No. 65 O N L I N E November 2020
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Mark Your Calendars for
Giving Tuesday!

  This year, we are kicking off our end of year fundraising drive with Giving Tuesday on December 1 and you can start right now with early giving which begins on November 17.  We know you are busy at this time of year. We’ve have made it easy for you. 
As always you may also send your donation to our efforts to PO Box 965, Lexington, VA 24450, or watch for our print version of Alla Breve in the mail and use the enclosed donor envelope to send us your contribution. We fund much of our season’s budget with ticket sales, and those are non-existent right now. If you would have purchased a ticket for one of our concerts, make a donation in that amount instead. Every little bit helps. If you are one of our singers who would have paid tuition to sing this season, why not convert your tuition into a tax deductible donation this year? Please help us so that we can continue to pay our artistic directors and our interns, purchase music for our singers, and plan for a time when we can all sing and listen in one space. Until then, we thank you for all you do to support us!
You’re Invited to a Watch Party!

   2020 has been a tough year for choruses all over the world.  Our intrepid youth choirs have sung on through the fall. Our youth chorale artistic director, Lacey Lynch, says that being able to rehearse virtually and then in person out of doors has really helped the kids get through this difficult time and enjoy fellowship and making music. Luckily the warm fall weather has cooperated and our community has stepped up to provide rehearsal spaces in some unusual but acoustically useful places. You can help us kick off Giving Tuesday early. Join these young folks for the culmination of their work on November 17 by signing up for a Zoom watch party where you can see their fall concert. Sign up here and enjoy.  First come, first serve!
Choral News We Missed

   It’s been a long year away from singing. Choral singers are distracted by the times and frustrated at not being able to make music together, but here’s a bright spot we missed and so we’ll take note of it now before the year ends. The 2019 Grammies were awarded in January of 2020 and the Houston Chamber Choir won the Grammy for Best Choral Performance for its Signum Records recording of the complete choral works of Maurice Durufle. Just imagine that! Featured were the transcendent Requiem and the familiar and deceptively difficult Quartre Motets. The choir was in the middle of a concert when they learned of the win. Click here

   Sadly, as with so many other choruses, their singing and concert performances have stopped since early 2020. But we will all be back. Meantime, enjoy the Houston Chamber Choir’s rendition of Durufle’s Motet No. Durufle’s Motet No. 3!
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