GREETINGS SOLI MEMBERS

YOUR PRAYERS, PLEASE...

- For Elinor Stidham and her family as her husband is enduring repeated hospitalizations and dialysis, and whose grandson was hit by mortar fire in Iraq.

- For Flo Sterk as she recovers from a broken ankle

- For Aldy Enloe as she continues cancer treatment

- For Joan Silverstein as she continues cancer treatment

SOLI SOLOIST AUDITIONS FOR BRAHMS REQUIEM

Soli Deo Gloria announces soprano and baritone soloist auditions for the choir's performance of Brahms' A German Requiem at 7:00 p.m., Saturday, May 1, with a rehearsal on Friday night, April 30. The work will be performed in English, accompanied by full orchestra.

Soloist auditions will be held starting at 6:00 p.m., Monday, March 8, at First United Methodist Church, 420 N. Nevada Ave. Soloists should contact Brad Peterson, conductor, at 719-262-0614 or bradnco@msn.com to reserve an audition time.

The audition will consist of "Ye Now Are Sorrowful" (Movement V) for sopranos and "Lord, Make Me to Know" (Movement III) for baritones. Selected soloists will receive an honorarium for the performance.

BUTTER BRAID SALE

Order forms for the Butter Braids/Cookie Dough sale will be available on Monday -- a week earlier than planned. Orders and money should be turned in by March 15. Is anyone going to be able to outdo Carl for orders? Tell your friends and relatives that donations of $10.00, the price of the Braids or Cookie Dough, are gladly accepted. Cookies and Butter Braids will be delivered at practice on March 29. Prizes will be awarded for the people with the 3 highest total sales.

PROGRAM AD SALES

Now is the time to be selling ads for the Spring Concert program. The money we raise from ads helps offset the printing costs for the program and raises funds for Soli, which in turn keeps our membership dues lower. Don't give up too easily. Sometimes it takes more than one visit to make a sale. Maybe when you place an order with your Mary Kay, Avon or jewelry rep you can plant the seed for an ad and then follow through on the sale when they drop your order off. And be sure to remind your prospective advertisers that the businesses who advertise in our program gain marketing access to some of the best customers in town!

For those in the process of obtaining ads, be sure to download or print the REVISED AD AGREEMENT from the web site at http://solideogloriacs.org/members.htm since both the form and the rates have changed.

The copy for each ad must be camera ready. If you are given a business card as the original copy, it will be hard to make it work for an ad bigger than 1/8 of a page. For more information on quality copy see the camera-ready tips on the Soli website.

REHEARSAL FILES

Here's a link www.tinyurl.com/solispring2010 to the site where you can find rehearsal files for the Spring concert. On the site you can click on each song's name and find parts for all four voices.