Lafayette Madrigal Singers will be competing in the 2013 Sing 'n' Joy Festival.  This is the first year of this International Choral Festival and Competition.  If you are near Louisville this Thanksgiving weekend, come hear us!    There are a number of highly-competitive and prestigious International Choral Competitions that occur each year throughout the world. This will no doubt that this will be a memorable and rewarding experience.
As an added honor, Lafayette Madrigals have been selected by the Artistic Committee to perform in the Sing'n'Joy Celebration Concert on Saturday, Nov 30 in Whitney Hall.
Sing N Joy Facebook Page

Each semester choir students are required to attend a professional or collegiate vocal concert.  The following links are some acceptable choices.  Please avoid musical theatre shows.  If you have questions about the suitability of a concert, please ask Mr. Marsh or Mrs. Howard.  Concert attendance requirement is due by December 12, 2013.  Simply turn in a ticket stub or concert program with your name on it.

American Spiritual Ensemble
Ecco Chamber Choir  11/16, 7:00 (Christ Church Cathedral)
The Kentuckians 11/16 Youth in Harmony; 12/7, 7:30pm Christmas Show (Transy)
Kentucky Bach Choir
Lexington Chamber Chorale
Lexington Singers - 12/13, 8:00pm Messiah (Singletary)
Music's Company (Early Music)
Transy Choirs
UK Choirs - 11/1, 7:30pm Women's Choir (Singletary); 11/8, 7:30pm Men's Choir (Singletary); 12/7-8 Collage (Singletary) 
UK Fine Arts
UK Opera Theatre - 11/23, 10am Met District Auditions (Memorial Hall); 12/15 Alltech Celebration of Song (TBD)

Other ideas:  UK Masters or Doctoral Vocal recitals, Met auditions, UK Vocal competitions, Alltech Vocal Competition

Lexington's Barbershop Chorus, The Kentuckians host the outstanding Youth in Harmony Festival every year for high school men!  Mark your calendars for Saturday, November 16 at Lexington Christian Academy.

The event kicks off at 9:30 a.m.  And the big show will begin at 5 p.m.  Parents are encouraged to attend the show at 5:00.  The event is free and Lunch will be provided.

Josh Hamilton Lafayette Choir ('06) and now Chorus teacher at Tates Creek Middle will be one of the section leaders for the day. This is sure to be an outstanding event that you don't want to miss.  

Sign up with Mr. Marsh.  Men who attend the festival will receive their Concert Attendance requirement for the semester or extra credit (your choice).

Today and tomorrow we are kicking off our cookie dough fundraiser. This is always a great fundraiser for us as we often have repeat buyers anticipating the cookie dough sales. Also included with the sale are Candleberry Candles. Please support your student in this sale. Putting the order form in places of business is a great way to sell. (Remember you will also need to be able to deliver the cookie dough and it must remain refrigerated.)

Cookie Dough sells for $16-18 depending on type and Candles have varying prices. Please keep Cookie Dough and candles on two separate blue triplicate order forms. Please pre-collect money for this sale. The goal for this sale is 7 items per person or 5 items minimum. We will track our sales progress toward our goals each day.

Time is Short!  All orders and money should be turned in by 10/24 and 10/25 depending on which day your student has choir class. Please support our organization with your best efforts in sales.

The Lafayette Chorale has been invited to perform on the EKU Choir's concert of music by noted composer and pianist, Ola Gjeilo.  Mr. Gjeilo will be in residence on EKU's campus during the week of October 7 and will also work with each of the individuals choirs in rehearsal on Monday night.  The FREE concert will be held on Tuesday, October 8, 8PM at First Baptist Church, Richmond.  Each choir will sing a piece of their own as well as in combined performance of two works.  The Chorale will perform Ubi Caritas II: Through Infinite Ages. 

Ola Gjeilo (pronounced Yay-lo) was born in Norway in 1978, and moved to the United States in 2001 to begin his composition studies at the Juilliard School in New York City.  Ola’s concert works are performed all over the world, and his debut recording as a pianist-composer, the lyrical crossover album Stone Rose (2L, 2007) was followed by its 2012 sequel, Piano Improvisations. Many of Ola’s choral works are featured on Phoenix Chorale’s bestselling Northern Lights album (Chandos, 2012), which is devoted entirely to his music for choir.  He especially enjoys writing music for choir, orchestra/symphonic winds, and the piano, while as a pianist, his main passion is improvisation, either solo or over his own ensemble works.  Presently a full-time composer based in the US, Ola is also very interested in film, and his music draws a lot of inspiration from movies and cinematic music.  Ola’s choral works are published by Walton Music/Edition Peters, wind band works by Boosey & Hawkes/Hal Leonard, piano pieces by Edition Peters. The Northern Lights, Piano Improvisations and Stone Rose albums are available at amazon.com <http://amazon.com/> and iTunes.