1. High Notes

• Nov 6: Fourth Oak City Sound Holiday Singers meeting. The sound is really starting to come together. We OCS are so grateful for the great boost you're providing to the music.
• Nov 13: Special rehearsal for OCS Holiday Chorus, followed by OCS regular practice. The usual meeting place (Searstone)
  • 7pm to 7:45: Oak City Sound Holiday Chorus. We will run the entire set:
    • Carol of the BellsDo You Hear What I Hear?
    • Away in a Manger - also a sing-along
    • Jingle Bells - also a sing-along
    • It Came Upon a Silent Night
  • 7:50 to 9:30: We will run the entire OCS song set for the entire Dec 5 show, which follows:
    • We Need a Little Christmas
      Songs of Christmas
      Christmas Through Your Eyes
      
      Quartet - Impromptu or NH4
      Sing-along (Rudolph??)
      
      Please Come Home for Christmas
      Jingle Bell Rock
      A Christmas Carol
      
      Quartet - NH4 or Impromptu
      Sing-along (Frosty??)
      
      Light the Legend
      It's a Hanukkah Song (in a Major Key)
      March of the Wooden Soldiers
      
      INTERMISSION 
      
      Holiday Chorus Set (practiced during Holiday Chorus time above)

• Please start telling your friends and acquaintances about our Christmas Concert at the Cary Arts Center on Tuesday Dec 5. 
  • Unlike our other performances throughout the year, we ourselves are responsible for selling our own tickets for this show. 
  • Mike has sent out an email to you all that you can forward to your own mailing list (like everyone!!).
  • You can also direct your friends to Oak City Sound - Home 
  • Holiday Chorus members will get two tickets so that you can enjoy the first part of the show (using one ticket) with a friend (using the second ticket), then at intermission, go back stage in preparation for the second half with the Holiday Chorus
• Another important aspect of the Show is selling advertising space in the show program. Please approach the businesses you trade at and ask them to take out an Ad.
  • Oak City Sound has for decades been a strong active supporter of vocal music in middle and high schools throughout Wake County. 
  • All Ads need to be sold by Nov 27. 
  • The Ad Rate Card is at ShowSponsorAndAdForm2023.pdf (oakcitysound.org) , so it's good to have this info handy when you talk to a prospective donor: ShowSponsorAndAdForm2023.pdf (oakcitysound.org). 
• Special request to Holiday Chorus singers: In addition to the Dec 5 concert at Cary Arts Center, you are invited to sing in any of our Christmas concerts. Please respond to ncols21@gmail.com to let us know which concerts you would be able to perform in.
  • All are on Mondays: Nov 27, Dec 4, Dec 5, Dec 11.
  • Call times will be about 6:00pm or so.
  • Program will only be about an hour in length.

2. Carol's Korner

• We will run everything in show order (with the Holiday Chorus set in the first hour) for the next 2 weeks.
• PLEASE do not bring any music onto the risers next Monday. We can't wait until the 20th to be ready to perform for our first audience on the 27th. We have show elements we still need to incorporate and we need to have our hands free and minds focused to do that.

3. Future Notes

• Nov 25 (Saturday): Last NC State Football Game concession. Game and call times are TBD.
• Nov 27 (Monday) - Holiday Concert at The Templeton
• Dec 4 (Monday) - Holiday Concert at Springmoor
• Dec 5 (Tuesday) - Holiday Concert at Cary Arts Center
• Dec 11 (Monday) - Holiday Concert at Whispering Pines
• Dec 18 (Monday) - Holiday Concert at Searstone

4. Long Range

• January TBD: Chorus "Installation" Banquet
• February 14 Wednesday: Singing Valentines!!
• April 19 to 21: Carolinas District Convention in Pinehurst NC