NOVA Community Chorus

From Fred:  Helpful directions from Bernie Cohen

From Rt 50 to St Katherine Church

West on 50: after passing exit for Carlyn Springs Rd, you will go over a hill.  Next left is Manchester, which runs into the church.

East on 50: Manchester is the second light after Patrick Henry (Home Depot, McDonald’s on right).

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From Fred:  I have a few requests to help find St. Katherine for our performance on Friday night.

Plug in the address to your favorite map:
3149 Glen Carlyn Road, Falls Church, VA

From Baileys X-Road:

Go west on Leesburg Pike (Rt. 7) toward 7- corners.

Turn right at the 2nd stop light onto Glen Carlyn Rd.
(St. Anthony’s Catholic Church/school/bell tower/ is on your right at the corner)

Go 1/2 mile north on Glen Carlyn.

St. Katherine Greek Orthodox Church is on your right (large white dome)
Parking lot is behind the church.

From Stage Manager Fred:
– Remember to use black folders to hold your music and to wear concert dress.

– Please use a paper clip to hold the movements together that you will NOT sing. That way it all flips at once. For example, clip movements 5, 6 & 7 together if you are in Choir II. Bring extra paper clips to the Thursday rehearsal at 6:30 to identify whatever needs to be skipped during our first performance.

Friday:
– St. Katherine seats 400 so there should be enough seats for all our guests.

– I counted 140 parking places on the church’s grounds. Warn your  guests that they may have to park along Glen Carlyn Road as is done during the annual Greek Festival. Car pools will help the parking situation.

From Fred:  Dr. Matthews sends her deep appreciation for all the work and quality we have added to this festival. A good image is very important for every department in NVCC during difficult financial periods, especially Music. We not only want to be famous, we’d like to have that new, state of the art rehearsal hall.

1. The call is 6:30 tonight. We will have a brief warm up and run through and go over to Schlesinger about 7:10.

2. Pick up a program and follow it. (There is no intermission.)
– We will move from the balcony to the foyer during the 2 minute “They Shall Run and Be Free”
– Form 2 Choirs and move to the auditorium entrance doors and hold until the music for “Vacant Chair” starts
– Move down the outer aisles at a measured pace and onto the risers. Seated singers get a head start.

3. Important details
– Music in black folders, in your right hand, down at your side until it is time to sing.
– Once on the risers, turn your body to face the audience, not the stage. Smile.
– Raise and open your music when our director, Jonathan Kolm, directs us to raise it. Smile.
– Keep your music up and open after completing his work until he lowers his hands. Smile.
– Lower your music in your right hand. It will take several minutes to move the piano to the side. Smile.
– Raise and open your music when our band director, Dr. Matthews, gets on stage.
– Keep your music up and open at the end of “Hymn to the Fallen” & don’t move until she lowers her hands.
– Watch Peggy Harrison in Chorus 2 and Fred Wulff in Chorus 1. Do what they do.

Don’t talk or move about when you are on stage – or forming up.
Audiences judge the quality of a chorus by how its members behave as well as how they sing.
If someone near you is talking, please ask them to stop.