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Fifth Annual Treble Voice Turnout!!

mugsBella Voce hosted our fifth annual women’s choral event on Thursday, October 12th, 2023, when we gathered together five treble voice (women’s) choirs from Spanish Springs, Damonte Ranch, McQueen, Reed, and Hug High Schools for a choral festival. This event began in 2018 as an effort to expand Bella Voce’s mission “to foster the appreciation, preservation, and performance of women’s choral music,” in which we identified educational outreach as a priority area. Our participant numbers grew from 150 singers and five high schools in the first year to approximately 250 women singers this year, with a break in 2020 because of the pandemic.

So, the event was greatly enjoyed by everyone, as we gathered at the Damonte Ranch High School auditorium. And once again, the high school choirs shared their music with one another in a noncompetitive, supportive, and very enthusiastic environment. To open the event, three of the singers from Bella Voce spoke about the role of singing in their lives. At the end, Kathryn Parker and Brittney May, faculty from the UNR School of Music, Voice, and Musical Theater, spoke about the opportunities for continued singing after high school, including the many degree programs at UNR. In addition to singing with one of the four vocal ensembles at UNR or in a musical theater production, there are degree programs in performance and music education.

After each group performed their music, ending with “There’s Still My Joy” by members of Bella Voce, we completed the event by singing together in a combined choir circling the auditorium, with some of the high school singers enlivening the music with body percussion moves. We sang the piece “What Happens When A Woman?”, words and music by Alexandra Olsavsky of Artemisia. This is a song for the strong women of our world who seek to empower themselves by asking important questions. The words are below. And at the end of the afternoon, when all of the singing was finished, the singers received a commemorative Treble Voice Turnout mug as a gift from Bella Voce.


"What Happens When a Woman?"
By Alexandra Olsavsky of Artemisia

What happens when a woman takes power?
What happens when she won't back down?
What happens when a woman takes power?
What happens when she wears the crown?

What happens when she sets the beat?
What happens when she stands on her own two feet?
What happens when a woman takes power?
What happens? What happens?
(repeat)

We rise above, We lead with love,
We have won, we've just begun.

What happens when a woman takes power?
What happens when she won't back down?
What happens when a woman takes power?
What happens when she wears the crown?

 

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