Sunday, October 26, 2025

1:15 pm Call for Orchestra (everyone ready to begin tuning on stage at 1:25)
1:15 pm Call for Chorus (everyone on stage and ready to begin run-through and sound check by 1:30)

Please park as far from the church entrances as you are able (back of the parking lot or street/surrounding neighborhood) so that our audience guests have plenty of available spots.

Orchestra “green room” is the Fireside Room

Chorus “green room” is the Prayer Room

- This is where you can leave your personal items and hang out before the concert and during intermission. Be sure to grab everythinig you brought, after.

To distribute washroom usage a bit, ROCA members please use the preschool washroom during intermission.

Here is the full schedule:

11:45 - worship service ends - Fraserview staff starts stage breakdown

12:15 - Chris/West Coast Recordings arrives to start unloading/setting up
1pm - Chairs team arrives
1:15pm - everyone else arrives
1:25pm - Orchestra tunes
1:30pm - Rehearse/soundcheck
Rough run-through of the full program in order - “top and tail” as Brigid says.
Please focus and keep talking to a minimum.
3pm - Concert begins with President offering announcements

Chorus will be onstage for the entire program and will enter/exit the Sanctuary/stage from both sides of the lobby. Orchestra (and soloist, conductors, etc) will use the stage entrance. Repeat after intermission.

Concert dress Orchestra: concert black

Chorus: concert black with black bowties and red pocket poofs
OR long opaque black skirts/hose/socks/close-toed shoes with red sequin shell under black lace jacket (secured at top button only).

Jewelry is welcome, but not too flashy please to avoid audience distraction.

Please avoid the use of scents such as perfumes or body sprays and hair sprays, etc - we will be in close proximity on stage and many members have allergies. Clean bodies and appropriate deodorant/anti-persperant is sufficient!

Concert Program Order for your folders:

Fall Fair - Godfrey Ridout

Gate Gate - Brian Tate

Missa Brevis - Imant Raminsh

Emily Cheung, soprano soloist

- INTERMISSION -

The Flight of Aphrodite, op.99 Michael Conway Baker

Stephen Robb, guest conductor, James Malmberg, violin soloist

Home I’ll Be - Rita MacNeil, arr. Larry Nickel

All the Little Rivers - Larry Nickel

This Is My Home - Bob Buckley, Brian Gibson

Full Program

An email to our Front of House Volunteers will go out soon. Volunteers will be asked to arrive around 1 pm to help set up so that audience may begin entering at 2. We are trying a new system this year to keep the lobby better organized. This may result in line-ups at the door, but if we are efficient, hopefully it will be minimal.

If you have friends or family arriving with you early who are attending as audience members, please let them know in advance, that they should check in at the front tables with their ticket information or to purchase their tickets or pick up from Will Call - at 2 pm. This may require stepping back outside with the line-up if there is one. We may still be setting up and not ready to check folks in or sell/distribute tickets before then. Please feel free to spread this info to anyone you know who is coming.

Additional Volunteers are still welcome!

Sell tickets! Share our FB posts. Forward your own via email. Get the word out and promote however you can to your communities.

Have any questions? Feel free to message our ROCA Admin, Rachel - roca.office@gmail.com

See you Sunday!