Last Chance and Bach is Back!

Last Chance to Join us at Camp Granada!

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Gala Fundraiser

Saturday, March 5, 2016
Hacienda Golf Club
 718 East Road, La Habra Heights
 
 Linden Waddell presents “Hello Again! The Songs of Allan Sherman”

Delectable Dinner with wine
Engaging Entertainment
Wine Raffle

Cocktails at 6:00pm, Dinner at 7:15pm

Tickets $80 per person, or purchase a table for ten for $750.
Visit www.ChoraleBelCanto.org to order, or mail P.O. Box 451, Whittier CA 90608
 Hacienda Golf Club asks that no denim be worn.

Bach is Back!

The 79^th annual Whittier College Bach Festival is April 1-3, 2016. Chorale Bel Canto will perform two of Sebastian’s Easter Cantatas and the Motet “Komm, Jesu, komm” on April 2^nd at 4:00 pm at First Friends Church in Whittier.

In keeping with this year’s festival theme, “Bach and the Guitar,” CBC will also present a half-hour guitar concert in the church courtyard at 2:30 pm, featuring the Whittier College Student Guitar Ensemble and other Whittier area student musicians.

Bach is on our Blog!

Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21, 1685. In 2014, I wrote a blog post every day for the entire month of March, which became a book--Bach Bagatelles. This year I will reprise some of those birth-month articles along with other fun factoids, including a way to spend a great day in Whittier on April 2. You may also obtain a copy of the book at the concert.

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Bach Bagatelles describes an interesting event that occurred on each day of Sebastian’s birth month. This month I will mix some of those posts with other random but pertinent bits of data.

For example, Bach was born in 1685. In that same year were born the German/English composer George Frideric Handel, the English philosopher/clergyman George Berkeley (yes, UC Berkeley, in the UK pronounced to rhyme with “darkly”), English playwright John Gay (The Beggar’s Opera, which became Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera), and Italian composer Domenico Scarlatti. King Charles II of England died that year.

In 1685, a Frenchman established Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay, forming the basis for France’s claim to Texas. The original Dutch settlers of New York constructed The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow. The church later became famous as the site of the rampage of the “Headless Horseman” in Washington Irving’s novel, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

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Come with us to...   Gala Fundraiser Saturday, March 5, 2016 Hacienda Golf Club  718 East Road, La Habra Heights    Linden Waddell presents  “Hello Again! The Songs of Allan Sherman” Delectable Dinner with wine Engaging Entertainment Wine Raffle Cocktails at 6:00pm, Dinner at 7:15pm Tickets $80 per person, or purchase a table for ten for $750. Visit www.ChoraleBelCanto.org to order, or mail P.O. Box 451, Whittier CA 90608 Hacienda Golf Club asks that no denim be worn. A message from our Gala Fundraising Coordinator…..   Greetings Fellow Campers, On March 5, 2016 we will go back in time to those days when we went to summer camp and/or listened to Allen Sherman’s classic song,” Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh!” Our goal for this year’s fundraiser is $15,000 to support CBC’s programs. We would like your help in sponsoring portions of the evening. You may sponsor individually or form a group (cabin mates!) to sponsor. You could also sponsor “In honor of or In Memory of” as well. Here are the events for the evening that could use your help: Honorary Producer                  $2,500  Venue Sponsor                        $1,000 Cocktail Party                           $1,000 Main Course                             $2,000 Wine/Corkage                          $1,600 Dessert                                      $600 Salad                                         $600 Performers                                $1,300  Coffee/Tea Service                 $300 Invitations/Mailings                 $1,500 Centerpieces                            $500 If you would like to contribute a smaller amount, you can assign it to one of the sponsor items and receive recognition. Every contribution is important. Please make checks payable to CBC and note 2016 Gala in the notes section. Checks can be mailed to our P.O. Box or given to board members. Thank you, in advance, for your support. Joe P. Moore Jr. Gala Fundraising Coordinator Another exciting event in the works is an art exhibit on musical themes to accompany our final concert of the season, May 14, 4:00pm, at First United Methodist Church in Pasadena. Dust off your brushes and submit an artwork, or pass along the exhibit information to your artist friends!

Dinner, a Show, and an Art Exhibit!

Chorale Bel Canto

Annual Fundraiser—March 5, 2016

Cocktails 6:00 pm

Dinner and a Show 7:15 pm

Hacienda Golf Club

Hello Again! The Songs of Allan Sherman

Starring Linden Waddell

Linden Waddell is a fourth-generation Californian who has performed in over 50 musicals and operas throughout the Golden State, who trained at the conservatory programs at LACC and PCPA. Los Angeles audiences have seen her as Jellylorum/Griddlebone (the comedic opera cat) in CATS at the Shubert Theatre, as Kate in The Pirates of Penzance at the Ahmanson, and as several characters including the poetess in A...My Name is Alice at the Center Theatre in Long Beach, for which she received a Robby Award nomination. She received a Theatre LA Ovation Award nomination as Best-Featured Actress in a Musical for Working at the Colony Theatre, and a Drama-Logue Award for her performance of Mrs. Molloy in The Matchmaker. Linden has produced and performed her own one-woman cabaret act in numerous clubs, and produced, written, edited, and starred with partner Tim Bennett in their own comedy television show I Really Like Skunks.

Allan Sherman was the genius of the 1960s who wrote brilliant, hilarious parodies of well-known songs and produced a string of best-selling record albums. “There is nothing like a dame” becomes an ode to smoked salmon in “There is nothing like a lox.” A rousing version of “Down by the Riverside” warns us, “Don’t buy the liverwurst.” The traditional Irish song, “Dear Old Donagan” morphs into a tongue-twisting list of Jewish names in “Shake Hands with Your Uncle Max.” Sherman was perhaps most famous for turning the instrumental “Dance of the Hours” into “A Letter from Camp,” popularly known as “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh.”

Critics say: "Linden Waddell does them all justice with her strong, wide-ranging voice and her well-honed acting chops. Aided by a wonderfully entertaining script, piano accompaniment by Musical Director Marjorie Poe, direction and choreography by Janet Miller, and a variety of props, Waddell wrings every bit of laughter from these amazingly funny lyrics."

AND

Chorale Bel Canto, an 80 member volunteer choir based in Whittier that has presented classical choral music throughout the San Gabriel Valley since 1982, is proud to host an

Art Exhibit

Displaying local artists’ works in conjunction with our spring concert: “A Mystical Journey,”

Featuring Five Mystical Songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Mozart’s Requiem.

Saturday, may 14 at the First United Methodist church

500 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena

The exhibit will be open from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm, and 6:00 to 8:00 pm,

with a reception at 6:00 pm following the concert.

(The exhibit will be closed during the concert performance.)

We will give exhibiting artists two complimentary tickets to the concert.

We will give preference to art works inspired by these musical compositions,

But all hangable arts works no larger than 18”X24” are welcome for consideration.

Apply online at

www.ChoraleBelCanto.org

For additional information call 888-460-222 (toll free) or email:

cbc.execdirector @gmail.com