Dear Ensemble and Vocalise Families,
We're down to the wire now - just two weeks away from our big Holidays With Cantabile concert!
Vocliase/Aria – you are performing this weekend on
Sunday, November 24th, at the Pier 39 Tree Lighting Ceremony in SF.
Please see below for important concert information!
Please Read The Most Recent SCOOP!
IMPORTANT FOR PARENTS:
Cantabile needs parent volunteers for several of our upcoming performances.
Look for a link to a volunteer sign-up sheet in the SCOOP. If
you are a singer reading this, please alert your parents!
IMPORTANT FOR ALL:
The SCOOP that came out this week has extremely important information about
upcoming concerts and links to crucial sign-up sheets, so
please be sure to read it thoroughly!
Special Rehearsals and Concert Reminders
Nov 24th – Vocalise/Aria at Pier
39 Tree Lighting Ceremony, San Francisco
Call time: 12:00pm *please allow extra time for parking, and
the heavy traffic expected on the Embarcadero and in the area surrounding Pier
39
Meeting location: “Choir Staging Area” - behind
Aquarium of the Bay on Level 1
Performance: 1:00pm
Dismissal: 2:00pm
Repertoire: 40 minutes
of music including The
Snow, When Christmas Comes To Town, Winter Wonderland, Seal Lullaby, Night of
Silence, and selections by Aria.
Attire: “holiday-inspired”
– black pants/long skirts, black top, red/green scarves, Santa hats. The
concert is outside, so dress for the weather! If it’s warm, wear your Cantabile
t-shirt. If it’s cold, a plain black sweater/top is fine.
Transportation: Please
carpool if you can! Visit http://bit.ly/cantabile-carpools
to exchange rides with other families. Paid parking is available
at the Pier 39 structure.
Dec. 2nd – Vocalise’s
last regular rehearsal before dress - MANDATORY
Dec. 4th – Ensemble’s
last regular rehearsal before dress - MANDATORY
Dec. 5th – Dress
rehearsal for Holidays With Cantabile, St. Joseph’s in San Jose
Call time: 5:30pm for
Ensemble and Vocalise
Dismissal for Ensemble:
7:00pm
Dismissal for Vocalise: 8:30pm
Dismissal for Aria: 9:00pm
Pick-up instructions:
If you are picking singers, you must park
your vehicle and meet them in the lobby of the church sanctuary. You will
not be able to pull up outside the church and wait in your car, and singers
will not be able to go and find you outside.
Dec. 7th – Holidays
With Cantabile concert, St. Joseph’s in San Jose
Call time: 11:30am
Concert: 1:00pm
Dismissal: 3:00pm
Dec. 11th – Ensemble
rehearses PACO concert repertoire, Foothills Church, 5:00-7:00pm
Dec. 12th – Nutcracker
dress rehearsal (mandatory for all Nutcracker singers), Center for
Performing Arts, San Jose, 7:00pm start time (call and dismissal times to be
confirmed)
Dec. 13th – Dress
rehearsal for PACO concert, Cubberley Theatre, Cubberley Community Centre, 4000
Middlefield Road, Palo Alto
Time: 6:45pm call time
for a 7:00pm rehearsal, dismissal is 8:00pm at the latest
Participants: All
Vocalise and Ensemble singers minus the 8 Nutcracker singers
Attire: Cantabile
T-shirts and black pants
Dec. 13th-26th – Nutcracker
performances (8 designated singers per show)
Dec. 14th –
Aria performance at the The Villages Golf & Country Club, 2800 The Villages
Fairway Drive, San Jose
Call time: 5:00pm
Rehearsal: 5:15-5:35pm
Performance: 5:45-6:15pm
Dec. 15th – PACO concert, Center
for Performing Arts - Menlo-Atherton Auditorium, Menlo-Atherton High School, 555
Middlefield Road, Atherton
Call time: 1:00pm
Concert: 3:00pm
Attire: TBA
What to practice for the next two weeks:
ENSEMBLE
Memorized for next week: EVERYTHING!
Please practice diligently and often, and use your practice
recordings. To “clean up” sections that have been memorized incorrectly,
isolate and practice them slowly, and check pitches on the piano or your phone
app.
Silent Night: Make sure you know this
very well – you’ll be singing it in the dark so you won’t be able to see a
conductor mouthing the words to you!
Noel: Review
the choreography and the words, and practice saying them in rhythm at a faster
tempo. Make sure that you have not just the words but the entire form of
the piece carefully memorized. Please note that we are adding one extra chorus
at the very end.
Donkey Carol: Altos – keep
working on verse 4 (page 41-42). Remember at the bottom of page 42, when you
come in you echo the soprano entry by starting on a high E! Listen to the
recording emailed to you nail this tough section. All parts – review the last page (45), particularly the
pitches and rhythm on “Christ is born today”. Altos, on the last page, second
system, second measure, on the “ia” of “alleluia”, you have a Bb, but you are
mistakenly singing a B natural! Please circle this Bb and practice singing it
in context with the phrase.
Jingle Bell Swing: Check your pitches in measures 42-43 (“jingle bell do bee dit”).
Man With The Bag: Look over the last two pages (7-8). Also, circle the measure
that says “To Coda” so that you aren’t surprised when it comes along!
VOCALISE
Memorized for next week: EVERYTHING!
Noel: Review the choreography. Make sure that you have not just the
words but the entire form of the piece carefully memorized.
Please note that we are adding one extra chorus at the very end.
Mass: All movements must be memorized for next week along with
everything else!
Winter Wonderland: 2nd sopranos and altos – look over measures
15-16. Those harmonies are unexpected! All parts – look over measures 43 to the
end to check that your pitches are correct.
Also review When Christmas Comes To Town and Seal
Lullaby for Nov 24th. (These do not need to
be memorized.)
Musicianship:
Ensemble A: There are no new
pages assigned. Please continue to go back and fill in ALL the blank pages and
questions, and correct ALL mistakes that have been circled by a marker.
Email cassie@cantabile.org if
there is anything you don’t understand. The goal is for everyone to have 100% correct
pages before we move on next term.
Ensemble B: Sonicfit
is now on hiatus until January. No more assignments, tests, or re-tests will be
posted. If there is anything that you have not completed, forget about it for
now. Instructions will come to you in an email and on a future blog post about
what to do before the start of next term.
Vocalise: Sonicfit
is now on hiatus until January. No more assignments, tests, or re-tests will be
posted. If there is anything that you have not completed, forget about it for
now. Instructions will come to you in an email and on a future blog post about
what to before the start of next term.
