The Notables

Not just another pretty choir

The Notables Newsletter--Online Version

November 2000

Melissa Albers - Editor

Meet The Notables

Our first Notables- only concert at the Armstrong Theater was a terrific success! The audience was very enthusiastic and really enjoyed the whole program. It was also a financial success. We performed to a sold- out crowd. How exciting! This is a big step in getting The Notables known in the South Bay. On to bigger and better things!

Christmas/Advent Performances

On Saturday, December 9^th we will do our annual Christmas caroling around downtown El Segundo. We will perform our annual Advent service on Wednesday, December 13 at St. John's Church. The Notables will do a concert at Johnson Hall on Friday, December 15. Please invite all your families and friends to attend this community concert. We will also perform for the El Segundo senior citizens group on Wednesday, December 19, at the Joslyn Center. All of the music for these concerts are being worked on right now.

Birthdays

Happy November birthdays to:
Ed 11/19 & Jan 11/28

Special Events

My Fair Lady at Manhattan Beach Community Church

November 9, 10, 11,  8 p.m.

November 5 & 12, 5 p.m.

Sharon, Sue, Andrea, Bryan, Colleen, Jim, Randy and Jerry are all involved in this play. Come out and support your fellow Notables.

Solo Performance

Randall S

"Self proclaimed Genius" (just ask him!)

Randy was born in Arkansas into a military family. He later earned his BA from UCLA and became a High School band director. He started working at Hughes in 1981. Three months after hiring on at Hughes he joined The Notables. He now works as a supplier development engineer, running workshops, and the like. Randy met Mary at a Notables rehearsal and married her 4 years later. They have been married for 10 years. Their favorite place to getaway is their cottage in the pine forest of Cambria. A few more interesting facts about our fearless leader...

Favorite topics: Politics and religion

Favorite food: Chocolate malt

Favorite composer: Felix

Favorite movie: Amadeus

Favorite singing group: The Mormon Tab­err The Notables (of course)

Our Web Master: Tony McQuilkin

During my time with The Notables, I have tried to learn something about the songs we sing, with the idea that knowing about a song would help me "get into character", and sing with more meaning. Also I am generally curious about just about anything.

Long before there was a web, I would make translations of words that we sang in other languages and write plot synopses to shows from which we sang songs. (Gail Applegate called these my "book reports".) In 1998 I started my own personal web site. Then, while we were working on the "Sixties Love-In" show, I found I had so much material, and I thought if I posted some of these "book reports" on the web, they would be available to me anywhere. I also began posting a schedule for The Notables, and tentative program lists. As the web is available to anyone, I told the group what was available, and this web site became a useful resource for others. After a few months, I realized that The Notables material was becoming the single largest area on my site, and soon it would be the majority of pages. I decided to get a separate URL for The Notables site.

For two years I have tried to maintain an up-to-date site, primarily as a resource for members in preparation for performances, but also for a means of publicizing our appearances. After a performance, rather than delete the relevant pages, I would change the links to each performance, they would be found under :past performances" instead of "upcoming performances". Also I dug into my files at home and began adding to the past performances from the time I rejoined the group in January 1998. In the past few weeks I have had the ambitious idea of putting up a history of The Notables from its founding around 1980 until the present. For this endeavor I borrowed June's binders of past programs and dug into my own files of the times I sang with the Hughes Notables from 1990-94. But I find a lot of information is missing.

If you could help me with this, here is what I need. There are a lot of past performances for which I do not have the correct dates. If you can find these, please let me know. Also, I have read that The Notables performed at Juvenile Hall. When? If any "Charter Members" have information about the very first performances, let me know.

Please visit the history pages, and if you can fill in any information, please call or write or email me. For anyone who has not bookmarked the web site you may find it at http://geocities.yahoo.com/the_notables/

Song of the Month

by Tony McQuilkin

Here is a link to the words with tune.