UPCOMING EVENTS
Make
JUNE 22 AYS Day!
Donate
your status to AYS this Monday, June 22!
Our Singers are working hard preparing for Night of 100
Songs - an evening benefiting the 2009 AYS Tour Team (see
below).
Here's
how you can help: Post a link to our
Night
of 100 Songs Event Page, invite your
Facebook network to the event or post a link to our Facebook
page. Every glance
builds awareness for AYS and supports
the 2009 Tour Team's fundraising efforts for the Melodia!
Choral Festival in Brazil and Argentina.
Find
us on Facebook by searching
ATLANTA
YOUNG SINGERS.
If
you're not on Facebook, please consider opening an account
and tell your friends about AYS.
If
you're already in the know - become a fan, friend and supporter
of AYS!
Thank
you for your continued support of AYS!
Night
of 100 Songs
benefiting
the 2009 AYS Tour Team
Monday,
June 22
6PM
- MIDNIGHT
Red
Light Café
www.redlightcafe.com
Come
out and have fun on a summer Monday evening!
AYS Singers will perform at least 100 songs! With
special guest artists, soloists and ensembles - we'll sing
as long as they'll let us!
$10 COVER CHARGE benefits the 2009 AYS Tour Team
Fund.
Delicious
food and beverages will be available from the Red Light
Cafe menu – YUM!
Join
us for an evening of fun and fundraising! This
July 20 members of Atlanta Young Singers of Callanwolde
(AYS) have been chosen to participate in MELODIA! Choral
Festival in Rio de Janeiro , BRAZIL and Buenos Aires , ARGENTINA
in July and August! The group has been working very
hard in rehearsals and will represent AYS well at MELODIA!
Please help us make sure every Singer on the 2009
AYS Tour Team can travel as a cultural ambassador. AYS
and the Tour Team families have planned a great fund raiser
next week-- and we invite you to join us! Come for
the fun and the music, and, to the extent you are able,
help the group of young musicians make a dent in the tour
cost.
*Additional contributions can be made in connection with
this event by sponsoring the 2009 AYS Tour Team per song,
per hour -- however you would like to do it.
Please make checks payable to: Atlanta Young Singers
Donations made directly to the 2009 AYS Tour Team Fund or
the AYS Scholarship Fund are tax deductible.
MANY THANKS TO THE RED LIGHT CAFE:
Normally closed on Monday evenings, the staff at RLC is
opening their doors just for AYS!
Each 2009 AYS Tour Team member is seeking pledges.
Please indicate if you would like your contribution
to benefit a specific singer, the AYS Scholarship Fund or
the 2009 AYS Tour Team as a whole. Donations made
directly to the 2009 AYS Tour Team Fund or the AYS Scholarship
Fund are tax deductible. If you would like a list
of the 2009 AYS Tour Team, please contact the AYS Office
at 404-873-3365 or info@asyc.org
.
If
you cannot attend but would like to make a contribution,
please send to:
ATLANTA YOUNG SINGERS
Attn. Melodia! Tour Team
980 Briarcliff Road , NE
Atlanta , GA 30306
To
learn more about the Melodia! Choral Festival visit www.classicalmovements.com/s_am.htm
AYS
SUMMER MUSIC CAMP
It's
almost time for AYS Campers to make their annual pilgrimage
to Camp Woodmont for a week of Singing and fun! The Staff
at Camp Woodmont will lead the Singers in exciting camp
activities. The AYS Music Staff and Counselors (current
AYS Youth Chorale Singers and AYS Alumni) will lead the
campers in daily workshop sessions and rehearsals.
To
learn more about Camp Woodmont visit www.campwoodmont.com
2009-2010
AUDITIONS
Auditions for the 2009-2010 season have begun. We
will announce dates for group auditions in April soon!
Please call 404-873-3365 or contact audition@aysc.org for
more information or to set up an audition appointment.
All
AYS Choirs perform with Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra,
January 2006
For
over 30 years ATLANTA YOUNG SINGERS of Callanwolde has nurtured
the incredible artistic abilities of children in the Atlanta
Metropolitan area. We provide excellent coeducational
choral and musical training for children grades 2 – 12 in
a challenging learning environment that builds self-esteem,
confidence, teamwork and leadership.
Recent
Accomplishments!
ATLANTA
YOUNG SINGERS presents
The
A Million Clouds Away Project
Lecture
and Workshop
Saturday,
May 2
10:00
AM - 12:00 PM
Druid
Hills Presbyterian Church (1026 Ponce De Leon Avenue / Atlanta,
30306)
This
workshop is open to local educators. Please call 404-873-3365
for more information.
A
Million Clouds Away
Saturday,
May 9
3:00
PM & 8:00 PM
Porter
Sanford III Performing Arts and Community Center
3181
Rainbow Drive / Decatur, 30034
To
reach the Porter Sanford III PACC call 404-286-7262
Tickets
$15 adults / $12 students, seniors, children
CALL
404-873-3365 today!
Featuring
Lead Artist in Residence jazz pianist and composer Takana
Miyamoto, guest percussionist and bamboo flautist Yasukazu
Kano from Japan, and over 225 voices from all seven AYS
choirs. Works include the WORLD PREMIERE of AYS-Commissioned
Rainbow and arrangements of Japanese children's songs, Kyudo
archery and duo improvisation.
DOWNLOAD
THE PRESS RELEASE.
Holiday
Training Recital
Training
and Introduction to Music Making Choirs
Saturday,
December 6, 2008
11:00
AM
Holy
Trinity Parish
515
E. Ponce De Leon Place / Decatur, 30030
$5
Suggested Donation @ the door.
A Kid's Christmas
AYS
was honored with an invitation to perform with the Atlanta
Symphony Youth Orchestra.
The
Singers performed The Polar Express along with
other holiday favorites on stage at Atlanta's Symphony Hall.
33rd
Annual Music of the Holidays
Saturday,
December 20, 2008
The
AYS Youth Chorale, Treble Concert Choir along with the Alumni
and Dad's Chorus presented two performances at St. Luke's
Episcopal Church. Harpist Susan Brady joined the choirs
and accompanied the AYS Young Women's Choir for a full performance
of Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols.
Audiences were delighted by instrumental interludes from
a string quartet featuring AYS parent Allan Sandlin on viola.
Over 40 AYS Alumni were present for the evening performance
which ended with an invigorating Hallelujah Chorus from
Handel's Messiah. Read
More...
AYS
TOUR CHOIR TO ATTEND PACIFIC RIM CHILDREN'S CHORUS FESTIVAL
AYS
Major Tour 2008 is just around the corner! The Singers
will make a stop in Ventura, California, to perform with
the Master Chorale Children's Concert Choir of Ventura.
After some sight-seeing in Los Angeles, the Singers fly
to Hawaii to attend the Pacific Rim Children's Chorus Festival.
Read more...
INNOVATIONS:
Taking Flight
All
AYS Choirs in performance
featuring
the regional premieres of new works
by
Bob Chilcott and Steven Stucky
Saturday,
May 10 @ 8:00 PM
Dunwoody
First United Methodist Church
Click
here to
read the full press release.
LA
LUNA ASOMA: Inspired by Lorca
AYS
celebrated the work of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca,
March 1, at Sisters Chapel. The evening featured the
world premiere of the commissioned piece,
Ciudad Sin Sueño: Three Images,
written for AYS by composer David Marcus. The AYS
Youth Chorale and Treble Concert Choir were joined by faculty
guest soloists from Spelman College, Morehouse College and
Clark Atlanta University. Special guest artists Vecinos
del Mundo Flamenco wowed the audience with an encore sequirijas
with flamenco students dancing on stage with the AYS choirs.
Click
here
to read the full press release.
Visit
www.wabe.org/arts to hear Wanda Yang Temko's
interview
with David Marcus.
www.jaleole.com
- Atlanta's one stop for Flamenco: events calendar,
news and more! Visit
www.jaleole.com
to read an article about La Luna Asoma: Inspired by
Lorca.
32nd
Annual Music of the Holidays
AYS
Treble Concert Choir and Youth Chorale in performance
with the Zeliazkov Family Band on December 16, 2007, at
The Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
Photo
Credit: Carl Christie
ATLANTA
YOUNG SINGERS of Callanwolde and Music Director Paige F.
Mathis presented two fabulous performances of 32nd
Annual Music of the Holidays on December 16
at the Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and
December 18 at Druid Hills United Methodist Church.
This year's repertoire featured traditional pieces from
Eastern Europe alongside AYS favorites Tomorrow Shall
Be My Dancing Day and Franz Biebl's Ave Maria.
The Singers were joined by guest artists the Zeliazkov
Family Band on December 16 and the Atlanta
Balalaika Orchestra on December 18. As tradition
would have it, the AYS Alumni and Dads Choruses also joined
current Singers on December 18 for This Little Babe
and the Boar's Head Carol. Audiences were
delighted to hear the beloved Carol of the Bells
performed entirely in Ukrainian in its original form, Shchedrik.
Congratulations to the Singers, Staff and our corps of volunteers
for another wonderful year of holiday music.
