Volume 22 No. 4

Cantabile Choirs of Kingston ON 613 549 0099 info@cantabilechoirs.net cantabilechoirs.ca box 2273 kingston, on K7L 5J9

December 2017

The Angels Sing

Thanks to Swyrich

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General Information!

December Dates

Concert Week!

WONDER!

In This Issue

Many thanks to our long time friends & sponsors of this concert.

What would we do without them?

Social Media - we need you! Do you tweet? Follow us @CantabileChoirs and please ‘like us ‘ on Facebook Facebook.com/CantabileSings It helps our cause to have as many people in as many communities as possible talking about the wonderful music you make. So, join our Facebook page, like, but more importantly, share the news we post. Follow us on twitter and retweet our information!

If we use a hashtag in our tweets, please use it as well, and don’t just favourite a tweet - share it, retweet it, quote it...If we put our minds to it, Cantabile will become a trending topic by the end of December! Remember - @CantabileChoirs #CantabileKingston #cantabilesings

Be ‘Scent’-sitive!

Cantabile is a scent - aware organization. Please be kind to our colleagues & audience members with environmental sensitivities.

Seating at Concerts

You are welcome to invite friends and family with mobility issued to wait in the lobby for the doors to the sanctuary to open, but please do not let them in to sit down ahead of other audience members. It puts our front of house volun-teers in a very tricky situation. Thank you for understanding.

Our Christmas concerts are one of the musical high-lights of the holiday season in Kingston--grand carol arrangements with the thundering organ, soaring descants, joyful choruses, gentle lullabies and senti-mental Christmas songs, the charm of candlelight with 250 choristers and guest instrumentalists. There will be many musical highlights in this years' con-certs. These include the Children's Choir performing Howard Blake's Walking in

the Air from the animated short film The Snowman. The Junior Choir, under the direc-tion of Alana Sargeant, make their season debut at the matinee performance. Raylene Rankin and Susan Crowe's moving song, Sparrow, will be performed by the Young Women's Choir, also heard in a toe-tapping Québecois carol, Voila Le Père No-ël. A rousing Wassail--a boisterous old Ango-Saxon cheer for good health--will be offered by the Young Men's Chorus as well as an all-time favorite, White Christmas. The gospel number Jesus, What a Wonderful Child, sung by teens, will undoubtedly raise the roof before intermission. The Men's Choir and Women's Chorus will be heard in music by two of the most signifi-cant composers of this generation, Eric Whitacre and Ola Gjeilo. Cantabile's broad range of programming will be on display in the adults' African-inspired carol and an early American Appalachian carol. As all the choirs gradually fill the into the sanctuary leading to the grand finale of the evening, the singers will join their voices in O Holy Night, sung by Cantabile assistant conductor, baritone Geoffrey Sirett.

Tickets: purchase early to avoid disappointment! Choristers and families, please en-

courage others in the community to attend these wonderful holiday concerts. Tickets

can be bought through the office, at The Church Book Room and Long & McQuade,

Novel Idea and online at cantabilechoirs.ca or call (613) 549-0099

For Your Information Junior Choir: Parents—you don’t need to purchase a ticket for your child in the Junior Choir. After they’ve finished and en-joyed the thunderous applause, the house lights will come on and Dr. Sirett will invite a parent or guardian to stand up. The children will find you to enjoy the remainder of the concert, and we will have taken that into consideration with regards to tick-ets. If you are not planning on being present for the concert, please arrange to have your child sit with another family.

Children’s Choir: we are still looking for parent volunteers to help on concert nights, ideally 4 for Friday night and Saturday afternoon and 5 or even 6 on Saturday night.

Please make sure that hairbands, elastics and SOCKS are all black.

Young Women: Please make sure to wear your new necklace. They look lovely! If you’ve not done so yet, please make sure to give Hollie $15.

Sat. Dec. 2, Youth Singers Gather at SSUC at 1:00 in casual attire. Decorate the hall and Christmas tree in the sanctuary. 2:30-3:30 Carol in Downtown Kingston. Dress warmly. Bring your music.

Children’s Choir Caroling in December During the weeks leading up to December concerts, the Chil-dren’s Choir often goes caroling on Princess St. Make extra sure your child has warm clothing at every rehearsal so they can have a good time singing for the shoppers downtown!

Wed. Dec. 13, 9:30 a.m. Decorating of the sanctuary candelabra. This is a big under-taking and it is hoped that as many people as possible can come out to assist !

Friday Dec 15—Primary Choir This will be the final rehearsal for the Primary Choir for this term. Parents will be invited to sit in for some of it, so the chil-dren can sing for you!

Sun. Dec. 17, C, W, M 2:00-2:45 - Annual Carol Concert, Heathfield Motherhouse, Chapel, 1200 Princess St. Men & Women please arrive for 1:15 for rehearsal in the chapel. Wear your RED scarves and red ties. Children please arrive for 1:30. Please car-pool. Concert attire, including Red Ties & Scarves for the Adults! plus music. Park-ing is available at the back of the chapel. Enter from parking lot entrance rather than the front entrance. Refreshments will be served afterward. Dismissal time approx. 3:00

We Need Two Parent Volunteers for This Performance. Email Hollie at info@cantabilechoirs.net

“Angels Sing” Schedule

Thurs. Dec. 21, FINAL REHEARSAL, C, YW, YM, W, M No concert attire required! Teens: 3:30-7:15, please arrive for your usual time; your re-hearsal will overlap with the children’s rehearsal and adults. Brings some snacks. Children: 4:15-5:30 Men and Women: 5:15-8:00

Fri. Dec. 22, DRESS REHEARSAL, Juniors only Dress rehearsal in the sanctuary 4:15-5:15 in your Purple Cantabile t-shirt.

Fri. Dec. 22 CONCERT CALL TIMES Teens, Men/Women: 6:00 in the sanctuary for a walk through of the processions.

6:30 Break for teens and adults; Children (not the Junior Choir) arrive for warmup in Conference Room on the first floor.

6:45 Warmup, upstairs hall for teens and adults

7:30 Performance!

Sat. Dec. 23, 2:00 MATINEE CALL TIMES 1:00: Juniors & Children arrive for warmup in downstairs lecture hall. All others in upstairs hall for warm up.

2:00 Performance!

Sat. Dec. 17, 7:30 CONCERT CALL TIMES 7:00: Children arrive for 7:00 in lecture hall; all others in upstairs hall for warmup.

7:30 pm, Final Performance! Congratulations

Happy Holidays! There are no rehearsals after the December concerts until Monday Jan 8, 2017 . Enjoy the time with friends and family and bask in your well-earned break!

In the New Year

“Bring a Friend Days “ in January Our numbers grow when you let your friends know how much you love Cantabile! Invite them to sit in on rehearsals these days and maybe join the choirs! Children: Wednesday Jan. 10, from 4:15 to 5:15 We’ll be starting Willy Wonka! Teens: Thur Jan. 11 YW - 3:30 YM - 4:30 Juniors: Friday Jan 12 from 4:15 to 5:15 NB—This has been changed on the Schedule of Important Dates.

Schedule for December

TAKE CANTABILE

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS!

Enjoy the beauty of the season with this

limited edition CD of favourites recorded at our

holiday concerts over the past four years.

Are you favourites included?

In Dulci Jubilo, Do You Want To Build A Snowman?,

The Boar’s Head Carol, Gaudete, Les Anges Chantent,

The Twelve Days of Christmas and more!

20$ Cash or cheque made out to Cantabile Choirs

What a wonderful gift for family and friends!

CD’s will be available throughout December at our office, and at all rehearsals. Also available at Quarry Medical

Pharmacy. If you know of a location at which we might be able to sell CD ’s, please email Hollie at in-

fo@cantabilechoirs.net. Many thanks to our good friends for their support of this festive project.