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BLUE NOTES FOR TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2007
This evening, please welcome Kirill Dyachkov and Julia Davids, our final two
music director candidates. Here are some vital statistics about the pair:
Kirill Dyachkov
Kirill earned a DM in choral conducting at Indiana University, Bloomington,
a BA and MA in choral conducting and composition at the Moscow State
Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He currently is assistant conductor of the
85-voice Symphony Silicon Valley Chorale and organist for St. John’s
Presbyterian Church in San Francisco. His former positions include
choir director and organist at the First Presbyterian Church in Sullivan,
Indiana, visiting lecturer in music and director of choral activities
at Carroll College in Wisconsin, and associate instructor in choral
conducting at the Indiana University School of Music. Several of his
compositions, including cantata Canticles of Love, Despair and
Hope, and his orchestral overture Symphonic Parallels are
scheduled to be published by E.C. Schirmer, ECS catalog No. 7030 and
7024, respectively. These and other works can be heard at www.myspace.com/kirilldyachkov
Julia Davids
Dr. Julia Davids earned a DM in choral conducting from Northwestern
University, masters degrees in choral conducting and voice performance
from the University of Michigan, and bachelors degrees in music and
music education. She currently is director of choirs and a voice
instructor at Loyola University, and artistic director of the Canadian
Chamber Choir, Canada’s professional choir featuring emerging
singers, conductors, and composers. Julia is also music director/conductor
of the Camerata Singers of Lake Forest, a 16-voice semi-professional
group, and director of music ministries at Trinity Methodist Church
in Wilmette. During her tenure at Northwestern University, she was
conductor of the Women’s Chorus and assistant conductor of the
Chorale and Chorus. In addition to her conducting, she regularly
performs as a soprano soloist specializing in Baroque repertoire and
teaches private voice lessons.
Please take a few moments to complete the evaluation form and return
it to a member of the Search Committee. In addition, we will be asked
to supply additional input into this selection process. Thanks
again from the Search Committee for our attention and cooperation during
these four important Tuesdays of audition rehearsals.
End-of-the-year odds and ends:
Anyone
who ordered tickets for the LaSalle Do-It-Yourself Messiah (on
either Friday, December 21 at 7:00 P.M., or Saturday, December 22 at
2:00 P.M.) but who now discovers he/she cannot use them, please see
David Hunt with this information immediately.
A
singer wishing to audition for membership in NSCS may do so on Tuesday,
January 8, prior to our first 2008 rehearsal. Please call Len
at 847/272-2351 to schedule an appointment.
Anthony
Green has CDs of the November 11 concert to sell. See him before
or after rehearsal or during the brief break. They’re $15.00
in cash or by check made out to Bill Stribling.
The Fund-Raising
Committee is planning a benefit for May of 2008. After the holidays,
we will be given opportunities to volunteer to help with this money-making
project in one or more ways. The tentative title is “An Evening with
the Rising Stars,” with soloists from Chicago area music schools being
asked to perform. And, of course, the ol’ silent auction. Our last benefit
raised over $14.000; this year’s Committee has set a goal of $20,000.
How
about putting a donation to NSCS on your Christmas list. The giver
knows that the receiver will be delighted by the gift, and the receiver
knows that the giver can make this gift a tax deduction…in addition,
of course, to aiding the cause of great choral music.
Inge
Kistler’s translation of Enchanted Remembrances, the
biography of her great-grandaunt who studied and sang with Brahms,
is available tonight for a $5.00 donation to NSCS. Call Inge at 847/328-5158
for more information.
The
First Bank of Highland Park will donate $100.00 to a non-profit organization
(that’s us) to anyone who opens a new account with a minimum
of $10,000.00. Offices are in Northbrook (847/272-1300) and Highland
Park (847/4523-7800)
Messiah notes
are available again this evening. That means twenty classy and
classic notes (with envelopes!) for only $10.00—half of which
is a donation to NSCS. Can‘t beat the quality or the price. Take
a look.
The
Berkshire Choral Festival offers weekly sessions at four venues this
coming summer and fall: its usual four week-long sessions in Sheffield,
Massachusetts; plus single week-long sessions in Vancouver, Canada;
Canterbury, England; and Salzburg, Germany. Contact www.choralfest.org
for more information.
Eager
to learn the Poulenc? Two possibilities:
Go to www.cyberbass.com
and search under Poulenc. Play around with it. Not very
sophisticated but practical—and free.
Go to www.rehearsalarts.com
for information about SingleParts CDs. Each of these
CDs has a full recording of a work (e.g. Gloria—chorus and orchestra)
with a soloist singing his/her part louder than the underlying
music. Very sophisticated—but costing $18.50 for each part.
(Discounts are available for quantities of ten or more.)
If you
did not receive the latest email, titled “NSCS Tuesday,” please
let Len know. He’s still working on a complete NSCS address book.
To put an item in the January 8 edition of Blue Notes, contact
Len at 847/272-2351 or lenpbarker@comcast.net.
THE HAPPIEST OF HOLIDAYS!
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