Our sweet singing sisiter, Sara Ann Davis, 64, passed away peacefully on July 6, 2021 at her home.
Sara sang with Houston Horizon Chorus for many, many years, and joined the international organization in 1989. We are going to miss her smiling face and beautiful voice.
Hello, everyone! Hope you are staying cool and dry these days. Boy, we don’t remember it being this hot, this early in the summer in a long time. Well, HHC has been busy over the last month. We held our annual installation ceremony, virtually, on May 18. Emily Lapouble, was the one who did our installation and she did a beautiful job! She had a musical dynamic markings that she matched with each of the Management Team members. It was a wonderful moment in the life of Houston Horizon. In addition to the awards talked about in the next paragraph, we also have some awards that this year required some subterfuge!
Houston Horizon keeps trying but Mother Nature is NOT cooperating! She has now rained out 2 hybrid rehearsals BUT we are not going to let her defeat us!! We will try again and we will also try having a hybrid rehearsal at an indoor location!! Of course, the indoor location will have us all socially distanced with everyone making their own decision about a mask. The best part is that we'll be able to sing together with so many more people and we cannot wait to see singing sisters that we've only seen on Zoom for the last 15 months! Woo Hoo!!!
Houston Horizon has recently had some visitors join our virtual rehearsals and we are delighted to have them! And the most exciting part is that we are looking forward to adding a new member to our ranks!!! Here's the hard part about this, we don't get to hug on their necks....yet! So looking forward to the day get to see each other in person! In the meantime, we are getting ready for our chorus garage sale on May 1. For more information on that, contact your favorite HHC member! And whether we are meeting virtually or in real life, keep the music ringing in your heart!
HHC has been rehearsing, via Zoom, for a year now. Who would have ever thought, all those long months ago that we would STILL not be singing together on the risers, sigh! But all has not been lost! In the last year, we have learned new music, tried singing, in real time, Happy Birthday to our director (we think she is still laughing over that one), learned how to maintain vocal health during all this time, put together a virtual show to share with our family & friends, did a variety of fundraisers, celebrated a variety of things in addition to birthdays, had our first successful hybrid rehearsal plus lots of other items on our schedule. When you look back on it, we did have a busy year, in spite of not being face to face with each other. But we are all looking forward to the day whe
We did it! We had our first hybrid rehearsal and it was great! There were about 15-17 of us who gathered at a chorus member's home to sing live for the first time since March of 2019! It felt so good hearing live music and we cannot wait to do it again! In addition to those of us singing live, we had about a dozen chorus members who joined us via Zoom. Here's hoping that they will be able to come and sing live with us next time.
Houston Horizon Chorus wishes you and your loved ones the happiest of New Year's!
What a special treat to have had Kathleen Hansen join us at rehearsal! Kathleen is the Artistic Director of the San Diego Women's Chorus and the Master Director of the San Diego Chorus of Sweet Adelines. She is very talented and we are very grateful to have had her share some of her knowlege with us. We learned a lot about our personal voice and how to use our voice to become more singer driven. Looking forward to having Kathleen back again in 2021!
It was “Show Off Your Kitchen Hat” at rehearsal this week. We had a lot of fun being creative making a hat using any kind of 'stuff' from the kitchen. I wonder what room is 'next' on the agenda!
Our rehearsals continue with installation of our new management team, awards to various members, learning more new music and on June 16th, we had a number of friends/singers from other choruses in the region join us for rehearsal! It was so much fun seeing faces that we've not seen since last fall's regional meeting! We worked on learning one of the new regional songs, The Voice of Harmony AND we invited those folks to join us again on June 30 to learn and sing and laugh and have a great time Zooming rehearsal together! "See" you all at the Virtual Summer Education sessions!!
