Hi Siskiyou Singers!
After last week’s rehearsal, I felt that we were starting to come together nicely on a lot of our pieces. I think the sectional rehearsals must have really helped us for a lot of the more difficult passages. I’m sure that all of your time and effort with practicing at home has contributed also. Let’s keep it up, especially as we begin the new seating arrangement next week.
Ticket Sales
Mary Van Wesep gave a very nice announcement at the last rehearsal about selling tickets to our families and friends. In addition to that, here are two different sample emails that Sally Peterson and Anne Beaufort wrote up to help you with sending emails to your contacts. Feel free to personalize the email you send out to as many contacts as you can. Thank you to both of them! 🙏 🙏
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From Sally
Dear Family and Friends,
Siskiyou Singers are in full rehearsal for our spring concert. The concert is titled “Earth Song” and includes music celebrating nature along with a little bit of an admonition to protect it.
The program will begin with two rather serious pieces, “Kasar mie la gaji” — The Earth is Tired — by Alberto Grau and “Break, Break, Break” a piece set to a Tennyson poem about lost love by our director, Mark Reppert. These pieces express discouragement, but the next piece brings hope. We hear the call of “The Bluebird” (by Charles Villiers Stanford) coming out of the darkness. The first half continues with “O Lovely Night” by Johannes Brahms, the fun Renaissance madrigal “Sweet Suffolk Owl” by Thomas Vautor and a wild piece by Eric Whitacre, “Little Birds.” The final piece of the first half is the sunny “Away From the Roll of the Sea” by Allistar MacGillvray.
The second half begins with “The Lark in the Clear Air”, an Irish folk song arranged by Andrew Carter. It is the story of a young lover who is encouraged to pursue his love by the song of the lark. We will then travel out to the prairie with a luscious arrangement by one of our favorite arrangers, Mark Hayes, of the very familiar “Home on the Range”. The program ends with a warning and hope. In a clever arrangement by Matt and Adam Podd (aka The Podd Brothers) Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” tells us that “…you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.” But, the final piece and namesake of the concert is “Earth Song” by Frank Ticheli. He tells us, “The scorched earth cries out in vain, O war and power you blind and blur,…[but] through darkness and strife I’ll sing!”
Our concerts will be Saturday, May 10th and Sunday, May 11th, both at 3:00 P.M. at Southern Oregon University’s Music Recital Hall. What a wonderful way to celebrate Mother’s Day weekend as a family!
As always, I’ll be happy to get tickets to you. Please just let me know which date and how many. Thank you.
With love and singing,
Sally
510 364-0410
sgpeterson1@msn.com
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From Anne
Need a lift for the heart? Hear beautiful sounds and heart-drenched lyrics about planet earth and the ways it touches our souls. That will be the gift of Siskiyou Singers’ spring concert, Saturday May 10 & Sunday May 11, 3PM at SOU Music Recital Hall. Music will be an eclectic mix of folk, pop, avant garde composers—and even a piece by Brahms. Tickets are $25, available through www.siskiyousingers.org, Paddington Station the Music Store, or choir members.
You may want to send this image in your email as well.
From Elizabeth Bingham, Siskiyou Singers Alto and President of the Rogue Valley Peace Choir
See you Tuesday,
Steve