Dear Ensemble and Vocalise singers and families,
TOMORROW is our big Holidays With Cantabile concert! Please check your email for final concert reminders, and see below. Your conductors are looking forward to making incredible music tomorrow with all of you wonderful people!
Saturday, December 6 Holidays With Cantabile concert
Where: Cathedral Basilica, San Jose
Bravi Call Time: 9.45 am
Where: Cathedral Basilica, San Jose
Bravi Call Time: 9.45 am
Aria Call Time: 10.00 am
Vocalise Call Time: 10.30 am
Ensemble Call Time: 10.45 am
Uniform: arrive wearing Cantabile concert uniform, make-up and hair done - there will not be time or space to change and there will not be shared make-up available
Sign in: with Choir Parent at the curb - Cantabile volunteers will walk your child to Parish Hall
Sign out: in Parish Hall with Choir Parent - at the end of the concert, please follow the choirs to Parish Hall. Ensemble, Vocalise & Bravi Upstairs will be signed out from the upstairs room.
Vocalise Call Time: 10.30 am
Ensemble Call Time: 10.45 am
Uniform: arrive wearing Cantabile concert uniform, make-up and hair done - there will not be time or space to change and there will not be shared make-up available
Sign in: with Choir Parent at the curb - Cantabile volunteers will walk your child to Parish Hall
Sign out: in Parish Hall with Choir Parent - at the end of the concert, please follow the choirs to Parish Hall. Ensemble, Vocalise & Bravi Upstairs will be signed out from the upstairs room.
Reminder: This is an exciting, but long day that demands complete focus and lots of energy for many hours. Please make sure that you have a big, hearty breakfast before arriving for your call time! Please also remember your water bottle!
O Sifuni Choreography
Click HERE to see a choreography video I made for O Sifuni. Please note that to make it easier, I’ve recorded the moves as a mirror image of you, so when I move left, you move right. :)
Ensemble Practice Recordings
Please have a practice session with these one last time before tomorrow! Click HERE to access the files. Remember that you are singing all those English interjections in O Sifuni!
Ensemble Practice Recordings
Please have a practice session with these one last time before tomorrow! Click HERE to access the files. Remember that you are singing all those English interjections in O Sifuni!
Ensemble Musicianship
Musicianship books have now been collected for review. Please contact Cassie if you have not yet handed yours in.
Concert Repertoire List/Order
In approximate order:
O Sifuni Mungu (All Choirs)
Prep 3 and Intermediate pieces
Cool Yule (Intermediate and Ensemble)
Inflammatus (Ensemble)
Vois Sur Ton Chemin (Ensemble)
Jesus Child (Ensemble)
Magic Prayer (Ensemble)
Bravi pieces
INTERMISSION
Aria pieces
Wie Lieblich (Vocalise)
Carols and Lullabies
It’s the Most Wonderful Time (Ensemble, Vocalise, Bravi)
Star Carol (All Choirs)
Silent Night (All Choirs)
Ensemble Rehearsal Notes
O Sifuni Mungu - Sing ALL English lines! Watch me for choreography at key change section.
Cool Yule - Soloists begin the piece standing at the side and then come out onto the dais on my gesture.
Inflammatus - Phrasing! Diction! Strong consonants like "CConfoveri"! Be careful not to push sound, and to sing with long vowels ("IIIIIInflammatus...", not "iNNNNflammatus...")
Vois Sur Ton Chemin - “de” sounds like “duh”, not “deh”.
Jesus Child – MEMORIZE WORDS. Light, excited, like telling a story to little kids. Crescendo into the choruses strongly. Because of the acoustics in the church, watch me for a steady tempo that is slower than we're used to!
Magic Prayer - Legato, gentle, soaring like a bird in flight. Deliver exciting crescendos and diminuendos but don't push the sound.
Star Carol – MEMORIZE WORDS! Final verse is BIG - sing out! Big crescendo at the end!
Vocalise Rehearsal Notes
Please note that you are no longer performing Gloria at the concert.
O Sifuni Mungu
O Sifuni Mungu
- Learn ALL English “interjections” in case we add you to P3 and Intermediate
- Review your pitches on page 12 – they are different than all other “O Sifuni Mungu” lines
- Review notes (chords) on page 14 (“All men, all creatures, etc”) – these chords are different than the first time you sing this chorus on page 8-9
- Review notes on last page, measure 152-end
- Watch choreography video and practice with it!
- If you’re interested in any of the solos, please prepare them for next week
Wie Lieblich - Click HERE for a recording
- Memorize all dynamics
- Measure 12: lean into LIEB-lich
- Measure 18: like a march
- Measure 37: more insistent as each part enters in imitation, cresc. all the way to 49
- Measures 70-72: A good “fp”
- Carol #1: this one needs the most work on memorization – it’s not as easy as it seems!
- Carol #2: Know how many measures of piano are between each verse. Light second syllables!
- Carol #3: Those interested in solos be prepared to sing them next week
- Carol #4: Watch Elena carefully for breaths and phrasing
- Carol #6: Straight to the “ng” in “ding” or “dong”. Those on the first, fourth, and fifth staves on page 49 measure 59: practice your accuracy on those quick “ding dongs”
- Carol #9: Light, a rocking motion (rocking the Baby King to sleep). Review dynamics/accents. Make sure you’ve looked at and memorized the slower sections.
The Most Wonderful Time
- Careful of the text on the verse “with those holiday greetings…”
Star Carol
- All verses memorized! Know your notes on the “Ahs” at rehearsal letter C
Silent Night
- Verse 1 in two parts
- Verses 2 and 3 in three parts – NO Vocalise singers on the melody
HAPPY HOLIDAYS WITH CANTABILE!
