YNHRS singing this week is ON!

[Ian Quinn]

Dear friends of the Yale-New Haven Regular Singing,

We decided last week to muddle through Yale's second week of spring break with another singing.  As usual, we'll meet Tuesday from 7:00 to 9:00 to sing from the Sacred Harp. We'll either sing in our usual room (WLH 205), or there will be a sign telling you what to do. For details and directions visit our website: www.yale.edu/ynhrs   

It can be tricky to get into the building, as it is sometimes locked, and things are sometimes rocky at the beginning of the semester.  However, it's a well-used building in the evening, so you should be able to piggyback on somebody with keycard access.  If you can't get in, call or text me at(203) 824-3426 and we'll let you in.

If you know folks who are (or might be) interested in singing with us, please forward them this message. Newcomers are always welcome: the more the merrier! If you're a newcomer, we'll be happy to see you, and we've got a loaner book and a seat for you any time!  

The Sacred Harp is a shape-note songbook first published in 1844. An utterly American phenomenon, it advertises itself as "the best collection of sacred songs, hymns, odes, and anthems ever offered the singing public for general use." Its eclectic repertoire, updated in each edition, includes tunes composed by colonial New England singing-school masters, antebellum collectors of folk hymns and camp-meeting tunes, patriarchs of the great Depression-era singing families of Georgia and Alabama and their descendants, and composers of the modern-day Sacred Harp diaspora.  The book contains eleven tunes by New Haven's own Daniel Read (1757-1836), who fought in the Revolutionary War, made combs, ran a general store, published many tunebooks of his own, named his eldest son George Frederick Handel Read, and is a longtime resident of the Grove Street Cemetery.

I'm looking forward to singing with you soon!

Ian

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