Dear friends of Elektra,
Our recent Chez Nous: Christmas with Elektra shows were a grand success and we want to thank all of you that joined us in New Westminster and Vancouver for the concerts.
It was also a wonderful way to debut our newest CD, also called Chez Nous: Christmas with Elektra. They sold like hotcakes, with many people telling us they were destined for holiday stockings and presents under the tree.
This issue of Elektric Wire includes the first official review of our sparkling new recording, information on our Mira mentoring programme for high shcool girls (application deadline, December 10), news of our upcoming Women's Choral Workshop and our Reading Session of New Compositions, and a chance for you to vote for Elektra in the WestEnder's Best of the City contest.
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Georgia Straight reviews our new CD
 This review by Jessica Werb appeared in the December 2 issue of the Straight.
What it sounds like: Imagine having your closest friends and family gathered around a Yuletide log to sing holiday favourites-in tune.Wrap it up: Give this to the sullen Scrooge in your life who needs some help getting into the holiday spirit.Read the entire review online here.Chez Nous: Christmas with Elektra is available through our website, elektra.ca (where you may purchase it using PayPal) and at Sikora's Classical Records (432 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC). It will also be available through iTunes and CDBaby.com within the next day or so.
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Calling high school- aged young women: Apply for Mira now!
Application deadline is December 10
Are you in high school and interested in exploring what it's like to sing with Elektra? Then read on, and if you're interested, please note that applications have to be in by December 10. Twelve singers will be chosen to join Elektra for parts of Kindred Spirits: Elektra & Shelagh Rogers, April 30 and May 1.
The ideal Mira participant:
· is one of the top choral students in her school choir
· has at least two years choral experience
· possesses strong musical skills
· has an in-tune voice
· has an ability and willingness to learn her part on her own or with her teacher
· loves choral singing
If that sounds like you, please discuss it with your high school choir teacher and make your application by December 10, 2010. Preference will be given to singers in Grades 11 and 12. Twelve singers will be chosen from those applying.
For full information about the audition procedure and to register online click here.
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 Stuck for a gift for your favourite female singer? Send her to Elektra's
Women's Choral Workshop
Saturday, January 29 9:30 a.m. - 4 pm
Ryerson United Church
2195 W45 Ave, Vancouver BC
with guest clinicians
Heather Thomson Price, Voice Instructor, UBC School of Music
Ann MacDonald, Artistic Director, Bellingham Sings
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Register online here.
Registration deadline is January 21.
Don't delay, as space is limited!
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 Composers Invited to Participate in Elektra's 2011 Reading Session of New Compositions
Are you a budding composer living in the Lower Mainland who has composed a work for treble choir? Do you want to hear it sung by one of the leading women's choirs of North America? Then mark February 21, 2011 on your calendar!
We welcomes submissions of new SSAA works for consideration, to be sight read at the choir's Reading Session of New Compositions for Women's Choir, on Monday February 21, 2011 (7 pm - 9:30 pm), held at Ryerson United Church, 2195 West 45th Avenue, Vancouver.
A total of four compositions will be selected from those submitted. Each will receive a reading by the choir as well as constructive comments from the conductor's and singers' viewpoint.
For full information visit our website, and while there download the resource document called Writing Well for Women's Choirs.
AUDITORS are WELCOME and admission is FREE! Come hear these new works. Who knows? You might be the first to hear something destined to take its place alongside Elektra favourites such as David MacIntyre's beloved Ave Maria!
Reading Session of New Compositions for Women's Choir
Monday February 21, 2011 ~ 7 pm
Ryerson United Church, 2195 West 45th Ave., Vancouver BC
Free Admission - auditors welcome!
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Vote for Elektra as Best Choral Group in the WestEnder's 14th Annual Best of the City Reader's Choice contest.
This is your opportunity to not only show how much you love Elektra, but also to enter to win some big prizes, including a two-night stay in Whistler, dining certificates, movie passes, concert tickets, DVDs, and more! In order to qualify you have to vote in a minimum of 20 categories. Just click the contest logo and go!
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Connections
Whether by mail, email, Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube, we love hearing from you!
Did you know that your comments are always welcome, and that we have several ways for you to reach us? If you read something that you enjoy on the Elektra blog, feel free to leave a comment. You can find the Elektra blog by clicking on the RSS icon on the Elektra site. (That's the button that looks like this:  ) or you may click on this link.
Elektra's Facebook Page is a going concern (511 visits last week!), full of comments, posts, photos, and general newsy bits, perfect for checking out while enjoying your morning coffee. Feel free to join in the conversation.  We're on YouTube as well, and we started BIG, with parts one and two of a trilogy: From the Hearth on YouTube. (If Peter Jackson can do it, so can we.) Hear Diane and Morna reminisce over 22 years of Elektra history! Listen to carefully chosen music clips! Remember that all this started in 1987, and giggle at some of the outfits and hairstyles we wore!
If comments in 140 characters are more your style, follow Elektra on Twitter. We're @ElektraYVR and we'd love to connect. 
If you feel moved to write a review of a concert, we'd love to see it! Email it to us and we may post it to our website. Of course, you can also send us a card or a note through the mail. Our address is Elektra Women's Choir, 949 W49th Ave, Vancouver BC V5Z 2T1.
Whichever way you choose to interact with us, we'd love to hear from you!
Elektra couldn't exist without the generous support of people like you; people who believe that choral music is important enough to support. Please consider making a donation to Elektra. Every donation helps and no amount is too small. |
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Elektra Women's Choir
"To inspire and lead in the choral art form through excellence in performance and the creation, exploration and celebration of women's repertoire."
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Elektra gratefully acknowledges the support of 2010 Legacies Now, Government of British Columbia, City of Vancouver, Canada Council for the Arts, Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation, Vancouver Foundation, and BordenLadnerGervais. Elektra also thanks its many generous individual donors and volunteers - their support makes us sing. 
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