Our opening night featured performance for the national conference of the Organization of American Kodaly Educators is nearly upon us! This is a huge opportunity for us on a number of levels: we'll be singing for a national audience of music educators (someone at the ACDA convention told me that OAKE has never featured a men's chorus before), we'll get to singing some of the music for our March 22nd concert in public beforehand, and we'll be paid a fee, which is vital for the continued financial health of the Camerata.
I know there are a lot of questions about Thursday's performance, so here are some details:
Time: We need to be there to warm-up and practice at 6:45. The concert could start as early as 7:30 or as late as 8:00. We follow the presidential address (the president of OAKE, not Barack), so they can't give us an exact time.
Locations: The Marriott Wardman Park, 2660 Woodley Rd. NW, WDC, 20008.
Meet in the Harding Room. It's on the Mezzanine level of the main hotel building on Woodley Rd.
The performance will take place in the Thurgood Marshall Ballroom, also on the Mezzanine level. Here's a map. If you click on it, it'll get bigger.
A full fact sheet about the Marriott Wardman Park can be found by clicking here.
You can certainly find somewhere to change at the hotel, but please do it before the warm-up. We'll keep singing right up until it's time to do the concert, so there won't be time to change after the warm-up. If you can, come dressed in your tux.
The hotel is right near the Woodley Park Metro Station and I strongly urge you to take public transportation or a cab. Parking is available at the hotel, but it's $31.36 to self-park. Valet parking is available for $36.96. The entrance to the garage is on the Woodley Rd. side of the hotel at the top of the main driveway. Continue to the right for the garage entrance.
In addition to your folder, you'll also need your song book and the pieces we saved from Christmas. Here's the program:
Brothers, Sing On! - Edvard Grieg
Spaseniye sodelal - Pavel Chesnokov
Halleluyah! - Louis Lewandowsky
My Gift - John Chorbajian
Totus Tuus - Ambroz Copi
Ave Maria - Franz Biebl
Evening Song - Zoltan Kodály
The Peacocks - Kodály
Shchedrik - arr. Mykola Leontovich
True Love - Leos Janácek
The Soldier’s Lot - Janácek
Workin’ for the Dawn of Peace - arr. Ron Jeffers
Homesick Blues - Anthony Donato
Danny Boy - arr. Patrick Dupré Quigley
Vive L’Amour - arr. Parker and Shaw
Need something more? Did I leave something out? Let me know and I'll update the post.
See you soon!
Frank
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