| Volunteer Opportunities |
The contributions of many people are needed to keep Concert Singers of Cary operating as a successful
choral organization. Only a few hours a week from our great volunteers is needed to keep things going. Won't
you lend a hand? Take a look in our "job jar" for Spring 2006 and see if there is a need that you can help meet. All of these are good for "Virtuoso" Award credit. Thanks!
Where We Need Your Help and Who To Contact
Or, read about each of our standing committees to help you decide where you can lend a hand!
Money Matters: Audit Committee - or - Finance Committee
Fundraising: Development Committee - or - Musicales...a la Carte Planning Committee - or - Sales Committee
Marketing and Public Relations: Marketing Committee - or - Publicity Committee
"People" Matters: Membership Recruitment Committee - or - Member Services Committee - or - Volunteers Committee - or - Musicality Committee - or - Nominating Committee
Other Matters: Logistics Committee - or - Property Management Committee - or - Technology Committee
Read about our singer/volunteer recognition program, Virtuoses.
"To members of the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
February 14, 1961
In case anybody asks you--
I doubt that many of you realize the nature of the responsibility which you assumed as a member of this chorus. This chorus no longer belongs to one man. It belongs to each of us, everyone. And what it does or fails to do is your credit or your fault.
What many outside the Chorus don't see--and what I'm afraid you don't see -- and what you must see is that the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus is not a glee club or a stock company. You don't join the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus. You believe it. It is very near a religion. It's a way of life. Either you feel the fellow next to you is an important human being, and you like him, and you try desperately to understand how he feels about what you are singing about, and pool your creative passions to make something bigger than either of you could make alone--or it isn't your kind of choir.
Once a week we have a chance to get together with over two hundred other people who love to sing, who want to make music, who want to say something full of dignity and strength and subtlety. Only once a week do we have this chance, and we are throwing it away.
We believe that the great music of great men is within the loan and affections of common people who mean to make it so. We believe that there is a community of creative spirit no less than the community of political systems. And it seems to be me that this union of spirits before goodness and beauty and truth is as close as men come in this life to the ends for which they were born. This establishes their humanity
--You don't join the Cleveland Symphony Chorus. You believe it.
Robert Shaw"
Updated 28 October 2006 |
