The President

To all my fellow music lovers: Welcome to 2008!! I am very excited to share another year of music with you all. 2007 flew by so quickly and now my thoughts are turning forward to the wonderful musical opportunities that await us this session. I always look forward to starting up practices again after our breaks. I look forward to coming together again to share the beautiful and wide variety of music that we will be learning with our fantastic music director, Paul McGovern. The name of our April concerts say it all: “…And Here’s Broadway!” We will be performing medleys from Les Miserables, Big River, Lion King and Wicked. Plus selections that include Impossible Dream, Memories, I Got Rhythm and much, much more. Our performance dates are Saturday, April 26th at 7:30 pm and Sunday, April 27th at 3:00 pm. This is going to be a fun-filled, challenging session and I can’t wait to get started. As I reflect on the fall session I am both inspired and saddened. Benjamin Britton’s Saint Nicolas was a truly inspiring piece of music, which grew on me more and more every day we sang it. The concert on Saturday was truly wonderful and I am so proud of all the participants. The orchestra was great, the two pianists were fabulous, the soloist was truly inspirational, the First United Methodist Youth Choir sang with the voices of angels and Granite State Choral Society never sounded better. And the best part was seeing Paul’s smile as we accomplished singing and pulling together that very difficult music with all the different participants. We had a great audience on Saturday that loved the music and were very appreciative of the hard work we presented. My sadness comes from the disappointment that we didn’t get the opportunity to share this wonderful concert with another audience on Sunday, December 16th, but Mother Nature had her own ideas for that day with a large Nor’Easter that dumped a lot of snow on the whole area. I look forward to singing with you this year and hope that many past, current and new members will join us in sharing our gift of music with each other and our communities!! Welcome back!!!! Yours in song, Karen Manning, President GSCS