Let's convene for good food and a good time, Aug. 30 at Harris Townhall. Please respond to Lisa Staber on Facebook. Bring a dish to share. See you there.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Michael Smith Choral Workshop
All Itasca Community Chorus singers are invited to participate in the Michael Smith Choral Workshop,Sunday, Aug.21 at Zion Lutheran Church at noon. Michael Smith is a longtime friend of Lee and Mary Jo and currently a choral director at Concordia College in Moorhead. It's a great day to start a new season. Please join us.
Don’t Forget: Reply to Mary Jo lmjess@mchsi.com
Tuesday, August 16: Sign up for Michael Smith Choral Workshop.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 21: NOON AT ZION
Sandwich Lunch followed by Workshop till 3:00
Don’t Forget: Reply to Mary Jo lmjess@mchsi.com
Tuesday, August 16: Sign up for Michael Smith Choral Workshop.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 21: NOON AT ZION
Sandwich Lunch followed by Workshop till 3:00
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Tuesday Noon Concerts Deliver the Best
July 26th!! Yikes, our summer is flying by. Each Tuesday noon we've feasted on incredible music provided by our generous musicians.
This Tuesday noon you'll find us at the Assemblies of God Church at 1585 E US Highway 169. Swing Delivery with Jim Mason and his ever-evolving group of talented musician friends will woo us with the Big Band era and favorites like "In the Mood," "Mr. Wonderful," "Lullaby of Birdland," and "Big Band Boogie." In its 10th year this 12-piece combo just keeps making its music better and better.
Tuesday Aug. 2 the Itasca Music Club will deliver "A Collage of Sound" at the Community Presbyterian Church at the 700 block on North Pokegama. These local instrumental and vocal teachers are set to deliver a program ranging from Vivaldi and Rachmaninoff to a Rhumba by Sanucci.
Aug. 9 features Dr. Mary Ellen Patnaude Haupert at the keyboard. Zion Lutheran at 2901 S HWY 169 hosts this one. Mary Ellen will be delivering a program of Spanish music and she invites one and all to come dance with her.
Closing out the season will be Marvin Havard, Cheri Troumbly and friends, and New Generation.
Itasca County's wonderful musicians just keep delivering so please come, enjoy, and help us all make this another wonderful season.
Psst! Just the other day Jan Holmgren confirmed a date for the Swedish Trio con Brio in June of 2012.
This Tuesday noon you'll find us at the Assemblies of God Church at 1585 E US Highway 169. Swing Delivery with Jim Mason and his ever-evolving group of talented musician friends will woo us with the Big Band era and favorites like "In the Mood," "Mr. Wonderful," "Lullaby of Birdland," and "Big Band Boogie." In its 10th year this 12-piece combo just keeps making its music better and better.
Tuesday Aug. 2 the Itasca Music Club will deliver "A Collage of Sound" at the Community Presbyterian Church at the 700 block on North Pokegama. These local instrumental and vocal teachers are set to deliver a program ranging from Vivaldi and Rachmaninoff to a Rhumba by Sanucci.
Aug. 9 features Dr. Mary Ellen Patnaude Haupert at the keyboard. Zion Lutheran at 2901 S HWY 169 hosts this one. Mary Ellen will be delivering a program of Spanish music and she invites one and all to come dance with her.
Closing out the season will be Marvin Havard, Cheri Troumbly and friends, and New Generation.
Itasca County's wonderful musicians just keep delivering so please come, enjoy, and help us all make this another wonderful season.
Psst! Just the other day Jan Holmgren confirmed a date for the Swedish Trio con Brio in June of 2012.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
June 14 Arthur Pryor, the Music of JP Sousa Concert
Arthur Pryor—a name often forgotten but a style that still sets feet dancing. Arhur Pryor served as lead trombonist, composer, and arranger for John Phillip Sousa’s ragtime band. The Liberatti of the slide trombone, Pryor completed six coast to coast tours before tiring of life on the road. He also immortalized much of Sousa’s music by serving as recording coordinator and furthering the work of the Victor Talking Machine.
Tom Patnaude, longtime solo trombonist, and Jim Mason, accompanist par excellence bring Arthur Pryor’s music to life for the Grand Rapids Summer Series audience, Tuesday June 14 at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church at noon.
Treat your friends to a free 30-minute concert followed by a $6.00 luncheon served by the church women.
Tom Patnaude, longtime solo trombonist, and Jim Mason, accompanist par excellence bring Arthur Pryor’s music to life for the Grand Rapids Summer Series audience, Tuesday June 14 at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church at noon.
Treat your friends to a free 30-minute concert followed by a $6.00 luncheon served by the church women.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Keep Singing
Are you interested in singing Broadway songs in the spring of 2012? If so, here's a really strong argument.
Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey explains.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42441573#42441573
Support the arts! All of the arts!
Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey explains.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42441573#42441573
Support the arts! All of the arts!
Friday, March 4, 2011
Faure's Requiem & Spring Songs
Sunday, April 10 at 3:00 p.m. Itasca Community Chorus will present Faure's Requiem & Spring Songs at St. Andrew's Lutheran Church in Grand Rapids. To complement organist Gwen Degner's accompaniment, director Cheri Troumbly has assembled a small orchestra.
Mary LaPlant, known for her virtuoso violin performances will be doubling on the viola. Add Deena and Olivia Skaja (French horn& violin). Trumpet Mike Wourms is reknowned for his soaring notes as is soprano soloist Jennifer Graupmann. Bill Schnell's baritone and Becky Loomis's mellow cello tugs at the heart.
Gabriel Fauré composed the Requiem, following the deaths of his father and mother. The transcendent joy of the requiem is tribute to the cathartic value of music. Faure was interviewed by Louis Aguettant on July 12, 1902. The following excerpt on the Requiem was originally published in Comoedia (1954, p. 6). The English translation is taken from Robert Orledge's biography: "It has been said that my Requiem does not express the fear of death and someone has called it a lullaby of death. But it is thus that I see death: as a happy deliverance, an aspiration towards happiness above, rather than as a painful experience... perhaps I have also instinctively sought to escape from what is thought right and proper, after all the years of accompanying burial services on the organ! I know it all by heart. I wanted to write something different."
To complement the Requiem, Director Troumbly has chosen water songs. Like the spring thaw these choral settings bring us "Down to the River to Pray" and send us on our way singing like "A flat Crickets and BFlat Frogs."
Thanks to supporting grants form Operation RoundUp (Lake Country Power) and ARAC/McKnight grants funded by MN legacy dollars, tickets are free for students and only $5 for adults.
Mary LaPlant, known for her virtuoso violin performances will be doubling on the viola. Add Deena and Olivia Skaja (French horn& violin). Trumpet Mike Wourms is reknowned for his soaring notes as is soprano soloist Jennifer Graupmann. Bill Schnell's baritone and Becky Loomis's mellow cello tugs at the heart.
Gabriel Fauré composed the Requiem, following the deaths of his father and mother. The transcendent joy of the requiem is tribute to the cathartic value of music. Faure was interviewed by Louis Aguettant on July 12, 1902. The following excerpt on the Requiem was originally published in Comoedia (1954, p. 6). The English translation is taken from Robert Orledge's biography: "It has been said that my Requiem does not express the fear of death and someone has called it a lullaby of death. But it is thus that I see death: as a happy deliverance, an aspiration towards happiness above, rather than as a painful experience... perhaps I have also instinctively sought to escape from what is thought right and proper, after all the years of accompanying burial services on the organ! I know it all by heart. I wanted to write something different."
To complement the Requiem, Director Troumbly has chosen water songs. Like the spring thaw these choral settings bring us "Down to the River to Pray" and send us on our way singing like "A flat Crickets and BFlat Frogs."
Thanks to supporting grants form Operation RoundUp (Lake Country Power) and ARAC/McKnight grants funded by MN legacy dollars, tickets are free for students and only $5 for adults.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Come:) Sing Along; Practice Jan. 11
Calling all singers. Join Itasca Community Chorus. Director Cheri Troumbly requires no auditions, just a sincere desire to sing quality choral music with a fun-loving, hard-working choir. Practice for Faure's Requiem as well as lighter, spring music commences Tuesday, Jan. 11 at 7:00pm at Zion Lutheran Church in Grand Rapids. Folders of music are available for pickup at 6:30.
A number of wonderful singers as well as orchestra instrumentalists have already indicated an interest in collaborating with Itasca Community Chorus in delivering this concert before Easter.
A number of wonderful singers as well as orchestra instrumentalists have already indicated an interest in collaborating with Itasca Community Chorus in delivering this concert before Easter.
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