Thursday, August 27, 2009

The Blog is working great and the data input form is incredible! All of your responses go to the same spreadsheet!! keep filling it out so I will have all of your information and wonderful comments.

Incidentally I will be singing on Sept 6th at the service.

I love Blogging!!

Andy

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Ingathering rehearsal

Hey Choristers,

Our first OFFICIAL rehearsal is September 9th (see the post below for more detail on that) However, I would like to do a wonderful little piece I found called "We Are One" by Brian Tate for ingathering and I would like to invite you to an informal rehearsal on September 2 (next Wednesday) to get a head start on it.
The piece is a simple gospel piece and we should be able to tackle it in a couple of rehearsals. Andrea is going to play piano for us as it will be Melanie's first sunday off all summer. We will also have bass and drums.
We will be featuring a new Soloist in town her name is Jami Templeton. She Graduated from Sehome in 94 but has been studying in New York and in LA for the last 10 years. She is working on migrating back to Bellingham so I thought I would ask her to come sing with us for ingathering and she agreed!

The rehearsal time on the 2nd is 8:00pm and will be over around 8:50 (I know this is late but Andrea teaches until 8) don't worry our normal rehearsals will still start at 7pm.

Please RSVP if you are available to make the informal rehearsal on the 2nd by emailing me at andmarshall@gmail.com

Thanks and lets have a great year!!

Andy

Saturday, August 15, 2009

First Rehearsal Agenda

BUF choir First Rehearsal Agenda

6-7 Potlach 
    Basses bring Sides
    Tenors bring Napkins and plates and Forks (we are not able to use the kitchen downstairs so paper will have to work.)
    Altos bring desert
    Sopranos Bring Main dish

7 Rehearsal starts. (we only had about 4 rehearsals that did not start on time last year. I am working hard on my end to get the year started off right by being on time:)
  • Introductions
  • BUF choir what is it and what do we do?
  • New and old Technology 
  • Summer of music
  • Direction of BUF choir this year
  • Community dinner night
  • Music Preview
  • Warm up
  • Sing

8:45 Chamber Auditions
    I would like to have a balanced 12 voices this year that are committed to doing difficult and excellent music. I would like to make this group really shine and perhaps have its own presence at interfaith and other places in the community.

Friday, August 14, 2009

Hey choristers

This blog is going to be an easy way for us to be in better contact on what is going on in the world of BUF choir