Rehearsal Blog Update 10/24/2014

Dear Ensemble and Vocalise singers and families,

Our next big event is the Nov. 8^th Workshop, where Intermediate, Ensemble, and Vocalise spend a morning rehearsing their holiday repertoire together and follow the rehearsal with a short concert and lunch for all. Check out the SCOOP for full details. A summary is below:

Fall Workshop

When: November 8^th

Where: First United Methodist Church, Palo Alto

Call time: 9:30am for both Ensemble and Vocalise

Attire: Cantabile black t-shirt and jeans. (No shorts or flip flops.)

Families arrive for concert: 12:00pm

Potluck lunch: 1:00pm

Families, please see the SCOOP for information on what to bring to the potluck and how to drop it off.

Aria Performances

Aria singers: this week you received details on your upcoming performances. A summary of the events is below:

Oct 26: FCC service (morning)

Nov 1: VA Workshop (morning)

Nov 14: Dinner Party (evening)

Nov 28: Filoli (early evening)

Please read carefully the document you received via email. If a scheduling conflict has come up with any of those dates, please email cassie@cantabile.org immediately.

What to Practice This Week

ENSEMBLE

Repertoire

This week, focus on two pieces:

O Sifuni Mungu: Click HERE (First Call version) and HERE (Roger Emerson arrangement) to hear the piece. Please listen to both!

Please work especially hard on this one – you need to be as familiar with it as possible for next week so that we can begin choreography.

Magic Prayer: Work particularly on measures 75-end. 

Musicianship

Pages 25-27 are due next week for all singers completing “A Young Singer’s Journey” Book III or IV. Please also view the marker’s comments at the front of the book and make sure that you have corrected any mistakes made in last week’s work.

Your secret word is “Mungu”.

VOCALISE

O Sifuni Mungu: Click HERE (First Call version) and HERE (Roger Emerson arrangement) to hear the piece. Please listen to both!

Please work especially hard on this one – you need to be as familiar with it as possible for next week so that we can begin choreography.

Carols and Lullabies: This week we worked on the first 6 movements. Please review them all, and movement 1 in particular. Come with all notes and rhythms learned for next week. Click HERE and HERE to check out some recordings. Please make sure you have marked your scores with the part changes expressed in the previous rehearsal. See Cassie if you have questions about who is singing where.

Wie lieblich sing deine Wohnungen: Click HERE to check out a recording. Please practice the German pronunciation.

Hanget Soi: Make sure your notes are solid. Click HERE to check out a recording.

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year: Memorized. Please make sure to review the text on page 4, and circle the 8th note pick-up on page 5, measure 60. Also look at measures 71-74.

Amazing Grace: Memorized.

Star Spangled Banner: Memorized.

Your secret word is “Creatures”.

Happy Practicing!