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October-November 2006 - page 3

 

 

Spring Show 2007
by Dean Beckman and Bob Kerdus - Spring Show Co-Chairmen

Your 2007 Spring Show creative team is pleased to announce our plans for our exciting April 13th and 14th shows at Theater Cedar Rapids. Our show title is "Sentimental Journey" – The Harmony Hawks Present A Tribute to the 1940’s.

The show story line will follow two Iowa young men entering into the decade of the 1940’s and the end of the depression. They will go off to war together. At the end of the war one returns home to get married and start a family, while the other goes off to pursue a career on Broadway. Gary Glockhoff will again be working out the final script.

We feel we will have a good mix of new songs, plus songs the chorus has done in the past few years. Here’s a list (not totally finalized) of some of the songs that we have done recently that are planned for the show:

Happy Days are Here Again
Iowa
God Bless America
There’s No Business Like Show Business
Those Wedding Bells are Breaking Up that Old Gang of Mine
Nothin Like a Dame

Among the list of new songs that are under consideration:

I Can’t Give You Anything But Love Baby
I’ll Be Seeing You
Take Me Out to the Ballgame/Good Old Summertime Medley
WWII Medley
White Cliffs of Dover
Let’s Get Away from it All
You Make Me Feel So Young

The show committee (and John Hayden’s) goal is to have show learning CD’s to you by November 1st.

We are also excited to announce that our guest quartet will be 3 Men & A Melody from our own Central States District-----they finished 14th in the recent Indianapolis quartet competition. Also, we have contracted with Night & Day quartet to do our visit to schools on April 13th.

I’ve attached a pdf file of the first flyer for Sentimental Journey-----please feel free to view this out and start promoting our Spring Show!!!

 

Holiday Show Update
by John Donehower - Music Men Chorus Director

I got the following message from Dean Beckman of the Harmony Hawks.
Thought his questions (and my answers) may be of interest to many of
you.

John - I'm thinking that Cedar Rapids may have 25-30 guys singing in the Holiday Chorus.  Here are some questions that the guys are asking me...

Are we really learning 12 songs for the chorus?
Can we use music when we perform?
When and where will rehearsals be held?
If you have answers, please let me know
Dean


Here are my answers:

Are we really learning 12 songs for the chorus?

Actually, it's 11:
"Jingle Bells"
"Children's Medley"
"The Christmas Song"
"Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer"
"Angels We Have Heard On High"
"White Christmas"
"Jingle Bell Rock"
"O Holy Night"
"Feliz Navidad"
"Silent Night"
"We Wish You a Merry Christmas"

There was an extra song in the packet because of how
the Yuletide Favorites book copied. We're not learning
"I heard the Bells on Christmas Day".

Can we use music when we perform?


Wouldn't it be great if we didn't? From the sound of it,
some groups want to use music some don't. I've challenged
Dubuque members to be off music but we've agreed that any
non-member guests we have can use music. So, I'd say using
music as a reference would be OK. But we wouldn't want to
have guys with their faces buried in the music not watching the
Director. (It also connects better with the audience.)

The one thing I would want to see is that anyone who uses the
music has it in a folder. (In Dubuque, we bought some cheap red and green
pocket folders for our guests to use.) That way we won't see white
music flopping around and it will look more festive. (Like one of the
largest group of carolers ever assembled!)

Holiday Show Update continued on page 4....

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