Dear friends,

We had some excellent fellowship and wonderful food at the picnic Saturday. Thanks to those of you who came out.

Last Thursday’s rehearsal was superb in that we accomplished a lot by getting the notes under our fingertips. We’ll keep that going this Thursday with the following music..

Warm Ups

Irving Berlin’s Christmas

Here We Come A’ Caroling

Somewhere in My Memory

Hallelujah Chorus

Christmas From the 50’s

A Christmas Festival

Then…

We’ll touch on the other Christmas music.

After this rehearsal, we can begin to milk the musical expression of our pieces. We’ll have Daryl and the singers join us at that point. I feel good about where we are in this process. (Do you realize we are now learning music quicker?)

Jim