Welcome Singers!
This page is dedicated to providing you with the latest information on PPM events, updates and documentation. The content includes:
- Latest news, schedule information, events of interest are listed below in the Singers Info section.
- Links to important documents and recordings for the upcoming concerts
- A quick reference for the rehearsal and performance schedule for the season.
If you have information you would like included on this page, or if you have questions or concerns related to PPM, please email us.
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Singers To Do List:
- SNACK SIGN UP!
- Please remember to Email Peter Armstrong if you know you will be absent from any upcoming rehearsals!
- REHEARSAL NOTES – scroll to the bottom of the page or click that link.
- SIGN UP to Purchase CD – Bluegrass Mass ($15.00)
- NEW Slideshow – In Rehearsal 2019. See all our smiling, joyous faces.
- Got SWAG! PPM stuff to buy. Support your local choir! Tshirts, coffee mugs, tote bags, boxer shorts (??? yes!)…. and more!
- SIGNUP sheet for Poster Distribution
- Instructions for Sign Up sheet:
Questions: Email Tom. [Email Tom ]
- Instructions for Sign Up sheet:
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Concert Calendar 2019-2020
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Sign up for Rehearsal Snack Duty
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PPM current Singers Roster and contact info
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Annual Appeal Form 2019-2020
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President’s Letter 2019-2020
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2019-2020 Budget
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Program Ads 2018/19
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Media Contacts
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PPM ByLaws
Relatively … Important Info
- ANNUAL MEETING: April 23rd. Pot Luck! Info to follow.
- Next Board Meeting:
Tuesday June 4, 2019 @ 5:45 pm in Sanborn Hall. All PPM singers are welcomed and encouraged to attend. - PPM BYLaws
- BOD Minutes
March 2019
April 2019
Bluegrass Mass
- Link to our performances:
- Essay on The World Beloved – by Gavin Barbour. (March 2019)
- Announcements
Pictures from 2021 Winter
Originals available on this dropbox (these are my favs -D) – https://www.dropbox.com/sh/iu16i1bt46snmiy/AACfIALuI7MF46sD3Zj_6rPHa?dl=0
Introducing The Covid Quartet!
You may enjoy watching a recent recording we made for New Castle Church services. We recorded these 2 songs outside New Castle Church at the end of October and they were used in church services on Nov. 15th. We rehearsed with masks on but took them off for filming. As you can see, we are […]
Carmina Burana – May, 2010
Portsmouth Pro Musica with Portsmouth HS Percussion Ensemble and the High School Treble Chorus [May, 2010] Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana Priscilla Stevens French, Artistic Director Robert Littlefield & Fred MacArthur, pianists Susan Consoli, soprano Matthew Anderson, tenor Thomas Jones, baritone
Elijah – April 2014
Portsmouth Pro Musica performs Felix Mendelssohn’s Elijah: An Oratorio [April, 2014] Priscilla Stevens French, Artistic Director Robert Littlefield, Accompanist Bradford Gleim, as “Elijah” Katy Fickenwirth as “The Widow” Marya Danihel, as “The Angel” Richard Longley as “Ahab & Odadiah” Evie Houston as “The Youth”
John Rutter: The Composer Who Owns Christmas
An article about John Rutter (Candlelight Carol). From the New York Times (December 16, 2017) by Michael White The Composer Who Owns Christmas
Member Profiles
Leslie Couse / Soprano Where did you grow up? I grew up on a fruit farm in western NY. Now known as Orchard Dale Fruit Company, this farm has grown and changed with the times to sustain 8 generations for over 200 years. Picking cherries was my first paid summer job. Sounds romantic but it’s […]
Singing for a Lifetime: The Chorus Impact Study
Chorus America has released an Arts Endowment-funded study that finds that 73 percent of choral singers said the activity “helps them feel less alone or lonely”; choral singers were also less likely than adults as a whole to report “indicators of isolation and depression.” Sixty-eight percent of choral singers reported that singing helped them to […]