Throughout the year I receive telephone calls asking for AVA singers to perform at special events, assisted living communities, weddings, etc. This department is called the Concert Bureau, and I book up to 50 outside performances a year for the resident artists and alums.
With the holidays upon us, this tends to be the busiest season for singers. Many events during December tend to be holiday parties or fund raisers. Yesterday was one of those events called Jewel Noël given by the Chestnut Hill Committee of The Philadelphia Orchestra.
Michelle Johnson, Sean Arnold, pianist Jose Melendez, and I went to the event (did you know that lunch was provided!) Their repertoire included Classic Broadway, Holiday, and Act I selections from La bohème, which both Ms. Johnson and Mr. Arnold are working on at AVA for the May production of that opera.
I was happy to speak to the audience of almost two hundred-fifty women from the Main Line about AVA and its upcoming season which includes our 75th Anniversary Gala concert. AVA had taken concerts and productions to the Main Line of Philadelphia for over twenty years. This season two operas and two concerts will performed in Haverford and Bryn Mawr.
We have so many friends at these events, and it is wonderful when we make new ones.
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