EnChor Weekly Announcements, April 24, 2025
FROM MORNA
Looking forward to The Earth Adorned this weekend. It looks like good weather, which is a bonus, especially given our concert title. We are dedicating this concert to the memory of Tony Davies.
Here are important details. Please read carefully.
Saturday, April 26 – 10am – 12:30pm mandatory Dress Rehearsal. We are in the East/West Hall of PSUC (2195 West 45th Ave), so singers will be needed before 10 to set up chairs as we used to do. I will be there with the seating board. Please have all your music in order before the start of rehearsal (see below). We will rehearse in concert order and discuss moves for singalongs, etc.
Sunday, April 27 – 3pm concert in sanctuary
1:15pm – sanctuary will be open (Morna and John S)
1:35pm – riser crew call time (you know who you are); also need 4 singers setting up folding chairs in transepts for choir
1:55pm absolute latest choir call time for a 2:00pm warmup on the risers. Please try to come early!
2:30 – clear house; Valuables lockup will be the chapel off the organ console side.
3:00 – concert starts
4:15pm ish – concert ends – there is no audience reception following this concert
This is going to be a beautiful concert, so please continue to share and invite people, including potential new, brilliant members of the choir for next year. We’ll also be highlighting our Spring raffle. See below for promo links.
Repertoire:
- O Canada (w audience, unison, multilingual words handed out)
- Nitohtamok Askiy (Listen to the Land)
- Locus Iste
- Winter Awakening
- The Earth Adorned
- Ce moi de mai
- SINGALONG: What a Wonderful World
- You Who Bear the Light
- Fire, Air, Earth, & Water
- Bogoroditse Devo
- Dirait-on
- piano solo by Ken (Bach Prelude and Fugue in A major)
- SINGALONG: With a Little Help from My Friends
- Here Comes the Sun
- Danny Boy
- Mountain, Sea and Sky
- Your Soul is Song
Concert apparel:
Ladies: Red silk tops, black pants, black hose with black dress shoes. Small earrings and no necklaces, please.
Gentlemen: Black shirts, black dress pants with belt , black socks and polished black dress shoes, red tie.
Confirming there is NO REHEARSAL on Tuesday, April 29 – After a busy month and busy weekend, we’re taking Tuesday off. We finish the year with four more Tuesdays: May 4, 12, 20, and 27. At the latter, we welcome the Okanagan Youth Choir to share the time with us. This is also music hand-in day.
VSO Day of Music
We are confirmed for a 30-minute performance at Christ Church Cathedral downtown at 3:00pm, with a sound check on stage at 2:30pm. The Board is organizing a choir photo shoot before or after. Current year singers who have not been able to attend recently and who are planning to return next year should come for the photo shoot even though they are not singing the performance. Details of time, location, and apparel to come as soon as possible. If you have any changes to your availability for that day previously done through a survey, please let your Section Leader know at your earliest convenience.
Morna
Click HERE to purchase tickets for our April 27 concert.
Click HERE to purchase tickets for EnChor’s Spring Raffle
POSSIBLE TRAFFIC ISSUES ON SATURDAY & SUNDAY (thanks to Barry Honda)
Saturday parade on 41st in the morning, is staging 9:30am onwards https://www.instagram.com/p/DInQzjLRTKd/?hl=en
And Sunday the Sun Run should be done, but may affect traffic, as some closures go to 1:30pm — can check here https://www.vancouversunrun.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/VSR-2025-Road-Closure-Summary-2.pdf
FROM MUSIC LIBRARIAN (via Barry Honda)
On behalf of John Culter, our peerless librarian: please hang onto your music after the concert, UNLESS—- if you won’t be present at any more rehearsals/events after this Sunday, could you please bring ALL of your EnChor music, and HAND IT ALL IN to Barry Honda after the concert. Thank you!
SAVE THE DATE!
Enchor’s Year End Social
June 7TH, 2025
11:00am to…. “as long as you want to stay”
Home of Nancy and Garnet Wolchok
25030-21B Ave., Langley
Many thanks to Nancy and Garnet who have again offered their home for EnChor’s Year End Social.
Please bring your own lunch. There will be an assortment of non-alcoholic drinks available but if you prefer a different beverage please bring your own. An assortment of sweets will also be available for dessert.
Please also bring your own plates, eating utensils and drink glasses for easier cleanup.
AND DON’T FORGET YOUR BATHING SUIT AND SUNSCREEN!!
Helpful Links and Special Dates (details in calendar)
Saturday, April 26 morning Dress Rehearsal at PSUC
Sunday, April 27 spring concert at PSUC
Saturday, May 24 VSO Day of Music, Christ Church Cathedral Tuesday, May 27 last regular rehearsal of 24/25 season