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Past articles from the Member’s Page.

Ad Sales Campaign for 2024-2025 season

This year we are starting by soliciting ads to local businesses by mail. Later we may ask our members to follow up in person with businesses who have not responded, if necessary.

A mailing to previous advertisers and potential new advertisers suggested by our members is already being prepared, but it’s not too late to reach out to other possible advertisers if you know of some good prospects. Ad orders are due by November 1.

If you have any questions about the ad sales campaign, the easiest way to contact Jill Sauser is to send an email to jill.sauser@gmail.com.

Practice Playlist for Summer Concert 2024

Here are Knox’s official playlists for our Summer concert:

One nice thing about the YouTube recording of the Zelenka is that it has the score with it—including the orchestral and solo parts—which might be especially helpful as we get closer to the concert.

Here are slowed-down versions of two sections from the Zelenka:

Also, here is a quick lesson on how to perform the trills in the Handel Coronation Anthems:

The Peace of Wild Things Concert Recording 2024

Click here to see the concert program

Click here to listen to the entire live concert

(As always, we’re making these recordings available to you, our members, for your private enjoyment only. Please don’t copy them to any streaming services or publish them in any way.)

Practice Playlist for Spring Concert 2024

Click here for Knox’s official Youtube playlist for our Spring concert, “The Peace of Wild Things.”

Here is an equivalent Spotify playlist (but lacking the piano-only version of Frostiana by the Harvard choir).

Here is a player for Frostiana by the Harvard University Choir, conducted by Edward Elwin Jones, 1959 (the last item in Knox’s Youtube playlist).

Calendar for 2023-24 season

Holiday Concert

  • Saturday & Sunday, December 9 & 10, 2023, 3:00 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Church in Kent, CT
  • Rehearsals every Wednesday starting September 6, 2023, 7:00 p.m at St. Andrew’s

Spring Concert

  • Sunday, March 10, 2024, 3:00 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Church in Kent, CT
  • Rehearsals every Wednesday starting January 3, 2024, 7:00 p.m. at St. Andrew’s

Summer Concert

  • Sunday, June 2, 2024, 3:00 p.m. at St. John’s Church in New Milford, CT
  • Rehearsals every Wednesday starting March 13, 2024, 7:00 p.m. at St. John’s
  • Rehearsal on March 27, 2024 will be sectionals

A Rose in Winter Concert Recording 2023

Marty’s choice

Here’s our best performance of each song, in my opinion!

  • Saturday: Sans Day, Wexford, Currie, Christmas Night, Lovely Fragrance, Still, All My Heart, Silent Night, Sweeter Music, Arise
  • Sunday: Darke, Praetorius, Gabriel’s Message, Tender Shoot, Lully, Midnight Clear, Distler, Howells, See Amid, Have Yourself
  • Two songs lightly edited (this playlist only) to correct missed entrances: Gabriel’s Message, Lovely Fragrance

Saturday, December 9, 2023

Click here to listen to the entire Saturday concert

Here is a player for individual songs (Saturday):

Sunday, December 10, 2023

Click here to listen to the entire Sunday concert

Here is a player for individual songs (Sunday):

Click here to access the music files for downloading (Disc 1 is Dec 9, Disc 2 is Dec 10)

Photos and Program

You can find everything you’re looking for in the Concert Archive pages.

(As always, we’re making these recordings available to you, our members, for your private enjoyment only. Please don’t copy them to any streaming services or publish them in any way.)

Schubert/Haydn Concert Recording 2023

Here is the professional recording of the June 11, 2023 concert.

Click here to access the music files for downloading

Here is our “do-it-yourself” recording of the same concert. Decide for yourself, but to my ears it compares pretty well against the professional recording.

Click here to access the music files for downloading

In case you’re interested, here are some rehearsal recordings (including Happy Birthday songs!) We made these to try out the recording equipment, but they’re kind of fun to listen to.

(As always, we’re making these recordings available to you, our members, for your private enjoyment only. Please don’t copy them to any streaming services or publish them in any way.)

In memory of Lynette Cornell (1934-2023)

Lynette was an enthusiastic and active member of The Kent Singers alto section for many years.  She loved people, had a ready smile and an upbeat attitude about life; nothing ever got her down. Lynette’s fun sense of humor evidenced itself in little ways: amused by our all-black concert attire, she and Louise used to call each other “Mort”, for Morticia!

Music was an integral part of Lynette’s being; she sang in choral groups all her life and besides classical music, she had a particular love of Broadway musicals. She contributed to The Kent Singers in a big way, serving on the board and bringing in record amounts in donations and ads through her many connections in the community. She even kept getting ads for a couple of years after she had stopped singing!

At lunches together we laughed a lot; Lynette had a light touch with life, didn’t take things too seriously, made friends easily. She seemed to know everyone: anywhere we went Lynette ran into old friends. She was an avid reader: we shared a love of historical novels and often swapped book ideas. Lynette is my role model for aging: until far into her eighties she stayed physically, socially and mentally active.

— Nancy Adams Morse, Kent Singer

Lynette was unfailingly cheerful and upbeat, and always looked fashionable and put together.  She was also a fearless fundraiser; she had several Kent Singers advertisers well trained to buy ads in our programs.

–Melissa Merkling, Kent Singer

We thank the Cornell family for designating The Kent Singers as the organization to which donations can be made in Lynette’s memory.

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