<div><u><font size="4">Choral Notes for the week of 3/26</font></u></div><div><u><font size="4"></font></u> </div><div><u><font size="4"></font></u> </div><div><strong><em><u><font size="4" face="times new roman,serif">A Message from Larry:</font></u></em></strong></div>
<div><strong><em><u><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></u></em></strong> </div><div><em><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It was wonderful seeing such a full chorus on Monday! I am really looking forward to our May concert and I know you will too once the music starts to settle in. </font></em></div>
<div><em><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></em> </div><div><em><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Please </strong>make a special effort not to do any talking during rehearsal! The sound of the airconditioning is making it very difficult for me to speak above it so everyone can hear and that combined with the large number of singers in the room makes it even more necessary than usual to save <strong>all</strong> conversations and comments for the break.</font></em></div>
<div><em><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></em> </div><div><em><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thank you!</font></em></div><div><em><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></em> </div><div><em><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Larry</font></em></div>
<div><em><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></em> </div><div><em><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></em> </div><div><em><font color="#000099" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong><u>Fund Raising - A Message from CSC's Board Chairman</u></strong></font></em></div>
<div><em><font color="#000099" size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></em></div><div><font color="#000099">At the March CSC Board meeting, the board authorized a repeat of recent years' efforts to raise funds for WCPE so that CSC could continue getting<br>
on-air credit as a supporter. In each of the 2010 and 2011 drives we raised over $2000,which entitled us to twice-weekly plugs about the CSC, its programs, and its objectives.</font></div><div><font color="#000099"> </font></div>
<div><font color="#000099">If you listen to The Classical Station, you have probably heard these Public Service Announcements (PSAs), particularly in the Sunday AM Great<br>Sacred Music and Thursday evening Opera House programs. The thresholds are $500 gets monthly PSAa, $1000 gets weekly plugs. It would be nice to match last year's $2000, but we can surely go for $1000!Recall that the process is:</font></div>
<div><br><font color="#000099">1. Make your check for the amount of the donation to "WCPE Radio"<br>2. Put "CSC Project" in the memo line of the check, to ensure proper credit<br>3. Give your check to me, Katy O'Brien, Ingrid Speakman, or any board member <br>
4. Feel good all over for helping both great local music institutions!</font></div><div><font color="#000099"></font> </div><div><font color="#000099">The PSAs are the "premium" we get for the group donation, so you will not get your individual coffee mug or tee shirt.<br>
I'll nag and give status updates from time to time as the campaign goes along. We want to wrap this up by Mid-April.</font></div><div> </div><div><font color="#000099">If you are not singing in the current CSC project and wish to contribute to WCPE as part of our effort, you can put the check in the snail mail to:</font></div>
<div><font color="#000099"></font> </div><div><font color="#000099">Joe Ferguson<br>2114 West Marilyn Cir.<br>Cary, NC 27513 </font></div><div><font color="#000099"></font> </div><div><font color="#000099">or to </font></div>
<div><font color="#000099"></font> </div><div><font color="#000099">Concert Singers of Cary<br>PO Box 1291<br>Cary, NC 27512-1921</font></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><strong><u><font size="4">We need to know:</font></u></strong></div>
<div><strong><u><font size="4"></font></u></strong> </div><ul><li><font size="4">Is there anyone who did NOT attend Monday night's first rehearsal who is planning on singing the May concert? If there is, who are you and have you already pre-paid your music? <font color="#ff0000">Please</font><font color="#ff0000"> let me know by this Friday, 3/30, otherwise you will have to buy your music on your own.</font></font></li>
<li><font size="4"><font color="#000000">If you have NOT r.s.v.p.'d yet for the May 20th luncheon: </font><font color="#ff0000">Please let me know by this Friday, 3/30.</font></font></li></ul><div> </div><div><u><font size="4">Pictures and Name Tags:</font></u></div>
<div><u><font size="4"></font></u> </div><ul><li><font size="4">there will be sign-up sheets on the table at break on Monday, 3/26 for you to sign if you either need a name tag (please write your first and last name and which voice you sing - SATB) or need/want your photo taken for the pictorial directory (all new members need both a name tag and a photo taken.)</font></li>
<li><font size="4">the directory is on the verge of being completed.</font></li><li><font size="4">please note that anyone who has not sung with CSC for the past two seasons will have their photo removed from the directory. </font></li>
</ul><div> </div><div><strong><u><font size="4">Music still to come:</font></u></strong></div><div><strong><u><font size="4"></font></u></strong> </div><div><font size="4">1. Not everyone has a copy of "Jasmine Flower" in their packet; we have more on order. </font></div>
<div><font size="4">2. The piece "Motherless Child" is also on back order.</font></div><div><font size="4"></font> </div><div><font size="4"></font> </div><div><font size="4"><u>Question regarding the cost of the music as a tax deduction:</u></font></div>
<div><u><font size="4"></font></u> <br><font size="4"> "<strong>Membership dues are</strong> tax deductible if you itemize. Please see Katy O'Brien if you need a tax receipt. Music costs are pass-through costs and are therefore <strong>not</strong> tax deductible."</font></div>
<div> </div><div> </div><div><font size="4"><em>A grey cardigan was left behind last Monday; it can be picked up at the CAC lost and found.</em></font></div><div> </div><div><font size="4"><u>Please note</u>: just because the rehearsal room was stifling hot last Monday, does not mean it will be the same this coming Monday. Be prepared for the possibility of experiencing the opposite extreme!</font> </div>
<div> </div><div> </div><div><font size="4">See you at rehearsal!</font></div><div><font size="4"></font> </div><div><font size="4">Ingrid Speakman</font></div><div><font size="4">Membership Chair, The Concert Singers of Cary</font></div>
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