NOTES for Week of January 29, 2023

Dear Friends,

Again, I want to welcome all our new singers: Anna and Bill, Sally, and Leila. We are glad you have joined us and look forward to the music we all will create together.

A FEW THINGS

• Check your NOTES weekly. If they don't appear in your email inbox, go to the Bel Canto website.
• If you anticipate needing to be gone for a rehearsal, please enter your absence on the Google Calendar. Chuck can assist you if you're having difficulty.
• Please keep up to date on the music. If I've gone through something pretty intensely, please don't let that practice and knowledge fade. Review it each week.

Spätherbst 

• All: Slowly practice the pronunciation starting with words, then short phrases, then whole sentences. Practice saying the words slowly (emphasizing the vowels) in rhythm. Then begin to slowly sing in the words.
• Highlight the dynamics, noting that there are often dramatic changes in only a measure or two.
• Bass and Tenor: be very precise with the chromatic lines, particularly descending. 

Trees

• Pay particular attention to intonation. There are a lot of unisons and 2nds which need to be exact.
• Highlight the key changes.

My Soul's Been Anchored

• Make sure all that sing the inner parts that shift between 2-, 3-, and 4-part are aware of which notes you sing as you shift. Note: solo sections change it.

FOR TUESDAY,  JANUARY 31st

MEN at 6:30/WOMEN at 7:30

Abendlied

• Review you notes and rhythms

Trees

• Review pages 1-7
• Go through notes and rhythms to the end

My Soul is Anchored

• Review parts to the end

The Willow Song

• Review parts