Rehearsal Blog Update 10/24/2013

Hello Intermediate Singers and Families,

Welcome back to the blog! Here’s what’s happening:

Schedule Reminders

Oct 31^st: Halloween rehearsal from 5-6pm. Costumes encouraged!

Nov 21^st: Mandatory final rehearsal before dress rehearsal

Nov 28^th: Thanksgiving – NO REHEARSAL

Dec 5^th: Holidays with Cantabile mandatory dress rehearsal, 4:45-6:30pm at St. Joseph’s Cathedral 

Dec 7^th: Holidays with Cantabile Concert at St. Joseph’s. 11:30am call time (in uniform), 1pm concert

Musicianship

Intermediate A:  You’ve made a great start in your workbooks! Make sure you look through last week’s homework pages. If anything has been circled or marked as incorrect, you must correct your mistakes before handing in your book again next week. Don’t forget to email cassie@cantabile.org with any questions. This week’s assignment: pages 4-8.

Intermediate Honor: Great work on the alto part of Hanukah Lights! We had fun this week putting Vanitas Vanitatum into parts. Here is a video of the piece being performed in several parts so you can hear what it sounds like:

Vanitas Vanitatum

Your first workbook assignment: pages 1-4

Repertoire

Stopping By Woods

Hanukah Lights

Hand Me Down My Silver Trumpet

Man With The Bag

Chocolate Carol

All music must be memorized for the December 7^th concert. For next week, make sure you know Hand Me Down by memory if you don’t already. (I bet you remember more than you think!)

Happy Practicing!

Rehearsal Blog Update 10/18/2013

Hello Intermediate Singers and Families,

Welcome to the Cantabile blogosphere! Every Friday on this blog you will find a new post with updates, schedule reminders, and homework instructions for the singers. 

Upcoming Rehearsal and Concert Schedule

Oct. 17, 24         Regular Rehearsals

Oct. 31              Short Rehearsal 5-6 (both sections) - costumes encouraged!

Nov. 7, 14          Regular Rehearsals

Nov. 21              Last Regular Rehearsal before Concert week: MANDATORY

Nov. 28              NO Rehearsal (Thanksgiving Break)

Dec. 5                4:45 – 6:30 DRESS REHEARSAL, Mandatory

Dec. 7                Holidays with Cantabile Concert, St. Joseph’s Cathedral, San Jose
11:30am call time, 1:00pm concert (in uniform)

Dec. 12-Jan. 8    Holiday Break


Jan. 9
                Winter/Spring Semester Begins

Repertoire

Stopping by Woods, Vera Kisler
Chocolate Carol, David Avshalomov
Hanukah Lights, Cassie Luftspring
Man with the Bag, Harold Stanley
Hand Me Down My Silver Trumpet, Joy Webb
Art Thou Troubled, G.F. Handel

All music is performed memorized at the concert. (Please talk to Cassie at the rehearsal if you are missing any of these pieces!)

Intermediate Musicianship Classes

On Thursday, Intermediate A singers received a workbook from the series, "A Young Singers Journey", used by expert choral conductors and choirs throughout North America. Intermediate Honor was working on another project and will receive their books next week.

The workbooks will help teach children valuable musicianship skills related to reading and understanding music notation. These skills will in turn allow your conductors to introduce increasingly exciting and challenging repertoire, and will make learning that repertoire easier and more fun! There will be a small amount of homework given from the workbook each week, so that the Musicianship Curriculum Director can monitor the progress of each child. These workbooks are simply a part of - not a substitute for - the curriculum being taught during musicianship classes. Class time will continue to be a mixture of singing, analyzing, writing, answering questions, and playing games. Learning and fun will continue to go hand in hand at Cantabile!

Intermediate A Homework: Pages 1-4. If you don’t have a CD player at home, please contact cassie@cantabile.org right away!

Have a great weekend, and happy practicing!