Finding Our Voice

by madolu on January 9, 2010

What a journalistic challenge: to write a magazine article about a concert on domestic violence. Janina Birtolo, a Naples actor and arts editor for Gulfshore Life, thoughtfully embodies our vision for community awareness and support on this issue. What a wordsmith she is!

Click here to read the full article on The Choir Project and Finding a Voice in the January 2010 issue of Gulfshore Life.

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Finding a Voice: a multi-arts concert

by kimsmith on January 9, 2010

Truth

“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before”
- Leonard Bernstein

How many times can you say that a concert has changed your life? What about the life of one of your neighbors?

What if your presence at a concert could help break the silence surrounding family violence…would you attend?

24 singers. a dancer. visual artists.
writers and actors, too.

Come join with us in our first concert-for-a-cause
To support, honor and benefit
The Shelter for Abused Women & Children

January 31, 2010  -  4pm
Moorings Presbyterian Church – Naples, FL (Click here for a map)

Tickets: $15 general admission; $30 patron seating; $5 student
100% of ticket price benefits The Shelter for Abused Women & Children
Purchase tickets online or at the door. Click here to purchase tickets online.

Below is a sample of each of the songs to be featured in the “Finding a Voice” concert.

“Beauty of Your Dreams” by Joan Szymko, text Eleanor Roosevelt

“Motherless Child” arr, Fenno Heath

“Run” by Nitanju Casel

“Emma” by Edell, arrg’t by J. David Moore

“The Road Home” by Stephen Paulus / text by Michael Dennis Browne

“Inscription of Hope” by Z. Randall Stroop

“Lo, How a Rose / The Rose” by Praetorius/McBroom/C.H.Johnson

“Learn to Love Yourself” by Amy Sky & Olivia Newton-John

“Wanting Memories” by Ysaye Barnwell

“Still I Rise” by Rosephanye Powell

“Draw the Circle Wide” by Mark A. Miller

Concert Sponsors and Artists

Business

Absync Realty - www.absyncrealty.com
Blue Turtle Graphics / Kim Smith – www.BlueTurtleGraphics.net
Photographic Images by Jim – www.photographicimagesbyjim.com
TecSmarts, LLC LLC – On-Site and Remote Computer Repair – www.TecSmarts.com
Kathy & Bill Hughes, Residential Sales and Rentals, Downing-Frye Realty, Inc. - www.downingfrye.com
Gulf Coast Paralegal Association, Inc. -  www.gcpa.info

Musical

J. David Moore – composer – www.freshayremusic.com
Stephen Paulus – composer - www.stephenpaulus.com
Joan Szymko – composer – www.JoanSzymko.com
Fred Bock Music Publishers – www.fredbock.com
Santa Barbara Music Publishing – www.sbmp.com
Rebecca Richardson – jazz - www.naplesjazz.com
Island Dance Academy – 239-289-1698
Janina Birtolo – actor, writer – www.janinabirtolo.com
Diana Giorge – voiceovers – www.dianagiorge.com

Photo credits

Jen Gray (Chicago) – www.jengray.com
Chris Griffith (Bonita Springs, FL) – www.LifeInBonitaSprings.com
Sandra Milliken (Australia) – www.sandramilliken.com.au
Emmanuelle Brisson (France) – www.emmanuellebrisson.com
An anonymous Survivor (Naples, FL)
The National Network to End Domestic Violence – www.nnedv.org

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May 16-17, 2009 – Amazonia! The rhythm of Latin American choral music!

December 17, 2009

The Amazonia Vocal Ensemble, based in Miami, visited Naples on Saturday, February 14, 2009!  What a delight to hear this new choir of Latin American singers performing choral music from Latin America right here in Naples! Click here to listen to a sample now! From the beauty of the earliest music of the Americas to [...]

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October 11-13, 2008 – Sibelius Choir from Helsinki, Finland

December 17, 2009

The 40-voiced mixed choir from Sibelius High School in Helsinki, led by their director Marjukka Riihimäkki, brought their cool nordic sounds to sunny Naples. They gave a private concert at Moorings Park’s Bower Chapel, sang Sunday services at Naples United Church of Christ, presented a public concert that afternoon, and gave workshops/concerts at Pine Ridge [...]

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January 27, 2008 – Holocaust Boxcar Dedication

December 17, 2009

At the invitation of the Holocaust Museum of SW Florida, the Choir Project assembled an intergenerational choir to sing Caldwell and Ivory’s arrangement of “Ani ma’amin” for the Museum’s of Holocaust Boxcar Dedication. Watch the video: click here.

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March 25, 2007 – Mozart ‘open sing’

December 17, 2009

Open-Sings are for any choral singer to attend and to enjoy reading through a choral masterwork with other singers from our area. This Mozart ’sing’ was an opportunity to read his classic “Coronation Mass” and “Ave verum corpus.”

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March 5, 2007 – Nordic Voices ensemble: Stockholm, Sweden

December 17, 2009

The inaugural Choir Project event was a concert by the Voces Nordicae / Nordic Voices vocal ensemble, led by Lone Larsen. Chosen as the “choir of the year” in Sweden in 2008, Nordic Voices gave their only full U.S. concert here in Naples. Hear a them: sample 1, sample 2. You are warmly invited to [...]

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Finding a Voice

November 12, 2009

Finding one’s voice to write an online choral blog ranks alongside the thrill and fear of the ‘beloved conductor’ saying, “ok, get out your Pärt score and let’s sight-read a bit!” This blog is about the birthing of a concert, aptly called “Finding a Voice”, to honor and support our local women’s Shelter, to take [...]

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