The Hawkseye 

March 2006 - page 6

 

Crunch Time For Selling Program Ads
By Dick Ormond, Advertising Chairman

Now that we've completed another successful Singing Valentine's holiday , we need to concentrate on getting those ads in for the spring show. There's only 1 week left for the deadline of 3/10/06 to get those ads in. Please let me know if you need supplies (contracts/CD's/last year's programs/pass-outs, etc). We're not hitting our targets for ad submissions yet, so we need every single one of you to make an effort to secure the many ads that we need to have a successful event this year.

Don't forget, these funds significantly support many of the programs we have all year long.

Thanks for all of your efforts, but let's all get in there and help those members who continually put in that extra effort each and every year.

 

Continuation of Sweet Adeline Article
By Dave Lasley, Music VP

I hope all of you are looking forward to our spring show. I know that we are well on our way to putting our best on stage on April 21 and 22. We should all continue to utilize our learning tapes so that John can concentrate even more on the presentation aspects of the show package.

Thanks to all of you who were able to participate in the Singing Valentine project. Greg Koenigs and I both commented that it has been a long time since we had as many quartets willing to be part of that. I don’t think I can remember ever having 7 quartets in the chorus. When all of the quartets left to work with Greg a few weeks ago I certainly didn’t have many left on the risers to work on show music. What a problem to have! Lots of quartets will make our chorus better musicians in the long run.

I want to conclude by providing the finish to the article from Dede Nibler, Sweet Adeline International Music Staff that was in last month’s Hawkseye:

 

  1. Do you love and embrace the tape evaluation/quality control process?

    1. Tape yourself frequently for self-evaluation. Remember, you love your voice, you love your voice. When evaluating, note the good as well as the stuff that needs improving.

    2. Be the first one to give your section leader or her designee your tape for evaluation. Don't make her/him have to ask you for it. Remember, taping for evaluation will be easier if you have taped for self evaluation.

    3. Support your section leader and the tape evaluators. They spend their extra time helping all of us look and sound great.

    4. If your chorus has not instituted this program, encourage them to consider it. Get assistance from regional music leaders if your chorus is unfamiliar with the tape evaluating program. Another point, some choruses use direct one on one singing instead of taping to pass songs for performance. Whichever you use, realize this is an important step for chorus level improvement.

  2. Are you attempting to be all that you can be physically?

    1. Maintain good physical and mental health. Start a walking and stretching program. Get enough sleep.

    2. Hydrate. Drink lots of water.

    3. Eat smart. Keep away from foods that make you feel tired, full and' bloated. Limit alcohol intake and keep away from cigarettes.

    4. Learn to relax. Tension affects vocal production and causes all sorts of other problems.

    5. Give up the guilts. Get past mistakes, arguments and misunderstandings and get on with life.

Sweet Adeline article continued on page 7

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