North Coast Performing Arts Association Inc (NCPAA)

Rehearsals - for September 2009 Concert

Date	Time	LOCATION CHOIR	LOCATION ORCHESTRA
August 1	10am - 1.30 pm	St.John's Church	St.John's Hall
August 8	10am - 1.30 pm	Bishop Druitt College	Bishop Druitt College
August 15	Choir: 10am to 12.30 pm Orchestra - 12.30 - 3pm	St.John's Church	St.John's Church
August 22 CHANGE for orchestra >>>>>	Choir: 10am - 1.30 Orchestra - 9:30am to 12.30pm	Bishop Druitt College	Bishop Druitt College
August 29	10am - 1.30 pm	St.John's Church	St.John's Hall
September 5	10am - 1.30 pm	St.John's Church	St.John's Hall
September 12	10am - 1.30 pm Regazzi - 10am to 11am	Coffs High School (Jetty)	Orchestra in Auditorium Choirs in Rehearsal Hall

Dress rehearsal: Friday night 18th Sept - 5pm- 9pm Main choir: Please get there by 4.30pm SHARP (AUDITORIUM) Regazzi choir: 4.00pm please for practice (small hall) HELPERS: From 4.00pm if possible.		Coffs High School (Jetty) Auditorium
Choir 4.30 sharp in the Auditorium to be given positions both on the stage and on chairs in the body of the hall. Please give yourself time to park and walk into the Auditorium. Gather at the left side of the orchestra (from Dale's viewpoint). Chairs will be allocated for you there. Bring a tasty snack (no onion and garlic sausage sandwiches ...) and a bottle of water/thermos etc. (The choir may be free to go well before 9pm.) Ragazzi call to Auditorium is 4.45 sharp to be given stage and sitting positions. Ragazzi will be free to go probably at about 6.30ish. Warm-ups and rehearsal for the Ragazzi with the Coro Piccolo and the choir can happen in the Small Hall while the orchestra is rehearsing their pieces sometime after the William Tell Overture. (Very quiet exit and entrances please, so avoid stilettos and tap-shoe equivalents. A small pocket torch might also be handy in case lighting is dim.) Big Choir: Listen carefully for directions, and have a pencil with you to jot down musical matters. Please don't social chat during organisational proceedings. Remember also to have an eraser with you on Sunday to clean your music before handing it in. The Waltz is yours to keep but we have to return the Carmina scores to Sydney next Monday, so Sunday is collection day.

Performances
Coffs Harbour	September 19	2pm Coffs High School (Jetty) Auditorium
Bellingen	September 20	2pm Memorial Hall, Bellingen
MUSIC RETURN: Everybody - please make sure you have removed your pencil marks (and any other marks) from the music. These are extremely valuable manuscripts and it will cost us dearly if they are damaged. And also - please make sure you have your name and music number marked off as you return it. Otherwise, you may be asked to pay for the music if we can't find it.

**2009 Our New Choral Director
The Committee has great pleasure in announcing the appointment of Mei Wei Lim, now living in Sawtell (ex Sydney and Hobart), as our new choral director. She comes with a very impressive CV, a delightful personality, good soh, an English accent, much experience as a choral conductor, and is an accompanist extraordinaire, singing teacher and flautist - and if this isn't enough, also a National champion standard snooker player! Her website is www.meiweilim.com if you'd like to read more about this amazing lady.

Once again, we are fortunate to have Mr Dale Condon as Director and Conductor for performances and orchestral rehearsals.