Victoria Chorale Bulletin

1st August 2009

This bulletin includes information about our upcoming move and updates other information provided in the bulletin handed out at rehearsals.

Victoria Chorale is on the move on Aug 25th

Our rehearsal venue, Union Memorial Church, is about to be renovated, and from Tues Aug 25^th we will be using the Church Hall  around the corner on Elm street for rehearsals.  The church hall is the first building directly facing on to Elm street after the church and its offices, which face onto Curzon St.  The entrance is approximately half way between Curzon St and Union St. 

Welcome information and a few requests!

Arrangements for Solomon: 8pm Fri Oct  23

 Venue:St Georges Uniting Church (St Michael’s Performing Arts Centre), 4 Chapel St, St Kilda East.

Dress rehearsal -  Thurs Oct 22, time to be advised.

This is a work for a double-chorus so we are combining with University of Melbourne Parkville Choir, which Matt also conducts – in all, there will be approximately 110 singers .  We sometimes sing Choir 1 and sometimes Choir 2 - there is a clear marking at the start of each chorus to indicate which we are singing.  We are putting together a package of some midi files and other information about the work and will make some CDs available and also email this information to you.

There is a stellar soloist line-up, led by the internationally renowned Sally- Anne Russell, plus RMP Aria winners Robert Macfarlane (tenor) and Nicholas Bradley (bass), and we also anticipate that Louisa Hunter-Bradley (soprano) will be singing with us. 

Flyers for the concert are available now so start promoting the concert to friends, neighbours, colleagues and get them to put the date in their diary.

•  Dress code for women:  Black top with long or elbow length sleeves.  Black skirt or slacks, black stockings and shoes.  Gold jewellery. TBA whether we will wear the choir’s gold scarves.
• Dress code for men:  Dinner suits, white shirt, black bow tie.

Rehearsal Fees- payable to Joan Wanstall

• The fee per performance is $65 -$40 conc for FT students, Health and Pension Card holders.
• Please pay your fees by Aug 4 for Solomon (or by Aug 18^th for people singing for the 1st time).

Arrangements for Christmas Concert: 5pm Sun Dec 13, St Marks, 250 George Street, Fitzroy

We hope that many of the people joining us for Solomon will also sing the Christmas Concert with us. 

This a  joint concert with the St Mark’s choir, which Janet Gibbs conducts.

Success with Afternoon at the Proms!

The audience loved it, we enjoyed ourselves, and it was a great success financially.  Total income was $2205, expenses approx $650, thus profit around $1550, nearly double the expected $750.

Many thanks to everyone in the choir for making it such a success with good singing, great afternoon tea and raffle donations, helping with set-up and clean-up, flags and decorations and generally entering into the spirit of things.  And even more important – by selling tickets!  We had so many raffle donations that we more than filled the two baskets that were given away on the day and we kept quite a few of the 'keepable'  items to be the start of some baskets we will raffle at Christmas time.

Special thanks go to Sandybeach for donating the venue, Matt for sparkling conducting (literally and figuratively, thanks to the hat), Janet for great accompanying, Ken for making attractive flyers, programs and flags, Judy for concert publicity and overall arrangements for concert, John for lugging his timpani down and playing so well, our terrific soloists – Corry, Joe, Alan and Matt,  Joan Scott and Richenda for making the ‘rosettes’, Helen for great flags (and socks!), Neil Wanstall for fabulous decorating, Harold, Ramona, Mandy, Dominique for doing refreshments, raffles and front of house, Emily for taking photos, Joan W for wrapping raffle baskets, and – with Keith, counting all our money! 
 

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