July 2005
Newsletter of the Boulder Chorale
303-554-7652
www.boulderchorale.org
Greetings
from the President
JoAn
Segal
A
New Year, a New President!
On June
25-26, the Board met for two full days to take stock of where we have been,
where we are, and where we are going. Saturday was filled with reports from
Board members about accomplishments, pitfalls, and learnings. Sunday was a day to look forward to our 40th
anniversary year and to goals even farther-flung.
One
of the Board activities at its annual retreat is to elect officers. The
Chorale's constitution specifies that the Board members are elected by the
membership and that the Board decides how best to use the talents of its
members. Here are the members of the Board of Directors, 2005-2006, with their
positions:
President: JoAn
Segal
Past-President: Sue Hintz-Siegrist
Vice-President: Elsbeth Pryer Diehl
Treasurer: Jeff Hale
Secretary: Sharon Soderlund
THESE FIVE POSITIONS (ABOVE) CONSTITUTE THE EXECUTIVE
BOARD (THE PAST-PRESIDENT IS A NON-VOTING EX OFFICIO
MEMBER)
Librarian: Paul Haynes
Fund Raising Chair: Stephanie Wanek
Membership Liaison: Peg Gorce
Registration Assistant: Wren Fritzlan
Graphic Production Chair: Julie
Hale
Concert Manager: Miriam Lindahl
Assistant Concert Manager: Greg
Herring
Chamber Chorale liaison: Mary Weisbach
At
Large Members:
Diane LaTourrette (will assist
with grants and fund raising)
Karen Haimes (Concert Dress
Committee Chair)
Other important decisions made at the Retreat
include:
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Greetings
from the Artistic Director
Tim
Snyder
In
1966, a group of area singers joined together to rehearse choral music for an
upcoming production of the Boulder Civic Opera. They so enjoyed singing together that
they decided to perform their own concerts. The practice stuck and, as they say, the
rest is history.
Forty years later, your joy in singing together
continually inspires me. With
nearly 150 pre-registrants, the Boulder Chorale begins this anniversary season
with unprecedented retention, the results of which should serve us well as we
grow closer together as an ensemble, as individual musicians and as friends and
members of this community.
Before looking ahead, I want to congratulate you for the
stunning successes of the 39th season. From your elegant performances of Mozart
and Fauré with the Boulder Philharmonic and the
rousing collaboration with the Kutandara Marimbas in
December, to the lovely performances of the Women’s and Chamber Chorales,
culminating with an acclaimed Verdi Requiem (did we really do that
piece?), your concerts last season were spectacular.
You
have set a standard for yourselves in the community. One of the challenges of success is the
desire to continually out-do ourselves.
I look forward this year to settling in to our new structure, and
focusing on success in ways that are harder to measure—individual musical
growth, fostering community and learning everyone’s name! We are, after all, a community
chorus and I take that mission very seriously.
I
am very pleased to announce that the Women’s Chorale, under Kim’s able
direction, will be back next year.
I want to encourage all who are interested to audition for the
Chamber Chorale, regardless of your perceived strengths or
weaknesses. The make-up of this
group will be diverse, and the most important criteria are a heart for the music
and ability to learn the music at hand. Don’t let the audition process
itself scare you away!
Our
season opener is shaping up to be a unique event. An all-Bernstein choral concert is a
rare undertaking in itself, and the collaboration with the singers of the
Colorado Hebrew Chorale, under the direction of Carol Kozak Ward, should be enriching culturally and
musically. And, what can I
say about Brahms in May? I join
countless others in a passionate love affair with this piece. To experience Ein
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Greetings
from the Artistic Director (continued)
deutsches Requiem with
you, in our 40th year, and to conduct you in concert with the Boulder
Philharmonic is a dream come true.
I
wish to thank the Board of Directors for their extraordinary dedication, and to
welcome the new board members, especially our newly elected president, JoAn Segal.
Your board has become the envy of more than a few non-profits in
town. They accomplish the work of a
full time PR, marketing, budget and development staff at a level that is nothing
short of professional. I am
indebted to them.
I
wish you a restful summer, and I look forward to seeing you all August 30. I am in the office for the rest of the
summer. Please don’t hesitate to call, email or stop by to say hello.
Yours truly,
Tim
The
Boulder Chamber Chorale will expand to roughly 40-60 singers for the 2005-2006
season in order to accommodate the season
repertoire. Rehearsals will be held
on Tuesday evenings from 6:30-8:15, at Atonement. All Chamber Chorale members will join
the full Chorale rehearsal each Tuesday from 8:30-9:30, i.e., Chamber Chorale
members will be involved in rehearsals each Tuesday from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Full and active membership in the
All
current members of the Boulder Chorale, and tenors and basses in the community,
are invited and encouraged to audition for the Chamber Chorale. The purpose of the audition is to hear
what you can do, not what you can’t!
To schedule
an audition appointment, contact Erin Christensen-Mandel at: boulderchorale@yahoo.com, or by phone:
(303)
554-7692.
Auditions will be held at
Tues. 8/23,
7:00-9:30 p.m.
Wed. 8/24,
7:00-9:30 p.m.
Sat. 8/27,
1:00-3:30 p.m.
Sat. 8/27,
5:00-7:30 p.m.
Mon. 8/29,
7:00-9:30 p.m.
Wed. 8/31,
7:00-9:30 p.m.
Thu. 9/1,
7:00-9:30 p.m.
The
auditions are designed to be friendly, casual and painless! Each 10-minute audition will
include:
1.
Vocalization.
You
will be asked to sing exercises (with piano) that will take you from a
comfortable middle range, through the upper and lower limits of your singing
range. Besides a measure of range,
these exercises will allow the color and timbre of your voice to be heard.
2. Score
Identification
During this short process, you will be given an excerpt
from a standard choral score and asked to talk about what you see. Does the key or time signature
change? Are there tempo markings in
place? If so, what might they
mean? This exercise is
meant to give you a chance to talk about the music on the page before you
hear or sing it.
3. Sight
You
will be given 2 or 3 short passages to read. At least one passage will by rhythm-only
(tapped, clapped or spoken).
4. Prepared
excerpt.
Each auditionee should come
prepared to sing a short passage from “For Unto Us A
Child is Born” from Messiah by G.F. Handel.
Sopranos:
mm. 13-18
Altos:
mm. 56-61
Tenors:
mm. 38-41
Basses:
mm. 19-24
If
you do not own or have access to a Messiah score, copies of these
excerpts are available outside of the Chorale office at Atonement.
On
Monday, September 5, the 2005-2006 Chamber Chorale membership roster will be posted on the Chamber Chorale webpage at
www.boulderchorale.org
First Rehearsal:
Tuesday, September 6, 6:30 p.m. at Atonement.
Concert
Dress Success
Karen
Haimes
Your concert dress committee has been hard at work! We
look forward to showing all of you our new and polished concert apparel at the
upcoming fit sessions we have planned for August. Please be sure to watch the
mail for details regarding your fitting appointment and other crucial
information. What an exciting professional advancement we have in store this
year— and just in time for our 40th
anniversary!
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Fundraising
Corner
Stephanie
Wanek
Summer greetings!
Thanks for a superb fundraising season! We had many terrific events which raised
important funds for the Chorale. Events like the Noodles Dinner, Barnes &
Noble bookfair, grocery script, OnTheBlock Ebay donations, Spring Raffle and individual cash donations all raised over
$30,000 for The Boulder Chorale. We’re growing in every
good way and I’m so excited about our
continued evolution. As a
fundraising goal for next year, I’d love to raise that to $40,000. Wouldn’t that
be a remarkable goal to set in our 40th anniversary year!! I can hear
it now, ‘Forty Grand For Another Grand Forty Years’!!
I’ll work on that slogan!
The coming season will
feature high-profile concerts and events commemorating this milestone year. But it’s not all about the party. Our budget is full of expenses the
Chorale incurs to produce each season. To scratch the surface, we pay for venue
rentals, rehearsal accompanists, concerts collaborators, advertising and staff salaries.
To meet these growing
expenses, the Board has agreed to continue the transition away from funding
events aimed at our membership.
This will be good news to some of you! The majority of our efforts will
be directed to increasing the number of individual sponsors, businesses, and
corporations. We will continue some
community-building events for our members but will no longer be sponsoring many
of the smaller fundraising programs.
The Chorale's financial needs are now too great to rely solely on these
projects.
This is really a great
announcement! Our membership is
expanding, the caliber of our concerts is higher every year, our audience is
outgrowing smaller venues, more staff is required to support our organization,
and we remain committed to providing high-level musicianship and performance
experience to our membership.
The Chorale is moving in
a very, very positive direction.
It’s great that we need to improve our funding opportunities to keep up
with growth and improvement. But
increasing financing doesn’t happen single-handedly nor does it succeed because
of the efforts of a small group!!
It will happen because of ALL OF YOU, the membership of The Boulder
Chorale!
Please consider how you
can increase your role in fundraising for the Chorale. The new Steering Committee will begin
meeting monthly on Sept. 6th. The role of this committee is overall
planning and evaluating of what fundraising projects will be most
effective. We will also need more
participation from the membership to directly organize these events. Remember, fewer fundraisers means the
ones we do sponsor need to be successful.
Fundraising goals are high this year and everything matters!!
The Spring Raffle was a
hit and raised over $2,500!!
Thanks to so many of you
who pounded the pavement in your office, clubs & among your friends to sell
so many tickets! Especially Ken
Hotaling and Suzan Grenier
who sold over 50 tickets each!! A terrific selection of gift
certificates and prizes were donated. And we had a lot of fun drawing the
winning tickets! This was really a
pretty simple event but it was a huge success. Congrats.
On The Fundraising
Horizon for 2005-06:
The following activities
are under consideration for the ’05-’06 Fundraising Calendar. Please note these events are in the
planning stages and are subject to change!! Come join the Steering
Committee.
Wednesday, September
7th at 6:00
Ø
Fundraising Steering
Committee meeting. Location TBA.
Let’s talk about fundraising! Come discuss events, their planning and how to
efficiently run year-round projects.
Where do you fit in? Please come check the meeting out. We need more hands involved in organizing
events.
September-early October:
Ø
Welcome
Dinner. A casual dinner for all
Chorale members and their families to gather and begin the season as a
community. Many of you know this as
the Noodles Dinner last year.
November-December:
Ø
It’s Cabaret Night at
The
December:
Ø
Barnes & Noble Book
Fair. It may have a
performance component again this year or it may not, but come with your coupon
in hand and purchase your holiday gifts, books & CD’s, and the Chorale will
receive a percentage of every purchase.
February-March:
Ø
Another Spring
Raffle. We’ll be preparing solicitation letters for a direct mail campaign
for another great collection of gift certificates as raffle prizes.
May:
Ø
The 40th
Anniversary Benefit. The crown jewel in this years’
fundraising agenda will be a large event celebrating 40 years of The Boulder
Chorale!
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Fundraising
Corner (continued)
Season goal:
Ø
2005-2006 Season Annual
Fund. Beyond the fundraising
projects above, we actively pursue donations and support from friends of The
Boulder Chorale and those who are waiting to hear about us!! These donations are
vital and support the many programs and operations of the Chorale. Please refer us to people or businesses
in the community who you think would support The Boulder Chorale. We’ll have
referral sheets available at rehearsals.
Fundraising….it’s not
such a scary job and the more who work on it the more fun it gets! See anything that strikes your
fancy? Would you like to lend a
hand? Please contact Stephanie
Wanek at 303-545-9677 or by email:
smwanek@yahoo.com. Thank you!
Web
News
Paul
Haynes, Web Guy
THE CHORALE WEBSITE:
www.boulderchorale.org
Have you checked out our website yet? It contains a wealth of information
about Chorale activities. In
general, the contents of the website are divided into two parts: Chorale operations and public
advertising.
Detailed information on Chorale operations can be found
under the bullet selection called MEMBER NOTICES at the left-center of the front
page. Here you will find
newsletters, sheet music lists, music practice files, a calendar, and much
more.
The
other bullets at the left side of the front page are primarily for Chorale
advertising to the web-surfing public.
Here you will discover how we are presenting ourselves to people who may
not know us yet.
It
is my hope that you will make www.boulderchorale.org your primary reference for
information on what's happening with the Chorale. I strive to keep the information up to
date and complete, but there is no way that one person can be aware of
everything that is happening.
Please help me out by emailing me with your additions, corrections, and
comments -- just click on my name, highlighted near
the bottom of the front page.
Help the Boulder Chorale win a $1000 donation!
Simply go to www.precisionplumbing.com and nominate the Boulder Chorale
to receive $1000 in Precision Plumbing’s monthly giveaway for non-profit community organizations.
The more nominations, the greater the chance of winning!Greetings
from the President (continued)
Ambitious?
I'll say! We'll need all the help we can get from Chorale members willing to
share their skills as volunteers for tasks such as: assisting Paul Haynes with
the Chorale Library, serving on the Fund Raising Committee to work with
Stephanie Wanek, and helping with the archives
organization.
In
our collaborations with the Colorado Hebrew Chorale and the Boulder
Philharmonic, ticket sales will be key to our financial
success. In both instances, sales of tickets will provide a source of income. In
our Phil concerts, for instance, profits from ticket sales (when they exceed the
concert budget) will be shared.
We
need EVERYONE to help us succeed. Over the past several seasons, the Board has
learned to cooperate well and to take responsibility for the day-to-day work of
the organization. Our wonderful Administrator, Erin, has been even more helpful
than we had hoped when we hired her. Our success in working together is
something we would like to broaden, to include every member of the singing
groups.
Here's to a wonderful 40th anniversary year!
SCFD Grant
Award
In October we
received our Scientific & Cultural Facilities District grant check. Thank you SCFD! The Boulder Chorale and other non-profit
organizations in
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...thoughts
from Concert Manager
Miriam
Lindahl
REMEMBRANCE OF
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singers and 19 spouses, friends, and children went to
Highlights included:
Wren Fritzlan: thought the
Abbey in Melk was an environment ‘alive with lots of
light and a sense of wellbeing’.
The
Bonnette family collectively re
Jane and Wayne Moore: singing at the
Teddy Snyder:
the boat ride to St. Wolfgang, taking in the breathing-taking Austrian
hillsides. She loved the places
seen in “The Sound of Music”. Check
with Teddy about her bathtub experiences.
Tim
Snyder: singing for the Mass in the
Tim
was in good company. Others who
mentioned with fondness our singing in
Jack Biddle: felt ‘rehearsing with Dr. Ehley at the Innsbruck Festival was an incredible
experience’. He also appreciated
that the tour did a great job of including non-singers in
activities.
Diane LaTourrette: In
Innsbruck, one tram and two gondola rides later, Diane
found herself at the ‘top of the world’. Viewing
Joan and Kent Foutz were
grateful to share their 52nd wedding anniversary with the tour ‘music lovers and
groupies’.
Mara Hotaling and I spent a
morning watching the Lippanzaners practice in their
Baroque Riding Hall in
DANKE!
Check out www.vivalavoce.com to hear great vocal classical music you’ve never heard before!
It’s an internet radio station based out of Washington, D.C.
and some of the recent performances include Verdi’s and Mozart’s Requiem.Update on the
CDs
Mozart Requiem—10
left—price: $3.00
Verdi Requiem—price:
$15.00
All sales will begin at the end
of September.
The Boulder Philharmonic is
looking into our purchasing the videos of the April performance of the Mozart
Requiem.
Thanks for the many
inquiries!
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2005-2006 - 40th
Anniversary Season Preview
Simchu Na!: A Leonard Bernstein
Celebration
Featuring
Carol Kozak Ward and Timothy Snyder,
conductors
Saturday, November 12
TBD
-
Sunday, November 13, 2:00
p.m.
First United
Handel: Messiah, Part I
J.S.
Bach: Magnificat
Winners of the
Timothy
Snyder, conductor
Saturday, December 10, 7:30
p.m.
Macky Auditorium,
Ceremony of
Carols
Boulder Women’s Chorale
Kimberly
Friday, December 16, 7:30 p.m.
Laudamus Chamber
Chorale
Timothy Snyder and James
McCray, conductors
Saturday, March 4, 8:00 p.m
Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church,
-
Sunday, March 5, 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 26, 2:00 p.m.
Stanley Hotel,
Peace
Boulder Women’s Chorale
Kimberly
Saturday, Aprir 29, 7:30 p.m.
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Timothy Snyder,
conductor
Saturday, May 6, 7:30 p.m.
Macky Auditorium,
Sheet Music
News
Paul Haynes, Music
Librarian
We
are embarking on another exciting and challenging Chorale season. Here is a preview of part of the sheet
music list for 2005-2006:
for The
Bernstein:
Brahms:
Ein deutsches
Requiem, Op. 45 (Kalmus edition)
for the
Chamber Chorale:
Handel:
Messiah, Part I
(
Bach: Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243 (Edition
Peters)
for the
Women's Chorale:
Britten: A
Ceremony of Carols
We
will be using brightly colored sheet-music order forms again this season--
returning members from 2004-2005 will find them very familiar. Let me remind you that these colored
order forms are the property of the Chorale and should not leave our rehearsal
site at
Comprehensive sheet-music lists will be available on our
website, www.boulderchorale.org, starting on the first of August. If you need a list for your own use,
please use the lists available on the website.
You
may pick up sheet music at our rehearsal site starting at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday,
August 30. One week later, on
September 6, we will again have sheet music available for pickup starting at
5:30 -- this date is for the Chamber Chorale and for anyone who didn't pick up
their music on August 30. Come
early and avoid the rush -- or come late, and join the crowd at 6:59 --your
choice.
There is no need to pay for sheet music on August 30 or
September 6. We will tabulate
everything and collect later, when the bottom-line amount is known
precisely. Date of this final
collection will be announced in rehearsal and on the website, and each member
will be advised of the amount due.
All Boulder Chorale members are welcome to attend Board of Directors meetings, or talk with any board member about an issue that we should discuss at the meetings.page
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Greetings from the
Associate Director
Kimberly
Needham
The
Boulder Chorale continued to grow last season (2004-2005) with the addition of
the Women's Chorale and the highest overall enrollment in Chorale history. This
community group, under the leadership of Tim Snyder, is continually developing a
professional sound and delivering polished performances. We are blessed with a
board of directors who are skilled and willing to devote themselves to work with
this group. It is a supportive, inviting environment and it makes working with a
chorale of this caliber a pleasure!
There are numerous people who assume leadership roles in
the organization (an ever increasing number as the organization grows). This can
at times be confusing for the general membership. We are making strides toward
clarifying this through publicizing responsibilities during announcements, in
the newsletter, on the website, and through maintaining high visibility in
rehearsals. My role as the
Associate Director has grown since I joined the Boulder Chorale, and I am
thrilled about it. My primary function is to assist the Artistic Director by
rehearsing sectionals of the full Chorale and of the Chamber group. A recently added responsibility is the
opportunity to conduct the talented women in the Boulder Women’s Chorale. The board makes it possible for the
conductors to focus on the rehearsals, repertoire, and concerts, and that is my
function. I am honored to be a part
of the Boulder Chorale and look forward to the growth that is to come this
season!
The
Boulder Women’s Chorale provides talented female members with an opportunity to
sing treble music. This season will
feature Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten in
December, and a World Music concert in April. The Boulder Women’s Chorale is committed
to the development of musicianship skills through ensemble singing. Participation in this group is open to
all interested female singers.
The
mission of the Boulder Chorale is to provide a beneficial musical experience to
singers and listeners alike. The
Chorale offers interested singers in
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Contact
the Board Members
JoAn Segal
Sue Hintz-Siegrist
President
Past President
303-541-1065
303-543-9871
Elsbeth Pryer Diehl
Wren Fritzlan
Vice-President
Registration Assistant
Women’s Chorale Liaison
303-651-9318
303-443-2413
Peg Gorce
Karen Haimes
Membership Liaison
Member-At-Large
303-447-8720
303-442-7370
Jeff Hale
Julie Hale
Treasurer
Graphic Production
303-494-1836
303-494-1836
Paul Haynes
Greg Herring
Librarian
Asst. Concert Manager
303-494-9154
303-440-6920
Diane LaTourrette
Miriam Lindahl
Member-At-Large
Concert Manager
303-494-4177
303-530-2077
Secretary
Fundraising Chair
720-490-6468
303-545-9677
Mary Weisbach
Chamber Chorale Liaison
303-530-2963
Calendar
of Events
Monday,
August 8—2005-06 Pre-Registration
Deadline
Thursday,
August 18—Board of Directors
Meeting
7:00 p.m.
Please let JoAn know if you
plan to attend.
Tuesday,
August 22 through Thursday, September 1—Auditions for the Chamber
Chorale (see page two for times).
To schedule an audition, please call 303-554-7692 or email
boulderchorale@yahoo.com
Friday,
August 26—Deadline for September
Newsletter
Tuesday,
August 30—Rehearsals
Resume
Tuesday,
August 30—Walk-In Registration of New
Singers (if necessary)
6:00-7:30 p.m.
Atonement Lutheran Church