivaldi, Barber, Bach, Schubert (not Mozart, as previously reported).  A number of folks have reported using this site to good advantage in the past.  Why not give it a try?!

NSCS HISTORIES
A few copies are still available for only $2.00.  Check out our past.
JUICE
Social Chair Yael Wurmfeld is looking for volunteers to provide juice for our breaks.  Sign up at the juice table.

FRIDGE MAGNETS
Don’t have one?  Get one.

T-SHIRTS
The tenors got there first, but the rest of us will have an opportunity to catch up with t-shirts for our sections as well. Information for ordering will come from our VP for Fundraising, Hank Bohanen. Shirts come in a variety of colors and are printed with SOPRANO, ALTO, or BASS on the front and NORTH SHORE CHORAL SOCIETY, EVANSTON, IL on the back.  Each costs $25.00—with $10.00 of that amount a donation to NSCS.

ORGAN CONCERT
This coming Sunday, September 14, David Schrader will present an organ recital following the 4:00 P.M. Evensong service at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 939 Hinman Avenue in Evanston.

KOBE COLLEGE CONCERTS
To celebrate the centennial of its Department of Music, three faculty members and four rising artists from Kobe College in Nishinomiya, Japan, will give two concerts in the Chicago  area this coming weekend: at noon on Friday, September 12, at the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago; at 3:00 P.M. on Saturday, September 13, at the Skokie Public Library. The program will include the vocal, piano, and flute music of Chopin, Debussy, Mozart, Puccini, and Ravel as well asJapanese composers.. The concert is free of charge.  David Larson, NSCS Music Director from 1973 to 1984, not only served as president of Kobe College Corporation-Japan Education Exchange but was also a professor of music at Kobe College for ten years. More information can be found atwww.kccjee.org or 847/715-9859. Flyers are also available in the narthex.

BAROUE CONCERTS
The Callipygian Players, Chicago's finest chamber music ensemble on periodinstruments, will perform music by Monteverdi, Legrenzi, and others on Friday, September 26, and Sunday, September 28.DavidSchrader, organ, and Craig Trompeter, cello, will be joined by guestviolinist Rachel Barton Pine, soprano soloists Julia Davids and OrnaArania,mezzo-soprano Nina Heebink, tenor Stephen Noon, and bass Benjamin LeClair.Martin Davids will lead a concert of some of Italy's finest vocal andinstrumental music from the early Baroque, including Giovanni Legrenzi'sLauda Jerusalem for three sopranos, edited by Julia Davids. The Friday concert begins at 7:30 P.M. at Loyola University’s Madonna dellaStrada Chapel, 6525 North Sheridan Road in Chicago. The Sunday concert begins at 3:30 P.M. at Trinity United Methodist Church, 1024 Lake Avenue in Wilmette.  Both concerts are free to the public.

 

 

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