Dear
Ensemble and Vocalise Singers and Families,
We’re just over a week away from our fourth annual Cantabile Festival for Young Voices: An African Celebration! The celebration begins with our Composer-In-Residence
sessions. (Rehearsals for Vocalise on Monday, March 3rd and for Ensemble on Wednesday, March 5th take place as usual!)
Thursday, March 6th Composer-In-Residence Session 1: Ensemble,
Bravi, and Intermediate
Time: 5:00-7:00pm
Location: Foothills
Friday, March 7th Composer-In-Residence Session 2: Vocalise
Time: 5:30-7:30pm
Location: Foothills
Please be prompt for these
sessions, and come ready to sing and dance your African repertoire! All
festival repertoire must be memorized!
Saturday, March 8th Festival
For Young Voices
Call Time: 10:00am
Release Time: 3:30pm
Location: First United
Methodist Church of Palo Alto, 625 Hamilton Avenue
Drop-Off Times and Locations
All singers must be dropped off
on time at their designated area:
Ensemble: 10:00 am at church car park entrance on Byron St
Bravi: 10:00 am at church car
park entrance on Byron St
Vocalise: 10:00 am at church
main entrance on Hamilton Ave
Look out for a sign for your choir indicating your drop-off location.
Arrival
Singers will sign in with their
choir parent and receive a nametag. Please write your name on the tag and wear
it throughout the day – with over 300 participating singers, it is imperative that Artistic Staff can identify each child. Choir
Parents will show each choir to their personal Green Room where singers will
drop off their bags and be chaperoned to their first activity.
Attire
Singers are to arrive in the
following uniforms:
Ensemble: Cantabile t-shirt
& blue jeans (change into concert attire before concert)
Bravi: Cantabile t-shirt
& blue jeans (change into concert attire before concert)
Vocalise: Cantabile t-shirt
& blue jeans (change into concert attire before concert)
Food/Drink
All singers and
chaperones/volunteers must bring their own snacks, lunch and water bottle (with
their name clearly marked). Singers will eat their lunch outside - eating is
not permitted inside the building.
What Singers Must Bring
All singers must come with 1 bag
containing:
Their sack lunch
Named water bottle (full)
Additional snacks
A sweater
Green Rooms will not be locked – you are strongly discouraged from bringing
expensive items like cell phones and electronic devices. You will be
responsible for any lost or stolen items.
Concert
The goal of the festival
is to reach out to the wider singing community, giving school children
opportunities to hear each other in a non-competitive environment and to work
with outstanding choral conductors from North America and beyond. In keeping with this goal, we welcome the families
of our guest choristers to share the joy of music making at the final
performance of the festival, and ask that Cantabile families
kindly leave the limited seating to them.
Pick-up
We expect pick up to be around
3:30 pm, but due to the number of children needing to be signed out, it could
be later than that (up until 4:00 pm). We appreciate your patience and flexibility
as we release over 300 children to their families. All singers must be collected from their designated
collection area:
Ensemble: Church car park
entrance on Byron St
Bravi: Church car park
entrance on Byron St
Vocalise: at church main
entrance on Hamilton Ave
Volunteer Opportunities
From setting up and packing up the African drums
for the drumming workshop, to welcoming our guest choirs, chaperoning our own
singers and helping during the concert - there's a role for everyone!
Click here to sign up!
What To
Practice
ALL pieces must be memorized for the concert! Click
on the titles below to watch videos of the pieces, and practice with them.
VOCALISE ONLY:
Libertango (no video)
VOCALISE AND ENSEMBLE:
Kaana Kameme version 1 and Kaana Kameme version 2
Three African Folksongs: Pembela, Nomali, and Mambo Jesu
Three African Folksongs: Pembela, Nomali, and Mambo Jesu
ENSEMBLE ONLY:
For the May concert, we're working on A Little Jazz Mass. Click on the title to check it out!
Musicianship
Ensemble A: Up to page 29 is due next week.
Ensemble B: No
homework this week.
Happy practicing!
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