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NEWS FROM THE ITHACA COMMUNITY CHORUS
Week of February 18, 2008
Read the ICC website ( http://ithacacommunitychorus.clarityconnect.com)
Send mail to the ICC Board ( IthacaCommunityChorus@clarityconnect.com)

MESSAGE FROM GERALD WOLFE

HOMEWORK FOR 2/27: #1, 5, 16, 20

MESSAGE FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT

Hello Everyone!

The semester is beginning to pick up speed, and we are sounding absolutely amazing already. I just love these big powerful works. The energy level is just so high! Again, I want to thank all of you for your patience rehearsing in the chilly sanctuary the past few weeks.

Save the date! We are having a workshop this season:

April 5th, 10-2 pm, a two part vocal technique workshop with Scott Tucker. The first part (10-12) will be working on vocal technique. The second half will be application of the technique, using selections from the VOICES repertoire and Elijah. The location has not been finalized. Munchies will be provided in the morning, but a brown bag lunch is recommended. The workshop is open to the public as well, and the cost will be $15 per section or $25 for both. So, mark your calendars, and start letting your friends know!

Also, don't forget Jon Riss's recital tomorrow at noon at Ford Hall in the Whalen Center. He is simply amazing on the organ, and we should soak up as much of his sound as possible, since it won't be with us after this semester.

Be Well,
Stephanie

ONLY 1 BLUE HAYDN SCORE UNACCOUNTED FOR

It's amazing what persistent pestering can do. We are now only missing ONE blue Haydn score. It would make your music librarian VERY happy if we could find the last one and have an unblemished record of returning all the music we have borrowed.
So, even if you think you never borrowed one or you know you returned yours, could EVERYONE take a look at home and see if it is hiding out somewhere? If you find it, please bring it to next week's rehearsal and/or email me at <cmf3@cornell.edu> and we can arrange how to get it to me.

Many thanks
Clare Fewtrell
ICC&CS Music Librarian

TWO MESSAGES FROM JEANNIE GRIFFITH

1. As I announced at this week's rehearsal, I'd like everyone's help in compiling a really good list of churches, synagogues, ashrams, mosques, organic housing developments, and cult buses (as long as they can park near a source of wireless Internet) where I can send notices of our concerts, workshops, etc. for publication in their bulletins or newsletters. This is a really great way to spread the word without cost. If your house of worship -- or any other organization of which you're a member -- publishes community notices, please send me their email address at jt40@cornell.edu.

2. Following a number of requests (thank you!) I've typed up the recipe for the chocolate thumbprint cookies I brought to the New Member Reception. If you're interested, drop me an email, and I'll send you that one and one I like better.

OTHER COMMUNITY EVENTS

JONATHAN RISS' SENIOR RECITAL THIS SATURDAY AT NOON

Don't miss Jonathan Riss' senior recital this Saturday February 23, at noon, in Ford Hall in the Whalen Center on the Ithaca College Campus. Good luck Jonathan!

CORNELL UNIVERSITY CHORUS & GLEE CLUB PRESENT BRAHMS' EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM

Scott Tucker, conductor; Judith Kellock and Timothy LeFebvre, soloists; 50-piece regional orchestra
Saturday, February 23, 8:00 PM
Bailey Hall
Admission: General $15, Student $5
www.baileytickets.com, Ticket Center at Clinton House, at the door

Johannes Brahms began composing Ein deutsches Requiem, op. 45, or "A German Requiem" in 1865, the same year that Cornell was founded by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White. His mother died in February 1865, a loss that grieved him and may have inspired the work, along with the death of Robert Schumann in July 1856. The seven-movement requiem is sacred but non-liturgical. In contrast to the traditional Roman Catholic requiem mass, Ein deutsches Requiem derives its text from Martin Luther's German Bible translation. Brahms intended it to be "a sort of German Requiem," with German referring to the language rather than the intended audience; in fact the composer reportedly told the director of music at the Bremen cathedral that he would have gladly called the work "A Human Requiem." A universal expression of both grief and hope, Brahms' choral masterwork emphasizes comforting the living (and avoids the traditional images of the horrors of the Last Judgment).

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TO PLAY MAHLER'S SYMPHONY NO. 5

University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra (UMSO) will perform a concert in Bailey Hall on the campus of Cornell University on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 8 pm. Director of Orchestras Kenneth Kiesler will lead the UMSO in the following program:

Evan Chambers Old Burying Ground
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 5 in c minor

The performance at Cornell University is at the invitation of the Cornell Orchestras. The concert is free and open to the public. A free ticket is needed. Tickets can be obtained either online at www.baileytickets.com or in person at the door.

We invite you to attend this free concert. It will be a rare opportunity to hear Mahler's fifth symphony in the Finger Lakes region.

For more info please contact Loralyn Light at ll48@cornell.edu.

NYS BAROQUE CONCERT

NYS Baroque, an early music ensemble, will perform French Baroque chamber music at Grace Episcopal Church, 375 West Church at Davis, on March 2 at 4 p.m. as part of the 2007-2008 Music at Grace series.

Following the concert, monks from Mt. Savior Monastery will lead Evensong at Grace at 6 p.m.

The public is invited; a free-will offering will be accepted. Detailed directions may be obtained from the parish website: www.grace-elmira.org or by calling the parish office at 607-732-0545.

The program will feature Clara Rottsolk, soprano, Marika Holmqvist, violin, James Bobb, harpsichord, and artistic director Heather Miller Lardin, basse de viole.

ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE CHOIR CONCERT SUN. MARCH 2, 7:30 pm

The Elizabethtown College Choir under the direction of Matthew Fritz will present a concert at St. Luke Lutheran Church, 109 Oak Avenue in Collegetown at 7:30 pm on Sunday, March 2. The program's theme is "Traditions" and will include sacred and secular music from a variety of eras. No admission charge but a free will offering will be accepted. St. Luke is next to Collegetown Bagels, across the street from Cornell's Schwartz Center; parking in the Dryden Road parking garage or on the street. This concert is part of the Music at St. Luke series, which concludes on Tuesday, April 29 at 7 pm with a performance by the Ithaca College Early Music Ensemble.

DATES TO REMEMBER

Saturday, May 3 8:00 PM - ICC concert

NEWSLETTER ITEMS?

If you would like to include a brief item in the ICC e-newsletter, send text ready to copy and paste by Friday 11:00 am to Mary Royer (mroyer@twcny.rr.com). Notices should be related to the chorus or the local music community.

Mary Royer
ICC Newsletter Editor
mroyer@twcny.rr.com