Calling All Men to a June Workshop in South Jersey

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1 2 1 3 A Publication of the New Jersey Choral Consortium Vol. 5, Number 4 April 22, 2015 Consortium Calendar Sat., May 9, 11 am -- 1 pm Board of Directors Meeting, Renaissance at Rairitan Active Adult Community, Franklin Township. Rhoda Wolin at rhodabwolin@aol.com to attend and for directions. Sat., June 13, 9 am 5 pm, 6 pm Concert Men s Choral Workshop, Grace Episcopal Church, 19 Kings Highway East, Haddonfield, NJ Hosted by the Greater South Jersey Chorus under conductor Jason Bishop. See article at right for m ore information. Calling All Men to a June Workshop in South Jersey by Jim Diaz, President of the Greater South Jersey Chorus Saturday, June 13 Registration and breakfast: 9-10 am Workshop and rehearsals: 10am-5pm Concert at 6 pm Calling all tenors, b aritones and basses to a M en s Choral Workshop on Saturday, June 13 at Grace Episcopal Church, 19 Kings Highway East, Haddonfield, NJ ( This year s men s workshop pays special attention to the men of southern New Jersey! Sponsored by the NJCC, the Men s Choral Workshop will be hosted this year by the Greater South Jersey Chorus of Tuesday, August 11, 3-8 pm Haddonfield. This year s conductor will be Summer Community Chorus Dr. Jason Bshop, Artistic Director of the Workshop and Sing In, sponsored by the NJCC. This year s sing will feature Greater South Jersey Chorus and also Heather Buchanan, director of choral Director of Vocal and Choral Studies at Drew University. activities at Montclair State University who will lead singers in the Mozart Requiem. She will also present a workshop on Body Mapping. Admission and location TBD. The Newsletter of the New Jersey Choral Consortium Editors: Kathleen Hannan (hannan01@aol.com) Ruth Anderman (ruthsings@comcast.net) This newsletter is published five times a year for members of NJCC choruses. If you no longer wish to receie this newsletter, please info@njchoralconsortium.org and we will remove your name from our mailing list. Jason has chosen a diverse and exciting repertoire for us to learn and perform, including Vive l Amour, arr.shaw/parker; Wildmung, by Robert Schumann, pieces by Chesnokov. Stroope, Brown, and Felix Mendelssohn; and a Broadway medley. All music is included in the registration fee and will be sent directly to registrants from JW Pepper upon receipt of your registration. I will be sending a few additional music selection via in PDF format. This year you can register online for the workshop, although there is a p rintable registration form, if you prefer to submit the form by mail with a check. Early bird registration is $30 u ntil M ay 17; after May 17, the fee will b e $35. All registrations C must be complete by June 5. To register, visit the GSJC website at Jwww.GreaterSJChorus.org and click on the Men s Choral Workshop. (A link to the GSJC website is also on the NJCC website at The workshop is open to all male singers 16 years of age and older. We hope that older teens and adults not presently affiliated with a chorus will join NJCC community chorus members in a day of making great music together. Check- in and b reakfast will take place from 9 am- 10 am. Both the workshop and rehearsals are from 10 am until 5 pm, with a break for lunch. The day will conclude at 6 pm with a free concert of the repertoire and your family and friends are invited to attend. Please feel free to me with questions at jd_gsjc@aol.com. Jason Bishop, Artistic Director of Greater Dr. D. Jason Bishop

2 NJCC Membership Fee Due Soon NJCC membership dues for continuing membership in the consortium will be due on May 31. The dues will remain at $50 for a returning chorus and $25 for first- year membership. NJCC Treasurer George Steward will be sending notices and invoices soon. We hope to be able to give you the option of paying your dues online or, as usual, mailing the payment and u pdated chorus contact information to George at ewing3756@aol.com. In his notice, George will advise you about ways to update information and pay dues. Consortium Website Update We have made the website easier for individuals to make additions or change to their concert schedules. Click on Concert Schedules on the website, and click on the drop down Add Listing. Use the drop down form to upload your concert information and it will soon be on the website. We hope shortly to give members the ability to pay dues and sign up for workshops online, using PayPal or a credit card. Celebrating an Arts Honor On March 25, Kathy Hannan and Rhoda Wolin accepted, on behalf of the NJCC, the Outstanding Arts Advocate Award presented by morrisarts, the Morris County division of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Several hundred people attended the ceremony at the Morris Museum in Morristown. John McEwen of NJ Theatre Alliance Presents Workshop on Telling Your Chorus s Story in Today s Media World On Saturday, March 22, members of NJCC were treated to an informative presentation of the state of NJ media, and how choruses can adapt to the changing media landscape and some ways to use the tools that they have at hand for making the most of marketing their concerts and themselves. John McEwen, the Executive Director of the NJ Theatre Alliance told attendees that online marketing ( s and website) are taking over from printed materials and many daily newspapers may soon discontinue. It is critical for small organization like choruses to have as many names on a mailing list as possible. Whenever you make contact with someone, ask for the address. Build your mailing lists by using a List Exchange, like TRG. Ask people for their address whenever you make contact. Having an up-to-date website with high quality visuals is key; make sure it has great photography. Use videos on the website. Make it easy for the public to navigate your website to collect information. Having your website mobile-friendly is very important as well. Smart phones are the #1 way people search online now. All communications should end up driving people to the website. Facebook is still the top social media presence, but another source for choruses John McEwen (center) listening to a question by a workshop attendee. to use is Instagram, as it is a good way to capture the personality of your group. There are very few editors on print newspapers. Therefore it is very important to be your own storyteller; ask yourself what makes your story interesting. It can t just be about your concert; it has to have a hook of some kind to attract the editor s attention. Tell what is unique about your organization. Because the NJ Theatre Alliance is similar to the NJ Choral Consortium, there were ideas John presented that worked for the group of professional theatres in the alliance that he thought might work for NJCS members. See one idea below. A Theatre Alliance Idea for Chorus Collaboration: A Choral Sampler John McEwen mentioned in his workshop[ that one idea that had been very popular with theatre lovers was the ability to purchase, from the Theatre Alliance, a Theatre Sampler, a ticket that allowed theatergoers the opportunity to see three different theater groups offereings during a season. The sampler helped the theatres themselves to expand their audience because the theatergoer could only visit an individual theater once. All the theatres in the Theatre Alliance had to agree to offer a substantial discount on at least some offerings; if one group declined to participate, the idea would be tabled. But all theatre groups, big and small, found that they themselves benefited and benefited the growth of theatre in New Jersey. If you agree that this idea is worth exploring, please me at hannan01@aol.com. Masterwork Chorus, the chorus I sing in, thinks this is an idea well worth exploring. --Kathy Hannan, NJCC Prtesident

3 Concert Calendars for Late April Through June April 2015 Saturday, April 25, 7:30 PM Cantabile Chamber Chorale Rebecca Scott, Artistic Director and Conductor We Hear America Singing! A celebration of music composed by Leonard Bernstein, a performance of Four Lyrics of Inspiration, composed by Eric Ewazen, and Dawn to Dusk in Song, a collection of madrigals that move with the hours of the day. Christ United Methodist Church, 485 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ Saturday, April 25, 8 PM New Jersey Chamber Singers Reid Master, Artistic Director Whimsy Concert includes Benjamin Britten's festival cantata, Rejoice in the Lamb as well as multicultural folk songs from Hungary, Australia, and Taiwan. West Grove Memorial United Methodist Church 102 Walnut St., Neptune, NJ Saturday, April 26, 4 PM New Jersey Chamber Singers See concert listing above. West Grove Memorial United Methodist Church 102 Walnut St. Neptune NJ May 2015 Saturday, May 2, 8 PM Choral Art Society of New Jersey Martin A. Sedek, Music Director Spring Concert Vivaldi Gloria and Sedek s, Four Seasons Cantata (a world premiere) Presbyterian Church of Westfield, 140 Mountain Ave., Westfield, NJ Saturday, May 9, 8 PM Masterwork Chorus Resounding Joy Guest Conductor, Christopher Shepard Featuring works by Bach, Brahms, Franck, Handel, Ives, Mozart, and Gwyneth Walker Calvary Episcopal Church, 31 Woodland Avenue, Summit, NJ

4 Saturday, May 16, 8 PM Coro Lirico Warren Helms, Music Director Another Look at Kurt Weill Revisiting Weill's operas, cantatas, and Broadway selections Church of the Redeemer, 36 South St,, Morristown, NJ corolirico.net Saturday May 16, 8 PM Summit Chorale Dr. Thomas Juneau, Artistic Director Handel s DIXIT DOMINUS Concert also includes JS Bach s Cantata 147, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, and Carissimi s Historia di Jepthe. St. Teresa of Avila Church, 306 Morris Ave. Summit NJ Info at Saturday, May 16, 8 PM Schola Cantorum on Hudson Deborah Simpkin King, Founder and Artistic Director We Have Had Singing! We Have Had Singing for 20 strong seasons, and alums join with current singers in performing Schola favorites from our two decades in addition, of course, to something from PROJECT: ENCORE. St. Malachy s Church (The Actors Chapel), 49th St. between 8th Ave and Broadway, NYC Saturday, May 16, 2015, 8 PM Philomusica Concert Choir Dennis Boyle, Conductor/Music Director Hope Eternal: From Darkness into Light Heinrich Schutz's Passion Motets, Johannes Brahms' "Warum ist das Licht gegeben," and Bob Chilcott's Requiem. Our Lady of Peace Church, 1740 Rt. 130 N., North Brunswick, NJ Sunday, May 17, 4 PM Capital Singers of Trenton Richard M. Loatman, Artistic Director and Conductor Haydn and Hayes, Two Te Deums Featuring Te Deum by Haydn and Te Deum by Hayes. Sacred Heart Church, 343 South Broad Street, Trenton, NJ Sunday, May 17, 4 PM Monmouth Civic Chorus Dr. Ryan Brandau, Artistic Director Vespers Fusion Monteverdi and Mozart Vespers intermingled in the resonance of a stone church, accompanied by authentic period instruments. Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, 101 Chelsea Avenue, Long Branch, NJ

5 Sunday, May 17, 4 PM Philomusica Concert Choir Dennis Boyle, Music Director Hope Eternal: From Darkness into Light See concert listing for Saturday, May Sunday, May 17, 5 PM Schola Cantorum on Hudson Deborah Simpkin King, Founder and Artistic Director See concert listing for Saturday, May 16. Church of the Immaculate Conception, 30 N. Fullerton Ave., Montclair, NJ Saturday, May 30, 8 PM Ars Musica Chorale Dusty Francis, Music Director Mozart s Splendid Finale Concert explores the music and letters of Mozart s final year of life, which culminatied in his beautiful Requiem. With chorus and orchestra. West Side Presbyterian Church, 6 South Monroe Street, Ridgewood, NJ Sunday May 31, 2015 Central Jersey Choral Society Christopher Loeffler, Artistic Director Mendelssohn s Elijah First Presbyterian Church of Titusville, 48 River Dr., Titusville, NJ June 2015 Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 7:30pm New Jersey Choral Society Eric Dale Knapp, conductor Verdi Requiem Joined by the Connecticut Choral Society, NJCS presents Verdi's Requiem, coupled with a world premiere of David Gotay s Earthen Vessels, composed for Mr. Knapp and the New Jersey Choral Society. West Side Presbyterian Church, 6 South Monroe Street, Ridgewood, NJ Saturday, June 6, 7:30 PM Harmonium Choral Society Anne Matlack, Artistic Director Apocalypse Now Concert features Randall Thompson s Peaceable Kingdom and works about the end times. It also including the winners of the 18th annual High School Student Composition Contest Grace Episcopal Church, 4 Madison Avenue at Kings Road, Madison, NJ

6 Sunday, June 7, 7:30 PM Harmonium Choral Society See concert listing above. Sunday June 7, 2015 Central Jersey Choral Society Christopher Loeffler, Artistic Director Mendelssohn s Elijah St Paul Lutheran Church, 79 One Mile Road ext., East Windsor, NJ Friday, June 12, 8 PM Caritas Chamber Chorale Barbara Sanderman, Director Take Up the Journey Caritas Chamber Chorale presents a concert of a cappella sacred song, full of hope and beauty. This concert is a benefit for the Adorno Fathers' African Mission. Christ Church, New Brunswick, NJ Saturday, June 13, 8 pm Caritas Chamber Chorale See concert description above. St. Magdalen de Pazzi, Flemington, NJ Sunday, June 14, 4 PM Caritas Chamber Chorale See concert listing for June 12. St. Catharine, Spring Lake, NJ Wednesday, June 17, 2015, 7:30 PM Masterwork Chorus Summer Sings Thomas Juneau, Conductor Sing through Brahms' German Requiem and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms. Chatham United Methodist Church, 460 Main Street (Route 124), Chatham, NJ Wednesday, June 24, 2015, 7:30 PM Masterwork Chorus Summer Sings Andrew Megill, Conductor Sing through two beloved Mozart works: the Coronation Mass and Requiem. Chatham United Methodist Church, 460 Main Street (Route 124), Chatham, NJ

7 Members of the New Jersey Choral Consortium Arcadian Chorale Brookdale Concordia Chorale and Concordia Youth Chorale Cantabile Chamber Chorale Caritas Chamber Chorale Capital Singers of Trenton Celebration Singers singers.org Central Jersey Choral Society Children s Chorus of Sussex County Choral Art Society of New Jersey Choral Arts of Southern New Jersey Concord Singers Coro Lirico Greater South JerseyChorus Harmonium Choral Society Jubilate Deo Chorale and Orchestra Kinnara Ensemble Masterwork Chorus Monmouth Civic Chorus Morris Choral Society New Jersey Chamber Singers New Jersey Choral Society New Jersey Gay Men's Chorus New Jersey Youth Chorus North Jersey Chorus Orpheus Club Men's Chorus Philomusica Concert Choir Princeton Pro Musica Princeton Singers Pro Arte Chorale Ridgewood Choral, Inc. Ridgewood Singers, Inc. Schola Cantorum on Hudson Sharim V Sharot Shrewsbury Chorale Summit Chorale