Monteverdi Schedule Update

Dear Monteverdi Singers and Families,

Thank you for a great rehearsal on Monday! Due to recently received updates on this week’s rehearsal schedule, call times and release times have had to be changed. We appreciate your patience and flexibility. Please carefully review the schedule and instructions below.

Schedule for the Week – please note all time changes

Wednesday, May 28 Rehearsal

Uniform: Cantabile t-shirt and black pants or blue jeans, bring concert shoes

Drop-off: 6:30pm at the Oval -- please see attached maps

Warm-up: 6:40pm in Round Room

Rehearsal: 7:30pm from transept gallery

Release time: 8:00pm (pick-up at the Oval - volunteers will walk the singers there)

Friday, May 30 Dress Rehearsal (please note earlier start!)

Uniform: Cantabile t-shirt and black pants or blue jeans, bring concert shoes

Drop-off: 7:15pm at the Oval

Warm-up: 7:30 in Round Room

Rehearsal: 8:30pm from transept gallery

Release time: 9:00pm (pick-up at the Oval)

Saturday, May 31 Concert (please note earlier start!)

Uniform: arrive in full performance uniform

Drop-off: 5:15pm at the Oval

Warm-up: 5:30pm in Round Room

Rehearsal: 6:00pm (sharp!) from transept gallery

Break: 7:00-7:20pm – singers can have a snack

Concert: 7:30pm – performance will be around 1hr and 30mins, no intermission

Singer release time: 9:00pm – Singers must be picked up at the Oval (not at the church) in order for us to ensure that everyone is safely signed out. Families who are attending the concert: please kindly walk over to the Oval to pick up your singers.

Reminders

1. Please bring a water bottle with your name clearly marked, and your music in a black binder or folder to every call.

2. Please do not bring valuables. You may leave things in the Round Room but I can’t guarantee that the room will be locked.

3. As noted in the schedule, on Saturday you may bring a nut-free snack to eat at 7:00pm before the concert.

4. Please practice and memorize your music! Listen to the recordings as many times as you can!

5. When in rehearsal, please do not talk, fidget, or take out your phone. Give the Maestro your complete attention and focus. Come in confidently and sing your best!

Tickets and Parking

We hope to see your families at the concert! To purchase advance tickets, please use the following link: 

https://sto.stanfordtickets.org/single/SelectSeating.aspx?p=5695

There is parking for parents along the Oval and down one or two streets, near Bing Concert Hall and the Cantor Arts Center (marked on the map).

Thank you all for your dedication to this exciting event. See you tomorrow!

Blog Update 05/23/2014

Dear Ensemble and Vocalise Singers and Families,

It’s evaluation time! Several of you have already been seen and have done a great job! Your conductors look forward to hearing the rest of you in the next couple of weeks.  Please sign up via the links sent through email. If you can’t make any of the times offered, please email cassie@cantabile.org. Please arrive 15 minutes before your time-slot. Ensemble A only: please bring your completed musicianship workbook for final review with ALL mistakes corrected - see the marking page at the beginning for a list of questions that need to be corrected. (If your musicianship book has not been handed back to you yet, it will be brought to your evaluation for you – don’t worry.)

Please prepare:

- All of your repertoire: have it so well memorized that you can sing it alone! This includes text, dynamics, phrasing and breathing, cut-offs, etc.

- Three minor scales: natural, harmonic, melodic. (See links at the bottom for extra help.)

- Key signatures: Vocalise and Ensemble B should recognize all key signatures, Ensemble A should know up to four sharps or flats.

- Solfege: know how to label a melody with solfege for the purposes of sight-singing. You should also know how to write in the counts for any time signature where the quarter or the eighth note gets the beat.

Monteverdi Vespers

Please review the schedule below for rehearsal and concert dates, times, and locations. A summary of information including drop-off and pick-up instructions will be coming to you via email. Make sure to bring your own water and snack to every call. Families will be contacted by Amelia Turvey from the Cantabile office to sign up for chaperoning duties. For ticket info, please go to the Stanford ticket office. Singers, please listen to the mp3 files you received by email. The success of your performance dependings greatly on your ability to put your simple melodies in the highly complex context that is the other vocal and instrumental parts. You must practice with the recordings and get used to knowing when your entrances are. You can also click HERE to listen to a performance. (Note: #11 is at 53:50, #12 children begin singing at 1:04:00 (m. 65), #13 children sing from 1:23:50 to the end.)

Schedule for Monteverdi Choir and Tour Choir

DATE	DETAILS
Mon, May 26	Monteverdi Vespers singers: rehearsal with Maestro Jessop at Foothills Church, 6:00-7:30pm. Wear Cantabile t-shirt and black pants.
Wed, May 28	Monteverdi Vespers singers: orchestra rehearsal at Stanford Memorial Church, 6:30-8:00pm. Wear Cantabile t-shirt and black pants.
Fri, May 30	Monteverdi Vespers singers: dress rehearsal at Stanford Memorial Church, 7:30-9:00pm – music must be memorized! Wear Cantabile t-shirt and black pants.
Sat, May 31	Monteverdi Vespers Performance at Stanford Memorial Church. Call time 6:00pm, concert 7:30pm. Arrive in full performance uniform. Music must be memorized!
May and June	Evaluations - please sign up via the links sent through email!
Thurs, June 19	Tour rehearsal 3:00-6:00pm and tour meeting for singers and families 6:00-7:30pm.
Fri, June 20	Tour rehearsal 9:30-12:00pm
Sat, June 21	Tour rehearsal 9:30-12:00pm
June 22-July 2	Passion of Italy Tour

Minor Scales

Minor scales (natural, harmonic, and melodic) WILL be on your evaluation! Please make sure you know how to sing them accurately by practicing them at home both with a piano (or guitar) and a cappella. Check out these short videos to help you:

How to play an A harmonic minor scale

How to play an A melodic minor scale

You can also check out the channel of “musictheoryguy” on youtube for lots of online theory lessons! Here are his lessons on minor scales:

Minor Scales – Part 1

Minor Scales – Part 2 (Harmonic)

Minor Scales – Part 3 (Melodic)

Rehearsal Blog Update 05/15/2014

Dear Ensemble and Vocalise Singers and Families,

Congratulations on your wonderful performances at the May 10th All Choirs concert! The season isn't over yet, though! Check out our remaining schedule below:

DATE	DETAILS
Thurs, May 15	Vocalise dress rehearsal at All Saints Episcopal Church. 5:30-8:30pm. Please bring/wear your concert shoes. (But do NOT wear your full formal performance uniform to the dress rehearsal – please keep that fresh for Saturday!)
Sat, May 17	Vocalise and Aria Concert at All Saints Episcopal Church. Please arrive in formal performance uniform. Call time 2:30pm. Concert 4:00pm.
Mon, May 19	Vocalise and Aria recording at All Saints Episcopal Church. Call time 5:30pm, recording 5:45-8:00pm.
Fri, May 23	Aria performance (details coming through email/facebook)
Mon, May 26	Monteverdi Vespers singers: rehearsal with Maestro Jessop at Foothills Church, 6:00-7:30pm. Wear Cantabile t-shirt and black pants.
Wed, May 28	Monteverdi Vespers singers: orchestra rehearsal at Stanford Memorial Church, 6:30-8:00pm. Wear Cantabile t-shirt and black pants.
Fri, May 30	Monteverdi Vespers singers: dress rehearsal at Stanford Memorial Church, 7:30-9:00pm – music must be memorized! Wear Cantabile t-shirt and black pants.
Sat, May 31	Monteverdi Vespers Performance at Stanford Memorial Church. Call time 6:00pm, concert 7:30pm. Arrive in full performance uniform. Music must be memorized!
May and June	Evaluations - please sign up via the links sent through email!
Thurs, June 19	Tour rehearsal 3:00-6:00pm and tour meeting for singers and families 6:00-7:30pm.
Fri, June 20	Tour rehearsal 9:30-12:00pm
Sat, June 21	Tour rehearsal 9:30-12:00pm
June 22-July 2	Passion of Italy Tour

May 17th Concert Program

Vocalise
  Come and Sing
  El Vito
  Don't Go
  Tshotsholoza
  Libertango
Aria
  Aria
  Shed No Tear
  Nada Te Turbe
  Ave Maria
  O Saop
  Jaakobin
  Sing Me To Heaven
  The Parting Glass
  One Fine Day
Vocalise
  Music Down In My Soul
  For Good
  Imagine
  

Evaluations

Make sure to sign up for evaluations via the links sent through email!

Please bring the following to your evaluation:

- Your evaluation form completely filled out (you will receive this via email)

- A pencil

- Ensemble A only: your completed musicianship workbook for final review with ALL mistakes corrected - please see the marking page at the beginning for a list of questions that need to be corrected. (If your musicianship book has not been handed back to you yet, it will be brought to your evaluation for you – don’t worry.)

Please prepare for your evaluation:

- All of your repertoire: have it so well memorized that you can sing it alone! This includes text, dynamics, phrasing and breathing, cut-offs, etc.

- Three minor scales: natural, harmonic, melodic. (See links at the bottom for extra help.)

- Key signatures: Vocalise and Ensemble B should recognize all key signatures, Ensemble A should know up to four sharps or flats.

- Solfege: know how to label a melody with solfege for the purposes of sight-singing. You should also know how to write in the counts for any time signature where the quarter or the eighth note gets the beat.

Monteverdi Vespers

Please review the schedule above for rehearsal and concert dates, times, and locations. Make sure to bring your own water and snack to every call. Families will be contacted by Amelia Turvey from the Cantabile office to sign up for chaperoning duties. For ticket info, please go to the Stanford ticket office. Singers, click HERE to listen to a performance. (Note: #11 is at 53:50, #12 children begin singing at 1:04:00 (m. 65), #13 children sing from 1:23:50 to the end.)

Minor Scales

Minor scales (natural, harmonic, and melodic) WILL be on your evaluation! Please make sure you know how to sing them accurately by practicing them at home both with a piano (or guitar) and a cappella. Check out these short videos to help you:

How to play an A harmonic minor scale

How to play an A melodic minor scale

You can also check out the channel of “musictheoryguy” on youtube for lots of online theory lessons! Here are his lessons on minor scales:

Minor Scales – Part 1

Minor Scales – Part 2 (Harmonic)

Minor Scales – Part 3 (Melodic)