A cappella Lady Gaga!

These kids are good!

Tomorrow is election day...

1) Please vote

2) Please come to rehearsal (and stay for the entire rehearsal)

3) Watch the election returns once you get home (watching starting at 8 PM will not change the results)

Rehearsal agenda for Tuesday, November 2

As announced in rehearsal, we will continue to woodshed the Bach Ehre sei Gott. We will add text and review mm. 1-31. We will move on into the second half of the chorus in sectionals, too.

Our main Messiah work will be the "duet" choruses For Unto Us, And He Shall Purify, and His Yoke.

Women will be dismissed a little early and men will stay for a sectional at the end of the rehearsal.

Our MINIMUM goal is to have every eye out of the music for every entrance and release, and whenever the chorus is singing homophonically (same words and rhythms in all sections). Buch im Kopf - nicht Kopf im Buch!

Practice files for Bach

Here are some links to practice files for the second cantata of the Bach Christmas Oratorio:
(each site has directions for playback in various operating systems, configurations, etc.)

http://www.cyberbass.com/Major_Works/Bach_J_S/bach_js_xmas_orotorio.htm

http://www.learnchoralmusic.co.uk/Bach/XmasOrat/xmasorat2.html

This one incorporates computer generated vowels. It's strange (de gustibus non est disputandum):

http://www.learnchoralmusic.co.uk/Bach/XmasOrat/xmasorat2.html

Practice, practice, practice... and DWWR!

Music Theory App

Check out this app for music theory!

Choral Workshop

Please bring your Handel Messiah scores to the workshop on Saturday, October 2nd.

My new substitute conductor

My new substitute conductor
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