Description: First year choristers.

Director: Iris Lamanna

Accompanist: Carol Stoffregen
Carole is equally at home as an accompanist for several Bay Area choruses and as a solo performer. Serving as the primary accompanist for the Miramonte Department of Choral Studies, she has accompanied performances around the globe. Choruses accompanied by Carole have won awards at international festivals and they have recently served as the U.S. representatives at the Kaffisia Choral Festival in Athens, Greece.

Performances: Participation in 3 to 5 scheduled performances per semester is required including annual Holiday and Spring concerts. Check your calendar for dates.

Performances can be any day of the week, although we try not to schedule many on Sunday mornings. Most performances are at night and on Saturdays. Since we are trying to reach other children with music and music education, we do several school performances during the year. Every effort is made to schedule these performances so the chorister loses a minimum of school time. Many schools recognize this as independent study. There are permission slips available in the chorus office and a cover letter explaining our organization.

Ticket Purchase Requirements: Each semester we have two concerts of our own, the Winter Concert and the Spring Concert. These are wonderful and inspiring concerts with each level performing and a mass-performance of all levels. Our audience is approximately 1000 at each performance and tends to sell out. You are asked to purchase 5 tickets each semester to these concerts. These tickets will be paid for in September and January and will be available for pick up approximately 6 weeks before the concert. By this time it will be determined which choruses perform on which date and extra tickets can also be purchased. You will be charged for these tickets whether or not you attend the concert. Do not be afraid to ask teachers, neighbors or anyone with a love for music and children. These concerts are very professional, and the audience is guaranteed to be touched and amazed at the accomplishments of the choristers and their music.

Mandatory Ticket Purchase

Poinsettia Sales (2006 pricing to be announced)
Each chorister family must sell 10 poinsettias with the proceeds going to the chorus. Each Poinsettia will sell for $10.00.
After your quota of 10 poinsettias has been met, the profit for any additional poinsettias sold will go into an individual account for the chorister to be held for tuition, touring and camp. The money will stay in your individual account as long as you are a chorus member. If you leave the chorus, any money will revert to the chorus.
Our hope is to sell to businesses, corporations, hospitals, and malls. If you make a large sale to a corporation, etc, you will take the credit (after your 10) the first year. The chorus will contact them directly the next year and there will be a percentage going to the chorus. Each year that percentage will increase. It is hoped that ultimately these buyers instead of parents selling and buying poinsettias will fund the fundraiser.
The poinsettias are a good quality, very full and long lasting. Everyone has been happy with them in the past.
Fed ID# 68-0065565

Mini Tours: Some years we do a Spring tour to 3 area schools. Dates are posted on your calendar.

Expectations: To learn music in a timely manner. Practice with a tape recorder.

Curriculum: Next step in theory, sight singing intervals, rhythm and reading techniques. Emphasis on breathing, ear training, diction, focusing, two-part harmony. More emphasis on performance skills than Level 1.

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