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(2003/06/26) 54th Australian Intervarsity Choral Festival - FINAL INFORMATION BULLSHEETExtract from choral-announce 54th Australian Intervarsity Choral Festival FINAL INFORMATION BULLSHEET Greetings fellow IVer! We are only 1.5 short weeks away from starting this festival we have been anticipating for so long. We are so excited and look forward to having you here. In the meantime, we must inform you of important matters relating to the festival so that you are prepared and know what's happening, how to get here, and ensure we don't find you lost in the middle of a paddock in Yass! Where to go! On the first day, registration will take place from 3pm-8pm on Friday 4 July. This will take place in the Hayden Allen Building, room HAG051 (on the ground floor, facing into the courtyard near to the Union building) on campus at the ANU. If you have requested to be collected, a friendly SCUNA member will meet you at the time and place you have indicated. If you have not let Eric know, please email him at transport@civ.aicsa.org.au, or call 0407 468 244. From 5pm, choristers will be gathering at P.J. O'Reilly's pub on the corner of Alinga St and Moore St in the Melbourne Building in Civic (close to the ANU!). Those arriving on Saturday 5 July, please proceed to the ANU where we will be taking registrations in HAG051 from 9am. Rehearsals will begin at 10am in the Manning Clark Lecture Theatre 2 (where most of our rehearsals will be taking place) on campus, near the Union Building. We will be here until 5.30pm. On the Saturday evening we will be in the hall of St. John's Reid, on Constitution Ave. If you are one of the unusual ones arriving directly at camp, Trinity College is on the corner of Clinton and College Streets in Goulburn. If you are arriving there from Melbourne/Canberra, turn off the Hume Highway, proceed to a T-intersection (Clinton St) and turn left, until you reach Trinity College. If you are approaching from Sydney, take the Goulburn turn off, and continue until you go down the main street of Goulburn (Auburn St), then turn right into Clinton St (the Hume Hwy), and go straight ahead until you reach Trinity College. If you are arriving any other way, let us know and we will pick you up. For those arriving the 2nd week, we will be meeting for a group photo at 1.30pm on the steps of Old Parliament House on Saturday 12 July (to try and maximise the number of participants in the photo). You will then have a free afternoon before rehearsals start at 7pm in the Manning Clark Lecture Theatre at the ANU. If you are arriving at any other time, or any other place, please let us know! What to wear! Concert Dress: All black, from ankle to wrist to neck. This means long sleeved black tops for women and black ankle length skirts or pants. For men, long sleeved black tops and black pants. Theme Party: BACK TO SCHOOL AT HOGWARTS. Dress appropriately and strut about in your finest Harry Potteresque style to coincide with the exciting release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (great book!!). Academic Dinner: This is where you get to show off the exceptional style and elegance you possess! Formal attire is the go for this glamourous occasion (ie. black tie, ball dress etc.) Other attire: It is damn cold in Canberra, with temperatures often below zero at night time. Bring warm clothes (thick woolen socks, scarves, beanies, thermals, etc.). Those from QLD and WA especially are in for a shock! What to bring
And if you are a President or Representative from your society:
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Merchandise We have an extensive range of merchandise which will be available for purchase at the festival. Those who have already put in orders and paid will get priority. Items include:
Any other queries? Speak to us! We are open and friendly people more than willing to help you. If you are unsure of anything, look up the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on our website, www.civ.aicsa.org.au, or call the following: Luke Murtagh (Convenor) for general enquiries (2003/06/23) CIV - Christ College Cambridge concert on first Sunday afternoonExtract from choral-announce The choir of Christ College Cambridge will be performing at St Saviour's Cathedral, Goulburn, at 3pm on the first Sunday of IV, coincidentally just after we arrive there for the start of camp. Tickets are $15/$20 at the door; we'll try to order up a batch for the people who've expressed interest, but there are no guarantees. For more info about the choir, see http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/choir (click Performing on the top menu bar, then Overseas Tour in the Performance Fixtures section). (2003/06/21) CIV merchandise: the full pictureExtract from choral-announce The CIV site now has the final merchandise catalogue. These will be available as of the 4th of July. Prices are confirmed by committee - sorry for the slightly inaccurate prices posted yesterday on Net. Polar fleece jackets, black - $60.00 Send orders now, or buy when you arrive. Orders on rego forms will take priority. A new run of products will be done if firm orders warrant it, but will take up to two weeks. (2003/06/15) Erato 89 - Call for SubmissionsErato Announcment The next edition of Erato will be a post-CIV edition. Hence the deadline for the next edition of Erato will be Monday 28th July (or post marked Sunday 27th for postal submissions). Feel free to submit reports or articles at any time between now and then. We hope to have Erato No.89 printed and posted in August. We will accept (almost) anything! We are keen to receive a variety of submissions so articles of humor, interest or news would be greatly appreciated. Please submit your Society and Festival reports by the end of Canberra IV. You may like to make your AIVCC report suitable for print in Erato, so you only have to write one report? Then again you may wish to write different reports? As long as you submit something to Erato we will be happy. Any photos to accompany Society and Festival reports will make your reading of these pages more enjoyable. We are also looking for articles about anything AICSA or simply choral related. If there are freshers out there going to CIV please write something about IV or your Society. We are always keen to hear from our newest members. Articles from longer serving members will also be warmly received. Jonny and I highly encourage everyone, any member of an AICSA choir, to submit reports, articles, photos, humour pieces or (almost) anything at all. If anyone has any photos from choral occassions (especially the recent Perth Festival or following Canberra IV), we would love to have copies of them. In terms of submissions, we are not particular! Feel free to email, post, fax, phone, SMS, refer us to a website for us to access your submission, tin can and string, verbally in person, any means other than ESP is fine with us. You can contact me (Tim Dunstone) on the following: Post: C/- AUCSClubs Association Adelaide University SA 5005 Phone: (08) 8269 2072 Mobile: 0403 827 831 Fax: (08) 8269 2072 email: erato@aicsa.org.au Warm regards, especially to the CIV committee, Tim Dunstone and Jonathan Webb (2003/06/12) CIV2003 Concert DressExtract from choral-announce This is going onto the FAQ as soon as I get a chance, but since it seems to be the number one question everyone's asking, here's the answer: Concert dress for both concerts at CIV2003 is black: neck to wrist to toe. Provided the only bits of you we can see are your head and hands, and the rest is covered in inky blackness, you can make of that what you will. That means: no cleavage-down-to-the-navel, no x-rated lacy see-through body stockings, no yellow bikini and lurid pink miniskirt with lime gumboots and fairy wings. But: dresses, shirts, skirts, skivvies (!), trousers, slacks, dress pants -- all are acceptable regardless of gender, within reason. HOWEVER: ultimately, Lukey reserves the right to kick you off stage without warning if you're grubby, scruffy, offensively attention-seekingly weird or just plain unsightly, so be reasonable, OK? Excellent. Incidentally: your rego fee includes virtual concert tickets, so if you can't be on stage to sing, you can still attend the concert and cough along with the audience. One hundred and thirty two registrants. Only 3 weeks, 1 day, 4 hours, 5 minutes and 15 seconds until IV. Get your rego forms in now, if you haven't already. Woohoo! (2003/06/03) CIV2003 Rego Fax Lines Now Open!Extract from choral-announce By popular request we now have a dedicated line with a fax machine, for you to send your CIV2003 rego forms in. The number is (02) 6259-0839. It's a thermal paper fax, so please write clearly. However, it's dedicated, so you don't need cover sheets and all that gumph unless you're sending something other than a rego form. Remember: rego is due by THIS FRIDAY, otherwise you pay an extra $30 late fee. To see who's registered so far, go to http://www.civ.aicsa.org.au/ and click on Registration. (2003/05/27) Review of SCUNA concert 17/5/3Extract from choral-net Fresh voices in pleasant tribute to the night Songs of Love and Night, for [sic] SCUNA at St Andrew SONGS of Love and Night was the theme for a concert of 19th century German choral music presented by SCUNA. Featuring songs or lieder from the major exponents of German vocal repertoire such as Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Hugo Wolf and Franz Schubert, the common link was night and its many metaphors - tranquility, prayer, love and death. Songs from this period were written for general consumption relying on creating immediate melodic interest coupled with a sympathetic response to the text. The selection of repertoire for this concert was skilfully selected for the group with plenty of musical interest for the audience. SCUNA, or the Australian National University Choral Society, is a non-auditioned choir with members from the general community as well as students and staff of the ANU. This large group of voices, directed by Jonathan Powles, produced a fresh sound imbued with a clear enjoyment of singing. In tag-team fashion Powles and assistant conductor Matthew Stuckings shared the conducting of the first half of the program. In most instances SCUNA rose to the demands of the repertoire. The program was sung in German throughout and the mood of each song was clearly conveyed though thoughtful phrasing, dynamics and vocal colour. This was particularly evident in the bracket of four contrasting Brahms songs. They were delivered effectively, especially the beautiful O Schone Nacht. Also noteworthy were two lively pieces by Schubert, which concluded the first half of the program. The first was a polished performance of the majestic anthem to the sun, An die Sonne followed by a lively rendition of the cheerful Lebenslust The second half of the program featured the Liebeslieder Waizer Opus 52 by Brahms. This delightful collection of 18 short songs, dealing with the various aspects of love, features a four-hand piano accompaniment. Under the enthusiastic and well-paced conducting of Powles, with excellent playing from Elizabeth Wilson and Adam Laslett, SCUNA delivered an energetic and enjoyable performance. SCUNA produced a pleasant sound throughout the concert, however, the dominance of the soprano line in some instances detracted from the overall performance. This became noticeable in the louder passages to the detriment of the other parts. (2003/05/26) IV Social Rego FAQExtract from choral-net 1. Q. Why should I pay you $20 to be a social participant? 2. Q. OK, then why _might_ I pay? 3. Q. Do I have to pay a late fee on my $20?? $30 seems a but steep! 4. Q. Is that $20 per week if it's a middle sort of week week, like
Friday-Wednesday and I'm only going to concert one and the AcaDinner? 5. Q. Can I stay a night at camp for that fee? 6. Q. Really? What if I party most of the night and sleep in someone
else's bed? (2003/05/20) Upcoming MuscUTS concertExtract from choral-announce You are cordially invited to a Right Royal Evening with King Arthur and Company starring the Musical Society of UTS Choir and Chamber Orchestra with soloists Nadia Piave & Daniel Beer. We will be performing extracts from Purcell's 'King Arthur' and other royal music including 'Music for the Royal Fireworks' by Handel. Come and join us on Sunday 1st June at 3pm at the St Laurence Arts Centre, next to Christ Church St Laurence at 505 Pitt St Sydney. Tickets are $10 concession, $15 adult, available at the door. Call 9931 6857 for enquires. Lisa Kyiet (2003/05/19) Correction to CIV rego formsExtract from choral-announce A quick correction to the CIV2003 registration forms. Currently it says: You can attend either week and sing in the concert for that week, or attend both weeks and sing in both concerts, or skip all the rehearsals and be a social participant free of charge (but we may ask you to help with front-of-house or other helpful stuff). This has changed. To keep a handle on the complexities of tracking social registrants, we're charging a nominal fee of $20. This includes a concert ticket, so it's actually not too bad! It also means we'll keep you informed about social events, so you're not on your own. For more information about the costs of CIV2003 for people who aren't attending the full event, see http://flurf.net/civ/faq.php?q=part-fees. (2003/05/16) ROCS Choral Hits ConcertExtract from monmucs-announce The RMIT Occasional Choral Society will perform a CHORAL HITS concert featuring all your choral favourites including: Verdi: Choruses from Aida, Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves and Anvil Chorus On Saturday 31 May at 7.30pm RMIT Building 8 Level 11 Lecture Theatre Tickets $12 and $8 Pay at the door ROCS Publicity (2003/15/14) MUCS Cocert ReviewFrom The Age Victorian College of the Arts and the Melbourne University Choral Society Melbourne Town Hall, 7 May 2003 The C & C Rigg bequest funds have made a significant difference to the development of music-making in this city. Over the years, institutions such as the School of Music at Monash University and the Victorian Colledge of the Arts have been fortunate recipients of money from this estate, which has enabled them to undertake more adventurous programming. Last week the VCA's Music School and the Melbourne University Choral Society combined to perform a score that is seldom heard in Melbourne, namely a realisation of Mahler's Symphony no. 2. This is a tough workout even for the most professional orchestras. So when a student body of instrumentalists and choristers come together to play one of the marathons of symphonic literature, the pressure would have been on from the first rehearsal. Under the watchful ears and eyes of intrepid conductor Marco van Pagee, the orchestra and choir produced a performance that was of exceptional quality. While the strings were uniformly good, it was the woodwinds - now under the direction of Derek Jones - that exposed the music's array of colours. The oboes, in particular, need special mention as they made every effort to project a warm, sensitive tone. The choir, prepared by Andrew Wailes, produced an excellent, blended tone while soloists Tania Ferris (alto) and Michelle Cook (soprano), enhanced the music's dimensions. Before interval, the choir and orchestra combined to perform Brahm's Schicksalslied, a sombre piece that sat well in a program that had Mahler's Second Symphony on the card; both works deal with human destiny in rather solemn terms. After a tentative start from the chorus, the combined forces carefully alternated between the sombre and animated sections. But it was completely dwarfed by the symphony in the second half. (2003/05/10) 56th IVCF 2005 (Melbourne) election resultsExtract from choral-announce The results of this afternoon's meeting of MUCS, MonUCS & ROCS, to elect a committee to host the 56th Intervarsity Choral Festival in Melbourne in 2005, are as follows: Convenor: Sarah Chan The nomination of "The Table" for various positions had to be declined because it was not technically a member of any of the host choirs. (You had to be there...) Also, my apologies for occasional mis-spelling of names during the meeting. I will forward formal minutes, etc, to all relevant parties in the very near future. Congratulations & good luck, (2003/05/08) CIV UpdateExtract from choral-announce Greetings all AICSA choristers. Only 8 weeks and 1 day until the choral event of 2003!! Here are a few extra pieces of information that you may find useful in preparing yourself for the festival. ERATO FLUVAX SOCIAL REGISTRATION CONCERT DRESS BEDDING AT CAMP GETTING HERE In closing .... we are very much looking forward to having you here, and can't believe that this festival is coming upon us very quickly. Thank you to those who have registered already. You will be receiving acknowledgments of your registrations shortly. Receipts will be distributed at the time of registration (unless you request otherwise). In the meantime, happy singing, and wishing you all the best for yours first concerts of 2003 (and I understand the MUCS one was very successful ... well done!). For further information, keep posted to our website, www.civ.aicsa.org.au, or feel free to email me personally. See you at IV! Luke Murtagh (2003/04/08) Canberra IV RegoExtract from choral-announce Greetings all choristers! 12 weeks and 3 days to go until the Canberra choral event of the decade!!! Rego forms and bullsheets will be in the next edition of Erato, to be released within the next week. Rego forms and bullsheets will be available within 24 hours on our website .... www.civ.aicsa.org.au There will be no on-line registration. Please post (reply paid, no postage stamp required) your registration with payment to: Registration Payment options are listed on the rego form. Please note that credit card transactions incur a 5% charge. Registration sent after June 6 incurs a $30 late fee. A further update/bulletin will be given to all registrants closer to the date (in mid June) with further details of what to bring, concert dress, major dates/times etc. If you have any further queries, do not hesitate to contact me via email or mobile. In the meantime, all the best with your first concerts for the year. On behalf of myself and the committee, Happy Singing!!! We look forward to seeing you here for a wonderful festival in July. Luke Murtagh |