Our New Rehearsal Home

We had our first rehearsal in our new rehearsal space this past week, and we're looking forward to a long and creative relationship with our new host organization!

Villa Musica is a community music center in Sorrento Valley. It's a wonderful facility - with a lovely recital hall and a number of practice/lesson rooms.  While we're small, we'll be rehearsing in one of the practice rooms, but the hope is we'll get to our full 20 singers soon, and then rehearsals will be held in the recital hall. 

Equally as important as the great space and location, this is an organization of musicians dedicated to expanding musical opportunities for the community. There's an incredible array of talent - for performing, for teaching, for sharing the joy that is music. They already have a community choir, but it is specifically geared toward secular music, so we're hoping our participation as a sacred choir will expand the singing opportunities into a new area.

Next Wednesday, I promise to take a picture to post.

In the meantime, we still have a few needs.

First and foremost, we need MEN!  Looks like we have 6 women, and we'd like to get that to 10, but we have no male singers. SSA music can be lovely, but our goal is to be a full SATB choir.  If you're reading this, and you're a guy, and you read music and love to sing sacred choral music, please contact Carl ASAP!  If you're reading this and you know a guy who fits that category, please share this information with him.

Second, and not required, but sure would be nice, although our intent is to do much of our work a capella, it would be wonderful to have a good accompanist for rehearsals, especially while we are so small. So if you know any good pianists who might be interested in helping us out, please let us know.

"Listen for the song in your heart and act on it with confidence."  ~ Alan Cohen

Auditions Continue

The quality of participants for the first two audition sessions was really very good.  I'm most confident that 20 qualified musicians will be found very shortly to fill out the ranks.  As soon as arrangements are made for an additional audition or two are made, news of it will be listed on this blog.  Please stay tuned - and spread the word.  If anyone has questions, please email heartsong.chorale@gmail.com.