December Musical Performances
…brought to you by the Chattahoochee Elementary Champion Chorus and 3rd Grade!
Below explains information about each of the events. Chorus members and all 3rd graders are invited to
attend any and/or all of the events listed below as your schedules allow. Please read carefully all the
details and check your calendars and return the participation form (attached) by Friday, November 21!
Event
*NGCS
Rehearsal
*NGCS
Concert Gainesville
*NGCS
Concert Dahlonega
Date
Wednesday,
Dec. 3
6:45pm
Saturday,
Dec. 6
7:00pm
Sunday,
Dec. 7
2:00pm
Performance
Time
(Rehearsal
only)
7:00pm
7:30pm
2:30pm
Approx. End
Time
7:30pm
9:30pm
4:30pm
Dress
no specific
dress
(rehearsing
only w/
orchestra)
Chorus polo
or blue polo
tucked in w/
khaki pants
Location
United
Community
Bank
Dahlonega
Address
206
Morrison
Moore
Parkway
Dahlonega
Cost
No cost
Arrival Time
Chorus
polo or
blue polo
tucked in
w/ khaki
pants
Westminster Dahlonega
Presbyterian United
Church
Methodist
Gainesville
Church
Dahlonega
1397
107 Park
Thompson
Street
Bridge Rd
(corner of
Gainesville
S. Park and
Maple
Dahlonega
No cost
No cost
**December
PerformanceAnnie(Chorus)
December Holidays
(3rd Grade)
Tuesday,
Dec. 9
5:00pm
***Gwinnett
Gladiators Sing
for Santa Night
5:15pm 3rd
Grade/combined w/
chorus @end
6:00pm Annie Jr.
6:45pm
2:05pm
Chorus polo or blue polo
tucked in w/ jeans
*Annie characters may
have additional
costumes
Sunday, Dec. 14
1:15pm
Stay for the
entire game or
leave as needed
after Sing-a-Long
@1st intermission
Chorus polo or
blue polo tucked
in w/ jeans
Chattahoochee
Elementary
Blue Ribbon Café
(Cafeteria Stage)
Gwinnett Arena
2800
Holtzclaw Rd.
Cumming
6400
Sugarloaf Pkwy
Duluth
No cost
Free to students;
$15 per each
accompanying
family member
*see form attach.
General Information for all performances:
 Links to practice and memorize all songs are on “It’s Learning” www.forsyth.itslearning.com
*If you don’t have internet at home and need a CD with a paper copy of the words, then just let me know
and I can make this available for students.
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Allow extra time for parking and walking to the venue.
Please provide your own transportation to all events. Carpooling is recommended as some
venues may have limited parking.
 Parents need to stay during each rehearsal and performance listed above. If carpooling, please
send a note via email or a paper copy giving permission for your child to be in the care of
another parent.
 If you are interested in being a chaperone for one of these events your child is attending, please
send me an email [email protected] and I will give you more details.
(Chaperones will check children in and out with parents, arrange students so they are ready to
go on and off stage, take pictures/videos, etc.)
 If you have any artistic abilities, I will need some help with scenery and backgrounds being made
for these upcoming performances.
 Please visit the bathrooms before each performance or event! Thank you!
Additional Information specific to each event:
*North Georgia Chamber Symphony Performances:
 The North Georgia Chamber Symphony is a local community orchestra that I am a part of and
our students were invited to perform as part of their December concert series. This is an
incredible opportunity for students to be featured singing 3 French Christmas Carols and a
Hanukkah piece, accompanied by a string orchestra! This is definitely a first for our students.
Visit this website to learn more about this group: www.northgeorgiachambersymphony.org
 You must be able to attend all 3 of the dates listed above in order to participate.
 Students will be seated in the audience with their parents during part of the performance and
then line up to take their spots when signaled. (Please remind students of concert etiquette –
see poem attached…) After the students sing, they will go back to sit with parents until the end.
**Annie Jr. Performance (Chorus):
 Please refer to Annie Jr. information sheet attached for costume and rehearsal information.
**December Nights Performance (3rd Grade):
 4th and 5th grade chorus will join the 3rd grade for a few songs near the end of their performance
and before the Annie Jr. performance.
 I will ask students to remain on the stage and for parents to come to the front to pick up their
child(ren). 3rd grade students and their families are invited and encouraged to stay to see the
chorus and their performance of Annie Jr!
***Gwinnett Gladiators Sing for Santa Night and Hockey Game:
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Parents need to stay with their child or any child they are responsible for until it is time to be seated in
the arena. Students sing the National Anthem at the beginning and Holiday songs at first intermission.
After the choirs are finished singing, we will take the chorus back out to the initial meeting spot and
parents must sign out their child or any children they are responsible for. Parents will be responsible
for chorus members for the remainder of the game. You may take your child back to your seat if there
are empty seats around you or find a seat for your family in the section where the choirs were singing or
find any empty seat in the arena for the remainder of the game if you choose to stay. (Many families
leave after the singing and there will be many sections with empty seats at that time).
Students in the chorus do not need to buy a ticket. Parents will need to purchase a ticket and can
purchase the discounted tickets from the handout attached. Tickets and map with meeting place will
be sent home with students when they arrive that the week before the game.
Concert Etiquette
by Denise Gagne and Denese Odgaard
Welcome to our concert - we’re really glad you came.
We will listen carefully - we hope you do the same.
Some of us are really small - our voices aren’t too strong.
If you’re really quiet - you’ll still hear - you won’t go wrong.
We have a few suggestions to make this fun for all.
Please turn your cell phones off so they don’t ring inside the hall.
If you really have to go, please leave when there’s applause.
You may enter once again - when there is a pause.
Save the hoots and hollers for when you’re at the game.
When you’re at a concert, it isn’t quite the same.
We hope that you will stay and watch until the very end.
We really will appreciate this - our thanks to you we’ll send!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------In my experience, students enjoy listening to concerts of music that is familiar to
them. In addition to our Chattahoochee students singing, here are some of the
other pieces the North Georgia Chamber Symphony will perform at the December
concerts if you would like to look up some of the pieces to play for your children
between now and the concerts.
The Chamber Symphony will open the concert with Aaron Copland’s The Red Pony, and
Respighi’s Antique Dances and Airs, Suite 3.
Dr. Benjamin S. Schoening, lyric baritone, will join the Chamber Symphony singing Simple Gifts
by Copland and The Song of the Wayfarer by Gustav Mahler, and several other well-known and
beautiful pieces. He will also lead our Christmas sing-along, and will perform Hugo Wolf’s
Sleeping Christchild.
Our Holiday selections will include The Christmas Waltz and I’ll be Home for Christmas, and We
Wish You a Merry Christmas.
Annie Jr. Information
The chorus will join the 3rd graders for the conclusion of their performance and then there will
be a brief intermission before the 6:00pm performance of Annie Jr.
Please have all students wear their blue chorus polo and jeans while singing with the 3rd
graders, then change into “costumes” as needed during the short intermission. Please keep
costumes simple so the changes can be quick.
Students will line up in the hallway outside the cafeteria to be ready to enter the stage prior to
6pm. There will be a parent chaperone or myself there to get everybody in order. Concluding
the performance, I will ask parents to come to the stage to pick up children.
Costume suggestions:
*If you need help acquiring these costume items please let me know ASAP and I will work on
finding them!
Annie – red messy wig, ragged layers of clothing, laced boots or shoes; *for last scenes – nice
hat and coat (after she has visited the Warbucks mansion)
Orphans – ragged layers of clothing – dull colors
Miss Hannigan – dress and long beads or pearls to wear/cheap looking jewelry
Dog Catcher – hat with “dog catcher” written on hat or attached to shirt
Citizens – winter coats and hats, sunglasses
Sandy (dog) – furry, hooded, one-piece costume with dog ears – sleeper pajamas could work –
face paint?
Lieutenant Ward – police hat and badge
Chauffeur – dark coat, gloves
Grace – stylish business dress
Drake – suit jacket, tie and white gloves (butler)
Servants of Warbucks – white maid’s apron
Oliver Warbucks – nice suit with white shirt and bow tie
Narrators – no costume needed – chorus uniform
*These are just suggestions – if you have other ideas let me know what you come up with!
Do you have any of these props (or ideas of how to make some!) we could use for the show?
Please email with ideas and suggestions or if you have any of these items we can borrow!
Pillows
Apple seller’s basket
large fake house plant
Worn blankets
Fake apples
2 suitcases
Tattered teddy bears
Park Bench
street sign “Fifth Avenue”
Scrub brushes
2 Briefcases
Street lamp
old desk and chair
Old fashioned chair
feather dusters
Candelabra
flower arrangements
December Performances - Participation Form
Student Name _______________________________ Teacher _________________ Grade ____
By signing and turning in this form, I agree to:
 Read all the details on the attached paperwork and notify Ms. G with any questions or
concerns ASAP.
 Practice and memorize the words to all the songs we have learned at school (found
online www.forsyth.itslearning.com ) between now and the performances I plan to
attend.
 Put on my best Champion behavior and at each rehearsal and performance to
represent our school and ourselves well.
 Attend all rehearsals listed below: (all rehearsals will be on the stage)
o NGCS: 12/1 (M), 12/2 (T) 7:10-7:45am (check in w/ homeroom teachers first)
o ANNIE JR: 11/18 (T), 11/19 (W-cast only), 11/20 (R), 12/3 (W-cast only), 12/4
(R), 12/5 (F), 12/8 (M), 12/9 (T) *Please attend all rehearsals!
o 3rd Grade: 12/5 (F), 12/8 (M), 12/9 (T) *rehearsals are during school day.
o Gwinnett Gladiators: 12/11 (R), 12/12 (F) 7:10-7:45am
Please check all that apply below:
_____ I will be participating in all 3 NGCS events:
Wed, Dec. 3, 2014 – Rehearsal, Sat, Dec. 6, 2014 – Concert, Sun, Dec. 7, 2014 – Concert
_____ I will be participating in the performances on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014.
_____ I will be attending the Gladiators Sing for Santa Night on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014 with my parent.
_____If attending the Gladiator’s Sing for Santa Night, I have also turned in the Gladiator’s ticket
order form and ticket money to the music room.
_____ I will be attending one or more of the events with a friend and their parent(s) will be
responsible for me during the event and my transportation to and from the event.
Name of parent attending: ____________________________________ Phone #: ________________
Parent attending email: ___________________________________________________________
*(if applicable) I allow my child, ___________________________, to attend the Gladiator’s Game with
the parent attending above. Signed__________________________________________________
Student Signature ___________________________________________________
Parent Signature ___________________________________________ Phone #: _________________
Parent Email ________________________________________________________
*Please check email frequently for changes and/or other information.
RETURN TO MS. G no later than FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2014!
QUESTIONS? Email Ms. G [email protected]