[csc_newsline] Symphonic Choir - Response Requested

[Larry Speakman]

Dear Singers,

I hope you have had a a good week and are preparing a warm cup of refreshment (contents at your discretion) for the upcoming weather event. While doing so, read the review of our performance last week athttp://cvnc.org/article.cfm?articleId=7785 <athttp://cvnc.org/article.cfm?articleId=7785> 

I’ve been thinking for the last few days about the wonderful work that you did last week, but I have also been thinking about the time and energy that was required to do so. I want us to come back for the next project feeling energized and ready to sing, which I feel will have a better chance of happening if we postpone our next Symphonic Choir rehearsal for an additional week. Therefore, no rehearsal this Monday, January 25th. We will resume on Monday, February 1st at our normal time.

Speaking of our next project, we will be performing a program that I am very proud of, and excited about. The program is called The Deepness of the Blue, and will be our first concert ever performed in the beautiful Sanctuary of St. Francis United Methodist Church in Cary. The title work comes from writings by Langston Hughes and is set for small ensemble and four hand piano by William Averitt. The program features music from the African, and African American traditions that tells a story that spans 400 years, including some of the greatest choral arrangements of spirituals ever written. A list of the music to be performed is pasted in below. We need all of you to make this program as wonderful as it can be! I have heard some discussion about sitting out the spring season, but hope that is just the fatigue from last week talking. Think about how wonderful it will be to sing multiple Moses Hogan arrangements :-) Whatever your plans, I need you to let me know if you will participate. Click the link below for one of my famous 30 second surveys so that we can make sure that we have music for everyone. 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NHQJ88V <https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NHQJ88V>

The cost for music is $20, which includes the $5 reduction promised from our overcharge on the Holiday Pops. I wish we could make the charge even lower, but concerts with multiple single copies always cost a bit more than ones with one or two major works. There will be a Paypal link setup shortly on the members page.

Have fun playing in the snow…or ice, or the grass if precipitation never materializes. Hopefully, we’ll see all of you on February 1st!

Larry


	Program

The Deepness of the Blue      Text by Langston Hughes, Music by William Averitt

	1. 	New Moon

	2.     My Loves

	3.     Poem

	4.     Drum

	5.     Danse Africaine

 The Concert Singers of Cary Choral Artists

			Allen Bailey, David Cole – Piano


  

There Must Be a God Somewhere: The Birth of Spirituals

Ride On, King Jesus!   arr. Hall Johnson

Lord, How Come Me Here?    arr. Simpson/Curenton

 

Have You Got Religion?: Songs of Biblical Stories

            Witness           arr. Haloran/Bolks

            Were You There?        arr. Harry T. Burleigh

 

And Before I’ll Be a Slave: Songs of Rebellion and Freedom

            Oh, Freedom! arr. Brazeal Dennard

            The Battle of Jericho  arr. Moses Hogan

            If I Got My Ticket, Can I Ride?            arr. Robert Shaw

            Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel? Arr. Moses Hogan

 

The Day of Jubilee: Songs of Emancipation

            Great Day!      Arr. Moses Hogan

            In Dat Great Gitten’ Up Mornin’        arr. Jester Hairston

 

Trials and Tribulations: Civil Rights

            My Feets Is Tired        Alice Parker

            MLK     Words and Music by U2/arr. Bob Chilcott

            Back of the Bus           arr. Gene Glickman

 

Jazz: Black America’s Gift to the World

            Come Sunday  Duke Ellington/arr. Alice Parker

            Mood Indigo    Ellington/Mills/Bigard

            Ain’t Misbehaven’       Thomas “Fats” Waller/arr. Harry Brooks

 	The Concert Singers of Cary Symphonic Choir