Open Sing!

Come try us out - you'll like what you hear! Monday, September 13, 2010 from 7-9:15 at Grace Episcopal Church in Manchester (Pine and Lowell).

2010 Audition Requirements (by appointment)

The yearly auditions are designed to assess your capabilities and to place you appropriately in the choir. This year, continuing altos and basses, as well as new singers and members who did not sing this past season will be asked to audition. Auditions are private. Please prepare the attached excerpt in your preferred voice part. You will also be asked to vocalize and sight-sing, in addition to performing basic tonal memory and hearing exercises. We want as many singers as possible - we really want you to do well! Prepare the excerpt as well as you possibly can. It's normal to be nervous for an audition, but we promise to do everything we can to make your experience pleasant! Notification will be made by phone. Auditions are by appointment and take place at Grace Episcopal Church.

Chamber Choir

If you are interested in auditioning for the MCS Chamber Choir, please indicate this on your audition form. This select group will rehearse just prior to the regular Monday evening rehearsals, probably every other week.

Obligations to MCS

• Dues = $125 per year, paid at first rehearsal in September (Students = $75; scholarships available)
• Purchase of music = approx. $35 for concert series
• Purchase of concert dress, see description below
• Assist with selling tickets to concerts
• Assist with selling advertisements for program booklet
• Serve on committees and volunteer to help where needed - be prompt, bring a pencil, practice at home
• Do your best to memorize music according to the assigned schedule. Committing some of our music to memory will enhance the level of communication between choir and conductor, and provide greater interpretive nuance and freedom.
  

Concert Dress

Women: MODEST, elegant black concert attire (no off-the-shoulder, no cleavage, no bare belly; scarf (supplied by MCS)
Men: black tux/suit, white shirts with black bow tie, black socks, black shoes

Attendance Policy

• Rehearsals are held Monday nights, 7:00 – 9:15 p.m., Great Hall, Grace Church
  
• No more than two absences during the fall semester; additional absence approved by the Music Director
  
• Attend a minimum of two sectionals per concert series.
  Four hard-scheduled sectionals (2 for SA and 2 for TB) are scheduled per project (see calendar). Section leaders will also schedule additional sectionals. These sectionals may be led by section leaders or a capable designee. Sectionals should be at least 1 hour in length preferably not on Monday evenings.
• Mandatory attendance at dress rehearsals; singers participate in rehearsals only if they plan to sing in concert
  

Christmas Tapestry

Caroling at the Currier

Spring 2010

Click here for complete member information including a detailed calendar.

To schedule an audition, contact Carol Sanders, Membership Chair at altoluno@comcast.net -- (603) 566-7467.