[Choir] First rehearsal NOT TONIGHT but NEXT Thursday!!

[Donia Prince]

In response to some confusion wanted to make that clear... See you next
week!

On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 1:29 PM Donia Prince <ucm.music21 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> What a summer we have had!  I've been seeing many of you in the Flood
> Choir, and look forward to reconnecting with the rest of you, and getting
> back into the rhythm of the church year.
>
> However, we are affected by the continued disruption from the flood, so we
> won't be getting to the usual rhythm just yet.  Good thing we are well
> practiced in resilience from our covid years!
>
> First, *our workshop with David Ruffin is postponed*, probably until
> early November.  We just couldn't find an appropriate space that is
> available to hold it in.
>
> *Our first rehearsal will be on Thursday, September 7th at 5:30 PM  at the
> Capital City Grange Hall* on Northfield St.
> This will be an extended rehearsal to give us some of the extra time to
> become comfortable with our first choral offerings, time that had
> originally been planned as part of the workshop.
>
> Please plan on 5:30-8:00pm, with a decent break in the middle.  The next
> week, the 14th, we will go back to our usual rehearsal time of 5:30-7:15.
>
> At this point we will plan to rehearse at the Grange on the 7th and 14th,
> and hopefully will be able to be back in the church for rehearsals after
> that, even though services will probably continue to be off-site for the
> rest of September while more of the basic church infrastructure--bathrooms,
> offices, floors, etc is being worked on.  The upstairs at the church is
> fine, but ongoing clean-up and restoration work on the ground floor makes
> full use of the church difficult.
>
> The location of September services is still being sorted out.
>
> Music planned for September includes Find Our Way Home by Maggie Wheeler,
> Covenant by yours truly, and Requiem by Eliza Gilkyson (inviting other
> Flood Choir members to join us.).  I need to finalize the arrangements of
> the first two but will post them on our choir info page for anyone who
> wants to take a look before our first rehearsal.  I expect to have those up
> by the end of the weekend.
>
> Thanks everyone!  See you soon!
> Donia
>
>
>
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