Dear friends,
Here is the
Program Order
- Now is the Month of Maying
- Rise, My Soul
- Sicut Cervus
- Bring Me Little Water, Silvy
- Inkosi Namandla
- Nella Fantasia
- Witness
- Set Me as a Seal
- All of Me
- Sacred Heart
- Time
- I Love You/What a Wonderful World
- Music Down in My Soul
NOTES:
Sing Gently
- Stretch the vowel sans any diphthong as long as possible on each syllable.
- Lean into suspensions and ease off of the resolutions
- Control dynamics. pp must be very soft!
Nella Fantasia
- Susan Quinlan will sing the solo on the 1st verse. Sopranos gently join the altos mm. 11-21, dividing on the divisi in mm. 15-17.
- Trebles and Men clean up the rhythms in the melody in your respective sections on verses 2 and 3.
I Love You/What a Wonderful World
- Though slow, keep energy in the long lines and move to important words. Contrast dynamically bright blessed day and dark sacred night, for example
- Wonderful should sound wonderful each time you sing it.
- Chorus/Ensemble dim starting in mm. 74 and Chorus be at piano in m. 78. Ensemble come in gently at m. 78 and build to mf.
All of Me
- Michele sing in a more focused pop style.
- All really enunciate. Turn up the voices of truth in mm. 81-82, for example.
- All make the arrival at see in m. 89 a quiet, intense moment (of realization).
- Don't over sing. Conserve your energy...it's a long song.
- Once the uptempo begins, become physically animated.
- At the modulations, begin to push the tempo just a bit so the last time through is more energetic.
