Renate's Baton: Leading a choir in Newmarket

Sunday, January 31, 2021

YRCC Zooms into February: Monday, February 1st, 2021 Choir for us- no stress

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Today, I participated in a workshop offered by Choirs Ontario about Online Rehearsals. The presenter was Antonio Llaca from Carleton Univers...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Support Renate: Coldest Night of the Year- Fundraising Walk 20FEB2021

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I'm doing the CNOY walk again! It won't be the fun community event with hundreds of people starting together with speeches and prize...
Sunday, January 24, 2021

Singing and YRCC Zoom choir help beat the blues

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 These dark days of winter, after all of Christmas has all been packed away, can be depressing. And, with COVID restrictions dragging on for...
Thursday, January 14, 2021

Next YRCC Zoom Choir 18-Jan-2021

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 Our first Zoom choir of the year was wonderful! We had some sad moments and a few tears but also lots of laughs and lots of fun singing! We...
Saturday, January 9, 2021

HAPPY NEW YEAR YRCC! 11-JAN-21 FIRST ZOOM-Another Season Just for Us

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  Happy New Year! The York Region Community Choir survived a year without a concert.  We had to cancel our Spring 2020 Concert, and there wa...
Saturday, December 26, 2020

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to my YRCC friends!

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 I wish you a peaceful and also joyful holiday. I am so blessed to have my daughters at home and I saw family and friends thanks to video ca...
Saturday, December 5, 2020

Opportunities to sing for YRCC outside of our Mondays

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 I’m going to share some opportunities for singing for you here.  Pat let me know of an event organized by the Aurora Seniors Centre happeni...
Thursday, December 3, 2020

YRCC Zooming into December: 30NOV2020 Snow can’t stop us!

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 We had crazy weather with lots of rain and wind and snow but we don’t worry about missing choir because of bad weather these days.  With Zo...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020

YRCC Conductor conducts fiendishly long ending notes

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We know that I like big endings and I always insist on everyone watching at the end, so that it can be very dramatic sometimes. I can someti...
Thursday, November 26, 2020

YRCC Zooms 23NOV2020 Topic of the day was: Pets

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 We sing, really we do.  But, we also chat. And, on Monday this week, we chatted about our pets and how some of us can’t imagine how we’d su...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

YRCC 16NOV20- Choir during Covid “This is Why we Drink”

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 We had some fun talking about our favourite drinks.  Some of us enjoy a glass of wine or a cup of tea while we meet, which the choir execut...
Friday, November 13, 2020

YRCC Zoom chat- What was the name of that choir?

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 ONE VOICE (which happens to be the name of one of our songs too) This is the video that some of us saw on Facebook and cried. Happy tears a...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

YRCC Zoom Choir meeting again on Monday, November 16

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  Little Tree, were you sorry to leave the forest? I’ll comfort you. Yes, we sang Little Tree! I love that song, and someone, I think it was...
Sunday, November 8, 2020

YRCC songs 09-NOV-2020

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 It’s already Sunday?! Tomorrow is Monday, choir day! Please join us in our Zoom choir hour. It’s not what we really want, it’s not us in a ...
Tuesday, November 3, 2020

YRCC Meet-up 02-NOV-2020 Looking for you!

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 Where are you?  We were missing  some people and some people were telling us that they hadn’t received the Zoom invitation for choir this  ...
Sunday, November 1, 2020

YRCC 26-Oct-2020 Zoom Sing and Chat

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 We met again with increasing comfort and confidence in Zoom.  I encourage every member of the York Region Community Choir to join these Mon...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

YRCC 19-Oct-2020 ZOOMing ahead towards to holiday season

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 The YRCC had another successful Zoom meet-up. Successful means all kinds of things, doesn’t it? We warmed up our voices and then sang a few...
Sunday, October 18, 2020

YRCC Zoom 12OCT2020 Thanksgiving Monday

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The YRCC has always met on Thanksgiving Monday because the season is short and we needed all the time we could get to rehearse for our conce...
Wednesday, October 7, 2020

YRCC Zooms forward 05OCT2020 and Thanksgiving Monday, 12OCT2020

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 It was better than I’d hoped! We met on Zoom, using Tab’s premium work account and it was very, very nice. I used my work laptop this time ...
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 ...
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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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