Blue Notes for Tuesday, February 10, 2004

Tickets are now available for the February 29 concert. Purchased in advance, these tickets are $18.00, or $15.00 for students, and seniors over the age of 60. Tickets for youth aged twelve and under are $10.00.

Several North Shore choristers are planning to go to Berkshire, Massachusetts, during the first week in August to join with others from around the country to sing Dvorak’s Requiem, a seldom sung but beautiful work. David Hayes, who directs the Philadelphia Singers, will be the conductor, and the Saturday night performance of the Requiem will be sung with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra. The Berkshire Festival is held at a small prep school with accommodations in the dorms and meals at the student center. After a heavy week of rehearsals, lectures, and classes, Friday nights are free, and many participants attend the concerts at nearby Tanglewood. For a week of great singing, consider the Berkshire Festival this summer--particularly from August 1 through 8. Contact Anthony Green, Ron Dahlquist, or Katie Eckstein for more information. A few brochures are also available at the back table.

On Saturday, February 21, the Dearing Concert Duo, with vocalist/flautist Abha Dearing and guitarist Steven Dearing, perform a broad range of musical pieces, with emphasis on Spanish and Latin music, at the Unitarian Church of Evanston. The recital begins at 7:00 P.M.; refreshments follow. The suggested donation is $10.00

If you need a name tag, pick one up or order one from Anthony Green; Anthony also has CDs of the December concert. See him at the back table.

Thanks to all of you who went to Dominick’s last Monday, Tuesday, and/or Wednesday to lay in supplies and help meet our goal of $1000.00.

For your calendar: On Saturday, February 28, be ready to sing in Saint Luke’s at 10:00 A.M. This is a required rehearsal unless you have been excused by the general manager. You will be invited to help set up for that rehearsal beforehand and to take down afterward.

On August 3, 1965, in a letter to his friend Helen Coates, Leonard Bernstein wrote this about the Chichester Psalms: “The Psalms went off well, in spite of a shockingly small amount of rehearsal. The choirs were a delight: they had everything down pat, but the orchestra was swimming in the open sea.”