Dear Redmond Chorale and Potential Redmond Chorale-
This is a warm invitation to continue singing with us, rejoin us after a break, or sing with us for the first time on our upcoming concert season. Redmond Chorale is distinguishing itself as a musical community on the Eastside as we began our 3rd year in September 2012. Our first rehearsal of each new concert season is a great jumping-in point for new singers (and new singers to singing!) to join the Redmond Chorale or for a former singer to rejoin. A typical new singer might think/say "My voice is rusty after years of not singing." "My voice is different than it used to be." "I don't know how to read music." To this, we reply "JOIN US!" These are surpisingly temporary and managable conditions for a community choir. and many of us have recently uttered the same sentiments! With us, you will find a kind group of people joined together in a common love of music and community. Each concert season presents a new musical opportunity.
**The most musical choirs are made up of individuals with individual voices and qualities.**
This summer season, we are trying something new: an Operetta in true Gilbert & Sullivan light opera/musical theater tradition! There are some earlier deadlines for those interested in auditioning for a lead role and anyone (in the show or not) interested in working backstate and/or helping with costumes/props/scenery, but for those interested in singing in the opera chorus of this chorus-heavy production, there is a role for everyone. We will prepare a reduced version of this production.
Below, you will find our concert repertoire, available youtube links, and pertinent dates/locations.This e-mail will then magically be posted to our website,
http://www.redmondchorale.org for your future reference of dates, times, and locations.
To join in our "Pirates of Penzance" concert season, please be prepared to attend a minimum of 9 of 11 rehearsals, missing no more than 2 rehearals, and two mandatory Saturday dress rehearsal, and our two concerts. As you consider your availability, be prepared for unexpected illnesses or travels. The success of our choir in this new venture is dependent upon our singing together in the same place at the same time. If your schedule does not permit your participation during this concert season, you will be warmly invited for our next season beginning after Labor Day in September for a return to our traditional choral format.
Members of Redmond Chorale are asked for a suggested donation of $30 for each concert season. This donation, often matched 100% by your employer when submitted, helps the chorale offset its sheet music expense, freeing our not-for-profit to channel funds raised at our concerts to go back into the needs of the community instead of toward our minimal administrative costs. If this expense presents a financial burden that would hinder participating with us, please inquire about a partial scholarship.
We look forward to seeing you on March 25 for our first rehearsal in this hilarious and familiar light musical!
If you know of a potentially interested singer or dramatist, especially those of the masculine-voice persuasion, please share this e-mail with him/her.
Best,
Dr. Laurie Betts Hughes
Redmond Chorale, founding artistic director
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DATES (all events at
Meadowbrook and attendence required unless otherwise specified)
* Monday, February 25, 6-6:45 pm----------------------preproduction meeting (sets, costumes, props, hair, makeup, choreography, stage hands, lights/sound help)
* Monday, February 25, 9pm-----------------------------AUDITION PACKETS available
* Monday, March 11, 8pm---------------------------------Lead role auditions
* Service Opportunity---------------------------------------TBA
* Saturday, June 1, 10am-12-----------------------------dress rehearsal
* Saturday, June 8, 10am-12-----------------------------dress rehearsal
* Saturday, June 8 afternoon/evening, TBA----------community outreach performance, location TBA
* Sunday, June 9, 7pm-------------------------------------"Pirates of Penzance" performance
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(full version of the show, but we will be performing a reduced version)
