Cascade Singers Cancel Christmas Humming Due to Statewide Freeze, Look Ahead to Broadway Show Music Concert
UPDATED November 16th, 2020
Cascade Singers is canceling its previously-announced “Christmas Hum-Along” concert. The community choir based in The Dalles is responding to the governor’s two-week statewide freeze that curtails rehearsals and raises the possibility that the freeze may extend to the Dec. 11-13 performances.
Director Garry Estep notified choir members, “Until we can plan operations with confidence, it seems futile to work toward an uncertain goal. We are suspending live operations until further notice.”
The longer-range goal for Cascade Singers is to prepare a post-COVID concert of Broadway show music, date to be determined. This will involve selecting repertoire, creating practice tapes for individual use, and holding small-group rehearsals within COVID restraints during late winter and spring 2021.
November 14th, 2020
Cascade Singers won’t be singing this Christmas. They’ll be humming. Christmas “Hum-Along" with limited seating and COViD-19 precautions takes place Friday, Dec. 11, Saturday, Dec. 12, and Sunday, Dec. 13 at Zion Lutheran Church, 10th and Union Streets in The Dalles. The Friday concert begins at 7 p.m. and Saturday’s and Sunday’s concerts are matinees starting at 2 p.m.
Singing during the pandemic is risky, so the concerts will feature just the music. Classical music, popular songs, and traditional carols will be performed. Director Garry Estep and accompanist Barbara Haren will offer piano and organ interludes between the choir's humming music.
Admission is free, but tickets will be required in order to observe restricted attendance. Free tickets may be obtained from members of the Singers or from the Zion church office (call 541 296-9146).
Audience members will be invited to do as the concert title suggests: hum along on some of the familiar numbers. And all are asked to wear a holiday face mask.
File photo from the archives of Karl Vercouteren.
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