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Senza SENZA 2012/05 VOL.I NO.1

The Official Newsletter of The Chinese University of Hong Kong Chorus

A Cappella in the Rain Sharing a cappella masterpieces with almost 500 CUHK students and staffs under the amber rainstorm signal!

Since 2010, CU Chorus has been performing in a series of campus concert, to share choral music with students, teachers and staffs in the university campus.

This year the campus concert A Cappella Masterpieces took place in the evening of April 16, with 11 extraordinary a cappella choral works and lively presentation by our music director and conductor Leon Chu. 490 people attended the concert under the amber rainstorm signal. The concert featured sacred music f rom Renaissance to 20th centur y, American folk songs and works by choral music pioneers Jaakko Mäntyjärvi and Eric Whitacre.

The evening concluded, befitting

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the weather outside, with Whitacre’s monumental piece Cloudburst.

If y o u h a v e m i s s e d t h e concert, please visit our YouTube channel where a selected number of videos of the concert are uploaded. Among them is this haunting piece: Shenandoah, arranged by American composer James Erb. http://youtu.be/m5G7zV83yfQ

2012/05 Vol. I No.1 Message from MD Welcome!

It i s m y honour here to begin the newsletter of The Chinese University of Ho n g Ko n g C h o r u s ( C U Chorus) by this message. I hope the newsletter would become a bridge between the chorus and our members, supporters and patrons, the current or former. You are one of the chorus’ friends!

“Senza,” the title of this newsletter, is an Italian word means “without.” This is a frequently used term in music.

If a composer desires a certain musical passage to be sung without vibration on the voice, he would have marked it “senza vibrato.” The word reminds us that without your support, we would be non-existent; so, I call the newsletter Senza as a humble reminder for us to work only on our core purpose: sharing music with everyone, without distraction.

We sing, because we love to share. I hope this newsletter will serve as a channel for us to share our e ver y enjoyable moments with you.

Enjoy!

-Leon Chu CU Chorus Music Director

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See you on June 6th!

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A New Era: The Launch of a Charitable Limited Company

Upcoming Events 2012/6/6, 8pm The Glamorous Voice The Music of Eric Whitacre

CU Chorus Association Limited was established in September 2011, and became a registered charitable institution in January 2012 January 2012 is certainly a milestone in the history of CU Chorus. With preparation works started in 2010, CU Chor us Association Limited (CUCA) was registered and established in September 2011. In January 2012, C U C A b e c a m e a r e g i s te r e d charitable institution, with tax exemption status under Section 88 of the Hong Kong’s Inland Revenue Ordinance.

The charitable limited company is established to overcome the limitations of staying “a student society” and to achieve higher goals. As a performing group often engaged in large scale performances and monetary transactions, a limited

company will protect our voluntary participants, including CU students, to work for the chor us with pre-mediated liability.

As a charitable institution, donations to CUCA is tax deductible. We will send donors donation receipts if donations made are of HK$100 or above.

Your contribution is always our drive to make better music.

We have also launched a new official website with a ne w domain name, please feel free to visit the site and get in touch with us!

Venue: Hong Kong Jockey Club Amphitheater, HKAPA Conducted by Paul Hondorp (USA), Leon Chu Featuring enchanting pieces by American composer Eric Whitacre.

Also with American folk songs and new works by Hong Kong and Taiwan composers.

2012/7/22, 23, 25 Conducting Masterclass with Prof. Theodora Pavlovitch

http://www.cuchorus.org.hk/

Venue: Sai Wan Ho Civic Centre CU Chorus presents the three-day masterclass series which is open to public, with world acclaimed Bulgarian choral conductor and clinician Theodora Pavlovitch. Details are coming soon!

The First Session of the Board of CUCA President: Raymond Cheung Vice-president: Monica Chan Chairman of the Chorus: Holdon Man (co-opted) Charmaine Chan Katie Chan Leon Chu Roger Fong

Edited by the Editorial Board of SENZA Enquiry: cuchorus@cuchorus.org.hk Website: http://www.cuchorus.org.hk/ Connect with CU Chorus!

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