Dear Singers and Parents,
We're just one day away from the Fall Retreat at Camp Jones Gulch! Make sure to check your email throughout the day and tomorrow morning for important camp-related information.
The choir parents and artistic staff would like to remind all families to pick up your children promptly when rehearsal is over: 8:15pm for Vocalise, 7:00pm for Ensemble A, and 7:30pm for Ensemble B. Our liability coverage requires that staff and/or parent volunteers wait on site until all students are picked up, but many of our staff/volunteers also need to take their own children home or return to their families as soon as possible. If you know in advance that you will not be able to pick your children up at the times listed above, please make alternative pick-up arrangements. If an emergency or unforeseen circumstance comes up on the evening of a rehearsal and significant lateness is unavoidable, please attempt to email cassie@cantabile.org. Thank you for your cooperation.
Also, for any singers reading, please make sure that your parents have seen the snack assignment list. For questions from Vocalise parents about the list, please email laurafs@juno.com. For questions about the list from Ensemble, please email melanie@cantabile.org.
What to Practice
This week, most of your practicing will be done at camp, so this section of the blog will be shorter than usual.
ENSEMBLE
Listen as many times as possible to The Angels Will Guide You Home. Those of you who have not yet downloaded it, you should be able to now. Please email cassie@cantabile.org if you cannot access the file. Note that the descant part can be found on the S1 recording, so anyone who is assigned to that part in the future must download the S1 part to practice it.
More recordings will be coming soon after camp!
VOCALISE
We had a wonderful rehearsal with Susan McMane this week. She talked a lot about diction - specifically about pronouncing the consonants that you can sing on, like m, n, r, l, v, and the sound "ng". Perhaps one of the most important examples of this was vibrating the "v" sounds in Vivos Voco. Also in Vivos, she talked about maintaining energy through the long notes in order to keep the piece exciting and the sound supported. In Salve Regina, she talked again about singing on consonants, and also about word stresses. Sometimes, the stressed syllables is not on a beat that you would expect - don't stress a syllable that should be unstressed just because it's "on the beat"!
That's all for now! Looking forward to seeing all of you tomorrow! Don't forget your music binder, your water bottle, and your pencil! :)
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