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Pontiac-Waterford Chapter


The Music Committee has chosen music for the new year. “Aura Lee” and “I’m Beginning to See the Light” are intended as our contest songs. The year’s music will include fourteen new songs, and our fall show will have a patriotic theme.

Members’ news: Tenor Al Monroe was the soloist in his church’s Christmas program, Dec 23. Bari Cory Flatoff has returned from Hawker 800 school to become the Assistant Chief Pilot of ADI.  “I missed the entire Christmas Sing-Out program with great disappointment and hope to have more time next year with my new positions.”

Tenor Terry Jamison became a victim of corporate down-sizing and is now job-hunting, including out of state.

Our auxiliary Big Chief Chicks met for lunch at Dobski's on Saturday, Dec. 22.

Our Christmas season singers included: Doug Metzger, Eric Domke, Jack Miesel, Bill Maxfield, Pat Newkirk, and Austin Quinn. Several are intending to continue with us post-holidays. For the first time, the Big Chief Chorus also invited women to join the Holiday chorus, and these included: Donna Bevington, Eileen Marshall, Sharon Lepley, Elaine Greene, and Linda Parks.

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New Year Report
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by John Cowlishaw, Bulletin editor,
Big Chief Chorus

The Big Chief Chorus started off the new year with an attendance of 42, swelling the Crary Middle School music room almost to its capacity.

90% of our Executive Board members were able to attend COTS.

One of our Christmas guests asked about the process for new singers.  Our chorus’s primer for new singers is in the October 2006 Smoke Signals.  You’ll find it at:

http://www.bigchiefchorus.org/
Smoke_Signals/2006/October%20
2006-Issue%2066.pdf

Long-time barbershopper Lyle Howard has written a three-part remembrance of Pioneer chapter activity in the early days. He describes (nostalgically) how chapters were organized around quartetting. If you’d like to read his essay, see the October, November, and January issues of Smoke Signals, at:

http://www.bigchiefchorus.org/
Current_Smoke_Signals_1.htm

Signing off, with Director Tom Blue’s mantra:

“full, low breath that fills the inner-tube
tall and round vowels use of low, mid and head tone registers the importance of the words a face that knows you are singing a unit sound within your section and within the group”

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