FROM MORNA
Thank you for a lovely concert yesterday. I hope friends and family enjoyed being with us. Wasn’t the Lord Byng choir exceptional? I really think we sang the pieces in the second half of the concert fueled with inspiration from them. Thanks to everyone who made things run well. Cathy has a long list of folks deserving of recognition below. For my part, I especially want to thank Evelyn for her beautiful and committed playing, and every one of you for your focused and musical singing.
And now we are on to the four rehearsals leading up to “An EnChor Christmas” on December 18th. Thank you, John, for distributing the music we need, in addition to the pieces we recorded six weeks ago. Please continue to bring all repertoire to all rehearsals, as we have the White Rock performance on December 2 and Tapestry on December 9 which will be a mixture of Christmas and non-Christmas repertoire. If you haven’t already, please correspond with your section leader about which of our three (Nov 29 Canuck Place is the third) you are personally planning to sing in.
Repertoire for this Friday will be the five “new” Christmas pieces: What Sweeter Music?, And the Glory of the Lord, Stopping by Woods, Dormi Dormi, and We Wish You a Merry Christmas (newly-distributed Rutter version).
We are close to finalizing the Care Home Christmas Video. I think it is a fabulous gift to the community – positive, colourful, musical, and friendly. Thank you again, Ken and Roy, for your playing.
See you Friday!
Morna
What a concert!
It was a wonderful afternoon of music yesterday as EnChor presented our first concert of the 2022-2023 season. The students were utterly amazing and “us older folk” were pretty good as well!
As with any concert, there are so many people that work to make sure it all comes together. Please help me thank:
John Smit: for picking up and returning the risers to the Richmond Orchestra and Chorus even though he wasn’t even able to participate in the concert!
Don Blake: for looking after all the posters, programs and general publicity for the concert
Jay Black: for ensuring our website was ready to take ticket orders and for setting up the PA system.
Lorna Blake: for looking after Front of House
Don Harder: for recording the concert
Chris Sallis: for looking after getting the “thank you” bouquets.
Tony Davies: for providing percussion
Hoot, Ted and Don: for providing the brass for Pastime with Good Company
Evelyn: for her truly beautiful violin accompaniment in Take This Thread
Stephen Smith: for his always wonderful accompaniments and his beautiful arrangement of Song for A Winter’s Night
All the people who helped to set up and strike the risers, both on Friday and Sunday
All the people who helped to set up the chairs, even climbing up to the Choir Room to ensure we had enough to sit on.
And of course last, but definitely NOT least, Morna, who made it all possible by leading us to be the best that we can be.
The only trouble with singling out people to thank, is often someone is inevitably forgotten. If this is you, I sincerely apologize and please let me know.
Looking forward to our next concert!
Cathy