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THE SOUTH WINDSOR COMMUNITY CHORUS

In Their Efforts to Provide Cultural Music Programs For the Community

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A 501c3 Non-Profit Organization Presents

Annual Winter Season Concert

Saturday, January 10, 2015 South Windsor High School

161 Nevers Road South Windsor, CT 06074

About The Chorus

Director:

Susan Leach - Hebert

Accompanist: David Wallace

About The Chorus

The South Windsor Community Chorus members share a desire to provide entertainment, musical growth and education, personal challenge, creativity, and community service. The Chorus welcomes voices (with or without musical background) from South Windsor and the surrounding towns. This organization originally began in 1971 as “Friends of Music.” Bobbie Reeves (Director) and Karen Krinjak (Accompanist) volunteered their services to help raise money for band uniforms for the South Windsor High School. Today, membership ranges from 40 to 50 singers from towns throughout the region. The Chorus performs two major concerts a season, winter and spring, as well as shorter programs throughout the community. Our repertoire consists of light classical, popular show tunes, and traditional numbers. The group is sponsored in part by the Recreation Department of the Town of South Windsor, through the generosity of companies and organizations in the community, as well as by members of the chorus themselves. The Chorus awards its’ “Friends of Music” scholarship each year, to a graduating Senior of South Windsor High School, pursuing a career in music. For more information on how you can join us on our musical adventures, please call Lehman A. Mann Sr at 875-2589.

Please visit us at our web site:

http://swchorus.org

Chorus Members

Sopranos Carol Ballard Carol Klock

Marlene Bennett Jean Kurth-Zubretsky Joyce Bonelli Linda Lahart

Sharon Cunningham Nancy Lohmann Leona Dunham Patricia Riordan Miele Sara Duttweiler Shirley Nanci

Eileen M. Flannelly Eileen Nelli Diane Hawkins Bea Norman Roberta Howd Karen Wagner

Janet Rataic Huot Laurel Wrynn Jane Jachym Linda York

Connie Karpen

Altos Rachel Axler Michelle Karasik

Theresa Bennett Katie Bianchi

Marge Kniola Diane N. M. Lajoie

Donna Brown Cheryl Cormier

Sandra Livingston Louise Neary

Kelly Coyne Carol Obee Julie Erlandsen Carol B. Pandy

Kathleen Gaedje Janet Querido Nancy Gaines

Debbie Griswold Sandra Sheridan

Tenors Julia Cote Jan Kremidas

William Kelly Wade William Signor

Basses Alan Embleton

Alex Tyler Karpen Richard Karpen

Lehman A. Mann Sr John Pelkey

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We Need Your Support

Ticket sales cover only a portion of our operating costs. It is through the generosity of friends like you the South Windsor Community Chorus is able to present quality programs. While your contribution in any amount is greatly appreciated, the following is a list of suggested donation levels

Enclosed is my check for $_____________ To the order of South Windsor Community Chorus.

Name: Address:

City, State, Zip:

I wish my gift to be anonymous

Does your company have a matching gift program? Please check with your employer to see if your gift qualifies for matching funds.

My company will match my gift. My company’s matching gift form is enclosed. I would like to sing in SWCC, please call me at __________________

South Windsor Community Chorus c/o Eileen Nelli, Treasurer

88 Old Farm Rd South Windsor, CT 06074

Directors $ 1,500 and up Listing in each concert program, inclusion on our website, and ten tickets to our winter and spring concerts.

Conductors $ 1,000 Listing in each concert program, inclusion on our website, and six tickets to our winter and spring concerts.

Producers $ 500 Listing in each concert program, inclusion on our website, and three tickets to our winter and spring concerts.

Performers $ 100 - $ 250 Listing in each concert program and two tickets to our winter and spring concerts.

Patrons $ 5 - $ 75 Listing in each concert program (up to 45 characters)

My gift is in memory or (please type or print clearly):

Susan Leach-Hebert , Director

Susan Leach-Hebert grew up in Southington, Connecticut. She received her Masters of Music Education at the University of Connecticut, studying under the nationally known children’s choir director Mary Ellen Junda. While at UCONN she conducted select pieces for the Women’s Choir and studied voice with Constance Rock. Susan conducted the “Treble Makers” - a children’s choir at the Community Music and Arts School in Storrs. For several years, she conducted the adult Folk Group at St Mary’s church in Windsor Locks, CT and spent some time teaching Musikmakers birth-5 music in Manchester. Ms. Leach Hebert has spent 20 years teaching general and vocal music to elementary and middle school students, the past 12 years at Eli Terry Elementary School (the best school ever!) in South Windsor. She currently resides in South Windsor with her husband and two teenage children

David Wallace, Pianist

David Wallace studied piano in Melbourne and Orlando, Florida, as well as in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He lent his diverse musical talent to numerous school bands, choruses, jazz bands, and churches as a vocalist, instrumentalist (playing trumpet and piano), and director. In addition to serving as our pianist since 1995, he is the music director of the 2nd Congregational Church of Manchester. David and his family are residents of South Windsor.

South Windsor Community Chorus Officers

President Lehman A. Mann Sr. Vice-President Janet Rataic Huot

Business Manager Janet Querido Treasurer Eileen Nelli Librarian Julia Cote Secretary Kelly Coyne

With Our Appreciation

Patrons Carl & Marcia Gimbrone

In Memorium In Memory of Debra Ann Mann

Jane Jachym

In Memory of Carol Ann Slicer Janet Kremida Donna Brown

Sheila Kincman Raymond & Elaine Bernier

Catherine Phinney Margie Judd

Claire Parmelee Jay & Marilyn Miller

Janice McGinley Nancy Lohmann

2015/2016 CONCERT SEASON REGISTRATION FORM

Please complete this form and return it along with your registration fee of $30.00 for the Spring Concert Season, to our Treasurer Eileen Nelli, 88 Old Farm Rd. South Windsor,CT. 06074. *********************************************************************** Full Name _______________________________________________________________ Address ___________________ City _______________ State _____ Zip _______ Home Phone __________________ Work Phone ___________________ Company Name ________________________ E-Mail Address _____________________________________ 1. If different from above, please indicate how you would like your name to be listed in our

concert programs. _____________________________________________________________ Are you a returning member? Yes No if not, how did you hear about the chorus?

Other Member Attended a Performance SWCC Web Site Journal Inquirer Hartford Courant Other

What voice part do you sing? Soprano Alto Tenor Bass Don’t Know 2. Are you interested in doing a solo or participating in a trio, quartet, or other small

ensemble? Yes No If you would like, please list any previous singing experience you may have.

3. There is a lot that goes into keeping our chorus running. Would you be willing to help

with: Membership Special Events Program Publicity Tickets Other

4. Is there anyone you know that might also be interested in joining our chorus? We need

both men and women singers. (Please list name and phone so we can contact them.)

5. Does your church chorus or other organization have a music library that they might be willing to share with the South Windsor Community Chorus?

Yes No Don’t Know (Please list name of organization.).

6. Does your company have a foundation grant , matching gift or volunteer incentive program? Yes No What are the requirements ??

Thank you for taking the time to fill out this form. If you have any questions, please call Lee Mann (860) 875-2589 or Visit our Web Site: WWW. SWCHORUS.Org

With Our Appreciation

Allied Printing for printing the programs

Our Savior Lutheran Church for providing rehearsal space

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church for providing rehearsal space

We would like to recognize and thank the following individuals who have contributed extra time supporting the chorus

Joyce Bonelli Art Querido

Art Dunham Rob Nelli

Lehman A Mann Sr. Wade W.Signor

Janet Querido

S.W.H.S. Stage, Lighting, Sound and Video Crews

The South Windsor Recreation Department

A Note from the Director .. Happy New Year! What a wonderful opportunity we have tonight to convey our love and joy for the Winter season through song! Just as our audience consists of people with varied tastes in music, our program shows a variety of styles and moods. Classic Folk music from Israel, India, and Russia filtered between a classical Mozart Requiem, a Jazzy spiritual and standard Holiday classics - new and old. So sit back and enjoy the WIntertime Glow!

From The President … “The secret in singing is found between the vibration in the singer’s voice and the throb in the hearer’s heart.” The Conductor that can extract these from the singers’ hearts and voices and compound them into one, creates that sound which is called “Music”. Everybody can sing, everybody used to sing and everybody should sing. Music throughout all of human history has been about people communicating and sharing together. The gift we, the SWCC, have here in vocal music, is more powerful than any other artistic form, because when you’re in the same room with people onstage who are working together to create something beautiful that is coming entirely from them, it’s unbelievably compelling. Our concert, “Wintertime Aglow “ will bring to you the feelings of the season, peace that a simple snowfall can bring. The solemness a single candle brings, as it fills a quiet room. The joyful sounds of families being together. I hope the sounds we bring to you tonight will find a way into your hearts and minds that you will take home to share with family and friends. Peace and Joy To All!!

Tonight’s Colors presented by Lauren Pelletier and Michael Fialkoff

The National Anthem (The Star-Spangled Banner)

words by Francis Scott Key music by John S. Smith

The Little Drummer Boy (Peace on Earth)

words and music by Harry Simeone, Henry Onorati Katherine Davis

words by Alan Kokan music by Larry Grossman, Ian Fraser

arranged by Jay Althouse Sleigh Bells arranged by Earlene Rentz Cantar, (Sing) words and music by Jay Althouse Wintertime Aglow words and music by Audrey Snyder

With Alex Karpen on “The Bells”

Lacrymosa

by W.A. Mozart Arranged by Russell Robinson

Swingin’ Sweet Chariot words and music by Rollo Dilworth With Ken Hebert on Bass Guitar and Greg Hoyt on Drums

~ Intermission ~

Part 2 A Holiday Medley by Dave Wallace

Garbe rame arranged by Sheena Phillips

With Grace Helmke on Flute

Havah Nagilah arranged by Joyce Eilers Winter Wonderland

words by Dick Smith and Felix Bernard arranged by Andy Beck

With Ken Hebert on Bass Guitar and Greg Hoyt on Drums

Believe

words and music by Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri

arranged by Mark Hayes Hot Chocolate

words and music by Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri

arranged by Roger Emerson

The Twelve Days After Christmas

words and music by Frederick Silver

May You Go In Peace

by Gene Grier and Lowell Everson

Please join us for a light reception following the performance