GREETINGS TO ALL OUR SOLI MEMBERS

2010-10-18

YOUR PRAYERS PLEASE... Please keep Marie Suter and her family in your prayers. Jack’s funeral is today, Sunday October 17th from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. The service is at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 2111 Carlton, Colorado Springs. Tom O’Hearn’s wife, Leona, is recovering. If you have any prayer requests, please write down the particulars and give them to Juliette on rehearsal night. She will add them to the News and Notes.

JULIETTE'S NOTES Needed: Please start on your email lists to send out announcements for the Christmas concert. We will soon have a generic announcement on the web, with the final flyer finished in early November. Handbook: The hand book is now available on the Soli website Members' area. You can also access it from this link: Soli Handbook. Thanks to Terry for his efforts in making the handbook available.

REHEARSAL FILES Tina Phillips has been working to make available download files for all our songs (individual parts and ensemble). The files for everything except the Vivaldi Gloria and a few of the most familiar hymns are now available. Unfortunately multiple versions of the Gloria exist and Ray is reviewing them to determine which is the one that corresponds to our music. As soon as a decision has been reached Tina will add the Gloria to the web site. You may access the recordings by clicking on this link: Rehearsal Files. Once on the site you can download the songs and listen to them or burn them to a CD. Please note that Tina is providing a similar service to a couple of choirs and this link will include some music that is not for our choir. You can individually download just the pieces of music that are of interest to you. If you would like to have a CD but can't make one please let me, Marie McCaughan, know and I can burn a CD for you at no charge. Or if you just need a little help figuring out how to do it yourself I can help you with that too. For those of you who are anxious to listen to the Gloria and feel adventurous, Tina has identified a couple of websites that offer recordings of the Gloria useful for training. She cautions that there is no guarantee that the recordings will exactly match your sheet music and you should use these at our own risk. Here's the links: Learn Choral Music site: Gloria by Vivaldi Choralia's Virtual Singer site: Choralia. On this page you will have to scroll down the page and select the Vivaldi Gloria from the list.

FUND RAISING NOTES Program Ad Sales: In order for Soli to bring the music to the community we need to sell ads that are published in the Concert Program. We will have manila envelopes for you to start selling ads to businesses and those who wish to donate to our concert. Anyone planning on selling advertisements in the Fall 2010 concert brochure please download the revised Advertising Agreement Form from the web site or use the paper copy that Juliette will provide. The previous version of the form on the web site contained the wrong concert date. Our apologies if this causes extra effort for anyone. Butter Braid Sales: If selling ads is not your thing, we have Butter Braids that are yummy to sell to family, friends, and neighbors. Butter Braids also offers cookie dough for sale. Oh my! These cookies are delicious. Juliette personally vouches for them. Please return completed forms on October 18. Butter Braids and cookie dough will be delivered on October 25. Let's make this the best sale ever. Remember, if the customer does not want the sweet, encourage a donation. Any amount over $4.00 is more than what we make selling the goodies. Good luck and thank you. Donations: Some of our members do not want to sell, so they make a donation. Also ask if your employer matches donations to non-profit organizations. We qualify! If a monetary donation is not in your budget, you can help out in an area by donating your time. We always need volunteers!

IMPORTANT DATES FOR 2010 October 18:    Butter Braid Sale Orders Turned In October 25:    Butter Braids Delivered November 1:   Board Meeting -- 5:30 pm November 15: Program Ad Sales Due November 22: Concert CD Order Deadline December 6:   Board Meeting -- 5:30 pm Dress Rehearsal Week Schedule (Subject to Change): Monday, December 6:    Regular Rehearsal 6:45 at FUMC Thursday, December 9:  Dress Rehearsal 6:30 at FUMC Friday, December 10:    Final Dress Rehearsal 6:30 at FUMC Concert Saturday, December 11:    3:00 pm -- 1:45 pm call for singers at FUMC Saturday, May 7, 2011:      ***Spring Concert Date***

ORDER OF MUSIC FOR OUR CONCERT CHRISTMAS CONCERT 2010: Tell Us of the Night Gloria Antonio Vivaldi In the Bleak Midwinter (Christina Rosetti) Gustav Holst Christmas Daybreak (Rosetti) Robert Convery The Lamb (William Blake) Robert Convery O Magnum Mysterium Tomas Luis de Victoria O Magnum Mysterium Francis Poulenc Ave Maria Stravinsky Ave Maria Biebl Christmas Cantata (sinfonia sacra) Daniel Pinkham (brass, organ and choir) Sing with Soli: Joy to the World First Noel Hark the Herald Angels Sing Silent Night We will not be performing with First Congregational and First Christian Hand Bell Choirs. It was decided the program would become too long. We are looking into using them another time.