We're so excited to welcome yet another member into our chorus. Mary sings Lead and will be a great addition!
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We were very excited that 4 of our guests "graduated" from An A Cappella Experience. We are so glad to have had Mary, Luiza, Belinda, and Jordan attend our classes.
On May 24, we got to do what we most love to do, and that is to induct a new member! Please welcome Luiza, a lead, to the Houston Horizon Chorus!
After 3 long years of not being able to have a regional contest, due to the pandemic, we finally held one, and oh what a joy it was to be able to compete; singing and seeing all of our friends again! Starting with the quartet competition, we watched our 3 quartets sing and all of them received a medal! Congratulations to Live it Up, our silver medalists, followed by Momentum, our 4th place medalist, and Mama Made Me Duet who took 5th place! We are so proud of all of you! Our chorus received the silver medal, and we are very happy and proud! Congratulations to Saving Grace, our new regional quartet champions and to Alamo Metro Chorus as they became our regional chorus champs!
Houston Horizon had a FANTASTIC retreat at Moody Gardens Hotel recently, with energetic and enthusiastic coaching from Ryan Heller and Janet Burnett! It was so wonderful to sing, laugh, move and celebrate together again. We worked on our voices, body placement, sound and craft. We also worked on our core values, sharing thoughts and plans for the next year (and more)! Big thanks to Karla Fenton for making all of the logistics happen for the chorus and live feed. We had an afterglow party with the 80s! -- crimped hair and neon colors! We are double celebrating with our 40th anniversary party coming up on October 9th. See our website for details. Come celebrate with us!
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
