Hi Everyone,
I hope your penultimate preparations for our upcoming concert are going well. Here are a few ideas that may help make your practice time more efficient. Please try these in the following order. Also, If you plan on attending the instrumental-only rehearsal, please fill out the Google Form in the link below.
- Practice your individual parts with the rehearsal tracks, review troublesome sections several times.
- Sing from the beginning to the end of each piece with the reference recording. Review any trouble spots with the rehearsal tracks.
- Listen to the reference recordings for dynamics, phrasing, syllables that are stressed and ones that are not, and how each part interacts with the other parts. Ubi Caritas and You Do Not Walk Alone have independent parts, each section is doing something different.
- Sing from the beginning to the end of each piece with the reference recording to add what is suggested in step #3.
- Finally, read the lyrics of each piece and discover what the “heart” of each piece is trying to convey. There She Stands was written as a tribute after 911, saying no matter what has happened our flag will remain standing. Ubi Caritas et Amore Deus ibi Est is more difficult because of the Latin. Here is a poetic translation, Where Charity and Love is, God is there. This should give you some insight into the heart of the piece.
Thank you for your diligent effort to get everything prepared for this concert. I am so impressed that we have been able to get all this music together is such a short time. You are a great group and I know this concert will be wonderful!
Thanks, David
PS – Don’t forget to invite people to the concert!
Instrumental-Only Rehearsal Google Form
https://forms.gle/weSvXPiya2nkPQzt5