‘CELEBRATE CHORUS!’

~Members of the Chorale!

+ “We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories,

the tender feelings it can summon at a touch.” 

 

Bruce Allured                           Donna Anding                           Anna Lou Babin

Linda Barrett                            Terry Barrett                            Kenneth Blanchard                  

Mary Blankenbaker                   Nelda H. Boese                         Gregory Bowling          

Emilie Doss Davis                      Krystal Davis                            Michele Dobson           

Mark A. Drymon                        Abbie Fletcher                         Martha Fontenot          

H. Ward Fontenot                     Jennifer Foster                        Carol Fraser    

Krystyne Guillory                     Megan Guillory                         Paul Hearn                  

Mary Ann Hooper                      Nancy Hurlbut                          Taylor Jacobson

Donna Jones                             Reta Kaspar                              Suzanne Kelley            

Pat Kelty                                  Pam LeBlanc                             Dianne LeFrere

Jason Liles                               Rebecca Liles                           Diane Malveaux           

Kari McCarty                            Bernadette Monlezun-Pontón   Phyllis Morgan 

Dolores Morrissey                     Celene Perry                            Kenyetta Peters           

Lamar Robertson                      Van Schmutz                            Mary Francis Sherwood

John Shipman                          David W. Slaydon                     Lisa Sober                   

Michael Sober                           Mary Alice Soileau                    Vicki Touchet              

Jo Ann Turner                          Allen Van Metre                        Hugh Wallis                 

Elsie Wamsley                           Amy White                                Diane Wilkinson

Clare Woosley                           Bobbie Yellot

 

 

 

Artistic Director ~ Dr. Darryl Jones

Assistant Artistic Director ~ Abbie Fletcher

 

Dr. Darryl Jones

This is the sixth year that Dr. Darryl Jones has served as the Artistic Director of the Louisiana Choral Foundation. Jones, who received his Ph.D in Music Education from Florida State University, is also Director of Choral Activities at McNeese Sate University and Director of the Chancel Choir of University United Methodist Church in Lake Charles.

Dr. Jones is only the second director and has held the position since 2002.

 Lamar Robertson directed 25 years.

 

 

‘FASCINATING RHYTHM KEEPS PICKING ON ME!’

 

~Membership! Our Patrons!

~ “Of all the arts beneath the heaven that man has found or God has given, none draws the soul so sweet away, as music’s melting, mystic lay;

slight emblem of the bliss above, it soothes the spirit all to love!”

 

 

2007-2008 Season Memberships are available (sign up form):

 

Composer ~ 10 tickets ~ $1,000

Lyricist ~ 8 tickets ~ $750

Maestro ~ 6 tickets ~ $500

Virtuoso ~ 4 tickets ~ $250

Rhapsody ~ 2 tickets ~ $100

Concert ~ 1 ticket ~ $50 

 

Membership Sign Up Form

 

 

‘WE SING IN APPRECIATION! ALLELUIA!’

~Our Patrons!

~ “Music is the art of the prophets, the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us!”

 

Louisiana Choral Foundation

Memberships 2007-08

 

Composer

Citgo Petroleum Corporation

 

Maestro

Dr. & Mrs. Richard Gilmore

 

Virtuoso

Lois R. Ferguson

Anne & Paul Hearne

Laura & Buddy Leach

Dee & Sandy Morrissey

Dorothy & Fred Sahlmann

Mr. & Mrs. Richard See

Amanda Self

Lisa & Michael Sober

Swicegood Music, Inc.

 

Rhapsody

Jessica & Chris Aucoin

Becky & Bruce Allured

Janet Allured

Christine & George Baldauf

Madolyn Bowman

Sheila Champagne

Margy & Raymond Clawson

Mr. & Mrs. James W. Dimmick

Moody Darwish

Abbie Fletcher

Fred & Jeaneal Godwin

Mr. & Mrs. John Hartman

Evelyn & Louis Hoffman

Nancy & George Hurlbut

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Jones

Reta & Ron Kaspar

Marsha & William Kushner

Ann & Lenn Knapp

Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Leming

Marti & Matt Lundy

Sheila MacKay

Paradise Florist

Sandy McCarty & William Carver

Ann McGill

Meredith & Joe T. Miller

Phyllis Morgan

Tom Morris & Denise Martin

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Ott

PPG Industries, Inc.

Col. (Ret) & Mrs. Hector R. Pontón

Ginger & Frank Pruitt

Pauline “Bo” Rentrop

Mary & Joe Richardson

Mayor & Mrs. Randy Roach

Van Schmutz

Anne & David Self

Marjorie Talbert

Jo Ann Turner

Elsie & Ed Wamsley

Peggy & Hal Ward

Sandra & Bobby Weatherford

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Webb

Mr. and Mrs. David Williams

Jerry Woolman

 

Concert

Dorothy Akins

Rev. Louis Blankenbaker

Myrna L. Bond

Susan Breaux

Mary Jo Canik

Corene M. Davidson

Betty V. Dufrene

Joan Dugger

Beatrice Ford

Jeanne Hartman

Ms. Caroline Hollins

Susan Kelso

Mrs. Merle Killinger

Ellie Marquez

Louise B. Mayo

Edgar E. McCanless

Mary Ann Monk

Dorothy H. Myers

Catherine Navarra

Louise Pease

Evelyn C. Thompson

  

Louisiana Choral Foundation is supported in part by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Recreation and Tourism in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council as administered by Arts and Humanities Council of SWLA, a Tourism and Marketing Initiation Grant from the SWLA/Lake Charles Convention and Visitors Bureau, and partnership grants from the City of Lake Charles.

 

 

 

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