The agenda for the meeting will include announcements and action on reports from officers of the corporation and from committees, as well as election of the Board of Directors for 2006-2007. The Board does not anticipate any other business, but questions and suggestions from members of the VLO are always in order.
The Board of Directors
Glen Gordon, President
But read on . . .
One of the things that make our Annual Meetings different is that they are usually very short. This leaves time for entertainment. The program at this year's meeting will be very special. Over the years we have used the Annual Meeting to do a number of different things--introduce new people to Gilbert and Sullivan, try out new works, present works of different composers, and even on one occasion present a newly reconstructed Gilbert and Sullivan work, Thespis. This year we're trying out a new (to us) SWOG (Sullivan without Gilbert) work, The Chieftain, which dates from the 1890s. The librettist is Francis Burnand, better known for his earlier collaboration with Sullivan, Cox and Box.
The story describes a tribe of bandits who live in a mountain pass in Spain (not far from another pass where Carmen and her bandits live). The chieftain of these bandits absconded with their gold a year ago and has been missing ever since. The remaining bandits have decided that their laws require them to forcibly anoint the first stranger who comes through the pass as their new chieftain and marry him off to the fearsome wife of the missing chieftain. The tale gets more and more complicated, as one might expect, but it is mostly a framework on which Sullivan gave us some of his most tuneful music. VLO will be singing all of it and telling the story through a combination of a Jonathan Strong narration and snippets of dialog.
The concert will be sponsored in part by Wingate at South Hadley, which has a long tradition of quality health care, community and compassion.
VLO has a Web site! Michael D. Bathrick, President of BerkshireNet, donates space on internet service provider BerkshireNet. Kurt Gordon is our WebMaster. Check us out at www.vlo.org! You will find information about VLO and, in addition, links to other G&S Web sites throughout the nation.
SavoyNet-- Another note about the Internet and Gilbert and Sullivan --Here's another G&S resource. SavoyNet is the international Gilbert and Sullivan Bulletin Board. It offers a chance to communicate with G&S lovers all over the world. To subscribe, without obligation, send an e-mail message to list-serv@bridgewater.edu (leaving the "Subject" line blank) that says only subscribe savoynet [your full name] and instructions will follow. |
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Finally, it's Membership Time. If you haven't become a member of VLO before, why not consider it now? Membership provides valuable support for Valley Light Opera, which gets all of its income from members, friends and patrons. None comes from advertising! Almost everyone in VLO is a volunteer. At $10 for individuals and $15 for families, annual dues for VLO are among the best deals in town. Membership puts you in a special category of VLO supporters. We send you advance notification by first class mail of ticket sales for the annual fall production and you get a vote at the Annual Meeting. Just fill in the form below and mail it with your check (or bring them to the Annual Meeting). It's that easy! (And, if you wish, you can make an additional, tax-deductible donation.)
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