2009 Holiday Season
Please
join us this year for these exciting events!
INTERESTED IN SINGING?
We want you to be a part of our group! The spring semester starts Tuesday, January 19 from 7-9 p.m. at the Southern Miss Gulf Park Campus Auditorium in Long Beach. No audition - come and join us!
The Southern Miss Gulf Coast Civic Chorale’s remaining season!
Holiday Concerts
Featuring
Coronation Mass in C by W.A. Mozart,
Along with other traditional Christmas favorites!
7:00 p.m. – Friday, December 11, 2009
Southern Miss Gulf Coast Campus Auditorium
2:00 p.m. – Sunday, December 13, 2009
Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
100 Years of Music:
A Centennial Performance
Friday, April 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 25 at 3:00 p.m.
Biloxi Junior High School Auditorium
Southern Miss Gulf Park AEC Auditorium
At least one song will be featured from each decade since The University of Southern Mississippi was founded in 1910. “All You Need Is Love” and please “Fly Me to the Moon” as you “Listen to the Music!” Come and enjoy this fun and memorable concert that is a part of the Centennial year!
Sounds by the Sea
Saturday, May 29 at 6:30 p.m.
The ensemble will open for the Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra in this great way to celebrate Memorial Day weekend!
The 2009-2010 Southern Miss Gulf Coast Civic Chorale season is generously sponsored in part by Charter Bank and Greg Cronin, President and CEO.
Patrons for the Civic Chorale
We invite you to assist the Southern Miss Gulf Coast Civic Chorale as we continue to provide community-oriented programs. All of our sponsors are listed in each printed program of the 2009-2010 season.
SPONSORSHIP LEVELS:
CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE: OVER $300
Theresa Anoskey and Garry Owen
Juliane and John Flanery
Dr. Pat Joachim and Mr. George Sustendal
Diane and Jim Miller
Pete and Donna Snell
Fred Walker, State Farm Insurance
SINGER’S CIRCLE: $150-$249
Denise and Edward Catone
FRIEND’S CIRCLE: $50-$149
Marianne and William Higginbotham
For more information regarding the Southern Miss Gulf Coast Civic Chorale, please contact John Flanery at
601.434.1977 or john.flanery@usm.edu
The Southern Miss Gulf Coast Civic Chorale includes:
- 95 singers for the fall of 2009
- 12 music teachers in the ensemble
- 3 church musicians
- Over 20 retired professionals
- 12 high school and junior high aged singers
- Three college aged singers
- Oldest singer is over 80 and the youngest is 12.
- Choir members for the fall of 2009 season are from the following communities (with the approximate number from each town in brackets following): Long Beach (25), Gulfport (38), Pass Christian (3), Biloxi (11), Kiln (2), Diamondhead (8), Picayune (2), Perkinston (1), Moss Point (1), Vancleave (1), D’Iberville (1), Poplarville (1), and Hattiesburg (3).
- Our membership draws from physicians, lawyers, teachers, professors, students, medical professionals, bankers, financial consultants, media members, and a host of others.
- The chorale was first conducted for 10 years by local high school music educator Joanne Edwards. Lauren Brandon, former Assistant Choral Director at USM, conducted the ensemble for one year.
The ensemble is in its 15th year of existence. John Flanery, Assistant Director of Choral Activities at the University of Southern Mississippi is in his fourth year at the helm of the growing ensemble. The ensemble is a community outreach service by the Southern Miss Gulf Coast campus and sings a wide variety of choral literature each year. Membership comes from a variety of backgrounds and communities on the Coast. The ensemble rehearses on Tuesday nights from 7-9 p.m. at the AEC Auditorium on the Gulf Coast campus. We enjoy sharing our music, fellowship, and spirit with each other and our audiences.
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John Flanery, Assistant Choral Director, began teaching at the University of Southern Mississippi in the fall of 2006. At Southern Miss, he teaches undergraduate choral conducting and choral methods, choral literature, directs the Concert Choir, Spirit of Southern, and the Southern Miss Gulf Coast Civic Chorale. In addition he founded the Festival of Choirs on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, which comprises the Civic Chorale and four area high schools in a non-competitive concert. In June of 2009, the Southern Experience Show Choir and Choral Camp had its inaugural week under Flanery’s guidance with over 100 junior high and high school students and teachers attending. John is also the church choir director at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Hattiesburg. He is A.B.D on his Doctorate of Musical Arts in choral conducting at the University of Kentucky. He holds a Masters degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Kentucky and a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa. As a high school music educator in the state of Iowa for nine years, John conducted concert choirs, madrigal dinners, show choirs, jazz choirs, and many other ensembles. John is a regular clinician and judge throughout the Midwest and Southeastern United States. He and his wife, Juliane, have three children, Elias, Cecelia, and Josephine. |