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
(watch it on the comments on this one...)

Sing for the Cure VOCAL SOLOS

I would like to conclude auditions for vocal solos by September 28. Here is a list of the solos (in bold type).


SING FOR THE CURE
Choral Voicing and Vocal Solos

1. Prelude for an Uncommon Woman (Instrumental) [4:13]

2. Who Will Speak? (SATB div.) [6:17]

3. Borrowed Time (SATB, some div.) [6:06] [[5]]
Sop. Solo mm. 4-8; mm. 21-24; mm. 95-99

4. The Promise Lives On (SATB some div.) [6:42]

5. Livin’ Out Loud Blues (TTTTBB) [3:40]

6. Come to Me, Mother (SSAA) [4:32]

7. Valse Caprice (SATB some div.) [3:56]

8. Girl in the Mirror (SATB) [5:09]
S/A duet mm. 11-32; solo mm. 118-124

9. Who Will Curl My Daughter’s Hair? (SATB div.) [5:08]
S/S/A solos and trio mm. 1-17

10. Groundless Ground (SSATBB) [5:31]
Female/male duet passim (gospel)

11. One Voice (SATB div.) [5:43]
Solo (male or female) mm. 14-46

The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace

Karl Jenkins on Karl Jenkins (video biography)