Flash Choir call for members to perform William Stafford poems

The Flash Choir, a community choir in Portland, has just started working on a piece called "Strangers Together", which is a setting of ten of William Stafford's poems from Passwords. The piece is written by local composer Sarah Dougher, and will be performed in a variety of venues around the Portland area in late October 2009.

We would like to invite anyone who is interested in joining us to do so. We rehearse on Monday nights from 7-9pm, at 728 SW 1st Ave (the Pink Martini HQ). Learning these poems by singing them with other people is a pretty amazing way to lodge them in your consciousness.

Our choir was founded two years ago in service to PICA's TBA Festival, and has since done many public performances, including a setting of Robert Duncan's book, Caesar's Gate. We are inclusive and experimental, and welcome all comers.

Our blog is at www.flashchoir.blogspot.com.

For more information, and/or to get on our mailing list, please contact Sarah Dougher, sarahdougher@gmail.com, or 503-715-6731.