NOTES for the Week of November 5, 2023

Dear friends,

We’re in the last few weeks of rehearsals  you’re making beautiful music together, and I know you’ll continue to do so. Now is the time to do precision practice.

1. Really sing with your best tone and breath management when you practice any phrase. Try not to sing the ends of phrases with laboring breath—the tone suffers and intonation can be compromised.
2. On the subject of intonation, be especially careful on descending phrases (basses chromatic descents) and ends of phrases. 
3. Always sing musically (move to and emphasize important words, lean into slurs, and exaggerate dynamic shifts.

FOR TUESDAY’S REHEARSAL

Solstice: Read and reread the words as a poem. That should influence your singing expression

Cantata 191: Review and rehearse section by section. We will definitely have the accompanist on the 14th, but possibly this week. 

Alleluia! A New…

The World for Christmas

Rose (Norwegian) 

The Waiting Sky