from President Larry Hlavacek
Proud Image Chorus is holding their 40th Anniversary show with guest quartet Boom Town on May 4th at 2p.m.and 6 p.m. The show will be held at Central Middle School. Tickets are $12.50 for adults and $8.00 for students.
Sean Devine from the Harmony Foundation will be at rehearsal this week.
Marty Monson, CEO of Barbershop Harmony Society, will be at Spring Contest. He will be attending the first part of our rehearsal. We will be going out for dinner with him, 5 p.m. at the Black Sheep Social Club, prior to our rehearsal on April 25. If you are interested in eating with Marty, please let me know so I can make sure we reserve enough space for us.
See the detailed information below on helping Iowa City with the Spring Contest. They still need many people! Monday night we were contacted by BHS about warming up the mics Saturday at the contest. I have reached back to them to get more information. I should have more to share at Thursday’s rehearsal.
Thursday’s Rehearsal Schedule
- 7:00 Vamp Ups
- 7:20 “Love Letters,” “Isn’t She Lovely,” “God Bless America”
- 7:40 Business and Break
- 7:55 “Daydream,” “Can You Feel the Love Tonight “
- 8:20 Business and Break
- 8:25 “Down on the Corner (soloists),” “Daddy Sang Bass,” “I Believe”
- 9:00 KTWWS
Upcoming Events
- April 26– Spring Contest in Iowa City. (See Below)
- May 2 – Cookie Festival in Iowa City. We will sing “Love Letters” and “Isn’t She Lovely”
- June 20 – Tribute to Heroes performance
- August 27 – Sing National Anthem at the Kernel’s game
Profound Sound wows Prairie Middle kids
Thank you to Profound Sound quartet for continuing our youth outreach mission with their visit last week to Prairie Middle School.
Speaking of Youth Outreach
The March issue of Sounding Board, a publication of the Iowa Choral Director’s Association ran our article on the Youth In Harmony event we help at Prairie Point Middle last October. You can look at the article here:
What you missed last week
As always, last Thursday’s rehearsal was full of fun moments. In one, director John Hayden mentioned a This America Life program about pirates, one in particular who became a pirate to avoid a nagging wife. Why John found this especially relatable was not explored. It’s a fun program and if you’d like to give it a listen, you can find it here https://www.thisamericanlife.org/616/i-am-not-a-pirate. When we discussed adding a whistling chorus to “Daydream” Gary Lindsay mentioned once whistling with professional whistler Fred Lowery at a school assembly. Lowery whistled the theme to the Andy Griffith Show and had a billboard top ten hit. If you’re curious, see the Wikipedia article here and check on YouTube for his recordings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Lowery
Repertoire update
The music team under the direction of Greg Koenigs has begun the process of paring down our repertoire with the purposes of making the songs that remain performance ready. Here is the list so far. Please send your comments to Greg at [email protected]