Auditions for new members of the Eugene Concert Choir!
Start off the new year with singing. The Eugene Concert Choir is holding auditions on Thursday, January 5, at Emmaus Lutheran Church, 18th and Polk. Contact the Concert Choir office at choir@eugeneconcertchoir.org to schedule an audition time. Take a look at our Audition Requirements first, and then take the plunge.
Eugene Concert Choir has just released a CD recording of highlights from our concert, A Celtic Christmas.
Includes Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, with harpist Jane Allen, and Celtic carols and festive songs with The Willis Clan.
A Celtic Christmas CDs are $15 and are available for purchase in the Hult lobby at the choir’s holiday concert.
CD’s are also available through the choir office. You can come to the office to pick it up or we will mail it to you, $15 plus $2 shipping & handling. 541-687-6865.
Are you distant? The CD’s and songs are also available on CDBaby.com, a web site for independent musicians.
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Veterans series resonated deeply
Letter to the Editor, Register-Guard, Jan. 5, 2012
I have saved the “Called to Duty” salute to World War II veterans and read Bob Welch’s beautiful stories and looked at the extraordinary photos by Paul Carter over and over. The series resonated with my life on many levels.
My father was a decorated World War II veteran, doing reconnaissance for the 14th Armored Division. The veterans series made me wish I could ask my dad about his experiences in the war; it’s a treasure that the stories of these outstanding veterans were captured before it was too late.
The endearing Dec. 6 article, “Love’s power in war,” conjured up images of my dad meeting my mother, a USO hostess, and their hasty marriage at Fort Campbell, Ky., before my dad shipped out for a year. But the Dec. 4 article, “My lost innocence,” about Gerald Patterson, including a quotation of his poetry, struck me to the core. It brought gut-wrenchingly to mind the poetry of World War I poet Wilfred Owen.
As I prepare the Eugene Concert Choir for our performance of the Benjamin Britten War Requiem, composed for a World War II memorial and utilizing Owen’s all-too-relevant poetry, the December veterans series has added a deeply personal element to my understanding of this chillingly significant masterwork.
DIANE RETALLACK, DIRECTOR
Eugene Concert Choir
