SCNO 30th Season underway!

Thanks to all who worked so hard to get everything ready for our first rehearsal last night. It's good to be back singing together! A special welcome to our wonderful group of new singers - we are looking forward to the talent, energy, and ideas you will bring us.

As announced last night, next week's Messiah "chorus-o-the-week" will be Hallelujah. Come prepared to get the markings into your Novello vocal score.

Please prepare the first and last choruses of Sing for the Cure. We need to get pitches and rhythms established and start to assign individual singers to the various divisi parts.

DID YOU KNOW??? With RSS you can subscribe to this blog and receive an email when something new is posted. That way you don't have to keep checking back... Note the USEFUL LINKS on the lower right and the CALENDAR, too. Reserve Saturday, October 2 for our workshop with guest clinician Alissa Rowe.


As we learn the new music in SFTC, let's see if we can add sensitivity to text and dynamics right from the start (most of you read well enough to figure out the pitches and rhythms on the first or second try, so let's set the bar a little higher for a more musical outcome earlier in the rehearsal process). If you listen attentively while other sections are rehearsing, you can make great progress in learning your own part, too!

Here are some Amazon links to commercial recordings of our repertoire. Please note that for some of these pieces you have the option of purchasing a physical CD or a much cheaper digital download.

Sing for the Cure: A Proclamation of Hope

Karl Jenkins The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace

Carol Barnett The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass

Messiah - Boston Baroque

Messiah - Gabrieli Consort (download)

H.M.S. Pinafore (lots of other choices here...)