Renate's Baton: Leading a choir in Newmarket

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

YRCC Zoomed 28SEP2020 Review and 05OCT2020

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 28-SEP-2020  The day the York Region Community Choir went Zoom! Zoom kind of worked. About 22 people came and talked and sang and we’re goi...
Sunday, September 27, 2020

YRCC Zoom Meet&Sing 28-Sep-2020 Preparations

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 Well, it doesn’t look like we will be able to meet in person for a while yet, and we can’t have a concert so we have nothing to rehearse fo...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

YRCC Executive Cautiously Preparing Fall 2020 Rehearsal Season

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YRCC Members: Please respond to recent email with your feelings, comments, intentions YRCC members received an email on June 30th with a r...
Monday, April 6, 2020

YRCC members can join the Great British Home Chorus

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Cheryl from the Soprano section (you know the one with the sweet accent) shared with me a link to the Great British Home Chorus. This is a f...
Monday, March 30, 2020

YRCC Cancellations: Sad, but Confident in our Decision

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So, I'm sad about missing choir. It was difficult to make the decision to cancel our rehearsals and our concert, but I'm so glad we ...

YRCC COVID-19 Pandemic Songs

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Here's a list of songs you'll find on our website to sing with that Blair calls   the YRCC Playlist for Covid19 Times : Button Up ...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

YRCC during the pandemic 29-Mar-2020 3:00PM sing along!

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Melinda sent this:  ChoirChoirChoir is doing their third sing along this Sunday. Here is the info: Choir on Sunday @ 3 ...
Sunday, March 22, 2020

YRCC 2020 Spring Season Suspended, Concert Cancelled-COVID-19

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COVID-19.  We will never forget 2020, the year everything stopped and everyone stayed home.  Our May 2nd spring concert is cancelle...
Saturday, March 14, 2020

YRCC Rehearsals Suspended in response to COVID-19

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What a stressful week this has been! With all the news of cancellations and closures, you must be wondering what will happen to choir. ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

YRCC Rehearsal Review 02-Mar-2020 and 09-Mar-2020

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This is a double review because I was sick last week with a horrible stomach bug. Last Monday, March 2nd, Carol and Debbie rehearsed thei...
Friday, February 28, 2020

YRCC Rehearsal Review 24-FEB-2020

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6:30 small group: Night of Stars They're done. Awesome. Keep singing and we'll rehearse this again in April. Warm-up: We danced ...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

YRCC Review 17-FEB-2020 Family Day Monday

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We had a great turn-out for a holiday Monday! We had some fun warming up with some dance music to get us feeling syncopation and claps on b...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Coldest Night of the Year Fundraising Walk

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It's cold out there! The Coldest Night of the Year (CNOY) is on Saturday, February 22, 2020.  Please consider donating to my f...

YRCC Rehearsal Review 10-Feb-2020

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Our wonderful president, Lauren, brought us sweet treats for Valentine's Day and a special chocolate rose for me! Thank you so much, Lau...
Tuesday, February 4, 2020

YRCC Rehearsal Review 03-FEB-2020

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Thank you for singing Happy Birthday to me! Tomorrow's my birthday and I'll have you all in my heart. We had a dance warm-up, explo...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

YRCC Rehearsal Review 27-JAN-2020

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We had another wonderful evening together! It was sweetened with sweets from Stanley to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Thank you, and Happ...
Saturday, January 25, 2020

YRCC Come Rain or Come Shine small group

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Come Rain or Come Shine small group members can click on this link  to get to a recording of our arrangement of your song! You can also fi...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

YRCC Rehearsal Review 20-Jan-2020

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Thank you to Anne-Marie for standing in for me last week, on January 13th! I was in bed with the horrible cold that's been going around...
Tuesday, January 7, 2020

YRCC Rehearsal Review 06-Jan-2020 First Monday of the Year!

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Happy New Year! We're back! It was awesome to see and hear you all! We had a very brief warm-up and then did a whole lot of singi...
Saturday, November 30, 2019

Ready, Set, Go! Prepare for tomorrow's concert. Giving our Hearts Dec.1, 2019

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Our concert tomorrow is going to be another "best ever". You are all so good! And, we'll be giving all we can, our hearts. ...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Another article about music and well-being. YRCC members know the power of music

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Here's another article about how healthy music is! Click here. Doctors Now Prescribing Music Therapy for Heart Ailments, Brain Dysfun...

YRCC Rehearsal Review Monday, November 18th, 2019

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I'm very pleased with this last rehearsal. I admit that I was worried about a couple things, but you all did an amazing job catching up ...

YRCC 2019 Winter Concert Order is up on the Website

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YRCC, you can now find the concert order on the website under "Members" in "Winter Concert Order". Please have your bind...
Thursday, November 14, 2019

YRCC Rehearsal 11-NOV-2019

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Snowstorms should not be allowed on Mondays. It was such a messy night, such a slow and slippery drive, but a good number of us bravely mad...
Wednesday, November 6, 2019

YRCC Rehearsal Review 04-Nov-2019

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We're getting there! Less than a month now. Small group, Evening Prayer is ready. So pretty! Warm-ups included stress points and a lit...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

YRCC Rehearsal Review 28-OCT-2019

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6:30 Randomnotez Quartet rehearsal Warm-ups were brief with a quick physical warm-up to release the stress of our day, and then some vocal...

YRCC Straw warm-ups

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I keep forgetting that I told you I'd post links to YouTube videos of straw exercises so that you can do them at home. I love how we hu...
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

YRCC Rehearsal Review 21-OCT-2019

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6:30 In the Bleak Midwinter Warm-ups straw exercise including O Canada (for election night) 1. All I Want For Christmas:  We got pretty fa...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

YRCC Let it Snow recordings

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If you didn't know what a treasure Tab (alto) is, then now you will. Tab has recorded parts for Let it Snow for us! Go to the website ...
Tuesday, October 8, 2019

YRCC Rehearsal 30SEP19 and 07OCT19

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I'll start with what happened after break yesterday. But, first, I have to express my love for my choir. I LOVE MY CHOIR! I'm ever...
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Renate Naghavi
Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
I conduct the York Region Community Choir. It's such a big part of my life! I love singing and I love leading the choir. It's a great way to support our community: Newmarket, Aurora, and beyond. The choir itself is a wonderful community. Although I worked full-time near home for 7+ years with brilliant engineers in the nuclear supply chain, and earlier in my life taught ESL to adults full-time in Toronto for 8 years, being a stay-at-home mother was the biggest, most satisfying, part of my life. I enjoyed the time I spent with my children and I continue to put family first. I had a large garden for many years and still love being outdoors. I enjoy walking, reading, and writing.
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