05/28/2026
This past Tuesday, we had our last rehearsal in the hall we’ve called home for the past 26 years. One of our management team members, Ann Poulson, wrote the speech below in honor of all the time and music we shared in this room. Thank you Ann for honoring this space in such a special way as we say goodbye. ♥️
“For 26 years, these walls have held our rehearsals—our harmonies, our laughter, our challenges, our breakthroughs, and the steady work of coming back week after week to create something magical together. This building has heard every shaky, uncertain start, every passage we repeated until it blended together perfectly, every moment of growth that happened slowly and faithfully over time.
This space gave us shelter, but it also gave us something harder to name. It became a constant. A place where voices blended, where people gathered after long days, and where music was shaped piece by piece through patience and persistence.
But more than that, this space has held us. It has held the physical and emotional support we have given one another as women—showing up tired, burdened, or joyful, and finding in each other a steady place to land. Over the years, we have leaned on one another in quiet ways: a reassuring glance, a shared smile after a hard day, a hand on the shoulder, a laugh that lifted something heavy. This room has witnessed not just music being shaped, but community being built—carefully, faithfully, and with heart.
To this building: thank you.
Thank you for holding decades of singers, directors, coaches, arrangers, our many section leaders, and beautiful friendships. Thank you for witnessing the quiet work that most people never see—the refining, the repeating, the refining again, until something finally felt right. Thank you for holding decades of women who came here not only to sing, but to be strengthened by one another. Thank you for being the backdrop to friendships that deepened, encouragement that sustained, and a shared commitment that carried us through seasons of life.
Buildings don’t hold hands, but somehow this one held us.
As we move forward to a new space and a new chapter, we carry with us everything that was built here. Not just the music, but the strength we found in one another.
So tonight, with grateful hearts, we say farewell.
Thank you for 26 years of rehearsal, growth, and shared purpose. You were more than a building to us.
You were home.”
