I finally overcame inertia and made it to a meeting. I'm going to get involved
again. Is anyone on this list in An Crosaire?

Greetings to the members of the Known World Choirs!

I have the distinct pleasure of announcing that the director for the Known World
Choir at Pennsic 40 (July/August 2011) will be Mistress Josselyne ferch Rhys of
the Kingdom of Caid. Mistress Josselyne was the founder of the Pennsic Choir
almost 20 years ago, and has agreed to come out to Pennsic for the first time in
many years to bring her magic to the choir once again. We are very, very excited
to have her.

Regarding the new KWC Structure: as many of you who were at Pennsic know, Lady
Erlan Nordenskaldr and I met there to discuss the idea of bringing greater
structure to the Known World Choir organization. Along with this year's
director, Master Robyn Solarius, and past director Mistress Arianna Morgan, we
held a round-table discussion on the last Friday of Pennsic to brainstorm how
best to do this. 17 attendees provided a lot of creative energy and
thought-provoking ideas. Thank you to everyone who participated!

A document detailing what we came up with at those meetings has been uploaded to
the Yahoo Group site at  
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/KWChoir/files/Board%20of%20Directors/

For those of you who prefer the Cliff Notes version, here's the gist of it:

------------------------------------------------------

1. The Mission of the Known World Choir (KWC) is to provide a place for all
people to learn about and participate in the practice and performance of
pre-17th century polyphonic choral music.

2. The KWC now has a "Board of Directors" consisting of all past directors from
KWCs around the SCA who have expressed an interest in participating. Choral
Directors from all SCA wars were offered the opportunity to be members, and
future directors will also have that opportunity. At this time, the following
directors have accepted:
• Lady Erlan Nordenskald (East) - daggett42@...
• Mistress Arianna of Wynthrope (AEthelmearc) - arianna_wyn@...
• Mistress Arianna Morgan (Atlantia) - chrissings@...
• Master Robyn Solarius (Middle) - dsrubin1@...

3. The purpose of the Board is to help further the mission of the KWC by
providing the following support services:

a. Logistics: Assisting and educating new directors in how to run SCA choirs at
Wars around the SCA.

b. Library: Maintaining music files from each year’s performance and making
them available to the KWC members.

c. Advertising/promotion to attract audiences.

d. Recruitment of both singers and potential directors.

e. Training and mentoring of aspiring choral conductors.

f. Digitizing assistance for directors who need help converting music to
electronic audio files.

g. Performance practice: Serving as a resource for period music practices,
including pronunciation and translations.

h. Education and support for choral music and musicians throughout the SCA.

4. To accomplish these goals, the Board will:

a. Set up a website for the KWC, to supplement the Yahoo Group and provide a
more easily accessible resource for choral musicians. Board members will provide
and solicit content for the site from the membership of the KWC.

b. Recruit people to serve as KWC "Ambassadors" for their kingdoms. KWC
Ambassadors will:

i. Post information about KWCs to their Kingdom lists, including forwarding
messages from the Board of Directors
ii. Serve as contacts for choral musicians in their kingdoms looking for
information and assistance
iii. Facilitate the learning of KWC repertoire, possibly by running pre-war
rehearsals at Kingdom and local universities/scholas

At this time, these Board members have accepted responsibility for specific
areas:

- Erlan: Library, Performance Practice
- Robyn: Digitizing music, recruiting teachers for music classes at Pennsic
- Arianna W: Logistics at Pennsic
- All directors: Recruiting, training and mentoring, and advertising

------------------------------------------------------

What does all this mean for you?

- We will be providing you with more choral music resources.
- We will be more organized so you get more information farther in advance.
- We are available to help if you would like to do more in choral music,
including learning to direct.
- We need YOUR help to make this work!

The following people have volunteered to be KWC Ambassadors:
- An Tir: Viktor Zabolotskoi - vsapko@...
- Meridies: Tessa the Amnesiac - tessadamnesiac@...
- Northshield: Eliane Halevy - jennifer-friedman@...
- Æthelmearc: Arianna of Wynthrope - arianna_wyn@...
- Atlantia: Arianna Morgan - chrissings@...

If you would like to be a KWC Ambassador, please contact us!

Also, we are looking for people willing to assist with the following:

- Development and maintenance of the KWC website. Erlan owns the rights to the
domain KnownWorldChoir.org. Mistress Cassandra Arabella Giordani of Atlantia has
agreed to host the KWC via the Atlantian website. We need to someone to maintain
it.

- Logistics and support for choirs and choral music at wars other than Pennsic,
Lilies and Gulf Wars (which already have people handling choral activities).

- Articles, links and other suggestions about what to include on the website.

- Suggestions for a list of 10 songs that every member of the KWC should know;
preferably pieces that can be sung by any array of voices. We want to be able to
sing whenever even a small number of us are gathered! Suggestions so far include
Sumer is icumen in, Alle Psallite, and some of the Ravenscroft rounds.

- Ideas on how to make it easier for people to participate in the KWC at Pennsic
if they cannot commit to daily 2-hour rehearsals. See the document on the Yahoo
Group site for ideas we've discussed so far.

- Your suggestions for how to make the KWC even better.

If you've made it to the bottom of this very long missive, thanks for your
patience. We are excited about moving forward with these changes, and we hope
you find them useful.

In service,

Arianna of Wynthrope

----- Original Message -----

From: Karen Kasper

To: Known World Choir

Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:23 PM

Subject: [KWChoir] Pennsic 40 Choir Director and new Known World Choir structure

 

Greetings to the members of the Known World Choirs!

I have the distinct pleasure of announcing that the director for the Known World Choir at Pennsic 40 (July/August 2011) will be Mistress Josselyne ferch Rhys of the Kingdom of Caid. Mistress Josselyne was the founder of the Pennsic Choir almost 20 years ago, and has agreed to come out to Pennsic for the first time in many years to bring her magic to the choir once again. We are very, very excited to have her.

Regarding the new KWC Structure: as many of you who were at Pennsic know, Lady Erlan Nordenskaldr and I met there to discuss the idea of bringing greater structure to the Known World Choir organization. Along with this year's director, Master Robyn Solarius, and past director Mistress Arianna Morgan, we held a round-table discussion on the last Friday of Pennsic to brainstorm how best to do this. 17 attendees provided a lot of creative energy and thought-provoking ideas. Thank you to everyone who participated!

A document detailing what we came up with at those meetings has been uploaded to the Yahoo Group site at http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/KWChoir/files/Board%20of%20Directors/

For those of you who prefer the Cliff Notes version, here's the gist of it:

------------------------------------------------------

1. The Mission of the Known World Choir (KWC) is to provide a place for all people to learn about and participate in the practice and performance of pre-17th century polyphonic choral music.

2. The KWC now has a "Board of Directors" consisting of all past directors from KWCs around the SCA who have expressed an interest in participating. Choral Directors from all SCA wars were offered the opportunity to be members, and future directors will also have that opportunity. At this time, the following directors have accepted:
• Lady Erlan Nordenskald (East) - daggett42@...
• Mistress Arianna of Wynthrope (AEthelmearc) - arianna_wyn@...
• Mistress Arianna Morgan (Atlantia) - chrissings@...
• Master Robyn Solarius (Middle) - dsrubin1@...

3. The purpose of the Board is to help further the mission of the KWC by providing the following support services:

a. Logistics: Assisting and educating new directors in how to run SCA choirs at Wars around the SCA.

b. Library: Maintaining music files from each year’s performance and making them available to the KWC members.

c. Advertising/promotion to attract audiences.

d. Recruitment of both singers and potential directors.

e. Training and mentoring of aspiring choral conductors.

f. Digitizing assistance for directors who need help converting music to electronic audio files.

g. Performance practice: Serving as a resource for period music practices, including pronunciation and translations.

h. Education and support for choral music and musicians throughout the SCA.

4. To accomplish these goals, the Board will:

a. Set up a website for the KWC, to supplement the Yahoo Group and provide a more easily accessible resource for choral musicians. Board members will provide and solicit content for the site from the membership of the KWC.

b. Recruit people to serve as KWC "Ambassadors" for their kingdoms. KWC Ambassadors will:

i. Post information about KWCs to their Kingdom lists, including forwarding messages from the Board of Directors
ii. Serve as contacts for choral musicians in their kingdoms looking for information and assistance
iii. Facilitate the learning of KWC repertoire, possibly by running pre-war rehearsals at Kingdom and local universities/scholas

At this time, these Board members have accepted responsibility for specific areas:

- Erlan: Library, Performance Practice
- Robyn: Digitizing music, recruiting teachers for music classes at Pennsic
- Arianna W: Logistics at Pennsic
- All directors: Recruiting, training and mentoring, and advertising

------------------------------------------------------

What does all this mean for you?

- We will be providing you with more choral music resources.
- We will be more organized so you get more information farther in advance.
- We are available to help if you would like to do more in choral music, including learning to direct.
- We need YOUR help to make this work!

The following people have volunteered to be KWC Ambassadors:
- An Tir: Viktor Zabolotskoi - vsapko@...
- Meridies: Tessa the Amnesiac - tessadamnesiac@...
- Northshield: Eliane Halevy - jennifer-friedman@...
- Æthelmearc: Arianna of Wynthrope - arianna_wyn@...
- Atlantia: Arianna Morgan - chrissings@...

If you would like to be a KWC Ambassador, please contact us!

Also, we are looking for people willing to assist with the following:

- Development and maintenance of the KWC website. Erlan owns the rights to the domain KnownWorldChoir.org. Mistress Cassandra Arabella Giordani of Atlantia has agreed to host the KWC via the Atlantian website. We need to someone to maintain it.

- Logistics and support for choirs and choral music at wars other than Pennsic, Lilies and Gulf Wars (which already have people handling choral activities).

- Articles, links and other suggestions about what to include on the website.

- Suggestions for a list of 10 songs that every member of the KWC should know; preferably pieces that can be sung by any array of voices. We want to be able to sing whenever even a small number of us are gathered! Suggestions so far include Sumer is icumen in, Alle Psallite, and some of the Ravenscroft rounds.

- Ideas on how to make it easier for people to participate in the KWC at Pennsic if they cannot commit to daily 2-hour rehearsals. See the document on the Yahoo Group site for ideas we've discussed so far.

- Your suggestions for how to make the KWC even better.

If you've made it to the bottom of this very long missive, thanks for your patience. We are excited about moving forward with these changes, and we hope you find them useful.

In service,

Arianna of Wynthrope

Greetings to the Known World Choir members!

With the holidays approaching, I imagine some of you are ramping up your SCA,
community and church choirs to perform in the next few months.

What is everyone singing?

The Debatable Choir will be performing at local and Kingdom 12th Night
celebrations in January. We decided this year to do a mix of holiday pieces and
drinking songs. So far our list includes:

O Magnum Mysterium (Vittoria)
Personent Hodie
Audite Nova (di Lasso)
Tourdion - Quand Je Bois du Vin Clairet (Attaignant)
La Terre Les Eaux Va Buvant (Costeley, from 2 years ago's Pennsic Choir
repertoire)

We'll probably add another piece or two before January rolls around.

I'm interested to know what you're all singing!

Arianna of Wynthrope

--- Last month, I wrote:
>
> Theresa was kind enough to ask:
>
> "Is anyone planning to attend Gulf Wars this coming March?
> If so, do we want to get a group together to sing?"
>
> Good day, and well met.  My name is Christian d'Hiver,
> and last year I had some success with a "noontime singing"
> project... I was planning on holding it again in 2011.
>
> If someone else wanted to coordinate a choir, per se,
> with a scheduled performance and sectional rehearsals,
> pre-distributed repertoire and the like, I'd be happy
> to support that project and help make it happen.  Under
> those circumstances, I would not want to also run a
> separate "noontime singing", because I don't think Gulf
> Wars is large enough to support both efforts; the casual
> singing would draw people away from the more formal
> choir.

Time marches on; if you are considering the possibility of coordinating or
directing a KWC performance at Gulf Wars, may this message spur you to commit to
that project.  Again, I would be happy to assist in any way as you would have
me.

If no-one is interested, I would then move ahead with my plans to repeat
"noontime singing".

--In joy and service,
Christian d'Hiver, OL
music guy, Calontir

I have a friend who took some footage. I'll ask him for permission to post
it - and also try and find out how to do so. [Next week, perhaps; this
weekend will be a zoo!]

Lyanna.
Ruantallan.
[the shortest soprano]

----- Original Message -----
From: <KWChoir@yahoogroups.com>
Message
________________________________________________________________________
1. no videos of KWC2010??
     Posted by: "Janet Ryan" jsr2729@... jsr2729
     Date: Thu Nov 25, 2010 6:17 pm ((PST))

Just thought I'd post the question. I saw bunches of people in the crowd
holding up little devices -- but I haven't seen anyone post a link to
anyone's video, on youtube or elsewhere. NOBODY knows of one?? The cd will
be nice, but it's still neat being able to see (and show friends) any sort
of video of the concert(s).
Alison

Spam deleted, user moderated.

Don Harrington
Lazarus Artifex
co-Admin

--- In KWChoir@yahoogroups.com, Catherine Sayre <sayrecatherine@...> wrote:
>
>

A friend of mine pointed me to the website of a Renaissance Band called Piffaro.
They're a good band, but even better, they have a video on their site in which
they demonstrate all of their instruments, explaining their history, use, and
even some of the physics of how the instruments work. It's a great teaching tool
about medieval and renaissance instruments.

http://www.piffaro.com/education/intro/fullmovie.html

Enjoy!

Arianna of Wynthrope

This is really funny:

http://www.tensionbreaker.com/2010/12/a-cappella-cult.html

Arianna of Wynthrope

It is indeed!  Thank you for sharing!

Arianna M.

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Karen Kasper <arianna_wyn@...>
To: Known World Choir <KWChoir@yahoogroups.com>,  AEChoir <AEChoir@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [KWChoir] Oh, no - A Capella singing is a CULT!
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 13:45:46 -0800 (PST)

 

My video didn't turn out too bad so I will start posting segments.

Here is "Matona Mia Cara":  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAAz8F0gBUw

Unfortunately you cannot read the subtitles I don't think. I will try to overlay
them when I get the text.

And the concert CD is about done (my delay, not Master Li or Ygraine). Watch for
news on that.

Robyn

--- In KWChoir@yahoogroups.com, Janet Ryan <jsr2729@...> wrote:
>
> Just thought I'd post the question.  I saw bunches of people in the crowd
holding up little devices -- but I haven't seen anyone post a link to anyone's
video, on youtube or elsewhere.  NOBODY knows of one??  The cd will be nice, but
it's still neat being able to see (and show friends) any sort of video of the
concert(s).
> Alison
>  
>

1st part of the concert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVZiPMaHilM

Robyn

2nd part of the concert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol4N-kBEuBI

Robyn

Final part of the KWC 2010 video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvqJR-liRm8

Robyn

---

From: KWChoir@yahoogroups.com [KWChoir@yahoogroups.com] on behalf of dsrubin2004 [dsrubin2004@...]
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 12:27 PM
To: KWChoir@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [KWChoir] Re: no videos of KWC2010??

 

My video didn't turn out too bad so I will start posting segments.

Here is "Matona Mia Cara": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAAz8F0gBUw

Unfortunately you cannot read the subtitles I don't think. I will try to overlay them when I get the text.

And the concert CD is about done (my delay, not Master Li or Ygraine). Watch for news on that.

Robyn