Visit us on FacebookNavigation
· Contact Us· The Vivace! Choral Program
· The Director
· The Cathedrals Choir
· The Mixed Choir
· The Kids Choir
· Listen Now!
· Documents
· Rehearsal Memos
· Uniforms
· Concert Highlights
· FAQ
· Vivace! Links
· Search
· Articles
· Contact Web Admin
Login
March Concert: Vivace! Madrigal Mystery Tour
Vivace! Choral Program proudly presents our March Concert, Vivace! Madrigal Mystery Tour: Vivace meets the Beatles. We will be joined with our amazing guest choir from Marysville, Northern Sounds "Sonus Boreal" Women's Ensemble under the direction of Stuart Hunt.
Tickets: Tickets are available at rehearsals starting March 11th and at the door on the day of the concert starting at 1pm. Adult Tickets are $10 and Children (12 and under) are $8.
Location: Spanaway Lutheran Church, 16001 "A" St S, Spanaway, WA 98387
When: Sunday, March 24th
Time: Doors will open for general seating at 2:10pm and the concert will begin at 2:30pm.
We hope that you will join Vivace! and our guests "Sonus Boreals" in celebrating the coming of Spring with the wonderful music from the Renaissance era all the way to the famous Beatles.
NOTE TO CHORISTERS: Your Call Schedule before the concert is listed below, please be respectful of our space and not be distruptive to the other performing groups or patrons of the church either in the Green Room or in the Sanctuary. Please arrive BEFORE your schedule call time, so that it will allow you time to drop off your things and be ready to rehearse when you are called up to the Sanctuary. We will have a limited amount of time before the concert begins, so if every chorister would do their best to listen to instructions to whomever is standing in front, we can get a lot accomplished and be ready to give a spectacular performance!
Call Schedule
11:45 AM - Section Leaders and France Choristers (Meet in the Parking Lot)
11:55 AM - Cathedrals (Meet in the Parking Lot then to Downstairs, when it is available)
12:45 PM - Mixed (Meet Downstairs)
1:15 PM - Kids (Meet Downstairs)
2:10 PM - Doors open for General Seating
2:30 PM - Concert Begins
"Night in Paris" auction - Thursday, March 7; Special dress rehearsal Monday, March 4.
Vivaces! It's Auction time!
We are raising money for YOU and it's important we fill the tables with your friends and aquaintances for great food and auction fun. ALL families are invited and encouraged to enjoy a "Night in Paris" with food, auction and mini performances throughout the evening.
We will be having a special dress rehearsal for the Auction event this Monday. We encourage 100% attendance at Monday's rehearsal as we get ready for this terrific and fun fundraising event. Please make sure to pick up your copy of the schedule and information on what to wear.
Child care will be available with food, games, movies and arts & crafts — only $5 per child for the entire evening, so parents can go play.
Many thanks to Martina, the Blankenships and the other fabulous Vivace folks that have organized this for us!
See you there! Bring your friends! This is an event you won't forget!
V! Kids Tour - Friday, Dec. 14th
Dear V! Kids Choristers and Families,
I wanted to send out a friendly reminder about the V! Kids Christmas Elementary Tour, "Toy Soldiers on Parade" scheduled for Friday, December 14th, which will be an all-day event.
If your chorister has not yet turned in their permission slips for the tour, you may find them on our Vivace! website at www.vivacechoral.com under the the V! Kids Tour tab. Please have these forms filled out and signed by a parent, shown and signed by the chorister's attendance office/teacher and returned to Vivace! on December 14th, at the tour's first location at Elk Plain Elementary.
All V! Kids choristers and V! Kids mentors will meet at our first tour location at Elk Plain Elementary (22015 22nd Ave E, Spanaway, WA 98387 at 7:15am. Parent Chaperones, we will meet at Elk Plain Elementary and we will have packets which will include the itinerary and names of the choristers that you will be carpooling to and from each performance site. Thank you for volunteering your time and helping our V! Kids have an amazing tour to share with their peers.
Reminder for V! Kids choristers and mentors:
Lunches: Please prepare a sack lunch and bring it with you for the tour. We will be eating between performances and we might not be near an area that will have accessible supermarkets or shops.
Uniforms: Please be in your V! Kids Uniforms which will include your Vivace! Navy blue polo, khaki slacks, brown belt, black/brown socks and brown close-toed dress shoes (please no heels for the girls and tennis shoes). Please also have your polos tucked in and long hair tucked back behind the ears and behind the shoulders. Please also no large-hooped earrings or large bracelets. The purpose of a uniform is to look unified as a choir in both sound and appearance.
Also, choristers please come with a regular red and white Santa hat as part of your holiday costume. We will be using these each year so it might be a good idea to have one laying around the house... :)
Thank you V! Kids and V! Kids mentors, we are going to have a wonderful time on Friday! I hope you are looking forward to it because I know your Vivace! Staff is, this tour is the best of our Holiday season!
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me, your Choir Manager, at ChoirManager@vivacechoral.com or by phone at (206) 310-5420 and I will be happy to help answer any questions you may have about the tour.
Sincerely,
David Nguyen
December 16th Concert Tickets
We are days away from our concert, "I sing the birth..." with guest classical ensemble, New York Polyphony on December 16th at 1st Presbyterian Church in Tacoma (20 Tacoma Way S, Tacoma, WA 98402) at 3pm. For concert ticket information or purchasing, please visit our Concert Tickets tab. Tickets are going fast, so purchase your tickets early before they are sold out.
We look forward to sharing this wonderful program with you to kick off your holiday season!
Sincerely,
Vivace! Choir Manager, Board and Staff
[IMPORTANT] Dress Rehearsal Information for December 10th
Dear Vivace! Families,
We are weeks away from our December 16th concert, so that means next Monday will be our program's Dress Rehearsal on December 10th. The Dress rehearsal will be slightly different this year due to our performance with our guest ensemble, New York Polyphony and because of our venue at 1st Presbyterian Church in Tacoma (20 Tacoma Ave S, Tacoma, WA). So please pay close attention to the following information:
V! Kids Choir (4pm-5pm, Liberty MS): V! Kids choir will have regular rehearsal at Liberty Middle School at 4pm to 5pm. Please have your choristers picked up at 5pm, so our staff can travel to the second half of the dress rehearsal. V! Kids Mentors, you will not be rehearsaling with the V! Kids choir on December 10th, please follow the instructions below for your choir in V! Mixed and Cathedrals.
V! Mixed and Cathedrals (Call: 5:15pm, 1st Presbyterian Church): All V! Mixed and Cathedrals will be meeting at 1st Presbyterian Church in Tacoma (20 Tacoma Ave S, Tacoma, WA) at 5:15pm, you will begin rehearsing at 5:30, please do not be late to dress rehearsal, it will be a long night for both choristers, so the more attentive and prepared, the faster we can run through our Dress rehearsal.
V! Mixed: 5:15pm to 7pm
Cathedrals: 5:15pm to 8:15pm
For more information, please visit the Rehearsal Memos section of our website and download the Rehearsal Memo for December 3rd. This will have additional information about our December 10th Dress Rehearsal. If you have any further questions about the Dress Rehearsal that are not addressed in the posting and the Memo, please feel free to contact the Choir Manager, David Nguyen, at ChoirManager@vivacechoral.com or at (206) 310-5420.
Thank you,
Vivace! Choir Manager, Board and Staff
[IMPORTANT] Important France Tour Meeting TONIGHT, Monday, October 15th @ 6:55PM
Dear Vivace! Families and Choristers,
There is a SHORT, but VERY IMPORTANT meeting for all choristers, parents, and chaperones that will be going on the France tour this summer. The meeting will be held in the choir room and will begin at 6:55PM, TONIGHT, Monday, October 15th. We ask that all choristers and parents to please join us at this meeting. Thank you.
Sincerely, your Choir Manager,
David Nguyen
Paris Tidbit
Paris Tidbit #231: The Arc de Triomphe, originally named Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, stands at the center of the Place Charles de Gaulle, just west of the Champs-Élysées in Paris. The “Triumphal Arch” was built to honor those who have fought and died for France in the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars and beneath the arch lie the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The arch was designed by Jea
n Charlgrin in 1806 and was designed as one of the many sequential monuments and grand thoroughfares from the courtyard of the Louve to the Grande Arche de la Défense, depicting the many facets of France’s grand history.
Wow!!! Can't wait to be stuck in traffic here!!!
How have you been saving up money for the Paris Tour? For those of you planning on participating in the 2013 France Tour, now is the time to be thinking about your fundraising options. An initial commitment deposit of $150 will be collected on September 17th and 24th at Vivace! rehearsals.
Wow!!! Can't wait to be stuck in traffic here!!!
How have you been saving up money for the Paris Tour? For those of you planning on participating in the 2013 France Tour, now is the time to be thinking about your fundraising options. An initial commitment deposit of $150 will be collected on September 17th and 24th at Vivace! rehearsals.
3rd Annual Vivace! Family Picnic
Hello Vivace! Choristers and Families!!!!!
I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer and are making quick use of the wonderful weather that we've been having here in WA. Another thing that is quickly coming up is our 3rd Annual Vivace! Family Picnic, happening tomorrow, August 27th at Frontier Park (right off of Meridian in Graham), starting at 6pm. There will be time to sign up for the 2012-13 Season of Vivace! with registration forms, taking registration/tuition payments and signing up for auditions. As always, hamburger dinner will be provided for our choristers, families and potential new choristers and our traditional 1-minute games competition will also happen tomorrow after dinner! So bring the family, bring your friends that are interested in singing, and we hope to see all of you guys out there tomorrow at 6pm.
If there are any questions about the Family Picnic tomorrow at Frontier Park, registration or about Vivace!, please feel free to contact me atChoirManager@vivacechoral.com or by phone at (206) 310-5420.
Sincerely,
David Nguyen
Vivace! Parisian Tour 2013
Hello Vivace! Choristers, Parents and Alums!
There are a couple of months before the 2012-13 Vivace! season will be begin and we have some fun activities in store this year. We will be starting out the year having a musica antiqua male-ensemble, New York Polyphony, joining Vivace! at our Christmas concert. We will be see what madrigals and the Beatles have in common at our March concert, and we will end our year by transforming Kilworth Chapel into a movie theater as Vivace! Goes to the Movies.
In addition to our exciting 2012-13 season, with the Vivace! Cathedrals preparing for our 2nd European Tour, in Vivace! History, for the Summer of 2013. Cathedrals will be traveling to the beautiful and romantic country of France. We will be performing under the direction of Andre Thomas, a world-renowned composer, clinician and director. Some of the amazing places that Cathedrals will be traveling to and performing are The Normandy, Montmartre and Luxembourg Palace, as well as, some iconic sights like the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe.
We would love to hear from you guys about the Vivace! 2nd European Tour to France, so every so often we will be posting a new question or a France tidbit on our Vivace! Facebook page (www.facebook.com/vivacechoralprogram) and we would love to hear your thoughts! So keep your eyes peeled!
Sincerely, Your Vivace! Staff
2012-13 V! Mixed and Cathedrals Audition Announcements
Dear Vivace! Choristers and Families,
Thank you choristers for a wonderful 2011-12 season and we are looking forward to seeing everyone back in the 2012-13 season!!!
And WOW! The numbers of V! Kids auditioning for V! Mixed and V! Mixed auditioning for Cathedrals for next year was amazing and exciting. Due to the amount of auditions that we had on the last day of rehearsals, Mrs. Klouse will need the summer to review each audition and conduct her placements. So we ask that each chorister and their families to be patient and just enjoy the summer. Once she has made her decisions, we will make another announcement via email, phone calls, and on the website, so until then, enjoy the wonderful sun and family vacations!
We will hopefully see everyone at our Vivace! Family BBQ on Monday, August 27th at 6pm at Frontier Park for games, burgers and our annual 1-minute games competition!!!
Have a wonderful and safe summer!
Sincerely,
David Nguyen
David Nguyen, Choir Manager
Vivace! Choral Program
(206) 310-5420
ChoirManager@vivacechoral.com
David.V.X.Nguyen@gmail.com
Vivace! Choral Program
(206) 310-5420
ChoirManager@vivacechoral.com
David.V.X.Nguyen@gmail.com
Vivace! to France - Cathedrals Summer Trip 2013
Dear Vivace! Choristers and Families,
You read right...the Vivace! Cathedrals Choir has been invited to perform under the direction of Andre Thomas in France the Summer of 2013. Your Mixed and Cathedrals chorister should have taken home a packet with an itinerary and cost for the trip last night. A mini-presentation was done at rehearsal yesterday with a Powerpoint presentation. You can view the Powerpoint below. If you have any questions about the trip, please feel free to contact us. Let’s make this trip a memorable one for the program, the choir and especially for your chorister and family!
http://www.musiccelebrations.com/dept/performance/Vivace_Cathedrals_Choir_ppt/
Sincerely,
David Nguyen
David Nguyen, Choir Manager
Vivace! Choral Program
(206) 310-5420
ChoirManager@vivacechoral.com
Page 1 of 2: 12