The Acorn – March 22, 2025 – OCS Weekly News

Type of post: Chorus news item
Sub-type: The Acorn
Posted By: Evie Snapp
Status: Current
Date Posted: Sat, Mar 22 2025
The Acorn – March 22, 2025 – OCS Weekly News

1. High Notes
  • March 17 rehearsal: So many new friends!
    • Thanks Amy Mistarz and Percy Colores who both came by to check out OCS. We look forward to welcoming you at our concert on Monday!
    • Great to have Robert McSwain back again!
  • March 24 (Monday): CONCERT at Glenaire (same space, just earlier: 4000 Glenaire Circle, Cary). Wear your blue OCS shirt and black bottoms – NO jacket for Men.
    • 6:15p: CALL time for both choirs
    • 7p: Concert for Glenaire residents
    • ~ 8p: Short rehearsal and business
2. Overtures
  • Chapter 50TH Anniversary / Committee:
    • Have an idea? Want to join the committee? Let us know!
  • Donate to our monthly raffles!! Next up is Starbucks gift cards…
  • Registration for the Spring Convention and Contest is OPEN!
    • Expected Timeline: Saturday, April 5 (Sandhills Community College)
      • 9am Rehearsal
      • 11am Chorus contest starts – order to be released this week
      • 3p – 5p Evaluations (please stay if you can!)
    • Start off the convention weekend by attending the kick-off luncheon on Friday April 4 at 12:30 at Dugan’s Pub, 2 Market Square, Pinehurst, NC 28374. Last year, we had about 25 people at attendance from all around the district. Maybe a song or a tag might break out! If you plan to come, please give Nic Cols a heads up.
    • If you’re attending, remember to polish up your Polecats, especially “Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie” (conducted by our very own Carol) for the post-Contest chorus sing.
  • Any Concert Suggestions? – The more organizational funding we get from group concerts, the less formal fundraising we have to do. Contact our Marketing VP Bob Inskeep with any ideas.

3. Carol's Cadence 
  • Please take some time this weekend to look over the songs we are performing on Monday night.
  • Mixed Chorus - Check notes, words and tuning on Lion Sleeps Tonight.
  • Men's Chorus - Give special attention to Two Less Lonely People, Where Everybody Knows Your Name, and Desperado since those got little or no time in rehearsal last week.
  • Remember to keep that sound up in the goggles we sang through on Monday. It makes the sound much freer and brighter for less effort!
  • Program order for March 24 Glenaire performance (be prepared to rehearse this!):
        • You’ve Got a Friend in Me - Mixed
        • I Only Have Eyes for You – Mixed
        • Here Comes the Sun – Men
        • Yesterday – Men
        • Almost Like Being in Love - Men
        • Over the Rainbow – Men
à Quartet – The Keytones
        • I Didn’t Want to Fall – Mixed
        • What a “Wunnerful Would” – Mixed
        • Two Less Lonely People – Men
        • Desperado – Men
        • Where Everybody Knows Your Name – Men
        • Lion Sleeps Tonight – Mixed

4. Accelerando
  • March 24 (Monday), 6:15p call for 7p show – Glenaire Concert (usual location, but performance wear!)
  • April 4 - 5 (Fri-Sat): Carolinas District Convention/Contest, Pinehurst, N.C. The chorus contest is Saturday morning. We will likely start rehearsal at 9am. The order in which the chorus contestants will sing should be released in the next week or so.
  • NO SPRING DAZE April 26 (Saturday), 10:45am,: Spring Daze, Cary, N.C.
  • April 28 (Mon), 7pm: Springmoor
  • May 12 (Mon), 7p: Searstone (new theatre)
  • May 19 (Mon), 7pm: Springmoor, Memorial Day Theme – featured speaker Vern Pike!
  • June 8 (Sunday), 3pm: Preston Pointe
  • July 13 (Sunday): TENTATIVE
  • Aug 4 (Monday), 7pm: The Cardinal
  • December 1 (Mon): Whispering Pines
  • December 8 (Mon): The Cardinal
  • December 15 (Mon), 7pm: Springmoor
  • December 22 (Mon), 7pm: Waltonwood (Lake Boone Trail)

5. In Harmony  (Around the BHS World)
6. Major & Minor Moods
Please send our friends your prayers & best wishes!