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Portland Holiday Tour

Pam Van Londen — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:27:24 +0000

Children’s 2 and Festival singers have a holiday tour in Portland on December 18, 2010.

This HVCC holiday tradition began about 16 years ago, for Children’s 2 and Festival Choirs.

General itinerary TBA

11:00am Pioneer Courthouse Square performance (Salem)
12:00pm Saturday Market performance (Portland)
5:15pm Grotto Festival of Lights performance (Portland)
8:00pm ice skating at the Lloyd Center (Portland)
Download and print the full itinerary.

What to bring

Wear informal uniforms
Bring formal uniform
Rain jacket and/or umbrella
Sack lunch and healthy snacks
Spending money
A printed copy of the Portland Holiday Tour itinerary.

Completed forms were are Monday, November 9, 2010 to Marian Anderson or Kristi Hager.

Release/Contract/Insurance Form (2009)
- Click on view, or download by right-clicking (Windows) or Control-clicking (Mac) and choosing Save As to your hard drive.
Please fill out both sides and turn-in by Nov 24, 2009.
The cost of tour is $30 per participant.
Any singer who plans to be driven or drive to and from the Tour can do so only with a signed parent permission form and will drive only with his/her parent or guardian.
An intent to participate form was due Tuesday, November 3, 2009.

Chaperones are always welcome. A parent meeting was held on December 8.

Sing A Mile High Festival in Denver 2010

Anita Neilson — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:45:08 +0000

See the
daily upload of tour photos.

View movies from the tour.

Thank you Larry Anderson for creating such a wonderful record of the trip!

The Sing A Mile High Festival in Denver on June 24 to June 29, 2010 is a very exciting opportunity for Children’s Choir 2 and Festival Choir! Singers will be working with internationally renowned composer/conductors Sean Ivory and Paul Caldwell as well as singing with many other treble choirs from the US and abroad.

The festival will end with a finale concert at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts on The University of Denver’s campus, where the choirs will perform both individually and en mass.

Sign up

Click on the following form to view, or download by right-clicking (Windows) or Control-clicking (Mac) and choosing Save As to your hard drive.

Sing a Mile High (Denver) Intent to Participate
Sign up deadline was Tuesday, Oct 13.

Event Schedule (Tentative)

Thursday, June 24, 2010

3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Registration/Check-in Dormitories
5:00 – 6:15 p.m. Dinner Dormitory Dining Halls
6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Rehearsal Rehearsal Hall
7:30 – 8:00 p.m. Chaperone meeting and planning time Auditorium Lobby
8:45 – 9:45 p.m. Ice Cream Social Lawn area
8:45 – 9:45 p.m. Director’s Reception Rehearsal Hall

Friday, June 25, 2010

7:00 – 8:45 a.m. Breakfast Dorm Dining Halls
9:00 – 11:30 a.m. Rehearsal Rehearsal Hall
9:30 – 11:00 a.m. Administrators/Directors Workshop Auditorium Lobby
11:30 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Dorm Dining Halls
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Concurrent Sectional Rehearsals Rehearsal Hall Rooms
2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Rehearsal Rehearsal Hall
4:00 – 4:30 p.m. To dorms to prepare for water park Bus pick up from Dorms
5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Barbecue Splash Water Park, Golden
6:30 – 9:30 p.m. Evening at Splash Water Park
9:30 – 10:00 p.m. Return to dorms

Saturday, June 26, 2010

7:00 – 8:45 a.m. Breakfast Dorm Dining Halls
9:00 – 1:00 p.m. Individual Choir Rehearsals and/or free time Gates Auditorium – Newman Center
11:30 -1:00 p.m. Lunch Dorm Dining Halls
1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Rehearsal Gates Auditorium – Newman Center
2:30 – 4:00 p.m. Directors Conducting Workshop Newman Center Choir Room
4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Free time
5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Dinner Dorm Dining Halls
7:00 – 9:30 p.m. Skit Night Gates Auditorium – Newman Center

Sunday, June 27, 2010

7:00 – 8:45 a.m. Breakfast Dorm Dining Halls
8:00 – 12:00 a.m. Church Services – or free time Arapahoe County Churches
11:30 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Dorm Dining Halls
1:00 – 5:00 p.m. Individual Choir Rehearsals and/or free time Gates Auditorium – Newman Center
5:15 – 6:30 p.m. Dinner and Dress Dorm Dining Hall and rooms
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Concert Gates Auditorium – Newman Center
9:30 – 10:30 p.m. Farewell Party Lawn area

Monday, June 28, 2010

7:00 – 9:00 a.m. Breakfast Dorm Dining Halls
9:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. Sightseeing, meals, and activities with our own choir in the beautiful Rocky Mountains

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

7:00 – 8:30 a.m. Breakfast Dorm Dining Halls
9:00 a.m. Board buses for departure to the Denver Airport

Payment Schedule

$995 per participant for 6 days and 5 nights.

Make checks payable to HVC Choir.
Tour accounts may be used at any time during the payment process and fund-raising is highly encouraged.

Cost includes the choral festival, airfare, coach transportation in Denver, coach transportation to and from Corvallis to PDX, lodging, meals, festival t-shirt and all organized tour activities.

October 6 $120. per person (non refundable after November 10)
November 3 $120. per person (non refundable after December 10)
December 1 $120. per person (non refundable after January 10)
January 5 $120. per person (non refundable after February 10)
February 2 $120. per person (non refundable after March 10)
March 2 $120. per person (non refundable after April 10)
April 6 $120. per person (non refundable after May 10)
May 4 $120. per person (non refundable after June 10)
June 1 $ 35. per person (non refundable after June 10)

The above “non refundable” deadlines above are based on HVCC’s payments to Young Voices of Colorado, who are organizing the festival portion of the tour. Some flexibility may be allowed depending on family circumstances.

Portland Holiday Day Tour

Pam Van Londen — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:01:45 +0000

Children’s 2 and Festival singers have a holiday tour in Portland on December 19, 2009.

This HVCC holiday tradition began about 15 years ago, for Children’s 2 and Festival Choirs.

General itinerary

11:00am Pioneer Courthouse Square performance (Salem)
12:00pm Saturday Market performance (Portland)
5:15pm Grotto Festival of Lights performance (Portland)
8:00pm ice skating at the Lloyd Center (Portland)
Download and print the full itinerary.

What to bring

Wear informal uniforms
Bring formal uniform
Rain jacket and/or umbrella
Sack lunch and healthy snacks
Spending money
A printed copy of the Portland Holiday Tour itinerary.

Completed forms were due Monday, November 9, 2009 to Marian Anderson or Kristi Hager.

Release/Contract/Insurance Form (2009)
- Click on view, or download by right-clicking (Windows) or Control-clicking (Mac) and choosing Save As to your hard drive.
Please fill out both sides and turn-in by Nov 24, 2009.
The cost of tour is $30 per participant.
Any singer who plans to be driven or drive to and from the Tour can do so only with a signed parent permission form and will drive only with his/her parent or guardian.
An intent to participate form was due Tuesday, November 3, 2009.

Chaperones are always welcome. A parent meeting was held on December 8.

2009 See’s Candies Sales Fund Raiser

Anita Neilson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:39:36 +0000

Sales of See’s Candies helps raise funds for singer tour accounts for Chamber, Festival and Children’s Choir 2. These candies are good stocking stuffers, teacher, or hostess gifts, etc…

Order forms are available at rehearsals and are due November 2 and 3, 2009.

Contact information for the ladies overseeing this fund raiser will be available at the choir attendance tables.

Somerset Tour Picture Share

Larry Anderson — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:57:58 +0000

If you participated in the Somerset tour and would like to share your pictures, please send a link to your photos wherever they are online and we’ll add it to the list below.

Also we would like any tour participant to burn their 20 favorite pictures of the tour on a disc for use in choir publications, slide-shows and the website. Just drop them off at the Chamber/ Festival attendance table.

Somerset Tour Picture Galleries:

Larry Anderson’s pictures
Jim Tobin’s pictures (Jim is with the Olympia Youth Chorus)

Don’t know how to put your pictures on the web?

Sounds too techie? Guess what – I didn’t know how either until 5 days before the tour. It’s really pretty simple. There are several free web-based picture storage sites. I used one that is free as a part of my internet service. There are other free independent picture storage sites that are simple to use. Examples are Flickr and Snapfish. These sites allow you to choose which pictures you want to allow the public to view (such as other HVCC families), and which ones only you can view by logging in with your own PIN.

These resources will help you load pictures to such a site:

Once your pictures are loaded on the web, send us a link to your pictures and we’ll add it to this page. If you’re still confused, but want to try it, contact Larry Anderson.

Somerset Tour Day 10

Larry Anderson — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:22:59 +0000

Today we started with a boat tour of Paris and got fantastic views of many famous sights. Then we headed for our concerts, first at Notre Dame Cathedral and then at La Madeleine.

Pictures have been added to a gallery.

Songs: La Madeleine 1, La Madeleine 2

It was difficult to keep a dry eye at La Madeleine, in part because it was the final formal concert of the tour, in part because the choir sounded even better than ever, and in part because Lucy dazzled us with the pipe organ. Our farewell dinner was at Les Fontaines St. Honore. From there we bused/climbed Montmarte, the highest hill overlooking Paris, to see the views and to sing some farewell songs to Paris, including La Marseillaise. Finally it was off to the hotel for a few hours sleep (for some) before the journey home.

We’re gratefull for Carol and Jean, for our bus and airplane leaders, our tour guides and our chaperones, for our musicians and singers, and to all who have contributed to making this trip possible.

We HAVE had singing!!!

Somerset Tour Day 9

Larry Anderson — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:35:28 +0000

We enjoyed a tour of Paris today, including a couple of hours wandering around The Louvre. The choir sang on the steps of The Square Arch and also on the steps of the Paris Opera House. One of our guides joined the choir in singing. Quite a crowd of locals gathered and really appreciated the choir’s singing, especially the French National Anthem.

Pictures from the yesterday and today have been added to a gallery.

Song: Heavenly Aeroplane from St Theresa’s

Somerset Tour Day 8

Larry Anderson — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:04:06 +0000

We’ve arrived in Paris!!! On Sunday July 13th, we left London and headed for St. Theresa’s Church in Kent. Father Gus presided at mass and the choir sang wonderfully as usual, including parts of Te Deum and Rejoice in the Lamb, and Heavenly Aeroplane. From there we went to Canterbury, and then to Dover. At Dover we boarded the ferry headed for France. We sang “The Bluebirds Over the White Cliffs of Dover” from the fantail as the ferry pulled out. We had some delay getting on the ferry and arrived in Paris late, so I have to apologize that there was not time to post new pictures. As I write this, it is the morning of July 14th and we’re about to board buses and see all of the Paris sights.

Somerset tour Day 7

Larry Anderson — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:00:09 +0000

This morning we boarded buses for downtown London. We had a bus tour of many famous sites (see the pictures). Around lunchtime, we got off the buses, and most of us toured the tower of London. In the afternoon, the bus moved us to the Covent Market Garden, and from there, chaperone groups went in seperate directions for the afternoon.

Pictures from the last night and today have been added to A Gallery.

Songs: Te Deum at Windsor

Somerset Tour Day 6

Larry Anderson — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:22:29 +0000

It’s been a very busy 3 days!

Pictures from the last 3 days have been added to A Gallery.

Songs: Homeland at Wells Cathedral
Crossing the Bar at Sherborne
The Aviators at Sherborne

Day 4

During morning rehearsal, some of the adults traveled to Weymouth, about an hour’s drive away. Others went to see Dorchester. In the afternoon, we had free time to explore the area around Sherborne School. Within walking distance was Sherborne Castle. Late that afternoon, singers rehearsed in the Sherborne Abbey, and later that evening, gave a superb concert. There was a steady rain all day that made us wonder if our loved ones back home were sending us a greeting card. One of our guides would like us to take the rain back to Oregon when we go.

Day 5

Early to rise and onto buses for the city of Wells. After a morning rehearsal in Wells Cathedral, we toured the Cathedral and surrounding grounds, and the explored a few blocks of nearby shopping. The Aviators gave the locals a show next to a fountain in the center of the shopping district. The evening concert was incredible.

Day 6

Another early morning. Bags packed, we said our goodbyes to Sherborne School, and headed for Windsor. During a free time, some wandered the Royal shopping center while others took tours of the castle. After lunch we rehearsed and gave a concert in St. John the Baptist Church, about a block from the castle. Then it was off to our hotel near Heathrow airport. Tonight our group is off to dinner and tours.