<div><strong><u><font size="4">Choral Notes for the week of 04/01</font></u></strong></div><div><strong><u><font size="4"></font></u></strong> </div><div><strong><u><font size="4"></font></u></strong> </div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:14pt"><font size="4">Announcing
<font color="#ff0000">Solo Auditions</font> on Tuesday April 2<sup>nd</sup> !!!!</font></span></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:14pt"><font size="4">for
a Concert Version of <i>Strike Up the Band!</i></font></span></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font size="4">By
George and Ira Gershwin</font></span></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:14pt"><font size="4">One
performance only featuring The Concert Singers of Cary and the The Raleigh
Symphony Orchestra at the Koka Booth Amphitheater on Saturday, May 11<sup>th</sup>
at 7:30 PM</font></span></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:14pt"><font size="4"> <font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#ff0000">Auditions: </font><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font size="4">Tuesday, April 2<sup>nd</sup> from 7:00 – 10:00 PM</font></span></font></span></p>
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</font></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font size="4">No
Appointment Required – First Come, First Served</font></span></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font size="4">Meredith
College Music Building Room 105</font></span></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font size="4">Bring
a solo song from a Broadway show from 1970 or earlier.</font></span></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="Calibri"> </font></p><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif""><font size="4">Cast</font></span></div>
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</font></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif""><font size="4">Horace J. Fletcher – owner of
the Horace J. Fletcher American Cheese Co.</font></span></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif""><font size="4">Joan Fletcher – Horace J.
Fletcher’s daughter</font></span></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif""><font size="4">Jim Townsend – A reporter for
The Gazette</font></span></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif""><font size="4">Mrs. Draper – A society woman</font></span></p>
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</font></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif""><font size="4">Timothy Harper – The foreman of
the Horace J. Fletcher Cheese Co.</font></span></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif""><font size="4">Anne Draper - – Mrs. Draper’s
daughter</font></span></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif""><font size="4">Colonel Holmes – A confidential
adviser to the President of the United States</font></span></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif""><font size="4">C. Edgar Sloane – The manager of
the Horace J. Fletcher American Cheese Factory</font></span></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif""><font size="4">A Soldier</font></span></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif""><font size="4">A Narrator</font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center">
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<strong><u><font size="4" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Who ARE these people on page 32?? (Thank you David Lindquist!)</font></u></strong></font></div><div><strong><u><font size="4"></font></u></strong> </div><div> </div>
<div> <br>Morris Gest - leading theatrical producer -<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Gest" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Gest</a><br>Dempsey - almost certainly Jack Dempsey - well known boxer -<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Dempsey" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Dempsey</a><br>Ben Turpin - Vaudeville & silent film actor -<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Turpin" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Turpin</a><br>
Francis Bushman - actor, film director, scriptwriter -<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_X._Bushman" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_X._Bushman</a><br>Charlotte Cushman - actress -<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Saunders_Cushman" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Saunders_Cushman</a><br>
Edwin Booth - leading stage actor of 19th Century -<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Booth" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Booth</a><br>Admiral (George) Dewey - naval hero of Spanish American War -<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dewey" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dewey</a><br>Lefty Louie - a.k.a. Louis Rosenberg - underworld figure involved in well<br>reported ganglang incident of 1912 Bambino Ruth - this is of course, Babe<br>
Ruth Ginsberg - ??<br>O'Reilly - a possible reference to George M. Cohan's "Rise of Rosie<br>O'Reilly" of 1923; not sure about this Fazio - ??<br>Abie Cohn - there was an Irving Berlin song ("Yiddisha Nightingale",<br>
1911) which involves a character named Abie Cohn Leffingwell - possibly<br>Ernest deK. Leffingwell, a noted explorer -<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_de_Koven_Leffingwell" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_de_Koven_Leffingwell</a><br>
Fenevessi - probably referring to the Fennyvesseys who were noted for over<br>the top promoters of their burlesque show early in 1920s Schmaltz - a reach,<br>but there was a noted yodeler of 1920s named Oskar Friedrich Schmaltz<br>
Guggenheimer - ??<br>Rufus Rastus Jackson - possibly a reference to Rufus Rastus Jackson Brow, a<br>song title from 1927 Big Chief Muddy Waters - I think this is a song title.<br>The blues musician who went by that name was too young to be of note in<br>
1920s.<br>Minsky - I think this is a reference to Minsky's Burlesque -<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsky's_Burlesque" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsky's_Burlesque</a><br>Rumshinsky - this would be Joseph Rumshinsky of Yiddish theater fame -<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rumshinsky" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rumshinsky</a><br>Donahue - possibly referring to the vaudeville act of Terrance and Molly<br>Donahue from There's No Business Like Show Business Johnson - possibly Enoch<br>
"Nucky" Johnson, mob boss - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_L._Johnson" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_L._Johnson</a><br>Yon Yon Yonson - name from a popular song of the time -<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yon_Yonson" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yon_Yonson</a><br>Ching Ling Foo - Chinese magician of international fame -<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Ling_Foo" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Ling_Foo</a></div>
<div> </div><div> </div><div><strong><u><font size="4">NEED:</font></u></strong></div><div><strong><u><font size="4"></font></u></strong> </div><div><font size="4">We have a singer who has night-driving vision difficulties and lives in Fuquay-Varina. Please let me know if you could be of help; singer is offering to share cost of gas.</font></div>
<div><font size="4"></font> </div><div><font size="4"></font> </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>