Author: Jan Clayton

Regional Honor Choir Audition Preparation Workshop

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Want to walk into your audition with confidence?

This three-hour workshop is for high school singers who would like extra help with preparing for the regional honor choir auditions, which are held at the end of September.

Lessons will include:

  • How to present yourself at the audition. What do I wear? What do I say? What do I need to bring?
  • Tips and tricks for sight-reading.
  • Tips and tricks for tonal memory.
  • Preparation and performance of your solo piece.

Kristina Nakagawa leads this afternoon workshop. All students will take home materials that will support further audition preparation at home.

Date: Saturday, September 9th, 2017  1:00-4:00 pm
Location: St. Francis Episcopal Church, 1205 Pine Avenue, San Jose, CA

Student Participant $10 Purchase Tickets

Individual Donations

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Membership Benefits

All donors receive acknowledgment in our concert programs, priority concert seating, and an invitation to donor events

Level Amount Gifted Benefits of Giving
Partner $5,000+ Private small-group concert of your choosing and four RAP Concert season tickets
Benefactor $2,500 – $4,999 Four RAP Concert* season tickets
Visionary $1,000 – $2,499 Two RAP Concert* season tickets
Patron $500 – $999 One RAP Concert* season ticket
Supporter $100 – $499 Two RAP Concert* single-concert tickets
Friend $50 – $99 Priority concert seating

* RAP Concert — Any concert produced by Resounding Achord Productions

All donations are tax-deductible. Resounding Achord Productions is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. FEIN: 46-1552196

How will your gift be used?

  • Outreach Programs ($5000) – We are in the process of developing several new outreach programs for singers and emerging choral conductors in the Bay Area
  • Scholarships ($10,000) – Provide scholarships to students for honor choirs, music camps, instruments, voice lessons, and similar support.
  • Venues ($12,000)– For rehearsal, outreach programs, and concerts
  • Music Library ($2000)– To build and maintain a music library for future concerts and special performances, such as weddings and caroling; currently, our singers purchase their own scores
  • Guest Artists – To perform at our concerts
  • Collaborative Pianist Fees – To accompany the choir during weekly rehearsals and concerts
  • Paid Staff – Our staff is small and we hope to expand it to increase our program offerings.

Past programs that benefitted from donor gifts

  • Over the last 8 years, we have awarded over 300 scholarships to California students to participate in the CCDA Regional and State Honor Choir programs.
  • Over 200 K-12 students have attended our concerts for free!
  • We donated funds to San Jose’s Cambrian School District to purchase instruments for their music education program.
  • Our Summer Choral Conducting Lab has supported over 100 choral conducting students and over 200 Bay Area singers who want singing opportunities during the summer.

 

IMPACT

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IMPACT

Igniting Musical Passion Among Children and Teens

Our IMPACT program allows all students high-school age or younger to attend our RAP Produced concerts for free. Prior to each concert, we send information to music teachers in order to help provide outside musical opportunities to their students. The goal of this program is to educate our youth about choral music and to assure them that high-caliber performance opportunities exist outside of the education and faith-based organizations.

Volunteer Opportunities

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Passionate Volunteers Needed

We are looking for several different kinds of volunteers:

  • Energetic and passionate Board of Directors members who want to help us realize our dreams.  We do not demand long hours or large donations.  We just want people who will help oversee our programs
  • Advisors to give us feedback, advice, and introductions to people in the community that will help us reach our goals.
  • A host of passionate volunteers who can help us at our concerts and outreach events.
  • Passionate educators (or music education supporters) who want to help us develop a world-class choral education outreach program.
  • People who wish to bring great choral music to retirement community events.

If you are interested in volunteering with our organization, please click here to see a list of available jobs and our application form.

Amazon Smile Purchases

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Amazon Smile Purchases

What is Amazon Smile?

AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support your favorite charitable organization every time you shop, at no cost to you. When you shop at smile.amazon.com, you’ll find the exact same low prices, vast selection and convenient shopping experience as Amazon.com, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price to your favorite charitable organization. You can choose from nearly one million organizations to support.

To shop at AmazonSmile simply go to smile.amazon.com from the web browser on your computer or mobile device. You may also want to add a bookmark to smile.amazon.com to make it even easier to return and start your shopping at AmazonSmile. Tens of millions of products on AmazonSmile are eligible for donations. You will see eligible products marked “Eligible for AmazonSmile donation” on their product detail pages. Recurring Subscribe-and-Save purchases and subscription renewals are not currently eligible.

The AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price from your eligible AmazonSmile purchases. The purchase price is the amount paid for the item minus any rebates and excluding shipping & handling, gift-wrapping fees, taxes, or service charges. From time to time, we may offer special, limited time promotions that increase the donation amount on one or more products or services or provide for additional donations to charitable organizations. Special terms and restrictions may apply. Please see the relevant promotion for complete details.

You use the same account on Amazon.com and AmazonSmile. Your shopping cart, Wish List, wedding or baby registry, and other account settings are also the same.

How do I Support Resounding Achord?

On your first visit to AmazonSmile (smile.amazon.com), you need to select a charitable organization to receive donations from eligible purchases before you begin shopping. Amazon will remember your selection, and then every eligible purchase you make at smile.amazon.com will result in a donation.  To support Resounding Achord Productions, just specify our name. That’s it.

 

A Musicale Fundraiser

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A Musicale Fundraiser

Join Resounding Achord and friends for a fun evening of music, dessert, wine, coffee, and tea. This musicale-style performance will feature solos and small group numbers by Resounding Achord singers along with student groups and soloists who are past Honor Choir Scholarship recipients. All proceeds from this event will benefit the 2017-18 scholarships for the California Choral Director’s Association Regional and All-State Honor Choirs.

Come share this special evening with us and find out why our Honor Choir Scholarship program is one of our most popular and successful outreach programs.

St. Francis Episcopal Church of Willow Glen,
1205 Pine Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125

Please purchase tickets by October 1, 2017. Refreshments are included in the price of admission. And, if you have any issues purchasing tickets, please contact [email protected].

Adults $50
Students $35		 Purchase Tickets

EScrip Support

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EScrip Support

eScrip is the original and one of the largest “electronic scrip” fundraising programs. eScrip has created a system that rewards customer loyalty by contributing a percentage of purchases made by participating families to school or youth based groups. Participating merchants contribute each time your families make a purchase using their registered cards. There are no receipts to collect, no vouchers or certificates to buy, no hassles for you and every purchase counts.

eScrip helps schools and nonprofit organizations earn thousands of dollars for much needed programs and activities. We’ve been making a difference since 1999, with over $420 Million raised for great causes that you care about!

Resounding Achord Productions is registered with eScrip. With the following simple process, you can support us just by making purchases as usual.

  1. Sign up with eScrip and register your credit/debit cards.
  2. Select Resounding Achord Production (eScrip Group ID – 500250552) as the group you wish to benefit from your purchases.
  3. Get a list of merchants that support the effort.
  4. Shop, either online or at participating stores.

You automatically earn money for us when you shop.

 

Resounding Joy

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Resounding Joy

Get into the holiday spirit by attending this festive concert of music for choir and pipe organ, featuring organist Michael Burroughs.

The program includes Kim André Arnesen’s transcendent “Magnificat” with soprano soloist Danielle Marie, along with inventive arrangements of holiday favorites by Healey Willan, David Willcocks, and John Rutter.

Join us for this festive concert featuring the incredible organ at:
First Congregational Church 
1985 Louis Road, Palo Alto, CA.

Resounding Joy

Kristina Nakagawa, conductor, Resounding Achord
Michael Burroughs, organ

Prelude and Fugue in f minor, BWV 534 J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Hodie, Christus natus est Healey Willan (1880-1968)
Magnificat Kim André Arnesen (b.1980)
Danielle Marie, soprano
Annie Yung, soprano
INTERMISSION
In Dir ist Freude Giovanni Gastoldi (1554-1609)
Improvisation on “In Thee is Gladness” Michael Burkhardt (b. 1957)
A Babe is Born William Mathias (1934-1992)
O Come, O Come Emmanuel arr. Allan Robert Petker (b. 1955)
Ding dong! Merrily on High arr. David Willcocks (1919-2015)
The Wexford Carol arr. Douglas E. Wagner (b.1952)
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming arr. Bradley Nelson (b. 1962)
Christina Galisatus, french horn
Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella arr. Peter Latona (b. 1968)
Silent Night Franz Xaver Gruber (1787–1863), arr. Sandra Peter
Away in a Manger arr. Antony Baldwin (b. 1957)
Joy to the World arr. John Rutter (b. 1945)

Passages

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Passages

Join Resounding Achord for this dynamic program of music from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and America. The concert will include Kristina Vasiliauskaite’s Missa Brevis in Honorem Beata Maria Virginis, Eriks Esenvalds’ “Amazing Grace,” and two rousing spiritual arrangements by Stacey V. Gibbs.

Passages

Kristina Nakagawa, conductor, Resounding Achord

Our Journey Clive Blake
Katherine Doar, Doug Byron, & Alison Schultz
Riga Dimd arr. Jānis Cimze
Latvian Folk Tune
Dziedot Dzimu, Dziedot Augu arr. Alfrēds Klaniņš
Latvian Folk Tune
Music Walter de la Mare
Molly Shaw, Monica Bacon-Proctor, & Peggy Spool
Muusika Pärt Uusberg
Missa Brevis in Honorem Beatae Mariae Virginis Kristina Vasiliauskaite
Kyrie
Gloria
Sanctus, Benedictus
Agnus Dei
Someone Like You Lang Leav
Galt Johnson
Tykus, Tykus Vaclovas Augustinas
Latvian Folk Tune
INTERMISSION
In Meeting We are Blessed Troy D. Robertson
Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Charles H. Gabriel, arr. Paul Rardin
Jo Taubert, Christina O’Guinn, & Kyla Blili, trio
Down by the Riverside arr. Stacey V. Gibbs
Traditional Spiritual
Your Freedom Marian
Annie Yung & Pauli Wilhelmsen
Amazing Grace Traditional Hymn, arr. Ēriks Ešenvalds
Andrea Bolivar & Michelle Dreyband, soloists
Some Fill With Each Good Rain Andrea White & Talia Orsetti-Ng
Hafiz
Make You Feel My Love Bob Dylan, arr. Chris Ng
Happiness Alfred D. Souza
Maly Hughes
Way Over in Beulah Lan’ arr. Stacey V. Gibbs
Traditional Spiritual

Mozart Requiem

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Mozart Requiem

7:30 pm  First Congregational Church, 1985 Louis Rd., Palo Alto

Resounding Achord joins forces with the San José State University Choraliers and Peninsula Cantare in this performance of one of Mozart’s most famous choral works. The soloists are:

The second half of this program will feature folk songs from the Baltic nations and America in preparation of the singers’ tour of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in mid-June 2018.

Tickets available at www.peninsulacantare.org.