Noteworthy News, December 11th
Important upcoming dates:
Sunday, December 13, 4 pm Concert: Virtual Wintersong! (Stream)
Monday, January 25, 7 pm First session, Virtual Masterworks Series (Zoom)
The BIG DEAL this week is Wintersong! Now is the time to share information with your friends and associates. Log in to Facebook and SHARE, INVITE, and COMMENT about the event (LINK). The more you share, the more will watch. You may also use the attached artwork to email directly to your friends and family about this entertaining event. An email blast was sent this morning with all the details. Of course, a personal, direct invitation is always best. In brief, it's Sunday afternoon, December 13th at 4 (Pacific time), AND since this is a "virtual concert," it will be available on YouTube after its premier! We are commemorating our 75th anniversary and including 3 area high schools in addition to both new and old works from PSC. To access the concert on Sunday, visit www.pschoir.org.
Starting in January, our Winter and early Spring activities will feature a Virtual Masterworks Series. Save these dates: Monday, January 25, Monday, February 22, Monday, March 29, and Tuesday, April 27.
Amazon will donate $$$ to our Choir. When shopping online, remember Amazon Smile. (to link your Amazon account to PSC, simply visit smile.amazon.com/ch/93-0415215)
And in the sad news category, we just learned that former PSC conductor Frank Holman passed away yesterday, December 10.
Additional Choral news of note: The Rose City Mixed Quartet, all members of PSC (Cameron Griffith Herbert, soprano; Helen Deitz, alto; Dale Webber, tenor; and Mark Petersen, bass) will be singing as part of the advent service this Sunday, December 13 at Augustana Lutheran Church. The Livestream service begins at 10 am. Here is a LINK to Augustana's website.
From Steve Lewis, our accompanist (during normal times): A (non)Christmas Piano Recital, Friday, December 18 at 5 pm, $15 per household, "streamed from my home piano." LINK for more information and tickets. I am very excited to be playing a short online recital of music that has connections, in various ways, to Christmas. From Chopin's violent, terrifying Scherzo #1 in B minor that provides a brief respite of solace with its setting of a Polish Christmas carol, through Messiaen's clangorously joyous Christmas bells, through Bartók's settings of 20 Romanian Christmas songs, through Beethoven's second-to-last Sonata, Op. 110, which he famously finished on Christmas Day 1821, my concert will bring you new sounds and tunes to enjoy during the darkest (for those of us in the northern hemisphere, anyway) yet most festive time of year.