Looking Back on the December
2nd Chapter Meeting and Calvert County MD Show
Despite the rainy nite, the gang made it to the rehearsal and
meeting at First Baptist Church. We have
not often, if ever, gotten to use the church hall for our Tues nite meeting
during show week – so it gave everyone a few extra chances to get things set,
moved in, hauled into place and such.
Tho there is still much to do.
Lots of guys brought their two wrapped boxes with many more
expected on Thursday at our dress rehearsal 7pm at the church. Guys can start bringing in their three dozen
holiday cookies on Thurs nite too. (NOTE
the cookie operation will be on the other end of the hall – near where Santa
meets the children.)
Assistant director Will Cox
did the vocal warm ups in the rehearsal room so the tech guys and producers
could work in the dining hall and stage area. Then director Joe Cerutti was up front helping us add
more interp and quality to the songs for the show.
Some time was used to assign guys to lead the 12 days of Christmas
singing groups. And of course there were
lots of announcements about ushers and table captains and such. We did some drills and will do more
Thurs. The show team did a good job
getting things out in advance – that were well written and clear. Robyn
Murane will be house manager. Christina
Ammerman is stage manager. Randall
Eliason is head waiter. Bob Rhome
is usher captain. Mark Klostermeyer
is chorus manager. Bob Blair seems to be moving boxes all week!! Thanks to all for their extra work. More thanks yous as the week rolls on.
To prepare for the Thursday, Bob
Blair needs a load out crew at 8:30 am to unload the huge amount of holiday
decorations from storage and bring to the hall.
Contact him as to the location to meet. The decoration team will begin
at 10 am on Thursday – not Friday this year – in the church hall.
Most important announcements for all – chorus call times for rest
of the week:
Thursday – 7 pm rehearsal at church
Friday – 5:30 pm chorus call for the 7:30 pm show
Saturday – 11 am chorus call for the 1 pm show; 4:30 pm chorus
call for the 6 pm show
Good to have all our sound guys working hard to get ready – Mike, Doug and Dennis. And Joe
Sr and Janet Cerutti were on
hand as usual – YeEd hears they are
heading up things in the kitchen. Thanks
to all.
There was a pretty active buzz in the hall before rehearsal of
uniform wranglers working with guys in prep for the Pittsburgh outfits.
Congratulations to Clark
Chesser and Michael Bagwell who
were married at Clarendon Presbyterian Church this past weekend!
Note this special tax related suggestion
from president Terry Reynolds: “If you agree that "It's Great To Be A
Harmonizer" and are still deciding what to do with your 2014 charitable
giving, don't forget that donations to the Alexandria, Virginia Chapter of
SPEBSQSA are indeed tax deductible. If you would like to give, you may write a
check and hand deliver it on a Tuesday night, mail a check to our Po Box,
11274, Alexandria VA 22312, or donate on our website at harmonizers.org (click Donate). If you'd like you can specify a specific
purpose for your gift (e.g., Youth Programs, Music Program, Harmonizer
Endowment Fund). Happy Holidays! Terry
For the record, the chorus
did a hugely entertaining,
EXHAUSTING concert Sunday afternoon Nov. 21st, in across the bridge
in MD. We were hired a band booster
group to help them raise funds for their band. The crowd loved the show and
wants to know if we'll be back next year. We gave a fitting “possibly” final
performance for some of these songs.
Show producer for Harmo
gigs, Greg Tepe, offered big thanks
to the directors - Joe, Terry and Mike.
And big thanks to the truck driver - Bob Blair! Thanks to the early riser crew -Todd Ryktarsyk and son Luke,
Craig Kujawa, Ross Felker, David Hood, Joel Golden, Shawn Tallant, Michael
Gilmore and Harold Weinberger. Thanks
to the tear down crew - Rusty Orvik, Craig
Kujawa, David Hood, Michael Schwartz, Scipio Garling, Stan Quick, Don
Dillingham, Carl Kauffmann, Peter Hubbard, Brian Ammerman and Dean Sherik
Thanks to Mike Kelly for sound; thanks to emcees
- Don Dillingham, Gerry Fuller, Ross
Felker and Terry Reynolds.
Greg thanked John Pence for
the song board for the show and Chuck
McKeever for transporting it.
He also thanked TBD –
our modern a cappella group who appeared on the show with us; and the soloists
for the long afternoon show - Andrew
Havens, Josh DesPortes, Terry Reynolds, Noah van Gilder, Rick Savage, Mike
Kelly, Don Dillingham and Drew
Fuller.
Greg also offered that it would be nice to see more names helping with
risers. He concluded with this wrap up – “it was a busy day for all. Thank you
for your time, effort and entertainment today.”
This past weekend was
also the annual meeting of the M-AD honor club (DELASUSQUEHUDMAC – named for
the four rivers in the district). A
large number of Harmonizers have been invited to become members of that group
over the years. In fact, 28 of our
members were there from Nov 21-22 near Carlisle at an old resort in Boiling
Springs Pa. Our chapter quartet MAYHEM
was part of the weekend’s entertainment.
The chapter secretary has
announced a general chapter meeting to elect the four new community members to
the chapter board on Tues. Dec. 16th. Please plan to attend.
Chorus members are invited to come
support our own modern a cappella subgroup,
TBD, by attending their joint concert with other DC area a cappella favorites VOX POP and THE DISTRICT. The concert will be in Chinatown at the First
Congregational United Church of Christ on Saturday, Dec. 12 at 8 pm. Tickets are now
available for purchase online. TBD would
certainly appreciate your supportive attendance at this event, which is part of
the chapter's strengthening ties with the broader a cappella community.
Until next time – editorjack!
(This
message is prepared for your review if you were there, for your information if
you had to miss, and as a historical record of the great things going on each
week during the 66th year of the Alexandria Harmonizer Chapter. —YeEd.
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