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10 Old Montgomery Highway
Suite 140 Birmingham, AL 35209

205-767-9219, office 205-639-1433, fax
[email protected]

putting the MAGIC back in the Magic Cityone boy at a time!

Sunday, August 24, 2014

TO: BBC Chelsea Satellite Parents
FROM: Ken Berg
RE: BBC Chelsea Memo #2

Happy August Birthdays to: Daniel Wilson, 08.11.00; Joe Kendrick, 08.15.99;
John Carter Simmons, 08.16.98; any others??....please let me know if I miss anyone!

First BLUE CARD STORE is scheduled for Mon., Sep. 22

1. REGULAR REHEARSALS this week, Monday, Aug. 25. (so excited!) Junior Choristers from 3:30 4:45;
Senior Choristers from 4:55 6:10. Choir room at CHELSEA MIDDLE SCHOOL. PARENTS: please
remember to send a snack for your son for after school. They are not always very attentive when they have
the hangries (hungry and not happy about it!)

2. SENIOR CHORISTER GIG: Sunday, Sep. 7 at 4:00 at Brock Recital Hall on the campus of Samford
University. (SENIORS; See Senior Memo for more details) Junior Chorister families are welcomed to
attend, but not required. It will be a beautiful show!

3. JUNIOR T-SHIRT SIZES: please

4. REHEARSAL ROOM AT CHS: please enter at door marked 11. This is at the back of the school. Please
use the parking lot between the back of the school and the football field. Please enter door #11.

5. PLEASE REMEMBER to mail all tuition checks to Susan Simon, BBC Business Director, 10 Old
Montgomery Highway, Suite 140, 35209

6. CALENDAR and comments printed on succeeding pages.

As always, please feel free to contact KEN ([email protected]) or our fearless Chelsea Satellite
Volunteer Coordinator, Melissa Field, if you ever have any questions or recommendations. We count on our
BBC Parents to help make this venture to be the highest return for the investment in our boys!

SATELLITE REHERSALS take place all over greater Birmingham starting in August and going thru most of
October. Starting on 10/30, all the satellite ensembles will start working together in FULL REHEARSALS in
preparation for the big performance! There are FOUR (4) Thursday rehearsals, TWO (2) Saturday rehearsals and
ONE (1) dress rehearsal on Monday and the concert on Tuesday. (see below)

Thursdays 10/30, 11/6, 11/13, 11/20 Rehearsals from 5:30 7:00 At Covenant Pres. (65 Old Montgomery Hwy)
(Dismissal time may be altered. No Theory classes until after Christmas.)
Saturdays 11/15 and 11/22 Rehearsals from 9:30 10:45 with robe fitting following
Location TBA
Tuesday, 11/25 Rehearsal from 5:30 7:00 At Covenant
Thursday, 11/27 No Rehearsal Happy Thanksgiving!
Monday, December 1 Rehearsal from 5:00 6:30 At Canterbury Methodist
Tuesday, December 2 37
th
Annual Christmas Concert at 7:30 At Canterbury
12/4 1/12 Christmas Break for Junior Choristers
January 12, 2015 Monday Rehearsals Resume at CMS, 3:30-4:45, Juniors / 5:00 6:10, Seniors

1) BLUE CARD STORE; The boys receive blue cards to reward/encourage professional behavior and
beautiful singing. They can spend these blue cards in the BLUE CARD STORE once a month or so. I
bring the loot from the BBC office (Your tuition dollars at work!) but we need parent volunteers to help
run the store. This involves 1) helping set out the merchandise, 2) monitoring the boys as they shop, 3)
bagging each boys loot and making sure his name is clearly marked on the bag and tying it closed
securely, and 4) repacking the left over stuff to go back to the BBC Office. The boys are instructed that if
they open their loot bag before getting in the car to go home, they forfeit their stuff! In this we are
inserting a modicum of parental control on the intake and use of their purchases!
2) REHEARSAL MONITORS: It is very important that there always be at least ONE (1) parent monitor in
the rehearsals. Just FYI, this is our BBC policy for all rehearsals in every satellite and full location.
Parents monitors are so helpful in passing out and collecting music, handing out (or commandeering
from) Blue Cards as needed, dealing with minor issues like folder malfunctions, nametags, assisting
and monitoring non-rehearsing boys, etc. In addition, many parents seem to enjoy observing the
rehearsals and hearing the progress the boys make as persons as well as singers. They are endlessly
entertaining and why should Mr. Berg have all the fun!?
SO these are things with which we need help from those parents who are available and interested. It is
certainly NOT required of everyone, but you do have the opportunity, should you wish to avail yourselves.
Again, MELISSA FIELD is coordinating all of this Parent Volunteer activity. (Thank you, Melissa!...again and
again!)

Monthly tuition for Junior Choristers: $80 for August through May. This includes robe and music fees.
Additional fee: $15 for BBC Junior Chorister t-shirt if your son doesnt already have one. THE BBC Business Director
has respectfully requested that NO MONIES ever come to KEN! (sigh) She is requesting that all tuition and
fees, any monies at all, be sent to her, checks payable to the BIRMINGHAM BOYS CHOIR only, please. AND
please mark clearly on the memo line what is to be included in the check, i.e. tuition, T-shirt, whatever. Please
mail these before the 1
st
rehearsal of each month to:
SUSAN SIMON, Business Director
BIRMINGHAM BOYS CHOIR
10 Old Montgomery Highway, Suite 140
BIRMINGHAM, AL 35209

PLEASE NOTE: the suite 140 will change soon. The building manager is moving the BBC office up to the 2
nd

flooragain!!
Remember also that there is a 10% discount on TUITION if the total semester (5 months at $80 per month) is
paid by August 31
st
. That makes the Semester Tuition $360.00 if paid by August 31
st
.

BBC Uniform: (must be secured before the Christmas concert) black dress pants, long black socks, black dress shoes
(no black athletic shoes, please!), black belt, black BBC t-shirt. The boys will actually wear robes for this concert, but
must have their uniform on beneath. Robes will be following the 2 Saturday rehearsals.
___________________________________________________________________________________
Weekly memos will be sent via email each Monday or Tuesday, then will be posted on the parents website:
bbcparents.com Password: uncleken
Please note the concert dates for the 2nd Annual Collaborative Concert Series for the Senior Choristers. These
concerts will all be held in Brock Hall on the campus of Samford University and are ticketed events. Ticket information
will be available at a later date.
Sunday, September 7
th
Collaborative concert with Balletico Folklorico Corazone Azteca, a Mexican dance troupe based
here in Birmingham
Sunday, January 11
th
Collaborative concert with Aaron DiPiazza, a BBC alumnus who is now a professional musician
and composer who lives and works in New York City
Sunday, March 22
nd
Collaborative concert with Reverb, an award winning vocal jazz ensemble from Florida State
University which is directed by 2 BBC alumni!

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