NOTES for Week of August 25, 2024

Friends,

Thank you for a great start to our 10th Season. I believe this will be our best yet.

Please remember;

1. Listen more acutely to intonation, blend, and balance.
2. Train your instrument with proper warm-ups and singing with healthy technique.
3. Study your score for notes and rhythms, of course, and also musical nuance. Highligh every tempo and dynamic marking.
4. Sing Actively, using expressiveness even in your practice.

REVIEW:

Let Your Hear Speak Music

• Circle meter changes. Remember that the climax of a crescendo is at the point the dimuendo starts.
• Continue to practice on doo until you can sing notes/rhythms flawlessly while observing dynamics. Then incorporate diction, using rich, pure vowels.
• Breathing: Stagger through mm. 7. There is a luftpause in m. 23. 
• Sopranos keep m. 13 piano with gentle increase in phrase.

Fum, Fum, Fum

• Women, no breath in m. 22. Sing the 16th-notes in mm. 50 (S), 54 (A), 58 (S/A) lightly and articulately. 
• Men, sing the slurred notes in mm. 47-48, 51-52, and 55-56 cleanly and very accurately.
• I will record the Spanish and have Chuck put it on the resources site.
• Begin memorizing.

Caritas

• This song is deceptively challenging. It's about pure, sustained tone, active dynmaic shifts, and flawless intonation.
• It's one word, pronounced CAH-ree-tahs, with a consistently rolled "r". If you can't roll r's, use a latinized (frontal) d.
• Work through the notes and the counting. Remember all note values are doubled.
• When practicing, always actively sing the dynamics.

Il est ne

• Middle divisi women (Vania, Lisa, Brittany, Joanna Mittman, and Cassi). 
• Middle divisi men (Christian, Dana, Jeremy, and Thom)
• I will record the French and have Chuck put it on the resources site.
• Begin memorizing.

FOR TUESDAY, AUGUST 27:

Magnificat - Rehearse parts up to page 9

Let My Love Be Heard - Rehearse parts to end (listen to recording)

Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! and I'll Be Home for Christmas - Rehearse parts to end

Shalom! - Rehearse parts to top of page 8