NOTES for Week of November 7, 2022

Dear Friends,

I was really pleased with the way you were sounding in our rehearsal on Tuesday. That being said, we are in the home stretch with only three more Tuesday night rehearsals and our rehearsal with the instruments on December 1. 

1. Please plan to review your music regularly. Sing along with the recordings to get used to hearing your part with others, and at tempo.
2. If you must miss a rehearsal, please make sure you check in with your section to find out what you missed. I don't want to play catch-up in the subsequent rehearsal.
3. Please check your emails for memos and attachments, i.e., the concert order.
4. Continue to invite friends, co-workers, and family.
5. I will try to focus on several pieces in rehearsals and quickly run others that we rehearsed the previous week.

Betelehemu

Continue to work on memorization and movement. Here is a break down of movement and claps.

• Begin moving on p. 4 m. 20 starting to your right, and then continue throughout.
• Clap in an upward/downward motion on the 5 accented beats at p. 6, mm. 36-37 
• Eliminate the last measure on p. 9
• Men will sing through mm. 68-71 twice, then Chuck will sing the solo while the men repeat five more times. Women may lightly ululate here. 
• Start clapping on all six beats in groups of 3 ascending starting at repeat p. 4, m. 20. Continue until top of p. 6 m. 35. Ululation should increase with just one or two people doing it.
• At m. 36 skip to the CODA and clap on the accented beats in mm. 72-73. On the repeat, clap on all accented notes.
• WE WILL REHEARSE THIS TUESDAY

Enfold Us

• Hear the rhythmic flow of the melody which starts with the altos and moves to the sopranos at m. 5. This will help with the changing meter.
• Practice the key changes at mm. 29-30 and 45-46.
• Practice with the recording so you feel the controlled movement.
• WE WILL REHEARSE THIS TUESDAY

Pat-a-pan

• Again, intense percussive approaches to the "p's" and "n's" with little time on "a". It's beatbox backup to the solo sections.
• Crescendo and then decrescendo in the 3/2 measures at mm. 12-14, 25-27, and 65-67.
• Make crescendo at m. 39 powerful.
• Make decrescendo at m. 52 dramatically soft.
• WE WILL RUN THIS TUESDAY

Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day

• Don't slow down the my love, my love, my love at mm. 27-30 (Tenors), 60-63 (Sopranos), 86-89 (Men), 117-122 (all singing)
• Keep the tempo light and brisk
• WE WILL RUN THIS TUESDAY

Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind

• Shakespearean diction in the verses must be distinct.

Magnificat

• Tenors practice mm. 15-22, 33-40, and 116-128
• Altos practice mm. 15-19, 58-62, and 71-79. Make you entrance in m. 83 warmer in tone.
• Basses practice mm. 5-13 and 61-66
• Sopranos practice mm. 29-34, 42-50, 63-68, 71-75, and 122-128
• WE WILL RUN THIS TUESDAY

 Long Ago and Sing We Now of Christmas

• Gregory, I would like to REHEARSE THESE with piano

Be All Merry

• Clean up all rhythms and diction (shifts in language)
• Practice with the recording so you get used to the interludes
• WE WILL REHEARSE THIS TUESDAY

The Work of Christmas

• Continue memorizing
• WE WILL RUN THIS TUESDAY

Merry Christmas To You All - CANON

• WE WILL REHEARSE THIS TUESDAY

Keep up the good work. See you Tuesday!

Ted