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From: boulder chorale
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 7:55 PM
To: boulder chorale
Subject: Announcements, Tuesday, January 24

ANNOUNCEMENTS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2006

Dear Chorale Members, Here are this week’s announcements. If you have any questions or comments, please let me know. Thank you! Erin Christensen-Mandel, Boulder Chorale Administrator

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From Timothy Snyder, Director

Mozart Solo Auditions for Alto, Tenor and Bass will be held Saturday, Feb. 25 beginning at 10:00 am at Atonement. Contact Tim at timothy.snyder@colorado.edu to schedule your 10-minute audition. All auditionees should come prepared to sing the following excerpts:

CONFITEBOR, mm. 35-57
MAGNIFICAT, mm. 75-81

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NEW WOMEN MEMBERS:

Never worn and available for sale: A small skirt and medium top in the concert dress apparel. If interested, please contact Mary @ 303-442-4526 or @ mebarakat@cs.com.

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From Josephine Bynder, Grants Committee Chair: The Grants Committee is working on writing grant requests to local corporations. It is our experience that it helps our cause if we know an employee of a specific corporation. As you are probably aware, the Chorale has a very tight budget, and grants are a very important source of funds. If any of you work for a corporation that gives some kind of grants, please contact Josephine Bynder (303-444-0256) or jbynder@comcast.net. It is most helpful to know the name of the person at your company who is in charge of making those decisions. We also need to know if we may use your name. If you can make some personal contact with the appropriate person that helps, too. Thanks very much.

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From Peg Gorce, Membership Liaison 303-447-8720: Welcome to the Second Semester of the Boulder Chorale's 40th Year! Attendance procedures and records will begin in all three chorales on Jan. 17th. Please review the Attendance Policy that includes the Appeals Process as stated in your Membership Handbook. In addition, the chorale's Board of Directors is requesting that all appeals, upon the third absence from any chorale's rehearsals, include the reasons for the three absences and be written/e-mailed to me. Thank you for your attention to the chorale's Attendance Policies and Procedures. You should address your respective Section Steward with your attendance concerns and issues, and their names and home phone numbers are given below. Or, please contact me; my home phone number is given above.

Alto I-- Dorothy Ciarlo: 303-499-8321
Alto II--Nina Meyers: 303-444-4826
Basses--Jeff Hale: 303-494-1836
Soprano I--Baiba Lennard: 303-823-6371
Soprano II--Jeannette Hillery: 303-494-7718
Tenors--Wren Fritzlan: 303-651-9318

For the Women’s Chorale:
Soprano I-- Sharon Lynn
Soprano II-- Inge Moorby
Altos-- Ruthie Merriman

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From Miriam Lindahl,
NO CD SALES TODAY! NO CD SALES TODAY!
I am ordering more Bernstein Celebration as ALL copies sold out.

Bernstein sales: Tuesday, February 7th and Tuesday, February 14th Price: $15.00/CD

Anyone interested in owning the Boulder Chorale Austria Tour 2005 CDs? I have two unclaimed sets. Price: $3.00/SET

Becky, Brian and Wren—kindly see me at the break! Thanks to ALL—this is the first time sales have been SO spectacular!

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From Stephanie Wanek, Fundraising Chair:

A GALA is coming? Members will perform? Yes! Save the date: Sunday, April 30th at the St. Julien Hotel. This is simply an event you can’t miss and there’s more than one reason why….

1) It’s a celebration of 40 years of the Boulder Chorale featuring a Reception, Cocktails, Gourmet Dinner, Anniversary Champagne Toast, Special Surprises to Honor the Chorale and Entertainment by The Dave Fulker Quintet with a few guest stars!

2) There will be a cabaret collection of songs performed by Chorale members with the quintet after dinner. Members interested in performing a cabaret number have until Tuesday, February 14th to identify themselves and indicate the song they’d like to perform. The final selection of participants (approx 8-10) will follow auditions held at Atonement on Saturday, March 11th between 10am-12pm. A sign-up sheet with time slots will be available during future rehearsals. If you’re interested or have questions, please see Gala Planning Committee member Laura Meyers. Complete event details will be in the next newsletter coming out on next week (1/31).

Who’s doing all this work?? In the coming weeks and months, you’ll be seeing and hearing a lot about the 40th Anniversary Gala. We are well underway planning a great party for the Chorale with the involvement of the whole community!! Who is this fabulous team volunteering to coordinate the event? The heroines are Inge Moorby, Risa Booze, Jeannette Hillery, Laura Meyer, Stephanie Wanek, Mary Lou Kizer, DeDe Beardsley and Sharon Soderlund. There will be information for you to read, things to solicit, jobs for you to do, stamps to lick and opportunities for you to earn a free ticket to the gala. Stay in tune and help us drum up interest in this great celebration.

Precision is sometimes worth $1,000…. The Chorale Board is putting a special challenge to the membership. There are 7 days before the end of January and 30 seconds of work can reap great rewards for the Chorale! Every month Precision Plumbing donates $1,000 to the Boulder non-profit with the most votes. We’re thinking January 2006 is our month but we have 1 week to prove it!! We want EVERYONE to nominate the Boulder Chorale before the 31st. Just go to the Precision Plumbing website www.precisionplumbing.com and it will direct you to the nomination page. With your help we can push the votes for the Chorale over the top!! And look for a group email so you can forward this info to your friends through your email list. There’ll be a special surprise in store if we actually win….

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Barnes & Noble has CDs of the Mozart that the Chorale is performing in May. The CD was $6.99 and they will be ordering more.

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Tickets for the Chorale outing to the Boulder Dinner Theatre to see "The King and I" will be on sale Tuesday. See Esri Albritten, Alto (I'll introduce her to all of you) during the break. Tickets in the center are $42 and on the side $37.75. The date is Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 6:15. Make checks payable to Boulder Dinner Theatre.

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The Boulder Chorale Tour Planning Task Force has been researching tour companies and destinations for our 2007 concert tour. As part of our research, we would like input from chorale members. We will be passing out Tour Interest Surveys during break. Please help us with our planning by filling it out and returning it no later than January 24th. THANK YOU!! Questions? Contact Jeff or Julie Hale, jhale@mccaddon.com OR juliehale1@msn.com