Choristers March Update

Ash Wednesday, March 9 is our last meeting before Spring Break. 

• Choristers, please bring your Voice for Life workbooks (some new members may not have them yet; see Choristers page).
• As usual we will finish Vespers (Evening Prayer at 5:20 p.m.  PLEASE NOTE:  If you are going to be later than 5:20 p.m. in picking up your child on Ash Wednesday, you will need to meet them in the Choir Loft.  Miss Franklin and I are both serving at the 5:30 p.m. Mass and will be unable to maintain a safe environment beyond the normal pick-up time on this day.

Choir will resume on Tuesday, March 22.

• This marks an intense, four-week push toward Holy Week.  Please make attendance at Tuesday sectional rehearsal and Wednesday full rehearsal an extra-high priority during this time.
• Student will receive at this time a rehearsal CD to help them to prepare music in advance of rehearsals.

Please note following special events on our Calendar for April (I know that all parents will join Fr. Bill and me in regarding these to be higher priority than any athletic events that happen to be scheduled during this time :) :

• Saturday, April 16 - 5:00 p.m. Palm Sunday Mass
• Choristers and SongBirds
• Thursday, April 21 - 7:00 p.m. Holy Thursday Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper
• Choristers, Youth and Adults
• Friday, April 22 - 7:00 p.m. Good Friday Celebration of the Lord's Passion
• Choristers, Youth and Adults
• Sunday, April 24 - 10:30 a.m. Easter Sunday Mass
• Choristers alone

Looking ahead to May:

• Sunday, May 8 - 10:30 a.m. Mother's Day Mass
• Choristers and SongBirds
• Monday, May 9 - 7:00 p.m. Confirmation
• Choristers, Youth and Adults 

SongBirds Update

Tuesday, March 8 the last day SongBirds Chorister Training program before Spring Break.  SongBirds resumes on Tuesday, March 22.  [Calendar]

All of the children are doing great in our Ward Method singing classes!  Among our successes so far this year:

• Everyone has found their singing voice with good "head resonance"
• All the children are able to match pitch alone and with others, to remember brief melodic patterns sung or shown to them in number-symbol notation
• All of the children are fairly fluent in reading and singing melodic patterns on the "lower pentachord" (written "1-2-3-4-5," sung "Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So")

When we return, we'll begin four-weeks of preparation for singing at the 5:00 p.m. Palm Sunday Mass on Saturday, April 16. [Click here for SongBirds calendar.]  At this time, children will receive a practice CD containing their music for Palm Sunday and Mother's Day.

Blessings for Spring Break renewal!