ISLAND CITY CHORUS
GREATER MONTREAL CHAPTER
Northeastern District
SPEBSQSA Inc.
The Little Chorus that could!
MINI PITCH
Date: January 12, 2004 Uptown Sound hangs it up. L Volume 2004 -Issue 2
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COMING UP - ROB'S REQUIRED EVENTS* Saturday, January 31, 2004 Installation and Awards Dinner Cote St-Luc BarBQ, Cote de Liesse, 7:00 PM ß NEW Saturday, February 7, 2004 Great Northern Harmony Workshop with MatriX Friday, February 13 & Saturday February 14, 2004 Singing Valentines Sign up and sell! ß NEW March 19-21, 2004 Spring Prelims and Western Regional Convention NED Albany, NY Saturday, May 29, 2004 Annual Show Salle Pierre Mercure (UQAM) with 4 Voices and The Gas House Gang "That's Entertainment" October 22-24, 2004 District Convention Lowell, MA *NOTE: It is your duty to inform Rob as soon as you know you will miss any rehearsal or event. |
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COMING UP - OPTIONAL, BUT FUN and EDUCATIONAL EVENTS February 20 & 21, 2004 West Island Chorus - Sweet Adeline Show "Cabaret Circa 1929" Tickets (514)733-4052 Monday, June 28 - Sunday, July 4, 2004 66th Annual SPEBSQSA International Convention Louisville, Kentucky July 3-10, 2005 67th Annual SPEBSQSA International Convention Salt Lake City, Utah |
Only a mediocre person is ever at their best.
Installation & Awards Dinner
It's official! The Installation and Awards Dinner will be held on Saturday, January 31, 2004 at the Cote St-Luc BarBQ. That is on Cote de Liesse at Monte de Liesse.
The room is available from 7:00 PM and we will be able to enjoy a great evening at a reasonable price.
This is an evening that every member should attend. Spouses are more than welcome!
Since we have an ambitious year ahead of us, and a pretty good one that we just finished, this will be an opportunity to celebrate both.
Register for GNHW NOW!
During the afternoon of the Great Northern Harmony Workshop, we are going to be coached as a chorus You also get to choose one of the half-day sessions for the morning session to complement the coaching session.
The price is now $65. Since we all need to be registered, and in attendance, do it today!
Our featured guest quartet is MatriX along with NED's own Overdrive.
Sign up for Singing Valentines.
One of the best activities we carry out is the Singing Valentines. It is an opportunity to share our hobby with people celebrating their love, and at the same time making some money for the Chapter.
Now is the time to sell a few Singing Valentines. At $50 they are priced right. Check out our web site and see!
http://www.nedistrict.org/montreal/
Show time is coming. Sell ads, tickets.
It's Show Time! Have you sold any ads yet? How about tickets? Have you thought about people you would like to invite to see you do "that thing you do on Monday nights?"
If we start now, we should be able to sell out the Salle Pierre Mercure, and have a great program.
Uptown Sound retires.
The 4th place medallists from Montreal announced Friday that they were retiring and would not be competing any more. They will be missed.
My Hobby
by Larry AjerLarry was a well-known coach and barbershop enthusiast. The Salem OR Chapter remembers him annually with the Tuesday evening show at International. There are also Larry Ajer Scholarships to Harmony College. This article originally appeared on the Harmonet in 1997, was recently reposed. I thought you would enjoy it.
I have the greatest hobby. Actually, I don't do the hobby so well, personally, but I really enjoy trying and just being involved. There are guys in my hobby that are exceptional. They do the hobby very well, and they even get paid for their work. They sell things, compete, win things, and generally, I am proud to be associated with them. I sure don't resent their excellence or hard work or talent.
If I had the talent and willingness to compete like they do, I would be right in there. Instead, I do some local events and let the big guys do the big public events. It tends to represent my hobby all the better. It would be
real nice if we had more members, and I do know that when the best of the hobby are doing well, membership tends to increase. I, on the other hand, do my thing, and it attracts nobody, but some other friends like me, and that is OK also. I go to schooling, practice, and do all the right stuff, but at age 56, with limited skill, I am happy just to be a member of the group and to encourage the better guys to be better all the time. Isn't this the greatest hobby?
I am an actual member, and get my newsletter, rules and that stuff, but with my ability, they don't let me compete with the big guys. Thank goodness; that would humiliate me, for sure, and do nothing for the hobby or the organization.
My hobby? Actually there are two, and I treat and respect each of them equally. One is golf, where the memberships, rules, and participation levels are clearly defined, and the other is barbershop, where we can't seem to agree on who we are and what we want to be. How odd that is, when the two are so similar, at least they are to me.
Learn your music!
We will be doing a Sectional on Before the Parade Passes By on January 19 and If I Loved You on January 26.
Schedule
for January 12, 2004 [This week]
7:30 7:50 Warm-up
7:50 8:15 Repertoire:
8:15 8:35 Sectional: Before the Parade Passes By
8:35 8:55 Before the Parade Passes By
8:55 9:10 Choreo: Sixteen Tons
9:10 9:25 B&B
9:25 9:35 Quartetting
9:35 9:55 If I Loved You
9:55 10:05 Tag du jour
10:05 10:25 Steppin Out
10:25 10:30 B-Bye
for January 19, 2004 [Next Week]
7:30 7:50 Warm-up
7:50 8:15 Repertoire:
8:15 8:35 Sectional: Chances Are
8:35 8:55 Chances Are
8:55 9:10 Summertime
9:10 9:25 B&B
9:25 9:35 Quartetting
9:35 9:55 If I loved You
9:55 10:10 Choreo: Steppin Out
10:10 10:25 Before the Parade Passes By
10:25 10:30 B-Bye
Here is our current and future repertoire list:
[mp3] means that the mp3 file is on the Members Only web site|
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Overture |
Witchcraft |
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Hello Mary Lou |
You'll Never Walk Alone |
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Que reste-t-il ? |
If I Had My Way Dear |
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Sixteen Tons |
O Canada |
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Steppin Out |
The Star Spangled Banner |
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Orange Coloured Sky |
If I Loved You [mp3] |
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Roses Of Picardy |
It Had To Be You [To be learned] |
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Old Black Magic |
Before The Parade Passes By [To be learned] [mp3] |
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Hello [mp3] |
Chances Are [To be learned] [mp3] |
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Summertime |
Give My Regards To Broadway. [Learning] |
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Luck Be A Lady Tonight [To be learned] |
Practice is something we do at home, every day, between rehearsals!
Rehearsal is where we reinforce what we have been practising every day!
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Alan Mackenzie, President |
Murray Phillips, Editor |