WE NEED MORE SINGERS!!!!

Aloha!

I’m looking forward to seeing and singing with you on Sunday! I’m very pumped about the music we’ll be singing!

The choral festival that we’ve been invited to participate in is a large choir festival. The Tabernacle choir loft seats 364 singers. In years past, we have taken as many as 364 women and as few as 350. We have taken as many as 230 men and as few as 200. Currently, we only have 180 women and 50 men signed up to sing.

In order for us to participate in the Choral Festival on Temple Square, we need to have more singers than we currently have. I would like to have at least 300 women and 175 men. (Ideally as many as 364 women and 230 men- the largest numbers we’ve taken in the past.)

Please let your friends and family members know about this very cool opportunity to sing in the Tabernacle.

The women will be singing an amazing arrangement of “If You Could Hie To Kolob”, “Some Things Are Meant To Be” from Little Women, Bridge Over Troubled Water and nine other amazing pieces!

The men will be starting the concert with an arrangement by our very own Eric McKirdy of “Called To Serve”. We’ll end the concert with “Make Them Hear You” from Ragtime. We’ll also be doing an arrangement of “Heartland” by Celtic Thunder and nine other amazing pieces!

IT'S TIME TO SING IN 2012!!!!

We Also Sing! and Because We Sing!

We Also Sing! Women's Choir

Because We Sing! Men's Choir

Aloha Everyone!

We Also Sing! and Because We Sing! have been invited to be part of the Choir Festival in the Tabernacle on Temple Square on Friday, May 11, 2012. This is a wonderful opportunity for us and I can't wait to sing with you again!

Please make note of the rehearsal schedule below. If you are able to attend the rehearsals, join us for this amazing event. If you have to miss rehearsals, please wait and join us for our 2013 concerts. Feel free to pass information on to any men or women you know who would like to sing with us.

All rehearsals will be at the LDS chapel on Atherton Drive (known to many as “the other Atherton building) located at 1457 Atherton Drive in Taylorsville. From I15, travel west off the 4500 South exit and turn right on Atherton Drive. Drive past the first LDS chapel. It’s the second LDS chapel. From 4700 South and Redwood Road, travel east on 4700 South and turn left on Atherton. Follow the road around until you reach the building.

Rehearsal Schedule

The choirs will rehearse back to back starting with the men. Ladies, please do your best to arrive no earlier than 6:50 PM. All Sunday rehearsals will be held at the times below:

Men: 5:30-7:00 PM

Women: 7:10-8:40 PM

1. Sunday, February 5

2. Sunday, February 12

The Thursday rehearsal schedule is as follows:

Men: 6:00-7:30 PM

Women: 7:40-9:10 PM

3. Thursday, March 1

4. Thursday, March 8

5. Thursday, March 22

6. Sunday, March 25

7. Sunday, April 1

8. Sunday, April 15

9. Sunday, April 22

10. Sunday, April 29

Thursday, May 3 6-9 PM WOMEN RECORDING SESSION

Sunday, May 6 6-9 PM MEN RECORDING SESSION

FRIDAY, MAY 11 - PERFORMANCES

6:00 PM WE ALSO SING! (WOMEN)

8:00 PM BECAUSE WE SING! (MEN)

The total cost to sing in the choir is $45.00. This includes all your music, sales tax, rehearsal CD and its related costs, office supplies and clerical costs.

To reserve your spot in the Tabernacle on May 11, please send your check for $45.00 made payable to IBV to:

Infinity Business Ventures, Inc.

4564 S. Thornwood

Salt Lake City, UT 84123

I can’t wait to see you on Sunday, February 5th!

Much love and aloha,

Merrilee Webb

Brigham Young Quote

Aloha Ladies,
Here is the Brigham Young quote used in rehearsal this last Thursday. Enjoy!


Strengthen the Hands of Your Fellow Beings
If you feel evil, keep it to yourselves until you overcome that evil principle. This is what I call resisting the devil, and he flees from me.

Discourses of Brigham Young Second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints- Page 123
By John A. Widtsoe
Contributor John A. Widtsoe
Published by Kessinger Publishing, 2004

When you are influenced by the Spirit of holiness and purity, let your light shine; but if you are tried and tempted and buffeted by Satan, keep your thoughts to yourselves—keep your mouths closed; for speaking produces fruit, either of a good or evil character.
If persons think they have greater sorrow and affliction than any others, when they reveal that sorrow and affliction, it produces fruit. You frequently hear brethren and sisters say that they feel so tried and tempted, and have so many cares, and are so buffeted, that they must give vent to their feelings; and they yield to the temptation, and deal out their unpleasant sensations to their families and neighbours. Make up your minds thoroughly, once for all, that if we have trials, the Lord has suffered them to be brought upon us, and he will give us grace to bear them; and that they do not concern our families, friends, and neighbours, we can bear them off alone. But if we have light or intelligence—that which will do good, we will impart it; but our bad feelings, our desponding feelings, our dark hours, and disagreeable sensations we will keep to ourselves. Let that be the determination of every individual, for spirit begets spirit—likeness, likeness; feelings beget their likeness; and custom, custom. You know very well, by your own experience, that you are naturally inclined to more or less adopt the customs, feelings, and manners of the people you associate with. If, then, we give vent to all our bad feelings and disagreeable sensations, how quickly we beget the same in others, and load each other down with our troubles, and become sunk in darkness and despair! If you have anything good to say, speak it and comfort the hearts of the Saints. If you have that which tends to death, keep it to yourselves: we do not want it, for we already have plenty of it.
Frame your lives according to the precepts of the Gospel. Let your deal, walk, and conversation be that upon which an angel can look with pleasure. And in all your social communications, or whatever your associations are, let all the dark, discontented, murmuring, unhappy, miserable feelings—all the evil fruit of the mind, fall from the tree in silence and unnoticed; and so let it perish, without taking it up to present to your neighbours. But when you have joy and happiness, light and intelligence, truth and virtue, offer that fruit abundantly to your neighbours, and it will do them good, and so strengthen the hands of your fellow-beings

Journal of Discourses Volume 7:268-269

Hawaiian Chant (words and translation)

Please print this off and download Uncle Bill saying the chant so you can learn it and sing it at the performance.


Hiki Mai Chant and Translation

HIKI MAI E NA PUA I KA LA’IE
KE PI’I A’E LA KA MAUNA KI’EKI’E
HA’A MAI NA KAMA ME KA MAKUA
HE WEHI PULAMA AO’ KE KUPUNA
E KA’I MAI ANA E KA’I MAI ANA
E HAHAI I KA LEO O KA HAKU E

Translation

Come forward and appear you precious
flowers arising in the calmness of this
special day.
Each of you are taking up the challenge
of not simply climbing a high mountain,
but you have chosen to climb the
highest and most majestic mountain of all.
Dance forward you children of your
Heavenly Father, for is it not so that you,
our children, are so very precious. In fact,
you are the most precious adornment
worn around the neck of your ancestors.
Come forward, come forward for there
are many roads for you to choose.
Be sure to follow the voice of the good
shepherd, for he will always keep you,
protect you, and show you the way.


Phonetic Pronunciation

Hee-kee mah-ee eh na poo-ah ee ka la-ee’- eh
Keh-pee’ee ah’ eh lah kah mow-nah kee’-eh-kee’-eh
Ha’-ah ma-ee nah… kah-mah meh kah mah koo-ah
Heh-ve-hee-poo-lah-ma… o k koo-poo-nah
Eh kah’-ee mah-ee ah-nah eh kah’-ee mah-ee ah-nah
Eh hah-hah-ee ee-kah leh-oh oh-kah hah-koo-eh… eh… eh…

Pictures of We Also Sing! Tabernacle Rehearsal

Aloha,
To view the pictures of our Tabernacle rehearsal please go to www.tabernacleperformance.blogspot.com. Make sure you keep pushing "older posts" to see them all. There's lots!
Enjoy!
I'll keep adding stuff about our performance to that site so this site can focus on the upcoming Because We Sing Men's Choir.

The number #3 Question

Are CDs of our performance still available????



CDs of our performance will ALWAYS be available. The miracles of modern technology!

If you want or need more just send $8.00 per CD to:

Merrilee Webb

4564 S. Thornwood

Salt Lake City, UT 84123