Rehearsal order for Friday and Saturday...

Dear SCNO singers:

Urah, hanevel, v'chinor! A-irah shahar!

Excellent rehearsal last night! Many had their faces out of the score and most were very responsive to Prieto. Bravo! - let's go for 100% on Friday, Saturday, and (of course) Sunday.

The Bernstein is the first item on the rehearsal order both Friday night and Saturday afternoon.

Call is half an hour before the downbeat: 6:30/7:00 PM on Friday and 1:30/2:00 PM on Saturday. We will undoubtedly get out rather early both days, too.

Reminder: the letter "h" needs to be more aggressively enunciated and articulated. The fricative "h" with a dot underneath and the "ch" need to be MUCH stronger. Please go through your score and make sure you are aware of these consonants.

Hineh mah tov, Umah nayim, Shevet ahim Gam yahad.

Amen!

Rehearsal Info now in Google Calendar

The Google Calendar now includes the complete rehearsal schedule. I copied some events from the LPO service calendar, so they include maps(!).
Let me know if you are having issues with this calendar. You should be able to link it to your personal calendars. It is under my scemusic@gmail.com account.

S.O.U.L. 2009 Pictures and Videos from Mārtiņš

From: Mārtiņš Kiščenko
Date: 2009/10/13
Subject: RE: SOUL 2009 pictures

Hi...

Video with songs and pictures from SOUL 2009 you can see in the following links in youtube.
There is 4 parts because youtube.com accepted only 10 min. long video. So, I had to spilt in 4 different sections.

SOUL video 1
SOUL video 2
SOUL video 3
SOUL video 4

Thank you all for being with us in this American trip...

Martins Kiščenko

New Orleans Civic Symphony Concert

The New Orleans Civic Symphony will perform two concerts: The pieces are Wagner's Prelude to "Die Meistersinger", Wagner's "Liebestod" with soloist Meagan Dearie, Smetana's "The Moldau", and Richard Strauss' "Horn Concerto #1 in E Flat" with soloist Glenn Price. The concerts will be conducted by Dr. James Hammann on Sunday, October 18th at 7:30PM at Gretna United Methodist Church on Whitney Avenue in Gretna and on Monday, October 19th at 7:30PM at St. Clement of Rome Church on West Esplanade Avenue. Both concerts are free.

Haydn Lord Nelson Mass (starts around 20:00)

Write the translation into your score!

I strongly encourage everyone to copy the translation (provided on the handout - see Chistina if you did not receive one) into your score. It will help a lot, if - as you are singing - you can look down and see what the words mean.

Choral Introit: Awake! Psaltery and Harp! I will rouse the dawn!

Mvmt 1: Psalm 100 - Make a joyful noise!

Mvmt 2: Psalm 23 The Lord is My Shepherd/Psalm 2 Why do the nations rage
("Spring will come again" from Skin of our Teeth vs "Mix! Make a mess of 'em. Make the sons of bitches pay!) Sharks & Jets from West Side Story)

Mvmt 3: Psalm 131 Lord, my heart is not haughty - let Israel hope in the Lord...

and, most important (from L.B. himself),
In this atmosphere of humility, there is a final Chorale Coda, a prayer for peace:
Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together. AMEN!

Embody the meaning of the text in our choral tone. If you are thinking about those words, how could you possible make anything but a beautiful, in-tune sound???

Music Theory on the Web (and in rehearsal!) 1.2 and 1.3

I thought the material on Rhythm (Part One Section Two 1.2) was self-explanatory, so did not spend time in rehearsal last week. Let me know if you have questions...

Tonight (9/22) we'll spend a few minutes reviewing simple, compound, and asymmetrical Meter (1.3):

http://smu.edu/totw/toc.htm

there's lots of asymmetrical meter in the Bernstein!

Make sure you work through the online Activities for Review. Music Theory is not just an intellectual thing - it is a set of skills that you need to be able to apply quickly and efficiently.

Next week (9/29), Pitch (1.4) is pretty clear - I'm assuming that all of you can figure it out on your own (again, if you cannot read treble and bass clefs and name the pitches on the staff and on the keyboard, make sure you work through this section and/or ask for help. You should be able to recognize pitches - not have to count up or down from some reference point). I'll try to make time to do Scales (1.5) this week, too, so work ahead!