Frederick A. Binkholder, Artistic Director (director@capitolhillchorale.org)
Todd Fickley, Assistant Director
Governing Committee — Marian Connolly, President ; Jon Brandt , Treasurer; Susan Leidich, Secretary; Doug Johnson, Publicity & Marketing; Jim Travis, Fundraising; Tom Casey; Deborah Gitin, Alto Rep; Sharon Thompson, Soprano Rep; Community Members: Gary Abrecht; Betsy Barnett; Jeff Serfass;  Ex Officio:  Frederick Binkholder; Ginny Gano; Parker Jayne (founder)

 Section Leaders

Jessica Lundberg (S)  (607) 745-1209 C                   

WELCOME TO THE AGE OF GINNY GETTING INTO TECHNOLOGY!

Jess Chaiken has created a page for choir notes and has successfully posted the most recent notes to the page. The link is below.  Ginny will send the notes to Jess who will post them.  Then Ginny will send out an email with the hyperlink telling folks the latest choir notes are there. 

 
We will also be able to post additional community and music performance announcements by choir members that don't make it into the notes in time.  Choir members can email items to notes@capitolhillchorale.org and Jess will post

<http://notes.capitolhillchorale.org>.

USHERS It is the same old song.. I need ushers to help out for our concerts.  If some of you have friends or relatives or schoolmates/coworkers that need to save their pennies, it's a great way to hear, to volunteer, and save for the future...;o)

REMEMBER TO ADD OUR MESSIAH SING-ALONG, DECEMBER 10, 5 P.M. TO YOUR CALENDAR.  We are doing this along with the choir from Reformation and their director, Paul Leavitt.  We are hoping it will be a great community event!

Did you know that Mozart had taken Handel's Messiah and reorchestrated it, changed the text to German, and swapped around all the solo parts? 

Join Robin Pennington and the Cantate Chamber singers. www.cantate.org <http://www.cantate.org>  for  concerts on  Saturday, December 16th at 7:30 and Sunday, December 17th at 4:00.  They are doing this work for the concert at St. Columba's Episcopal Church in NW DC. This is a block away from the Tenleytown metro station.  Barbara Hollinshead, who is Robin's voice teacher and also a friend of Ginny's, is the alto soloist. Tickets are $30.

A message from former CHCers, Rick and Susannah Minard:
Hi Ginny, 
Please pass this along to the chorale folks....
Hi Chorale friends,    We in the far north have just elected two (2 !!!!!!) new representatives to the House.  One is  Paul Hodes, a lawyer, but more importantly he and his wife are musicians. He provides guitar and vocals and his wife Peggo Horstman Hodes, soprano,  is the dept. chair for vocal music at the Concord Community Music School.

Would any of you have a rental, or other housing ideas for them.  We think they would love living on the hill (their kids are adults, and the daughter is already attending American U).

We also think they would fit in so well with the Capitol Hill lifestyle. Yet, if you know of something elsewhere please let us know so that we can pass it on.

We love hearing about all of the happenings, comings and goings, and people news.  We saw Robert Gersh, Susan, Shira and Avi a month ago in Maine.  They have a beautiful new house and Robert is singing some Handel with a new to him group.

Rick is now very busy back in Concord, NH at the Audubon Society of NH.(he was at Harvard as the exec. director of the Harvard Univ. Ctr. for the Environment for a year)  He became president of the group 2 months ago.  An extraordinary opportunity for him: not only does he get to help make a difference for the earth, he can also "bird" with some pretty cool people.  We've also been told that he has "it" ( New Hampshire Magazine).

Alden is now in 4th grade, almost 10, can lay down a steady rock and roll, swing or jazz beat on the drums, and has a remarkable propensity for remembering melodies and lyrics after just a single exposure. A lot of our Saturdays are spent traversing the state to go to scholastic chess tournaments.  And, in spite of our not trying really hard, he's become a pretty good team sports player, right now it's soccer. 

I (Susannah) has been working full-time as a speech therapist at a Manchester city school, our version of inner city.

WE love and miss all of you, even those we do not know. (after all, if you're in the Capitol Hill Chorale you must be interesting and kind, wonderful and remarkable, and family). Last April was our 10th wedding anniversary!!!! Yes, "Susanna-and Rick-are-wed"...still.  Your gifts of song and friendship sent us off on our marriage with blessings that will be potent for our lifetimes.  Thank you, again, and again.

Anyway, as always, please, please, please tell us if you are coming this way (we are only 70 miles north of Boston ). We'd love to see you!  Susanna, Rick and Alden Minard

ALEXANDRIA CHORAL SOCIETY
Philip Cave
Artistic Director
Sunday, November 19, 2006  4 p.m.    The Alexandria Choral Society, featuring Soprano Rosa  Lamoreaux, opens it's 37th Season with a Special Tribute to Mozart -Mozart and The Masons. A Mason for the last 7 years of his life, Mozart composed many works for Masonic Rites and Rituals.  Some of the Masonic selections that will be performed include the famous motet Ave verum corpus (KV618), the Sancta Maria for mixed choir and orchestra (KV 273) and two Masonic welcome songs. Also in the program, the virtuoso soprano solo Exsultate, Jubilate - Alleluia (KV165) and the Vesperae Solennes de Confessore (KV339) which include the celebrated soprano solo Laudate Dominum. 

Tickets are $10-$20 with additional discounts for online purchases.  Click www.alexchoralsociety.org/tickets.aspx <http://www.alexchoralsociety.org/tickets.aspx> to purchase your tickets online.

NOVEMBER BIRTHDAYS - Andy Salunga (3rd); J.R. Windsor (5^th); Adrienne Tranel, (10th);  Ariele Yaffee, Anne Harrison (11^th);  Robert Mantel (17th); David Holsinger (25^th),  Andrea Vehmehren, Bill Kunze (29th).