GREETINGS SOLI MEMBERS 1 March 2010 *** UPDATE *** TEXAS ROADHOUSE COUPONS ARE NOW AVAILABLE The coupons for $5.00 off a meal at the Texas Roadhouse Steakhouse on 8th Street will be on sale at practice on Monday. March 1st . We've decided to sell them for $3.00 each, unless you'd like to pay more. Texas Roadhouse gave $500.00 worth of coupons to Soli at no cost as part of their community support program. They've also recently given a portion of their proceeds to help the four Senior Centers stay open. All proceeds for the sale of the coupons go to Soli. These coupons may be used by you, or given to friends. 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 CONCERT ATTIRE FOR OUR NEW LADIES Ladies, dresses and pearls will be available for pick-up at our next practice on MONDAY, MARCH 1st. You can pick up your items from Jill and please remember to bring your checkbook. KUDOS FOR THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY SINGERS Juliette Frederick received the following note from Chris Cavendish at the Air Force Academy and we wanted to share it with all the Choir members: "I wanted to thank you very much for Soli Deo Gloria’s performances at the Feb. 14th dual-meet. It was incredibly impressive! Our events staff said they had never had a choir do a performance like that and it was very moving, especially for such an intimate crowd. The crowd and the atmosphere is always the extra factor for home field advantage and I think we definitely made an impact … I couldn’t believe we won in the last matches. Our wrestlers had never been sung the third verse of the alma mater and the coaching staff was also grateful and moved by your performance. Your choir is made up of amazing people! I couldn’t believe the sound and music that you guys created, without microphones. Thank you very much again, we received several compliments on the day’s events. I hope that Soli Deo Gloria can arrange to sing at an Air Force event again. ... it was a privilege working with you and I hope this won’t be the last time we cross paths. " As we all would have expected, you made a great impression and served as wonderful ambassadors for our choir. Thanks to Brad for helping provide this opportunity to choir members. BUTTER BRAID SALE Order forms for the Butter Braids/Cookie Dough sale are now available. Orders and money should be turned in by March 15. Tell your friends and relatives that donations of $10.00, the price of the Braids or Cookie Dough, are also gladly accepted. Cookies and Butter Braids will be delivered at practice on March 29, just in time for Easter! 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. 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. 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.