The Arizona Girls’s Refrain is recruiting singers to take part in a musical tour of Greece subsequent 12 months.
The choir is wanting so as to add a minimum of 50 singers to its present 30-person group. women and men will need to have choral singing expertise and be a minimum of 18 years outdated. The journey will value about $3,500, plus airfare.
The nineteenth Annual Nice and Grand Music and Tradition Tour will happen in Athens and Syros, Greece, in July 2024.
The group — previously known as the Southern Arizona Girls’s Refrain — is considered one of three choruses who have been invited to participate within the tour by MidAmerica Productions.
“It is the primary time I have been invited to be a visitor conductor, so I am very excited for this,” Terrie Ashbaugh, conductor of the refrain since 1998, mentioned.
Throughout every occasion the person choirs will sing for half-hour apiece earlier than performing a chunk of music collectively.
The Pan-European Philharmonia and the Athens Philharmonia Orchestra will probably be featured on the tour together with chosen soloists.
“It will likely be nice. We will probably be performing with a full orchestra and singers will be a part of us in Athens as nicely,” she mentioned. “We will even go see the Acropolis and the Greek Isles, which will probably be an incredible alternative to share their expertise with one other a part of the world.”
Ashbaugh will probably be conducting “Really feel the Spirit,” a cycle of seven acquainted spirituals, organized by English composer and conductor John Rutter.
“The ladies who can go might be a part of the Arizona Girls’s Refrain and rehearse with us. The lads will be taught the music on their very own and be a part of us for rehearsal within the spring,” Ashbaugh mentioned. “I additionally will ship a Zoom invitation to allow them to watch the rehearsal in the event that they want.”
“While you sing collectively, the physique produces endorphins that preserve us pleased, and if you sing with a gaggle, your hearts beat as one. You expertise the music collectively,” Ashbaugh mentioned.
Ashbaugh is wanting ahead to the journey and mentioned it will likely be a particular expertise for the refrain.
Anybody curious about participating ought to contact Ashbaugh at [email protected] “ASAP.” After she receives inquiries, she is going to ship every individual the itinerary for the journey.
Ashbaugh mentioned she wants set commitments from the singers by October as funds for the journey start in November.