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From Admin (September 23):
Wardrobe
Let Rachel know If you need costume pieces. Our wardrobe deposit fee for shells, jacket & "triangle" is $100. $25 is non-refundable for wear and tear. $75 would be returned to you if you leave the Chorus. The deposit for pocket squares (poofs) to be worn with tuxedos is $25. Cash, cheque or etransfer (use "rocaisgr8" for the security answer) are all great!
Pub Night: Beach Boys Sing-Along
We need to sell tickets, folks, to make this event a success. Direct everyone HERE to purchase tickets for this fun - fundraiser!! It's coming up fast. There are several burger options and you get to choose your beverage (non-alcoholic included). Kids are welcome until 8 pm. If you have any questions, please let me know. We could also REALLY use some help at this event (checking names at the door and handing out tickets, selling tickets "at the door" to folks who don't already have one, selling 50/50 raffle tickets, etc). If you're planning to come anyway, please consider giving us a hand at some point during the event. Reply to this message and let me know if you're able and willing - thank you!
Posters & Publicity for our first concert: Oct 26
Please take a few posters to put up around your community! Tickets are available for purchase now! Forward our posts on FB and send out emails.
Fall Tune-Up Workshops
October 5 - sign up here!
From Brigid (September 23):
Big thanks all the ROCA folks who turned out on Saturday morning for the beginning of Culture Days - our "Klee Wyck" was appreciated, and Rachel had a busy day at the table, with Kathy's "Rainy Night Troubles" performing. ROCA was obvious!
Some sad news for long-time ROCA singers - Barry Madden died on 21 September - he was 83, and had been dealing with poor health for some time. Barry sang with us 2004-2018, and was ready to record, or do anything tech - he was most proud of the recording he (illegally) managed to make of the Chorus singing at Carnegie Hall!
Please note the attached workshop info for October 5; Geordie Roberts is the clinician in Richmond. I am disappointed that we have only 4 ROCA singers officially registered - I hope that's just you being last-minute, but it's a good idea to register so we know where we are for music copies. Please pass this poster on to anyone you know - they don't need to be in a BCCF choir, and it would be a good boost to high-school and church choir singers.
And then the following weekend is the Pub Night - please talk to Kathy Hori or Rachel if you can help or if you want tickets.
Alto sectional tonight (Monday); soprano sectional next Sunday evening at Adele's; tenor/bass sectional not till the evening of Friday 11 October...
Alison and Mary (both Choir 1) are away on Tuesday, and sadly, Graeme and Alex - so our poor tenors are WAY outnumbered. Always be VERY nice to tenors who are present and singing!
The good news is that (though we lost Peter, Tony and Harry at the start of the season) we have THREE good basses joining us - Alex Gowans is director of music at Our Saviour Lutheran, and sang bass solo in the Faure Requiem some years back; Don Harder sings with EnChor and is a CBC sound man; Jonathan Robinson is a friend from way back who I re-encountered while singing at St John's Shaughnessy - we're lucky enough to have him before he vanishes to New Zealand in November. Please make them welcome! I've put Don in Choir 1, and Alex and Jonathan in Choir 2. I wish I could find tenors like that - but it took five
tries to find our soloist - they are obviously busy that evening!
Double-chorus stuff tomorrow night (sorry, tenors, but we gotta!) - we'll probably sing through the Kyrie and the Credo, so I hope you have all the little playful bits of the latter sorted out from last week!
See you on Tuesday.
Brigid
