Dear Intermediate Singers and Families,
Welcome, new and returning singers, to
Cantabile’s 20th Anniversary Season! You’re in for an exciting year
of sharing beautiful music with friends and family. Thank you for a productive,
energetic, and fun first rehearsal!
This rehearsal blog will be updated at the
end of every week. Singers and families, please visit the blog each week to
find important information on upcoming events and what to practice for homework
during the week.
Weekly Homework Expectations
There are three ways in which singers will
receive homework:
1. Blog instructions: On this blog will be
instructions about how to practice, or videos that singers will need to watch
during the week in order to learn music.
2. Practice recordings: Throughout the term
singers will receive recordings of me singing the pieces we're learning.
I will email these recordings as mp3 files that you can download and play
at home/in the car/on your computer or smart phone or other device. Singers,
please listen to these recordings several times throughout the week, and term,
until your part is memorized. We perform all music from
memory!
3. Musicianship workbooks: Both
Intermediate A and Intermediate Honor singers will receive around three or four pages
of musicianship homework from their “A Young Singer’s Journey” workbook each
week. Please note:
a. Homework must be completed before the next rehearsal.
b. A parent/guardian must sign on
the “marking page” (at the front of each book) to indicate that their child has
completed their homework. Families, please ensure that your singers are using
the CD at the back as required by the weekly assignment.
c. At the start of every rehearsal
all singers will hand in their books
so that last week’s work can be marked. Singers will pick up their marked books
at the end of rehearsal to take home.
d. On the “marking page”, the theory marker will indicate whether or not
corrections must be made to the previous week’s homework. Please correct all errors in addition to
completing the new homework for the week.
What To Practice This Week
REPERTOIRE
Walking
in the Air: Click HERE to listen to a recording of
the piece on YouTube.
Solstice:
Click HERE to listen to a recording of the piece on
YouTube.
MUSICIANSHIP
Intermediate
A: Please complete pages 1-3 in your “A Young
Singer’s Journey” Book I or II. Parents/guardians, please sign on the marking
pages at the front of the book to indicate that you have seen your child’s
completed homework.
Intermediate
Honor: Please complete pages 1-3 in your “A Young
Singer’s Journey” Book II. Parents/guardians, please sign on the marking pages
at the front of the book to indicate that you have seen your child’s completed
homework.
Happy Practicing!
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