A Note From Our President, BJ Banks

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UPDATED: DECEMBER 3, 2024

Dear Friends of the Salina Chorale,

The Salina Chorale finished its 44th season of active singing with the 2024 spring concert.

We were excited to work with our beloved director Bill Tuzicka, while preparing for and presenting our final choral performance under his direction on Sunday, April 21, 2024, prior to his retirement from leading the Salina Chorale. Our 2024 spring concert was presented at the Stiefel Theatre for the Performing Arts in downtown Salina, Kansas. 

We are very pleased that current members, and many former and new members of the Salina Chorale, joined us for this final concert semester with Bill. We love how diligently he worked with us, inspiring us as he regaled us with personal anecdotes and stories about the songs he chose for us to sing, and shaping and molding us as choral singers.  To know more about him, visit the Bill Tuzicka Tribute page. He is one of a kind, and we wish Bill and his soprano singing wife Susan all the best as they move to Iowa to be near family.  

For this past fall, we were again able to secure the use of the same rehearsal space on Monday evenings, starting Aug. 19, 2024, in the Multi-Purpose Room of Sunrise Presbyterian Church located at 825 E. Beloit Avenue, with an entrance to their parking lot on Republic Avenue. .For further details about singing with us, please see our "Sing With Us" page. 

Our talented community singers have been amazing for their enthusiasm and dedication. And his last hurrah for Bill and the Salina Chorale this spring will be a concert for all of us to remember for a long time. As for the members of the Chorale, we have been enjoying a final semester of Bill's jokes and anecdotes with us in rehearsal. 

And we send a shout of thanks to our long-term and returning sponsors for staying with us and sustaining us through changes and difficult times. We hope that you will give us your support once again. Thank you so much for your consideration. 

To the rest of you, our wonderful audience members for our performances, we are grateful for your attendance, your applause and your appreciation for what we do. 

It was an honor and great pleasure to present our Bill Tuzicka-directed 2024 spring concert for you at the Stiefel Theatre.  And we were greatly honored by your presence for our Keri Boley-directed 2024 "Carols of Christmas" concert on Dec. 1 at Sacred Heart Cathedral. 

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NEW SONGS, NEW IDEAS

We have been very excited to be led in rehearsal and directed for our holiday concert by our highly energetic and enthusiastic new music director of the Salina Chorale, Keri Boley, 

We will begin again our rehearsals in January 2025 on a Monday date to announced -- as our director Keri said, "the earlier, the better" -- as our spring rehearsal time is shortened for our upcoming spring concert on March 23, 2025, in the Stiefel Theatre for the Performing Arts. 

Sing with us, or make plans to attend this concert with your family and friends. ADMISSION: Adults are $15, High School Students are $10, and  younger children are admitted free!

Hoping you will join us to sing or hear us for this wonderful performance, live and in person. And visit our "Director-Accompanist" page for information about our music director, Keri Boley.

B. J. Banks
President of the Salina Chorale