NOTES for Week of October 6, 2024

Dear friends,

In the next few weeks, I want to really begin pulling things together musically. Please look closely at your specific challenges with pitches and rhythms, and work those sections. If there is a need for extra attention on my part let me know.

Shalom!

• Make sure to keep the rhythmic back up sections crisp and exact. If you have the melody, sing it out. Keep the syncopated la's very detached.
• Bring out your snippets of melody in the last section, and if you don't have melody, tone down.

 Caritas

• We will continue to sing this in tight C-position in sections so you get used to working as a section on tone and dynamics.
• Men (especially Tenors), be extra careful with intonation, especially in mm. 14-16, and 33-35.

Magnificat

• Review any pitches (and rhythms) that you don't know and begin practicing it with the recording of the performance so that you hear your part in context.
• Work on singing expressively - toward words or syllables that should be weighted.

Let Your Heart Speak Music

• Work through transitions in mm. 15-16, 20-21, 25-26.
• Watch cut-offs in mm. 38 to end.

Ain't That-Rockin'

• Be very precise with syncopations (make your beats into the score).
• Also, make sure you observe the variety of articulations: accents >, strong accents ^, and 
• tenutos -.
• Basses, work for accuracy and articulation in you solo in mm. 74-82. It doesn't have to be loud.  When tenors come in, you can beef it up a bit.
• Sffz at the end is done by hitting the consonant (l), then the vowel is pp followed by crescendo.

I'll Be Home for Christmas

• Ease into cadences. Listen for comfortable dissonance.
• Memorize.

Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen

• Sing using words or humming sections.
• Make the background singing seamless and effortless sounding.

FOR TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2024

This Endris Night (we will do this in section of men and women)

Festival Gloria

While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks

My King is Comin' Soon

Let My Love Be Heard

O Little Town of Bethlehem