Dear friends,
I hope you are staying safe, warm, and dry this weekend. Great time to stay in and review you music. 😉
- Tickets are now available online. Please let your friends and family know.
- We're getting to the place where we shouldn't be "reading" any music. Notes, rhythms, and words should be solid.
- Boot Camp is coming up in three weeks on April 1 from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. I've booked the clubhouse in the Calistoga community where I live. It is spacious, fairly live, and has a large kitchen attached. There are tables and chairs we can set up for breaks and lunch. My goal is to have you ready to seriously begin shaping the music. No drilling notes or rhythms.
- As I've said in rehearsals, please go through your music as if performing it, meaning singing with nuance, attention to tone color, vowel uniformity, and where appropriate, non-vibrato. As a general rule, minimize vibrato, especially in the soprano section.
- Tenors, be aware of intonation. Some of you are occasionally riding a bit low on pitch.
Brahms
- As noted above. Make sure all your pitches and rhythms are solid.
- Also, work on the German diction. remember that unaccented syllables are often pronounced like English with a schwa, regardless of whether or not it is elongated.
- Sing very expressively using the slur markings to cre
- And for the record, I stand corrected. Lebhaft means lively, not lightly, which makes much more sense. 😊
Woodpecker from Due North
- Work on getting this up to speed.
FOR TUESDAY
Due North (all pieces)
Evening Gale (all pieces) - I received two more originals if anyone still doesn't have this.
Away in the Woods
My Soul's Been Anchored
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