Dear
Intermediate Singers and Families,
We’re just over a week away from our fourth annual Cantabile Festival for Young Voices: An African Celebration! The celebration begins with a special clinic hosted by our festival composer-in-residence:
Thursday, March 6th Composer-In-Residence Clinic
Time: 5:00-7:00pm*
Location: Foothills
*Please note the adjusted rehearsal time. There will be no musicianship
classes – all singers are to arrive at 5pm and depart at 7pm. Please be prompt, and come ready to sing and dance
your African repertoire! All festival repertoire must be memorized!
Saturday, March 8th Festival
For Young Voices
Call Time: 10:00am
Release Time: 3:30pm
Location: First United
Methodist Church of Palo Alto, 625 Hamilton Avenue
Drop off and pick up: main
entrance on Hamilton Ave. Look out for a sign
for your choir indicating your drop-off location.
Attire: Singers
must arrive in their full concert uniform
Singers Must Bring: 1 bag containing their sack lunch, additional snacks, a water bottle with
name clearly marked, and a sweater. Singers will eat their lunch outside - eating is not
permitted inside the building.
Please
note: green rooms will not be locked – singers are strongly discouraged from bringing
expensive items like cell phones and electronic devices. You will be
responsible for any lost or stolen items.
Concert
The goal of the festival
is to reach out to the wider singing community, giving school children
opportunities to hear each other in a non-competitive environment and to work with outstanding choral
conductors from North America and beyond. In keeping with this
goal, we welcome the families of our guest
choristers to share the joy of music making at the final performance of the
festival, and ask that Cantabile families
kindly leave the limited seating to them.
Collection
We expect pick up to be around
3:30 pm, but due to the number of children needing to be signed out, it could
be later than that (up until 4:00 pm). We appreciate your patience and flexibility
as we release over 300 children to their families.
Volunteer Opportunities
From setting up and packing up the African drums
for the drumming workshop, to welcoming our guest choirs, chaperoning our own
singers and helping during the concert - there's a role for everyone!
Click here to sign up!
What To
Practice for the March 8th Festival
All
pieces for March 8th must be memorized for the
concert! Click on the titles below to watch videos of the pieces you need to
practice.
What To
Practice for the May 10th Concert
Click
on the titles to watch videos of the pieces you need to practice.
Hats (music
begins at 0:58)
Musicianship
I am in
the process of reviewing all of your theory books. Those of you who have
received your books back: please correct all of your mistakes and finish any
sections that you left blank. You will not receive your musicianship book
certificate at the end of the term until all pages are complete and correct!
Happy
Practicing!
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