Dear Singers
Thank you for the effort you make throughout the rehearsal. I recognize that “Something Like a Star” was not an easy piece to sing at 9:15 PM, but everyone did very well on it anyway! They may say “The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak”, however spirit can take us a very long way and did last night!
Some notes
Notes
At the River
- We need to stay diligent about the Dotted eighth-sixteenth rhythm
- But, Sops and Bass, m 33 is two eighths
Nootka
- mm 7-12: Be very aware of the dynamics. This is about portraying echoes
- Drill the transition: mm 22-23
- Also be careful not to make the eighth rest too long
- Drill mm 29-31 as well
- Continue to be careful about breaths. It is complicated, but important.
- Sops mm 65-66, follow carefully
Crows
- This sounded so good yesterday!
- m 7, loud “t” on beat 4
- Please take every single dynamic down one notch (i.e. f = mf) This also includes p = pp. The one exception is m 92. Blast that out!
- Check notes in m 64
Definition of Beauty I
- Review the Exercise version of this one. The one with the bumpy eighth notes. In case you lost it, it is attached here: Definition of Beauty I – Parker Exercise
- Continue to think about the dynamics
Choose Something
- Make sure to sing this molto legato!
- It would be a good idea to connect all the elisions–the ending consonants to the initial consonants of the next syllable.
Don’t Fence Me In
- Be sure to look at the rhythms throughout. Most of the choir is singing two quarters instead of dotted quarter-eighth in many places: mm 36, 38, 58, 60.