Thursdays at Twilight and Trinity Artist Series Program and Schedule

Symphony Chorus of New Orleans
Trinity Artists Series • Thursdays at Twilight
June 26 & June 30, 2011

SCHEDULE:
7:00 – 9:30 PM, Tuesday, May 17: Regular Rehearsal Loyola CM230
7:00 – 9:30 PM, Tuesday, May 24: Regular Rehearsal Loyola CM230
7:00 – 9:30 PM, Tuesday, May 31: Regular Rehearsal Loyola CM230
7:00 – 9:30 PM, Tuesday, June 7: Regular Rehearsal Loyola CM230
7:00 – 9:30 PM, Tuesday, June 14: Regular Rehearsal Loyola CM230
7:00 – 9:30 PM, Tuesday, June 21: Regular Rehearsal Loyola CM230

?Wednesday-Saturday, June 22 – 25: Combined Rehearsal(s) TBA??

5 – 6 PM, Sunday, June 26 Performance at Trinity Episcopal Church

?Tuesday, June 28? Hold for Rehearsal Loyola CM230?

Thursday, June 30 6 PM Performance at Thursdays at Twilight


•• PROGRAM ••

The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass by Carol Barnet
Mixed Chorus, SATB solos, String Band (fiddle, mandolin, banjo, guitar, string bass)

• Intermission •

Three Unaccompanied Anthems:
Hark! I Hear the Harps Eternal Alice Parker, arr.
David’s Lamentation Wlm. Billings
Easter Anthem Wlm. Billings

A Stephen Foster Medley Jon Washburn, arr.
SATB, piano

Selections from RAGTIME Ahrens & Flaherty (arr. Funk)
SATB, piano

(String Band Selection TBA)

?(Hard Times Come Again No More Stephen Foster)?
SATB, solos, string band, piano

Fly Away Medley Mark Hayes, arr.
SATB, string band, piano

Tongue Twisters

Here are some tongue twisters that show up on lists of vocal warmups for actors:


You Need New York, Unique New York, you Need Unique New York
Red Leather Yellow Leather
Toy Boat
Lemon liniment
A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits and a biscuit mixer
Choose orange shoes
Eleven benevolent elephants
Minimal animal
Girl gargoyle, guy gargoyle
The Leith police dismisseth us
Irish wristwatch
Bug's black blood, Black bug's blood
A proper cup of coffee from a proper copper coffee pot.
A quick witted cricket critic.
The cat crept into the crypt, crapped and crept out.
The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.
If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

Practice these and then practice speaking the words to G&S Pinafore!

Rehearsal Schedule for performance week

Karl Jenkens The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace
Rehearsal Schedule for performance week
(all services in Holy Name Church)

7:00 - 9:30 PM, Monday, March 21 Choral Rehearsal
7:00 - 9:30 PM, Tuesday, March 22 Conductor's Piano Rehearsal
7:00 - 9:30 PM, Wednesday, March 23 Instrumental Rehearsal (chorus does NOT rehearse tonight; vocal soloists, if available?)
*7:30 - 10:00 PM, Thursday, March 24 "Dress" Rehearsal

*3:30 PM, Sunday, March 27 (concert is just over an hour - we will be out of the church by 5:00 PM)

CALL for setup, warmup etc. is 2:45 PM


* This is half an hour later than originally published to accommodate other activities in the church.

(At the moment I cannot access the Gmail Calendar for the chorus - sorry
Update 3/18 Google Calendar now accurate)

Karl Jenkins VOCAL SOLOS (repost)

VOCAL SOLOS Karl Jenkins The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace

1. The Armed Man: SATB tutti

2. Call to Prayer: [muezzin]

3. Kyrie: [S solo (optional)]

4. Save Me from Bloody Men: TB tutti

5. Sanctus: SATB tutti

6. Hymn before Action: SATB tutti

7. Charge!: SATB tutti

8. Angry Flames: SATB tutti; SATB solos

9. Torches: SATB tutti

10. Agnus Dei: SATB tutti

11. Now the Guns have Stopped: S or A solo (b-c2)

12. Benedictus: SATB tutti (cello solo)

13. Better is Peace: SATB tutti; "Lancelot" T or B solo, "Guinevere" S or A solo, L'homme armé SATB solos

SOUL Interview WWNO

Interview with Diane Mack on WWNO Inside the Arts (2/24/2011)

Interview with singer Lainie Diamond

Lainie sang with us while a student at Loyola. She returned in December 2005 to sing the mezzo solos in our post Katrina performance of Messiah. Here is a link to an interview.

Book Recommendation

Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer by Wesley Stace is a wonderful novel. It's about a fictitious composer set in early twentieth century England. Lots of great stuff about music - plus it's a murder mystery, too! (Click the title to go to the Amazon Product page)