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LoremSpring Ipsum2013 Dolor Spring 2012 Volume 4 Celebrating the joy of singing The mission of Rogue Valley Chorale is to inspire and enrich our communities through the performance of great choral music performed by choruses of all ages. Rogue Valley Chorale Association Newsletter 40 Years of Memories Rogue Valley Chorale Celebrates Its Memories! Ah, memories! With a 40th Anniversary Season forty year history of making music the Rogue Valley Chorale has This season marks th built a treasury of memories. the 40 anniversary of the Our February 23 and 24 concerts Rogue Valley are entitled Hallelujah. They are Chorale. Since its programs of sacred music founding in 1973, through time, a tribute to how the chorale has religion has shaped our culture contributed to the and musical repertoire. We will cultural atmosphere of Southern Oregon by providing ! feature a small portion of the audiences with exceptional classical and works we have sung over the years. Some selections have contemporary choral works. We intend for our 40th been pieces requested by our loyal patrons. Chorale anniversary performances to be memorable. Many of members who were especially moved while singing them in the musical selections performed during our the past suggested others. Some of the numbers to be remaining concerts of the season will be old favorites, presented were chosen because of the memorable places special works, as well as commissioned pieces. in which they were performed. The Chorale has sung many Masses over the years from February 23 at Bethel Church and February 24, Palestrina to excerpts from Bernstein’s Mass written for the 2013 at the Craterian …Hallelujah… a program dedication of the Washington D.C. Kennedy Center. The of sacred music through time, a tribute to how Mass is a choral composition that sets the portions of the religion has shaped our culture and musical Eucharist Liturgy to music. We’ve compiled one comprised repertoire. of the works of various composers including Vaughan Williams (Kyrie), Mozart (Gloria and Laudate Dominum), April 27 and 28, 2013 at the Craterian… Forte at Poulenc (Sanctus), Schubert (Benedictus), Haydn (Agnus Dei) and Bach (Dona Nobis Pacem). The music will present Forty … a 40-year celebration of the Chorale’s the profound way that great composers have approached a favorite works including To Music, an original choral form that has been celebrated for hundreds of years. composition commissioned by the Chorale from Dr. David Childs, premiered in 2011. We also want you to hear pieces the Chorale has sung in great cathedrals during our European tours or in New York’s Carnegie Hall. We were thrilled to be invited to sing To purchase tickets call the Craterian Ginger in such places as San Marco Basilica in Venice, Chiesa de Rogers Theater Box Office at 541-779-3000 or Santa Margherita in Florence, the Baptistry in Pisa, and order on-line at www.craterian.org. Tickets to the England’s great Coventry, York and Canterbury cathedrals. February 23 concert at Bethel Church are available (continued on page 7) on-line at www.roguevalleychorale.org or at the door. 1 NewsletterLorem Ipsum of Dolor the Rogue Valley Chorale Association SpringSpring 2013 2012 Executive Director’s Report A Message From Our Board President The last few months, as I It’s been a busy have donned my Executive year for the Rogue Director’s hat, my time has Valley Chorale. We been spent with Fund started our 2012- development workshops, 2013 season with a strategic planning, committee marvelous holiday development and the Artistic concert that Director search. There has featured Benjamin been more to do than time Britten’s Rejoice in has allowed. the Lamb and Heinrich Following our holiday Schütz's Magnificat. We also sang a number of performance, our music carols in which audience members were invited to committee put in long hours sing along. The concert was a wonderful way to shelving the Christmas repertoire and preparing folders celebrate the season. filled with music for our next concert. The Rogue Valley Chorale returned after a holiday break and I was able We are currently rehearsing for our February 23 and to switch to my singer’s hat. Our first rehearsal is 24 concert which features a program of sacred always spent renewing our friendships and running music through time. The concert is a tribute to how through the new program. It always feels wonderful to religion has shaped our culture and musical sing after a break. repertoire. We’ll be singing some exquisitely beautiful classics, as well as spirituals and some As we sang Franz Biebl’s Ave Maria I was taken back songs written by modern day composers. The to a time when I traveled with the Chorale on tour. We program promises to be exceptional! sang the same Ave Maria in the Wierkirche in Germany on a Sunday afternoon as flies buzzed around us (the Members of the Board and Youth Choruses' church was located in a remote meadow). As I Steering Committee are teaming with Joy watched Lynn direct I noticed a man sitting in a side Marshall of Marshall Fundraising Management to pew listening to our choir of 60 from far-off Medford, plan The Joy of Singing Anniversary Celebration to Oregon. As he listened, tears streamed down his face. I be held on March 16th. We look forward to sharing don’t know what chain of events brought him there that the history of our organization with our guests and afternoon, as he had no connection to our group. I spotlighting two of our youth choruses, as well as don’t know what country he was from or what language the Chorale. he spoke, but at that moment we had a connection. It was all about the music. We are treasuring these last months with Conductor Lynn Sjolund, who will be retiring at the end of our As I prepare for our wonderful February concert, I am 2012-2013 season. He has been much loved and grateful for the reminder that it is all about the music. will be sorely missed. We are confident that our Yes, there are deadlines that must be met and incoming Artistic Director will bring his or her own meetings that must be attended. But in the end, within special gifts to the organization, however, and the music the heart finds peace. anticipate many more years of bringing beautiful ~ Jacque Schmidt, Executive Director choral music to our Rogue Valley audiences. We continue to search for our next Artistic Director and anticipate a selection in the next few months. * * * Music washes away from the soul We are grateful for the opportunity to share music the dust of everyday life. with each and every one of you. Thank you for your ~Berthold Auerbach support of the Rogue Valley Chorale Association. ~ Beth Gibson, Board President Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. ~Victor Hugo 2 NewsletterLorem Ipsum of Dolor the Rogue Valley Chorale Association SpringSpring 2013 2012 Youth Choruses Alumna Adrianne Box Fundraising 101 With Joy and Larry Marshall Adrianne Box began The Rogue Valley singing with the Chorale received Children’s Chorus in grants from Meyer 5th grade. Her love Memorial Trust of singing kept her and the Oregon with Rogue Valley Youth Choruses Arts Commission until she graduated to be used for from High School. fund development training and Adrianne is project initiation. currently attending We selected the University of Marshall Oregon in Eugene and is the recipient of several Fundraising and Events Management as our consulting scholarships. She is majoring in Communication firm to facilitate an intensive fundraising training program Disorders and Sciences and intends to use her degree as a speech therapist. Music therapy will be an for the Rogue Valley Chorale Board of Directors during the important component of her approach to helping those summer of 2012. With their help we updated our strategic with communication difficulties. plan, developed new mission and vision statements, and learned how to convey our impact on our community to During Adrianne’s first year at the University of Oregon potential donors. Skills learned will enable the organization she did not participate in any of the choruses on to effectively support its mission by increasing corporate campus, so she had no outlet for her singing passion. “I and community support. felt sad without anywhere to sing,” she said. She is now an alto with the University of Oregon Repertory Singers. Marshall Fundraising and Events Management is one of the West's leading fundraising and special events Adrianne has many favorite memories of her time with consulting firms. Co-founder Joy Marshall is a highly RVYC. She loved going on tour. She remembers many trips including Seattle (where she sang in St. James experienced fundraising professional who, for over 15 Cathedral), Portland, and San Francisco (where the years, served as the primary consultant to many of group sang in the Alcatraz Prison showers). She quoted Children’s Miracle Network’s 175 hospital foundations in Conductor Pam Nordquist who advised the young the USA, Canada and Mexico. Larry Marshall, Co-founder singers to “ask forgiveness, not permission,” so they of Marshall Fundraising Management focuses on sang in many wonderful places until they got “kicked organizational strategy and awareness-building to support out.” fundraising and development programs. He is an innovative thinker who contributes out-of-the-box ideas Adrianne sang under Conductor Pam Nordquist during that add new dimensions to traditional programs. her final years with RVYC. She remembers Ms Nordquist as someone with whom it is easy to talk. She made many friends in RVYC with whom she keeps in On March 16 the Marshalls will assist the Chorale in touch.