Hi all,

Besides myself (violin) and Aaron (cello), who's interested in taking up the other parts? We need 2 more violin players (& MORE is welcome as well).

We will have our practice on Mondays, Upcoming one is This Monday, 13 Feb 7:30pm (Strings only).

Cheers,
Sam

--- In olpsorchestra@yahoogroups.com, "Samantha Chan" <samantha.chan@...> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> Wishing u all a Happy Chinese New Year!
> 
> Praise God for a good meeting yesterday night, even though the small
> turnout! (only 4 of us!!)
>
> I'd like to introduce to you all, Samuel Lee, who will be joining us as
> our music conductor. He will take care of music direction and
> coordination. Samuel is in the Christus Dominus Choir and has experience
> conducting orchestras, and his help will be invaluable as we start out
> as pioneers of this OLPS Orchestra!
> 
> Meanwhile I'll be sticking on to do the admin, but will welcome any help
> available (and will definitely need more help when we grow bigger!)
>
> 
> What we discussed:
> 
> 1. We intend to focus on developing up a string quartet first. (So
> we will need violas & cellos).
> 
> 2. We are gonna place in the bulletin, invitations for experienced
> violists, violinists, cellists and double bassists to join - they need
> to be reasonably experienced (say grade 5?) to be able to play as lead
> for that section. (Help if you have friends).
> 
> 3. We need to know what is our base strength - who are our
> confirmed players (so we can advertise for the rest) - so everyone
> please confirm if you want to join on as a serious regular player! Based
> on yesterday's turnout, I can only confirm that we have: William,
> Ferdinand, Samuel & myself.
> 
> Richard, Hoa, Aaron, Stacey, Sabrina, Amanda, Angela, Gabriel, Gerald,
> please confirm? I take it that the rest not mentioned here do not intend
> to join us as regular members?
> 
> 4. Our practices will be on Mondays, 7:30pm, Music room @ OLPS. Our
> next practice will be 13th February Monday (for all strings/cello ONLY)
>
> Those who cannot make it on Mondays please specify whether you want to
> join for events, or ad-hoc.
> 
> 5. In Mid March, our Monday practices would expand to include
> woodwinds and the rest. (After we have advertised for more players).
> 
> Performances:
> 
> First performance:
> 
> TAIZE during Lent (Mid march: Date to be decided)) - William will play
> classical guitar, with choir/cantor ministry.
> 
> The rest of us, will help out or attend the session. Taize is beautiful
> - it's a place in France, and "Taize" in church is a form of meditative
> prayer & song that was developed to help us focus on our simple desire to commune
> with God - with simple background music, and repeating of simple lines,
> it's the Word of God set to music..
> 
> Read more, click here:
>
> http://www.taize.fr/en_rubrique12.html
>
> http://www.spiritualitytoday.org/spir2day/904234burke.html
>
> Later:
>
> Holy Week - April
>
> OLPS Feast Day - July
>
> Masses - we may integrate ourselves into some masses once we're ready
>
> Monthly Taize
> 
> Temporary website: www.olpsorchestra.com <http://www.olpsorchestra.com/>
> (please let me know if you have any suggestions - not too fancy though!)
> 
> As you all can see, we're going to be playing songs now that can "serve"
> the community - but we will still welcome members even if they're not
> catholic/Christian, as long as they are ok with it.
> 
> So lend us your support! Pray for the orchestra too!
>
> 
> God Bless,
> Samantha
> 9642 7868
>
>
>
> PS: Pls confirm with me whether you're gonna be joining on Mondays ok!
> If not, still wanna play or not? Thanks!
>