Bentley Choirs

Dr. Smith will be conducting a 75 member community choir, which will include several BCC alumni, at the Detroit Tigers vs Los Angeles Angels game on Saturday, August 7th at Comerica Park.  Come out and cheer on Doc….and the Tigers!!  (NOTE….the game will be televised on Fox Sports Detroit for those “couch potatoes” out there….)

Dr. Smith and the Tyndale Artists Ensemble will be a part of the  2nd annual “Buy Michigan Now” Festival, which will be taking place on August 6th in downtown Northville.   For more info, visit http://www.buymichigannow.com/events.php?action=view&id=15

If you live in the metro Detroit area and are interested in singing with Doc again, he is looking for good singers to join his Chancel Choir at First Presbyterian of Plymouth!  There are several BCC alumni that are active in the First Pres Chancel Choir, and the choir often performs one of the “classics” we sang at Bentley! 

For more info, contact Dr. Smith at First Pres at 734-453-6464 x 119, or at jerrysmith@fpcp.net

Our own Terry Godfroid-Marecki has been appointed the new Livonia City Clerk!  Terry has been VERY active as a Livonia elected official for the past several years, first as a trustee for Livonia Public Schools, and most recently, she served as Vice President of the Livonia City Council since 2005. 

See the link below for more info:

http://www.hometownlife.com/article/20100429/NEWS10/4290598/1027/rss18

For those of you that either were not able to make it in town, or would like to relive the moment, here’s Dr. Smith and 250+ choir performing BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC at Ward Church on Thanksgiving morning, November 26, 2009!  Click on the link below to view:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL8wxyoGmYc

Here’s the FRONT PAGE coverage of the evening of November 28th from the 12/3/09 Livonia Observer!

 http://www.hometownlife.com/article/20091203/NEWS10/91203006/Singing-praises-Bentley-homecoming-draws-more-than-800-choir-alumni-from-around-the-world

 

Over 100 BCC alumni gathered at First Pres in Plymouth on November 1st to rehearse the music for the upcoming Celebration Saturday on November 28th, which was also attended by folks from the Livonia Observer, who will be running another feature story on Dr. Smith and the Bentley vocal music department legacy that continues to live on in the hearts of 1000’s of BHS grads.

We had over 60 BCC alumni join us for our first of two rehearsals in Plymouth on October 4th!!! 

In case you’re thinking about Santa Claus and humming “Do You Hear What I Hear?” while everyone else is trying to find ways to stay cool this summer, here are a few program covers from past Bentley Christmas productions….

For those of us on the Celebration committee, it was quite a week at the Livonia Spree 59!  We had many people stop by the BENTLEY tent with comments ranging from “I thought Bentley was closed” to “Bentley had a Concert Choir?”, but for the choir alumni that stopped by, only one question was on their minds…

“WHERE’S DOC??” 

Here’s another one….post your guess in the “Leave a comment” section below!!

(Click on the picture to enlarge!)