NOTES for Week of March 3, 2024

Friends,

Thanks for a good rehearsal. 

1. Make sure you are reaching out and letting your friends and family know about our concert. Hunter has posted the graphic on our Facebook page. Go ahead and share it on your social media. Also, consider people you might personally invite with a postcard.
2. If you're interested in any of the solos, be prepared to sing in rehearsal. I'll let you know the week in advance of the rehearsal when I will want to hear them. 
3. Thank you Chuck for your work in preparing our grant proposal to the Napa County Arts Council.

It Takes a Village: 

• Begin memorizing
• Next time we rehearse (March 12), I will listen to auditions for the solo. If you are interested but won't be at rehearsal, please let me know.
• Please practice with articulation (

1. Bass detached and accented in mm. 55+, 
2. Tenor make the mm's very resonant and burst into ah in mm. 49+, 
3. Soprano make the he's detached as indicated in intro on 1st page in mm. 45+, 
4. Alto sing legato with attention to dynamic rises and falls in mm. 53+

Eyze Sheleg! (#4)

• Be accurate intonation and unified on the onset of each pitch in the intro. Accent the first Bong, then sustain the tone on -ng as you restate the bo- portion of the word. Establish your on pattern and rate.
• Suzanne, please choose 3 sopranos to sing the solo part on p. 19 together. 
• Soprano/Alto will observe the optional rests in mm 8. 
• Let me know if you're interested in the speaking solo. It can be male or female.

Rakut (#5)

• I would like to work through unification of the Soprano part grace notes and turns when all are together.
• Work on Hebrew pronunciation

Alleluia

• Sopranos make non-slurred notes in the melody at beginning slightly detached with connections in slurs. Easy mf. All others sing light mp. 
• In 4/4 sections really sing tall vowels with crisp consonants at syllable changes.
• Tenors sing your mf at mm. 9-12 lightly
• Don't sing to heavily at mm. 43-49. 
• At m. 50 crescendo to full, not necessarily overloud volume. It should never sound heavy. 

Breathe

• Make the phrasing/dynamics feel like breaths. Most soft, some (as in mm. 48-56 more loudly). Create the rise and fall sound of breathing complete with suspension and recovery phases.
• Start very softly. Always listen to the Altos.
• There is a Tenor solo in mm. 81-84.

Can We Sing the Darkness

• This is more challenging harmonically than it appears. Really know your part.
• Sing the second syllable of beautiful as [tə] 
• Thank you Gregory for your assistance on the piano!

FOR Tuesday, March 5

If Music Be the Food of Love

When You Wish Upon a Star

Hold On!

The New Colossus 

Grace Before Sleep