Looking Back on the Feb.
27th 2018 Chapter Meeting
This week we were back at Convergence Church. The front row met early in the front of the
sanctuary while the members gathered.
Director Joe Cerutti
did the warm ups using “A Place on the Risers for You” which we sang at Dick Hall’s funeral on Wed. Feb. 28th
at the Oxon Hill, MD, Methodist Church. We also sang “I’ll Be Seeing You.” A very large group of Harmonizers came to
honor Dick (and Carolyn) including several guys who don’t sing with us regularly
including Larry Silva, Bob Wilson, Paul
Greiner, Jerry TePaske, Joe Wagovich, Al Herman, Geoff Berman, Bob Eckman, Lew
Klinge, Mike Everard, Ken Fess, Don Johnson, and Bob Hoffman. Some of us
went to the burial at the Maryland Veteran’s Cemetery in Cheltenham and then
back to a reception. Dick’s brother Bob, who sings with the Ambassadors of
Harmony, visited with us while we did our warm ups at the church.
As a reminder, a Keep America Ringing Memorial for Richard Dick Hall has been established
with the Harmony Foundation. Donations
can be sent to Harmony Foundation International, Memorial for Richard T. Hall,
to 110 7ths Ave. N, Ste. 200, Nashville, TN 37203 or online at
harmonyfoundation.org at memorial giving.
Then we launched a performance driven rehearsal of the songs we
will sing Thurs. March 1st at the Intercollegiate Men’s Chorus (IMC)
Seminar, at National City Christian Church.
(Call time for our chorus will be 5:45 pm; uniform will be black suit,
thin tie and shiny black shoes. It is important to plan ahead to travel during
in rush hour, and find parking and get to the room to assemble. We can change there.)
Terry Reynolds, executive director, coordinated the chapter
meeting period. Associate director Tony Colosimo reported some preliminary
details about our Youth Harmony Festival that will be an all –day event on Fri.
April 13th. A number of
members will be needed to assist with hosting the students and their teachers.
Guest quartets who will be teachers are THE LADIES and GIMME FOUR.
Then Saturday April 14th is our next ACA Challenge. Marketing
flyers for this event will be distributed to local college campuses by
volunteers from the chorus.
Next week’s meeting is back at Durant with the arranger of our
uptune, Rasmus Krigstrom, as
coach. The rehearsal on Mar. 13th
will be for Iron and Coal music.
Terry reminded Harmonizers to form their small
learning groups. He announced that there was printed scores for “Iron and Coal”
if anyone still needed one.
Chapter secretary Chris
Buechler presented membership renewals to Mario Sengco for 8 years, Clyde
Crusenberry for 8 years, and Chuck
Powell for 24 years.
Ben Watsky welcomed guests for the nite – Carter, Ryler, Mike, and John.
Before we left for the nite, everyone had a chance to make a
recording of the contest uptune for self review and to send to their section
leader.
New appointee as manager
of the Music Admin Team, Steve White
has added a whole new dimension to helping the singers with behind the scenes
work on their music and access to materials.
His team is working to update all
charts and learning tracks for the entire repertoire as discrepancies and
changes are identified. They have
uploaded to our Groupanizer website "live" rehearsal tracks from last
Tuesday (2/20) for "Bring Him Home" and "Deep
River".
Dave Welter
reports from the Harmony Sweepstakes that was Sat. nite Feb. 24th at
the Birchmere: My group, TOP OF THE
SEVENTH finished third with a very solid hit. Second place went to POLARITY, a
high school group from Ohio. First place, and going to the national event, was
UP ALL NIGHT, a Sweet Adelines quartet from the Vienna-Falls chapter. The ‘audience
favorite’ was THE DISTRICT, an all-female group of 12 from DC. Several members
of the Harmonizer family were in the audience. It was a lot of fun, - Dave
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 70th year of the
Alexandria Harmonizer Chapter. —YeEd
