If you don't know about this site, check it out! Signup is free and allows streaming listening to TONS of music. There are 9 performances of the Beethoven Elegischer Gesang, and even more of the Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt and Choral Fantasy that we will be performing with Civic Symphony in April.
Lots of Messiah, too. And lots of Poulenc Gloria.
Too good to be true! (Plus any music that streams through your computer can be recorded. But that would be illegal, and I'm not going to tell you how to do it, if you don't know...)
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Singers of United Lands Repertoire
I am working hard to find choral music of Estonia, Haiti, Oceania, and Venezuala. Suggestions are welcome! Check out this year's SOUL singers at the link below and to the right:
Messiah - the home stretch
Although we will, increasingly, be aiming at making it through all of our Messiah choruses at each rehearsal, I will try to find the right balance of rehearsal for 1) correct pitches and rhythms, 2) performance details, diction, and ensemble, and 3) run-through for continuity.
Assuming the room is available, we will again have sectionals on the Amen, on Let Us Break Their Bonds, and He Trusted in God. We will also continue to work on intonation, bland, balance (and memorization!) for Since by Man and spend some time on Behold and the Surely, Stripes, Sheep choruses.
One of my favorite Handel quotes:
"I should be sorry if I only entertained them, I wish to make them better."
James Beattie, letter of May 25, 1780, published in William Forbes An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, LL.D. (1806) p. 331. In reply to Lord Kinnoull, who had complimented him on his Messiah, "the noble entertainment which he had lately given the town". Beattie had this on the authority of Kinnoull himself.
This is, of course, the precise intent and meaning of the term "edification."
Assuming the room is available, we will again have sectionals on the Amen, on Let Us Break Their Bonds, and He Trusted in God. We will also continue to work on intonation, bland, balance (and memorization!) for Since by Man and spend some time on Behold and the Surely, Stripes, Sheep choruses.
One of my favorite Handel quotes:
"I should be sorry if I only entertained them, I wish to make them better."
James Beattie, letter of May 25, 1780, published in William Forbes An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, LL.D. (1806) p. 331. In reply to Lord Kinnoull, who had complimented him on his Messiah, "the noble entertainment which he had lately given the town". Beattie had this on the authority of Kinnoull himself.
This is, of course, the precise intent and meaning of the term "edification."
Thursday, October 15, 2009
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!
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!
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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.
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
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
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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.
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