[New_csc_newsline] The Concert Singers of Cary Choral Notes - Carolina Theater on my Mind

[Thom Haynes]

Selamat petang!



Our next rehearsal is Mon Apr 29, 7:30-9:30pm at the CAC Marcus Dry
room. Mendelssohn at 7:30, Debussy at 8:30. Maestro Muti will be
there! Thanks to Gary Lew who helped the intrepid Al Pasquale set up
chairs at 7:10pm – I hope a few of YOU will come early next week to
help.



More information will be coming about the Carnegie Hall trip. Performance
on May 23, 2020, trip May 20-24 including travel. Deposits will be due
October 1, 2019.





>From Nathan:

“Please arrive early Monday and be ready to be flexible and try new
approaches as M. Muti requests them.


Saturday, May 4:

Debussy choir - call is 9:30, rehearsal is from 10:00-11:30.

Mendelssohn choir - call is 12:40, rehearsal is scheduled from 1:00-2:15.

Wear comfortable shoes - there are not seated risers at the Carolina
Theater.


Music Notes from 4/22:


Debussy:

Great rehearsal and very good work on this piece, especially on page 4.

Here is a youtube recording. You can listen to the choir sections at the
following times. This is a GREAT way to practice your entrances, a couple
of which are tricky. It also gives you a much better sense of the whole
piece than the piano reduction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNVLTWTHYY4

4 before REHEARSAL 4: 3:20

REHEARSAL 7: 5:20

REHEARSAL 10: 7:00

REHEARSAL 28: 15:35

REHEARSAL 34: 19:05

You've done great work on this music, especially with the text. Please
review your text in each section before Monday, in rhythm either singing or
speaking. In particular, review page 4 and the measures after REHEARSAL 11.

Remind yourself in the 5th bar of REHEARSAL 7 and at REHEARSAL 31 that this
6/4 meter is not a slower tempo. We see those quarter notes and want to go
slower, but it is only 2 beats per measure. After rehearsal 7, the 6/4 is
exactly the same tempo as the 6/8 bar where we enter, the note values
simply change from the dotted quarter note getting the beat in the 6/8 to
the dotted half note getting the beat in the 6/4.

Remember that at REHEARSAL 32, it changes from hopeful to sad. In theory it
will go a touch slower, but be ready for whatever he wants to do there.
Your final ahs that you sing are sorrowful. The last words the narrator
sings on page 25 mean: "Then she threw her arms along the golden barrier,
and putting her face in her hands, wept." If you can, give the entire
ending a listen from 15:35 to the end. I can't listen to it without
shedding at least one tear.


Mendelssohn:

We are ready - great work on this.

Mvt. 1:

-very lovely shaping, we want this always in this movement, especially as
marked on the word "Hirsch"

-dynamic contrast, in measure 20 to piano following the tutti forte, and on
page 7

Mvt 3:

-be ready for whatever tempo he wants

-dynamic contrasts

-full tone in m. 53, especially altos, and he can then shape it how he wants

-rhythm in m. 57

Mvt. 4:

-TB full tone in opening, it sounds great, but never louder than beautiful

-no slide in measure 3

-make sure of placement of final Ts on Gott. If it doubt, leave it off

Mvt. 7:

-final Ts

-SA measures 80-88

-S entrance m. 129”





Our Spring Daze CSC table: this Sat Apr 27 2019 at Bond Park:
https://www.facebook.com/events/362719791217128/

Please consider signing up here!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0f4bada72aa02-spring3 Thanks to
Catherine Bennett for being the 5th person to sign up – I need 3 more
(more fun to have two peeps at the table)!



Your Board of Directors would like to learn more about you – what you find
fun and enjoyable, your job skills and talents, etc! Please fill out this
survey, created by Alicia Martinez and Francesca Sessa. Thank you so much
in advance! (All of the responses will only be used internally and won’t be
shared.)
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe_amyKKuEpf7bQKJdXdRaXFlJDJ3KBgMr3JX_fmir52cUEsA/viewform



We didn’t get enough signups for the CSC-logo’ed tote bags – we will try
again in the fall!



Please invite/email local friends and family to our final event of the
season:

May 5 ‘MAF’  https://www.facebook.com/events/2394226657272280/



Thom Haynes



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The Concert Singers of Cary "Voices Heard throughout the Triangle"