[HANASHIR:15463] Re: choir members miss rehearsals. What to do

[Jacqueline Guttman <jguttman...>]

Oops, sorry about that. I did notice that I've never gotten anything in red,
paused for a moment, and then -- like a dummy -- did it anyway. Thanks for
the lesson; I'll find another way in the future.

Jackie

> From: Adrian Durlester <adrian (at) durlester(dot)com>
> Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 02:39:26 -0400
> To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> Subject: [HANASHIR:15427] Re: choir members miss rehearsals. What to do
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> Adrian
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> Adrian A. Durlester, MTS
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> Subject: [HANASHIR:15422] Re: choir members miss rehearsals. What to do
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> See replies below in red:
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> From: Rabbi Richard Schachet <LVRabbi (at) cox(dot)net>
> Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:25:38 -0700
> To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> Subject: [HANASHIR:15411] choir members miss rehearsals. What to do
> 
> 
> Have a question that perhaps you can help us with--
> 
> We have a 12 voice all volunteer choir with a professional outstanding music
> director and Cantor.
> 
> On more than one occasion, some of our choir members have missed practice.
> Why--
> "I had to help my married daughter pack for her trip back home"--"We have
> family in town"-- "I have to work late"  I think it goes with the territory,
> but last year we started taking attendance, it part to make a point. Also, I
> gave them all the dates we'd be singing and the rehearsal schedule. It's
> helped a bit, but there are still those who cavalierly skip. Most, however,
> either come consistently, or at least apologize profusely. We also have the
> "prima donna" issue, just a bit, with one or two who think they are that
> much better (not so) that they can afford to skip. They have not learned
> that it affects the whole choir if we then have to go over what they missed.
> 
> Also we have a 16 year old in the choir-- Outside of her menopausal actions
> (I don't think so!) :-) sometimes that go along with being a teen ager, she
> can never stay for the entire rehearsal..  She has school early in the
> morning and must leave rehearsal at 8:00 PM-  It usually lasts until 9:30..
> so she does not get the full rehearsal in.  She is also one who misses some
> rehearsals completely.  I am thinking of requesting no teen agers for next
> year for the adult choir.  Also requesting that the choir member make a
> commitment to all of us.  If they miss even one rehearsal they can miss 3 or
> 4 numbers.  We've run into that with teens also.
> 
> Also next year we are starting rehearsal for High Holidays in June-- This
> year we started in August.  Much to late and I feel the pressure-- We also
> started in August, and I've been thinking of going through June, taking July
> off, and then restarting. Another possibility I'm considering is starting
> closer to the holidays but rehearsing twice a week, if I can schedule it.
> This year, our 23-voice choir was missing 4-8 (different) people at every
> August rehearsal because the were away. It drove me bonkers and wasted huge
> amounts of time. So there we were in September, with vacant stares from half
> of them when I worked on a new sermon anthem. It's disheartening.
> 
> I'd welcome more discussion of this topic, especially concerning rote
> learners, which my choir mostly is. We made tapes this year for the first
> time, because we had 3 new people, and that helped, but only the people who
> actually listened!
> 
> Jackie Guttman
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I am actively involved in going over the music with my music staff-- since I
> like to choreograph the service in my mind before  we even walk out on the
> bima.
> 
> This is one of the reasons, with all my faults, my pulpit is different and
> good.
> 
> 
> Rabbi Richard I Schachet
> Valley Outreach Synagogue
> 
> The past has a vote, not a veto.  M. M.Kaplan z'l
> 
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