Musiktidning Dec. 2011

              Published by the American Union of Swedish Singers
In its 119th year of Performing Svenska SAnger in America www.auss.org
Volume CXIX December, 2011 No. 10
Portland Choruses are Busy Beavers and Have Fun, Too!
On November 12, the Scandia
Ladies Chorus and Scandinavian
Chorus of Portland, Oregon held
a "mini" baking session in prepa-ration
for a Lutfisk dinner, which
was held the next day at Norse
Hall in Portland.
But, that was just a warm-up for
the "super marathon." That will
happen December 1 from 8:00
a.m. to 8:00 p.m., and then con-tinue
on Friday, December 2 from
8:00 a.m. until noon. The baking
takes place at the Bethany Pres-byterian
Church, which has six
large ovens in the large main
kitchen, and two more in the Fel-lowship
Hall. They can actually
cook 36 cardamom braids at a time
in the main kitchen alone.
Then, they will sell all those de-licious
items at the ScanFair at the
Memorial Coliseum, which runs
Saturday and Sunday, December
3rd and 4th. The choruses will be
singing for the crowning of the
new Lucia at noon on Sunday.
Starting on December 10, they
will sing for a variety of holiday
events, first for a Swedish Christ-mas
program at St. Paul's Luthe-ran
Church. Then, at a Norwe-gian
Service at Central Lutheran
Church on December 18. The fol-lowing
day, they will sing at the
Grotto in Portland. Then, it's the
7:00 a.m. J u l o t t a Service on
Christmas Day at the First Imman-uel
Lutheran Church, where they
rehearse.
In between, they will enjoy a
Christmas party for chorus mem-bers,
families, and friends on De-cember
12.
If this sounds like a lot of fun, it
is! Join in! A good time to join
would be at their monthly Soup
Supper on January 9 at First Im-manuel
Lutheran Church. Dinner
is at 6:00 p.m., followed by prac-tice
at 7:00. Welcome!
Above: Three generations of Ottos: Lauren Cristofferson, Paul Otto, Heather Cristofferson, Kevin Cristofferson,
Lila Otto, Kelly Otto. They are definitely a valuable family to the Portland Choruses, and the AUSS.
Other pictures from the "mini"
baking adventure:
Below left: Lila Otto cleans up milk
in the refrigerator...Jody Jones was
holding a sharp knife, when her
hand flew off something she was
lifting on the bottom shelf of the
refrigerator. She stabbed the
bottom of an unopened gallon of
milk sitting on the middle shelf.
Milk showered down on the
surprised people and made a huge
mess. Jody had to pour milk from
the bottom of the wounded gallon
that produced the mess.
Below right: Alana Mapes, Kevin
Cristofferson, and Gayle Grossen
find humor in the milk situation.
Far left: Judy Solanki fills her icing,
ready to pipe it on to the tea rings.
Near left: Alana Mapes with her
lovely apron. And, she did get lots
of hugs!
Below: The Portland's Men's
Chorus has become a valuable part
of our baking. Tom Bradford, Joyce
Masters, Hans Lundin, and Don
Masters check out the glazing of
the cardamom braids, and sprinkle
with the pearl sugar.
At right: the delicious results.