We would like to welcome Peter Sherman as our newest member of the Harmony Hawks. At our Tuesday rehearsal we held our installation ceremony. Peter has already been an integral part of the chapter by providing great musical abilities and participating in his first Gospel Concert after singing with us for about two months!
Gospel Concert Follow-Up
Thank you to everyone who was at rehearsal Tuesday night and contributed to the follow-up session. Your input is greatly appreciated and will be used for future concert planning. Here are a few of the comments that came from the session. If you would like to see the entire list, contact Larry H.
The good variety of performers was consistently brought up. The performers were also liked by members.
There were some audio issues where groups could not be heard and the His Hands video was difficult to hear.
Having the VLQ sing during the donation collection may have reduced the number of ushers available.
Getting more member on stage should be a high priority.
We had several members absent due to illness.
Harmony Hawks were well prepared and delivered good musicianship!
December 15 Sing-out
Put December 15, a Tuesday night, on your calendar for a sing-out at Stoney Point Meadows. More details will be coming soon.
Tuesday Songs
Christmas Songs
“I’ve Been Working On The Railroad”
“Operator” (?)
“Sweet Caroline”
“In My Room”
“Hallelujah”
Upcoming Events
December 15 – Sing-out at Stoney Point Meadows
January 16 – Leadership Academy in Shawnee, Kansas
I hope you all are getting some well-deserved rest after a busy week of preparation for the Gospel Concert. It went about as well as it could have. I thought all the guest performers were wonderful! Their quality was excellent, and many patrons told me they appreciated the variety of music they presented.
A special thank you goes to Chad for preparing us so well. We sang very well, and may have had our best yet performance of “Yes, Indeed.”
The crowd nearly filled the lower level of the auditorium, and that’s a reflection of the good work done by Mary Huneke, and also the promotion done by His Hands Free Clinic, our guest performers, and all of you.
A special thank you to the Harmony Hawks wives who helped with ushering.
We will take some time at Business Meeting time to share your impressions of the concert. Did you receive some comments from your friends and family in attendance? This will be a good time to share those.
We will have a new member installation Tuesday as well.
Next up – Christmas Caroling
Please bring your Yuletide Favorites booklet to Tuesday’s rehearsal. That will be the emphasis for the next rehearsal.
Mary has done a great job making sure our posters and flyers have good exposure, and there is an ad set to appeal in the Gazette soon. We have placed posts on Facebook and some of you have boosted them by liking and sharing them on your own Facebook posts.
Here is what’s next: Please email each friend in your email contacts with a brief message sharing your enthusiasm for the Gospel Concert, including a link to HarmonyHawks.org The landing page there will tell them everything they need to attend.
Focus for the week:
Totally of the music on all GC songs:
“Yes, Indeed” is our opener and will be a great start to the program, but each of us needs to have in memorized for the next two rehearsals so Chad can work his magic. Did you mark anything in your scores to work on?
“It Is Well” sounds terrific – keep working on vowel targets
“You Raise Me Up”: Baris and tenors have the one section to smooth out that we worked on tonight. Everyone: Consider how this is a Gospel song. It doesn’t mention God or Jesus. Look below for my meditation on that; it may be something to think about as we sing.
“An Irish Blessing”: Leads, be confident on the first pickup. Work to eliminate any doubts you have. Other sections: there is one pickup that we join the leads. The leads have three pick ups – “May the road .., May the wind…, May the sun…, May the rain fall softly on your fields. ”Then we all join them on the pickup notes “And until we meet again….’ So four lead pickups and then all four parts sing the And until we meet again….”
