Dedicated
to all
veterans of the Seventh Army Soldiers Chorus, the
33rd Army Band and Chorus
& USAREUR (United States Army Europe) Soldiers Chorus
from 1963 to the present time
Download Sheet Music
Print the music and place in a
white 3 ring binder and bring with you.
2009 Reunion
August 6th
– 9th
Location:
Near Portland, Oregon
Hosts: Jen and
James McDonnell
Director: Diane
Smith from Green Bay, WI
Accompanist: Ken
Noble, from Mesa, AZ
This
year's reunion includes two special concerts for area
Veterans and a fun filled time for the group. Lots of time for
sightseeing, strolls on the beaches, get-togethers, and sharing
our love of music with fellow veterans.
Our hosts were in the chorus during the 90s, our director, the
80s, and our accompanist, the 70s. Present will be members of
the chorus from all the time periods, from its beginnings in the
1960s to more present times, including Dave Klick, our very
first Unit Commander who founded the group in 1963.
This promises to be a fun filled 3 day weekend in an area of the
country that we have never been before for one of our reunions.
We hope that you can come and join us.
For those who have never attended our reunions, they are fun
outings. The entire family is welcome. We visit with one another
and catch up on the goings on of our friends across the country.
We listen to tapes, CDs, DVDs, people bring from their time in
chorus.. look at pictures.. share memories of our time on the
risers. We sing informally around guitars at night (provided
folks bring them) and formally on the stage. Unlike our days in
the Army, we sing with our music in binders so there is no need
to memorize the songs as we once did.. and our families and
fiends who care to join us on the risers are welcome, provided
they take the time to learn the music, as best they can.
These reunions are a time for old friends and new ones. Whether
you have 100 from your time period showing or you are its
representative, please come. You will not be disappointed. You
(and your family) will find, if you don't already realize, that
we all shared similar experiences during our time in the
Chorus, and in many cases, sang many of the same songs.
Our reunions are for us, and also for fellow veterans, as we try
to put on a show each year for local Veteran facilities and/or
groups.
That said, we are sensitive to the amount of time people
want to be cooped up in rehearsal, so we will be loading the
music online at this location
https://www.onlinefilefolder.com/3fu5Fzae7ssj4e and asking
you to download and rehearse the music. For those of us who are
non-sight readers, Ken Noble has generously volunteered to help
us make sectional recordings, which we will try to load to this
site, as well.
We hope to have a program out soon so that you will know which
songs to "study" and would like each of you who plan to sing at
the reunion to place your music into a 3 ring binder (white if
possible) and bring it with you to the reunion.
Please make your reservations as the rooms will be going fast.
If you need to room with someone to cut expenses, let me know
and will try to get word out to the group and get you hooked up.
We are asking folks to arrive on Thursday if at all possible.
We hope to see you in the great Northwest this summer.
