Looking Back on the December 6th 2022 Harmonizer Hybrid Chapter Meeting
(Many thanks to Carl Kauffmann who took notes for this report while YeEd was in NYC again to see ‘Music Man!’)
Tuesday was the final pre-holiday show rehearsal and final rehearsal scheduled at Scottish Rite, Alexandria in 2022.
Next Tuesday (Dec 13) will be the traditional Christmas Carol Crawl through Old Town Alexandria. Singers will meet in front of City Hall at 7 pm. The following Saturday (Dec 17) is the reprise of the holiday show at the Scottish Rite Temple in Washington DC. Chorus call time for that 2 pm performance is 11:30 am.
Terry Reynolds announced the chorus call for those attending Saturday's 10 am funeral for Terry Jordan is 9:15 am. The Harmonizers will sing "A Place on the Risers" and " I'll be Seeing You". Uniform is coat and Tie.
The January 17, 2023 chapter meeting at SRT will be the kickoff meeting for the new year.
Tony Colosimo conducted the warmup for the Harmonizers. Metro Voices did not meet.
Artistic Director Joe Cerutti and Tony ran through the sequence of songs for the holiday show with several run-throughs of the "Caroling, Caroling" medley to smooth out the transitions from chorus to the three quartets/octets performing the segments inter-leaved with the verses of the title song.
Joe mentioned that introductions during the show will be conducted via a video package being put together by Mike Kelly. A five minute video will start playing at 7:27 pm and ends at 7:32 pm - one minute before the show starts.
Technical rehearsal will be conducted at Schlesinger on Wednesday. The facility will be available starting at 5 pm. Those who have volunteered to help with riser set-up, lobby set-up, and decoration of the stage were asked to be on hand to off-load the Harmo truck which will arrive at the loading dock at 5:30 pm.
Dress rehearsal will be conducted at Schlesinger on Thursday. Call time (on stage) for the chorus is 7 pm. Everyone is asked to bring two brightly wrapped boxes with them on Thursday which will be used to complete the stage decorations.
Call time for the 7:30 pm Friday show is 5:15 pm. Uniform is white collared dress shirt with holiday sweatshirt, white scarf, black trousers, black socks and black dress (not formal) shoes.
Joe shared highlights of another "Harmonizer Hero" - Tyler Carpenter.
He also acknowledged Dennis Ritchie, who took the initiative to put together a quartet (with Reed Livergood, Paul Grimes, and Steve White). - his first quartet appearance on a Harmonizer show.
Randall Eliason announced that there will be an afterglow at TGIF's (Beauregard at King Street) after the show Dec. 9th.
Cy Shuster...won the 50/50 drawing.
Another good crowd was at the afterglow and enjoyed special holiday goodies prepared by Joe.
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 for the great things going on each week during the 74th year of the Alexandria Harmonizer Chapter. - YeEd)
