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Blue
Notes for September 25, 2007
This
evening, please welcome again last week’s addition to our number,
Margarete Hendrickson, Treasurer Gary’s wife. For the past
several years, Margarete has assisted at the box office on concert
days.
Next
week’s special rehearsal will be held on Monday, October 1,
at Northminster Presbyterian Church. Northminster is located
at 2515 Central Park Avenue, just one block south of Central Street.
(Central Park intersects Golf Road at the stoplight just east of
Trinity.) Tuesday’s rehearsal will be at Trinity as usual--as
will both rehearsals the week after next, on Monday October 8, and
Tuesday, October 9.
Anne
Harkonen has tickets for sale this evening. Season subscriptions
are $60.00, $50.00 for seniors 65 and older, and $30.00 for students;
individual tickets are $22.00, $20.00 for seniors, and $12.00 for
students. (These are lower than at-the-door prices.)
October
12 is the deadline for submitting program ads. Contracts aplenty
await in the narthex, eager to be used. Contact Mary Ann Kissock
or Karen Fish Schurder with ads, money, questions.
Last
call for other items in the narthex: Membership
Guides, refrigerator
magnets, copies of the NSCS history (at $2.00 each), German pronunciation
guides, ESO invitations, copies of the season’s brochure. Last
week’s Blue Notes and a sign-up sheet for new nametags
are also there. If you’re a new member or if you signed up
for a new nametag, it’s probably there as well.
Just
a reminder: The NSCS rehearsal policy, as stated in the Membership
Guide, says that a “singer who must miss more than two rehearsals
or the dress rehearsal for any one concert may be asked to excuse
him/herself from the chorus and become a member of the audience.”
Coming
up this weekend, Friday at 8:00 P.M and Sunday at 2:00 P.M.: the
Trinity Players’ final performances of Kaufman and Hart’s
hilarious comedy George Washington Slept Here. Contact Dave
Wojtowicz (who plays a gigolo in this production) for more information:
847/933-1855 or dewojtowicz@yahoo.com.
Coming
up on October 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, and 21: the Savoyaires’ production
of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Princess Ida. Adult prices
are $10.00, $15.00, and $20.00. For tickets, call 847/251-8767. David
Hunt and Jonathan Rivera are in the cast.
Coming
up on November 18: Songs N’ Such, a concert of musical
selections composed by Dan Tucker and featuring Michelle Areyzaga.
Tickets for this performance, at the Musical Institute of Chicago
in Evanston, are $15.00. Harry Vroegh is the person to see.
The
announcement of our November concert is now posted on www.evanstonartsbuzz.com,
thanks to Ellen Pullin. It includes photographs of the three
soloists--as does our website.
In
case you missed it, here is an explanation of the Te Deum,
a translation of which is on Side B of last week’s Blue
Notes.
“Te
Deum, also sometimes called the Ambrosian Hymn because if its association
with St. Ambrose, is a traditional hymn of joy and thanksgiving.
First attributed to Sts. Ambrose, Augustine, or Hilary, it is now
accredited to Nicetas, Bishop of Remesiana (4th century). It is used
at the conclusion of the Office of the Readings for the Liturgy of
the Hours on Sundays outside Lent, daily during the Octaves of Christmas
and Easter, and on Solemnities and Feast Days. The petitions at the
end were added at a later time and are optional. A partial indulgence
is granted to the faithful who recite it in thanksgiving and a plenary
indulgence is granted if the hymn is recited publicly on the last
day of the year.”
There
will be no Blue Notes next week. Please contact David
Hunt with any announcements for the chorus.
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To
be politically correct:
A
woman does not “nag”; she becomes ”verbally repetitive.”
A
man does not have a “beer gut”; he has developed a “liquid
grain storage facility.”
A
man is not “balding”; he is in “follicle regression.”
A
woman is not a “dumb blonde”; she is a “light-haired detour
off the information superhighway.”
A
man does not “get lost all the time”; he “investigates alternative
destinations.”
A
woman is not “easy”; she is “horizontally accessible.”
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