The Acorn - Oak City Sound Weekly Newsletter - June 24, 2022

Type of post: Chorus news item
Sub-type: No sub-type
Posted By: Nic Cols
Status: Current
Date Posted: Fri, Jun 24 2022


0. Updates

  • Revised NC State Game schedule with report times.

1. Notes for this week

  • Thanks to COVID (again! ... sigh) we lost a few members to quarantine last week (Carol, Warren, and Sean). They are all doing fine. Yours truly was also missing in order to eliminate any possibility of catching COVID before vacation. Thanks to Mike for stepping in at the last minute and leading our meeting.
    • Please let us know if you develop symptoms, and if you take a test, and what the test results were. Thanks!
  • Hence, our plans for next meeting are unchanged from last week!
  • Our next meeting is Monday June 27 at our usual meeting place, Searstone Retirement Village, at 7pm. Please fill out the Attendance Planner on the Member Home page.
  • Mike Muha directed in Carol’s absence.  We ran through our possible songs for Searstone but skipped the Christmas music. 
  • Afterglow is always a great time. So why don't you come and join us?

2. Carol's Korner

  • Song List for our next Monday, June 27 to practice on your own at home. The site music library has all the scores and part-specific learning trax. The list of songs is what is expected to be covered at rehearsal. The order of the list has no significance to anything, so don’t try to read anything into it!
    • All I Want for Christmas
    • It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
    • Merry Christmas, Darling
    • Crazy
    • Let Me Call You Sweetheart
    • Lion Sleeps Tonight
    • Over the Rainbow
    • Prayer of the Children - off spots please!
    • Heart of My Heart (Story of the Rose)
    • Yesterday
  • As always: Keep working on creating legato lines by singing into and through the open vowels and making the end of each syllable the beginning of the next syllable. As you get used to this concept, it will make a HUGE difference!
  • Along with this, you should develop your interpretational ability, which, for a chorus member, means using dynamic range to express the meanings of the phrases, and even to help delineate the phrases themselves. Longer duration notes, as defined in the context of the song, should have dynamic changes so as to convey the feeling of the phrase, plus maintain the forward direction of the phrasing, and not get mired in chord worship.
 

3. Future Notes

  • Due to the construction that has begun at the front door at Searstone, parking at the front of the building isno longer be allowed. All must park at Lorraine Park area. 
  • .We will not meet on Monday July 4.  It’s Internationals in Charlotte during the week of July 4.  Several members are going.  This is the closest International Convention we are likely to see in many years.  You should not miss this. 

4. Long Range

  • July 25 at 7pm: Oak City Sound in concert at Searstone, Remember that Searstone provides our rehearsal space to us FOR FREE, in exchange for a concert here and there. Monday July 25 2022 at 7pm is one of those concert dates where we "earn our keep". It's an earlier than usual show-up time! There is a uniform requirement. See Events Page for details.
  • September 10 is our first of 7 football concession sessions at Carter Finley stadium.  These are our most important fund raiser events of the year.  We need to provide 7 workers for each event.  A signup sheet will be available next week.  Here is the entire schedule, as far as we know right now:
    • Sep 10 - Kickoff @ 12:30pm    Report to work @ 10:00am
    • Sep 17 - Kickoff @  7:00pm    Report to work @  4:30pm
    • Sep 24 - time TBA
    • Oct  8 - time TBA
    • Oct 27 - Kickoff @  7:30pm    Report to work @  5:00pm
    • Nov  5 - time TBA
    • Nov 12 - time TBA
  • September 10 is also the district’s Lakeside Harmony Camp at the Durant Nature Preserve.  It is an all day fun event of education and singing.  The chapter obligation comes first, but after filling that you should attend this event if you can.
  • October 14 and 15:: NSC District will hold this Fall's Convention at Asbury UMC Church at 6612 Creedmoor Rd, in Raleigh.
    • Volunteering: HCA/HOC Choruses in Durham are the hosting chapter. with Jason Kekas as the Convention Planner and Chairman.. Let Nic know if you are available to help as well. 
    • Particpating: We will compete at the Convention with The Bare Necessities and Over the Rainbow.. Look for future announcements about the qualifying process!
  • Christmas Season:
    • Show:  On December 6, a Tuesday evening, we will put on a Christmas show at the Cary Arts Center theater.   We will need to sell tickets.  Start thinking NOW about who you might want to invite. 
    • Community Singouts: Please be on the lookout for possible other places to sing at Christmas time. If they can't come to us, we will come to them! Just to put some context about it: we had 14 singers at our singouts in North Hills Shopping Center, while at the same time we were having only 10 or 11 at practice sessions! Everyone likes singouts in the public setting. Note that we will make every effort possible to schedule these for Monday evenings. We know your time during the Holiday season is precious, so to ask for another night is difficult. We hope you can keep your Monday evenings reserved for Oak City Sound throughout that season.