Sing With Us

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CAROLS OF CHRISTMAS SPECIAL DRESS REHEARSAL with musicians -- Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024 --  5:30pm to 6:45pm (please arrive early) -- Sacred Heart Cathedral - 118 N. Ninth Street, Salina, KS

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Do You Love Singing in a Choir?

We invite you to sing with us for the 2024-2025 season, and experience with us singing under the direction of our new music director. 

Following our Spring 2024 concert, and the subsequent retirement of our longtime director, Bill Tuzicka (2009-2024), the Salina Chorale Board launched a search for candidates to be considered for our next director. 

The process included a careful assessment and screening process, including testing the two finalists to observe their choral directing abilities and their interaction with us in mock rehearsal with a group of our singers. 

The end result was our offering the position to, and this offer being accepted by, Ms. Keri Boley, who is and will remain the director of choral music at Southeast of Saline (SES) schools, USD 306. We are thrilled to work with her, as we rehearse and perform choral music for our wonderful audiences. Your appreciation and warm reception are what makes the weeks of time spent and the hard work devoted in rehearsal all worthwhile. 

(NOTE: Keri Boley's Salina Chorale director predecessor, Bill Tuzicka, also came to us with SES teaching experience, having himself run the choral music education program there for 37 years. This included the efforts to begin putting on stage musicals at the school. Many of his former students -- his "kids" -- have sung with the Salina Chorale for years.) 

The Salina Chorale is committed to its 60+ year mission of singing together for the enrichment of our community and region, and for the joy of singing and making beautiful choral music together. 

We will be preparing for our "Carols of Christmas" concert scheduled for the conclusion of Thanksgiving weekend, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024, at a time in the early evening to be determined, at Sacred Heart Cathedral, 118 N. Ninth Street (at Iron Ave.) in downtown Salina, Kansas. (We will rehearse at Sacred Heart Cathedral on concert day just prior to our performance.)  

RENEWED REHEARSAL LOCATION FOR FALL 2024 SEMESTER

We are blessed to have been able to renew our rehearsal space that we used for our previous fall 2023-spring 2024 season -- at: 

Sunrise Presbyterian Church Multi-Purpose Room

825 E. Beloit Avenue, Salina, KS

Rehearsals for Fall 2024 began Monday, August 19, 2024. 

On this day, at 7 p.m., all Salina Chorale returning members and new members shared a "Meet and Greet" time with our new director, Keri Boley, hosted by the Salina Chorale Board with refreshments (for about 30 minutes). We began our singing at 7:30 p.m. this day only.

FOR OUR NEW SINGERS: 

We gather together for rehearsals at: 

Sunrise Presbyterian Church Multi-Purpose Room

825 E. Beloit Avenue, Salina, KS

From the parking lot, we enter the church building through the front double glass doors, and then through the second set of doors. Once inside, turn to the right and head to Multi-Purpose Room and proceed all the way back to the space that we use for rehearsals. 

Those who are willing to help set up the chairs arranged for our rehearsal and to roll in the piano from the room next door, please show up at 6:30 p.m. 

Otherwise, please arrive by 6:45 p.m. to sign in, get any new music and find your seat, and listen to the President's announcements. Rehearsal begins at 7 p.m. sharp and goes to 8:30 p.m. without a break. 

Those who can, please stay to reset the tables and chairs as they were before rehearsal setup -- and to roll the piano through the doorway back into the adjacent room . 

Please be at our rehearsal space every week on Monday evenings, music in hand (in a binder) after it has been distributed, and arriving by 6:30 p.m. to help with setup of the chairs, and by 6:45 p.m. for announcements and checking in  -- with rehearsal starting at 7 p.m. sharp. 

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COME AND SING WITH US

The Salina Chorale is a community chorus dedicated to the promotion of choral music, and it is open to all adults who desire to sing ensemble music. High School Juniors and Seniors are welcome to be members provided they already sing in their High School Choir. 

Freshmen and Sophomores in High School may join the Chorale if approved of by the director, who will determine if their voices are mature enough to sing the kinds of songs, and in the vocal ranges, that are required of the Chorale singers. 

OUR HISTORY: 

The Chorale is an outgrowth of the Salina Community Chorus, which was begun in 1961 under the direction of Mr. John Sample. The group was reorganized as the Salina Chorale in January 1979. The previous music director for the Salina Chorale, Bill Tuzicka, directed the group for 16 years, from 2009 to spring 2024, before retiring and moving with his wife Susan to Iowa to be near their grandchildren. This group of talented singers from the greater Salina community is now under the direction of Keri Boley.

New and returning Salina Chorale members have been gathering for  our Monday night rehearsals at Sunrise Presbyterian Church. 

Dues per semester are $40 per semester for all of the Salina Chorale singers, including high school and college students. 

Our rehearsals will go from 7 to 8:30 p.m. without a break. 

Some rehearsals closer to the concert date will most likely go 15 or more minutes longer. And during concert week, we will try to rehearse in the concert venue at least one time in addition to the Monday rehearsal.

CONCERT DRESS: 

* Specific women's concert dress and men's tux attire of past seasons is no longer required. We will now be in all black, bur in our own clothing as stipulated below

* Women will wear a black top or blouse (long sleeves, please -- or with a black over jacket in the fall), and a long black skirt or long black pant, black shoes and black hose. 

* Men are asked to wear a black suit (tux jacket with black pant okay), black long sleeve dress shirt, black shoes, black socks  and black LONG TIE (no bow ties)  (Spring concert dress may be a black shirt, no tie or jacket.)

IF YOU WANT LEARN MORE ABOUT SINGING WITH THE SALINA CHORALE, please email us at choralesalina@gmail.com

MUSIC FOLDERS: 

* Members supply their own black three-ring binder with a 1” spine.

ALLERGIES: 

Be aware that some members are highly sensitive to fragrances and pet dander. Please refrain from using fragrances and “wearing” pet fur.

HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?

Please feel free to contact: 

BJ Banks, President of the Salina Chorale, by email at choralesalina@gmail.com

Or Call or Text: 785-577-2819

When joining the Chorale, please be sure to provide your contact information on our SIGN-IN SHEETS during rehearsal. Everyone, please make corrections to any outdated information BJ may have in our files.