Febuary 15, 2018

Notes from Bruce Message From the President, Joan Faucher Dear Singers, Please email Bern if you need a CD made. Specify your Thank you for a good rehearsal on 8 February. Sectional section. [email protected] rehearsals worked quite well last week and we will do the same The weekly newsletter is located on the Learning Tracks page so you can reference Bruce's instructions. this week. Please meet in the sanctuary to get music. We have Please save the following dates: copies of all the pieces we are performing on the May concert. Month of March In sectionals, we will work on the following compositions: Easter food drive for All Faith's Food Bank - The King and I Medley May 1 & 2, 2018 - Love is Love Giving Challenge (Our most Important fund Raiser) - Somewhere Saturday May 5, 2018 7:00pm

- Tonight Spring Concert

- Love Has Always Been Our Song Glenridge Performing Arts Center

From memory: Sunday May 6, 2018 3:00pm Spring concert - Embraceable You Glenridge Performing Arts Center - Wind Beneath My Wings https://tylerclementi.org/ See you on Thursday,

Bruce

"These two are not two, love has made them one. Amo ergo sum! and by its mystery each is no less but more." During the month of March, Diversity will hold - Benjamin Britten a food drive for the Easter Holiday benefiting

"All Faith's Food Bank". Get into those pantries

and make your donation count! George and will always be remembered as the songwriting team whose voice was synonymous with the sounds and style of the Jazz Age. By the time of their Giving Challenge May 1-2, 2018 1924 Broadway hit, Lady, Be Good!, George had worked with lyricist Buddy DeSylva "BE the ONE" on a series of revues, George White's Scandals, while Ira enjoyed success with May 1-2 are the dates for this year's Giving Challenge, 'BE the ONE". This composer on Two Little Girls In Blue. But from 1924 until George’s is an extremely important time for Diversity as it is our biggest fundraiser. death in 1937, the brothers wrote almost exclusively with each other, composing over The challenge runs for 24 hours only starting at 12n on May 1 and ending on May 2 at 11:59:59am. All donations will be matched up to $100.00 two dozen scores for Broadway and Hollywood. Though they had many individual song (minimum donation $25.00). Please begin to line up and secure family, hits, their greatest achievement may have been the elevation of musical comedy to an friends, businesses etc. to participate. Additional information will be forthcoming as we get closer. American art form. With their trilogy of political satires — Strike Up The Band, the

Pulitzer Prize-winning , and its sequel, Let ‘Em Eat Cake (all three written with playwrights George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind) – they helped raise popular to a new level of sophistication. Their now-classic folk opera, After rehearsal get together (co-written with DuBose Heyward), is constantly revived in opera Following each rehearsal you are invited to unwind at the local Geckos houses and theatres throughout the world. Concurrently with the Gershwins’ musical with us! theatre and film work, George attained great success in the concert arena as a piano Geckos Grill & Pub virtuoso, conductor, and composer of such celebrated works as Rhapsody In Blue, An 5585 Palmer Crossing Cir. (Clark Road) American In Paris, and the Concerto In F. Sarasota, Fl 34233 (941)923-6061