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We hope you enjoy this week's issue of
Nashville Singers News
the official weekly publication of Music City's newest men's chorus. Nashville Singers, Inc. is a Tennessee 501(C)3 non-profit, performing arts organization. We celebrate the power of the human voice to entertain, educate, unite, uplift, enrich, and inspire, by performing an ever-widening repertoire of choral music at the highest artistic level for a broad community of audiences.
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Mission & Vision
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Organizational Mission
The mission of Nashville Singers is to entertain, educate, unite and uplift our audiences and members through music that is distinguished for its innovation, diversity and artistic excellence.
Philanthropic Mission The philanthropic mission of Nashville Singers is to provide resources and support for music education in our schools and the community.
Leadership MissionThe leadership mission of Nashville Singers is to seek, develop, use and enhance the skills and talents of each member to such an extent that progress seems limitless. Vision The vision of Nashville Singers is to be a dynamic choral leader, enriching lives through the performance of significant music.
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| About Us |
Nashville Singers, Inc. is a 501(C)3 non-profit corporation and performing arts organization founded in 2008.
The members range in age from teenagers to retirees and reside in Brentwood, Hermitage, LaVergne, Lebanon, Nashville, Joelton, and Smyrna.
The group meets at Whitworth Memorial Baptist Church the first three Thursday evenings of each month from 7-10pm. Membership in Nashville Singers is open to all men who demonstrate the ability, desire, and a commitment to excellence in vocal and choral performance.
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2011 Leadership
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Todd Wilson
Executive Director
Director of Music
Webmaster
Newsletter Editor
Bryan PatrickPresident/Board Chair Costume Manager 
Sloan Yarborough
Vice-Chair
Assistant Director Bass Section Leader
Annual Survey Administrator
 Ed LukeSecretary/Treasurer
Sergeant at Arms
Bruce CokeroftVP of Membership Development Manager of Auditions 
Harlan WilsonBoard Member At Large Performance Coach 2011 STAFF
Ric DomenicoLearning Media Producer Lead Section Leader Music Engraver Music Librarian
Taylor Wilson
Visual Performance Coach
 Paul Genty
Sergeant At Arms
Culinary Coordinator  Tim Mullican Historian In-House Photographer
 Rodney Turner Prime Minister of
Fun and Mischief 
Sandy Derrick
Sunshine Chairman |
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2012 Advisory Board
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The Nashville Singers, Inc. is blessed to have some outstanding community business and association leaders joining our team in 2012:
Craig Adams
Manager of Creative Development & Publishing,
Lifeway Worship
Sarah Beatty
Manager of Marketing Development
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee
Tiffany Davis
Executive Director, International Entertainment Buyers Association
Don Hart
Professional music arranger, composer, orchestrator
Suzanne Horne
Executive Director, Tennessee Literacy Coalition
Joyce Lavery
Executive Director,
Safe Haven Family Shelter
Dara Russell
Major Gifts Officer,
American Red Cross
Doris Shacklett
Development Director,
The Nashville Zoo
Yolanda Shields
CEO,
Youth Life Foundationof TN, Inc.
Brandon Taylor
Pro Personnel Assistant Tennessee Titans
& CEO
The Elite Athlete, Inc.
Tom Ventress
President
Ventress Design Works
Jane Warren
Assoc. Professor of Music
Belmont University
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Current Repertoire |
REGULARAmerica the Beautiful
Danny Boy
Happy Together
Home on the Range
Impossible Dream
My Lord and I
Shenandoah
The Lion Sleeps Tonight The Lord's Prayer
Man in the Mirror
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Over the RainbowSatin Doll
Star Spangled Banner
Tonight
HOLIDAY Angels We Have Heard On High
Auld Lang Syne
Caroling, Caroling
Carol of the Bells
Christmas Stays the Same
Coventry Carol
Do You Hear What I Hear
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
I Wonder What You're Doing for Christmas
Lo, How A Rose 'Er BloomingSilent Night The Secret of Christmas
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Season of Harmony PSA Produced by Fox 17
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Nashville Singers - Season of Harmony PSA
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A new public service announcement promoting the Nashville Singers Season of Harmony concert was just produced by Fox 17 and features news anchor Stacy Case. Stacy will be serving as host for the Nashville Singers annual concert for a second consecutive year. As a media sponsor for our annual concert,Fox 17 has agreed to air this PSA This PSA approximately 75-100 times between now and November 19. |
Performance at Downtown Business Luncheon Gets Attendees on their Feet! 
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Todd Wilson with
Dr. Frank Lewis,
Senior Pastor at
First Baptist Church of Nashville
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For the second time in the last two weeks, NashvilleSingers performed at First Baptist Church in downtown Nashville. This time, it was for the church's weekly business lunch held every Thursday. The chorus performed Happy Together, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, and got the audience on their feet with The Lion Sleeps Tonight, featuring uber-tenor soloist Bruce Cokeroft.
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October 6 Rehearsal Attracts VIP Guests
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(L to R) Marquan Martin, Grady Kerr, Burt Szabo, Steve D'Ambrosio
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Marquan Martin was profiled in a previous newsletter, is a returning guest, and was attending his third meeting. Grady Kerr has won chorus gold with the Dallas-based Vocal Majority and serves the Barbershop Harmony Society as Historian. Dr. Burt Szabo has completed over 900 vocal arrangements, written over 90 songs, and was inducted into the Barbershop Harmony Society's Hall of Fame in 2009. He lives in Florida. Steve D'Ambrosio lives in Lewisburg, Tennessee, sings with the Music City Chorus in Nashville, and the Southern Splendor Chorus in Athens, Alabama. He also serves on the Archives Committee of the Barbershop Harmony Society. |
More Interview Time with Sloan Yarborough 1. What adventure most changed your life? In college I had the opportunity to visit Eastern Europe and we spent a few days in Poland. One day we visited Auschwitz Concentration Camp and that day holds such a vivid memory for me that I will never forget it. The experience opened my eyes and history jumped out of the text book and slapped me in the face. To cap off this emotional journey, our choral group sang "Free At Last" on the grounds of Auschwitz. 2. What skill should every good performer/singer possess? Adaptability. Most performances will occur in a different setting than the rehearsal space and might include additional challenges. The ability to adapt will make or break the performance.
3. What is the best advice you have ever received?
If it's worth doing...it's worth doing right. 4. What is the best way to motivate other men? Encourage each success along the journey to achieve the ultimate goal. 5. What should every man experience before he dies? An expensive bottle of wine.
6. What skill would you like to master?
I would like to become bilingual in Spanish.
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Video of the Week  | |
Sullivan Ballou letter to his wife Sarah
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Editor's Note: We do not normally feature the spoken word in our "Video of the Week" segment, but this letter is one of my favorites, and is one of the more memorable bits of history from the American Civil War. Sullivan Ballou was killed 150 years ago at the first Battle at Bull Run.
I utilized this same audio clip (from the Ken Burns Civil War Soundtrack CD) to inspire the 90 voices of the Houston Tidelanders to deliver a truly personal performance of of Irving Berlin's "Always" in the Barbershop Harmony Society's 2002 International Chorus Contest. We performed that song, as well as a medley of songs from World War II, dressed in military uniforms. Prior to going on stage, each of us wrote a special letter to our sweetie, and placed it in the pocket of our uniform as we went into "battle" that day. We were judged to be the 9th best chorus in the world in that competition, and that performance remains a very special memory that I will never forget.
If you would like go back and re-live that experience with me, for 99 cents you can download that special live performance of "Always" from iTunes by clicking on the song title in the first sentence of the previous paragraph. |
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Quote of the Week
 | | Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011) |
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. - Steve Jobs
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Agenda for October 13 Meeting SECTION I 7:00pm - tag time 7:05pm - warm-up 7:10pm - Teach the Children to Sing (Sloan)
SECTION II
7:35pm - Christmas Stays the Same
7:50pm - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year 8:10pm - Hark the Herald Angels Sing SECTION III 8:25pm - business meeting 8:35pm - program 8:45pm - break SECTION IV 9:00pm - Coventry Carol (Sloan) 9:10pm - I Wonder What You're Doing for Christmas 9:25pm - Secret of Christmas 9:40pm - Silent Night 9:55pm - Holiday Road with Erica Lane |
Musical Terms of the Week
- Requiem - A dirge, hymn, or musical service for the repose of the dead.
- Rhythm - The element of music pertaining to time, played as a grouping of notes into accented and unaccented beats.
- Rococo - A musical style characterized as excessive, ornamental, and trivial.
- Rondo - A musical form where the principal theme is repeated several times. The rondo was often used for the final movements of classical sonata form works.
- Root - The principal note of a triad.
- Round - A canon where the melody is sung in two or more voices. After the first voice begins, the next voice starts singing after a couple of measures are played in the preceding voice. All parts repeat continuously.
- Scale - Successive notes of a key or mode either ascending or descending.
- Scherzo - Pertaining to the sonata form, a fast movement in triple time.
- Sequence - A successive transposition and repetition of a phrase at different pitches.
- Serenade - A lighthearted piece, written in several movements, usually as background music for a social function.
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FALL 2011
October 12 (WED) Performance at Whitworth Memorial Baptist Church (20-minute set) Details: Chorus call 6:30pm, casual uniform with black blazer; Songs: Tonight, Happy Together, Danny Boy, Oh Bla Di Oh Blah Da, Lion Sleeps Tonight, and The Lord's Prayer October 21 (FRI) Performance at the Franklin Wine Festival at the Factory in Franklin, benefiting Big Brothers Big Sisters (45-minute performance) Details: Chorus call 6:30pm, casual uniform with black blazer: Songs: Tonight, My Lord and I, Home on the Range, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Danny Boy, Happy Together, Shenandoah, Man in the Mirror, Satin Doll, Over the Rainbow, Lion Sleeps Tonight, and Impossible Dream October 27 (THU) Extra rehearsal November 2 (WED) Corporate Booking (T) (Details TBA)
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Season of Harmony
November 19, 2011 @ 7:00pm
Silent Auction Begins at 6:00pm
  
STACY CASE NASHVILLE SINGERS LUNCH BREAK
Your Host Event Producers Hilarious Comedy Group
 
ERICA LANE THE MET SINGERS Singer/Songwriter Youth Ensemble plus...
 The John Overton High School Chamber Choir Recipient of the Nashville Singers 2011 Music Makes a Difference music education grant Tickets On Sale Now!
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WINTER 2011
December 1 (THU) General Membership Meeting / Election of 2012 Board & Officers December 10 (SAT) Encore Performance at Lifepoint Church in Smyrna, TN (evening) December 11 (SUN) NEW - Encore Performance at Walter Hill First Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, TN (afternoon TBA)
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WINTER 2012
January 16 - (NEW!) National Anthem performance for a Belmont University Basketball game vs. Florida Gulf Coast. For tickets, click HERE. Anthem is at 6:55pm. Chorus call at 6:15pm; casual uniform
SPRING 2012
March 1 - Board of Directors Dinner Meeting with Advisory Board - 7:00pm to 9:30pm (Location TBA)
SUMMER 2012
July 23 - Board of Directors Teleconference with Advisory Board - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
FALL 2012 September 27 - Board of Directors Dinner Meeting with Advisory Board 7:00pm to 9:30pm (Location TBA)
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The Nashville Singers, Inc. is a Tennessee chartered corporation and recognized by the IRS as a tax-exempt 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Donations are tax -deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. For more information, visit our website or contact Executive Director, Todd Wilson by phone at 615-669-8633 or via email at todd@nashvillesingers.org
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