Dear Singers
Good rehearsal. We dealt with many difficulties. Congratulations.
Some notes…
Notes
Ave Maria – Rachmaninoff
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It is easy to get too slow on this piece. It can become ponderous. Please be sure not to make your breaths too slow, especially in the first few measures
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Enjoy making the hair of audience members fly back at m 20!
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Review the transition from m 21 to 22. As usual, some of the hardest transitions in music happen over page turns.🙂
Let It Snow
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Reviewing the road map
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First time as written until you get to m 23
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m 23 on beat 3 cut to beat 3 of m 25
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D.S. to m 9 (2nd ending)
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Second time through TB sing SA part 8vb (an octave lower)
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m 12 – 13 with pickups as written
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m 14 – 15 with pickups SA and TB sing SA part (basses hold the E at the end of 14
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As written to the end
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Always think light throughout the piece
he came al so stil
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40 – end pp
O Magnum Mysterium
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“Dominum” with the Latin open “o” (not the west coast “o” = “ou”)
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“in praesepio” = “een preh seh pee oh”
Dreidel Song
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If you sing on the downbeat of m 73 we will all laugh at you!
Winter Wonderland
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Review m 30 – end
See Dat Babe
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25 – 32 ATB: this is a continuous cresc.
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m 28 Basses: practice this lick by singing “da da da da da da da da da”. When this becomes boring see if you can do it with breath impulses on each note (hard to do, but I know we can)
Still Still Still
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Don’t forget the repeat marked at the end of m 16
Mark