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Rehearsal Reminder

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

From Dr. Whitmire:  Dear Singers-

Everyone
-Please do not miss our Judas Maccabeaus rehearsal this Saturday 1:00-2:30 pm.
-Don’t forget, our Scholarship Fundraiser, a recital by Chris and David Hagan, is this Tuesday, October 19 at 7:30 pm. I’d like each of you to bring at least 2 guests. They will be glad you did.

Women’s Chorus for Holst
By all accounts, Sunday’s Dress Rehearsal was a disaster. Therefore I must take steps to give us the best chance for a credible performance. I am reducing the choir to two on a part. I am very sorry to have to cut some of my women from the concert, but I am forced to resort to drastic steps. The Reduced Women’s Chorus that you see below will rehearse this Saturday at noon. You must attend to sing in the concerts. If you are in the Reduced Women’s Chorus below, please respond and let me know that you will be at this rehearsal.

Choir I
Soprano 1- Terri LaGoe (10/17), Chris Hagan (10/24), Michelle McHugh
Soprano 2-Peggy Harrison, Lene Jensen
Alto-Debbie Peetz, Dorothea Kamara

Choir II
Soprano 1-Jill Meyer, Judy Robb
Soprano 2-Shellie Grant, Barbara Lowrey
Alto-Ellie Briscoe, Annette Reilly

I look forward to seeing everyone on Saturday. We will rehearse all of Judas.

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Fifth Rehearsal Preview

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

From Dr. Whitmire:  Dear Singers-
Welcome to our 5th rehearsal of Fall 2010!  Please sign in.

Tonight’s Rehearsal – Judas 26, 30, 34, 43
Next Week – 49, 50, 56, 58, 66

The Planets– The Planets rehearsals have been moved to Tuesday at the end of rehearsal. If you think you might want to sing, stay and check out this beautiful music. There will be no Planets rehearsals on Saturdays.

Please remember this rehearsal that I added to our schedule (.pdf) on 9-14-10:
Saturday, October 16, 1-2:30 pm: Full Rehearsal
Please plan to attend this very important rehearsal. Begin now making arrangements at work and at home so that you don’t miss it.

Attendance
Please try not to be absent. If you miss more than two rehearsals during preparation for a concert, you will be asked to audition to demonstrate preparedness. Please notify Section Leaders of absences:

Soprano-Peggy Harrison, peggyh [at] ix [dot] netcom [dot]com
Alto-Debbie Peetz, peetz [at] rand [dot] org
Tenor-Larry Goldschmidt, lgold2 [at] comcast [dot] net
Bass-Ray Lombardi, ray2408 [at] comcast [at] net

(Update:  Bass Section only: Please note that Ray Lombardi’s E-mail address is rayjoyce2408 [at] verizon [dot] net)

Please remember the NOVA Community Chorus in your charitable giving.
Tax-deductible contributions can be made to the NVCC Foundation.

Sing Well

[Admin:  Section leader contact information is always included in each of the Frequently Used Documents, listed on the right: Performance Tips | Info for New Members | Join the Chorus (.pdfs)]

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From Dr. Whitmire

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

Dear Singers-
Please check out the great work that Kate does on our web-site [www.novachorus.org].
On the website please check out Ellie Briscoe’s very clear and helpful notes about measure numbering. I would like to make one change. No. 30 begins with m1 on page 80. Chorus enters on page 82, m59. (If you’ve already numbered starting at p82, just add 58 to each of your measure numbers.)
Try to spend some time this weekend with your music and rehearsal CDs. I look forward to seeing you on Tuesday.
Yours-DrW

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Judas Measure Numbering

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

(9/10/2010) From Chorister Ellie and Accompanist Chris:

It’s the LAST measure number, followed by the number of the first measure of the last system in each chorus, in brackets, as a double-check.

4  For Sion lamentation make — 29 [26]
7 O Father Whose Almighty Pow’r — 70 [67]  Do not number the partial first measure.
10 We Come in bright array — 49 [43]
19  Lead on — 22 [20]  (Half measures on page 48.)
25 Hear us O Lord — 81 [76]
26 Fall’n is the foe — 83 [80]
30 Tune your harps — 161 [146 on page 89, 153 on page 90] (9/18 Dr. Whitmire update:  No. 30 begins with m1 on page 80. Chorus enters on page 82, m59. (If you’ve already numbered starting at p82, just add 58 to each of your measure numbers.))
34 Hail Judea, happy land — 29 [26]
43b We Hear — 52 [48] (9/15 Admin Update:  Numbering actually begins on page 114.  First measure on page 117 is then 81, and ends on page 120 with measure 132.)
49 Never bow down — 115 [107]
56 See the Conquering Hero — 80 [73]
58 Sing unto God — 67 [64] (chorus starts at measure 22) (9/15 Admin Update:  Page 160 contains 2 half measures.  The last measure number is 66.)
65 Hallelujah, Amen — 37 [33]

(Admin updates confirmed with Accompanist Chris.)

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Fourth Rehearsal Preview

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

From Dr. Whitmire:

Dear Singers-
Welcome to our 4th rehearsal of Fall 2010!  Please sign in.

At this table pick up
Pitch Exercise Chorus #25, Count-singing Exercise Chorus #25

Tonight’s Rehearsal Judas #19, #25      Next Week 26, 30, 33, 43

The Planets-Since several of my Planets women will be out this Saturday, we will rehearse The Planets tonight at the end of rehearsal. If you think you might want to sing, stay and check out this beautiful music. The will be no Planets rehearsal this Saturday.

-As you know we will miss two rehearsals in October. On October 12 the college is closed. On October 19 we have our Chorus Benefit Recital by Chris and David Hagan. To compensate, I have added a rehearsal to our schedule (.pdf):
Saturday, October 16, 1-2:30 pm: Full Rehearsal
Please plan to attend this very important rehearsal. Begin now making arrangements at work and at home so that you don’t miss it.

Sing well

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Judas Maccabaeus

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

From Fred: Kate has posted my MP3 files of the following parts of Judas Maccabaeus:

1 Overture
4 For Sion lamentation make
19, 20, 21 Lead on & Disdainful
25 & 26 Hear us O Lord & Fall’n is the foe
34 Hail Judea, happy land (You’ll probably recognize this tune)
48 & 49 Never bow down
58 Sing unto God
65 Hallelujah, Amen (yep, another Hallelujah Chorus – well… it’s Handel)

Download and enjoy.

PS: Look up Judas Maccabaeus in Wikipedia if you have not already done so.
A really interesting history lesson.

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Judas Maccabaeus

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

(7/28/2010) From Fred:

There were 30 copies of Judas Macabaeus were on the campus book stores this morning. I told the clerk we’ll probably need 70 more.

I found the rehearsal tracks that Mark recommended download as MIDI format. You can drag those MIDI files over to iTunes and they’ll play fine if you have a player such as Quicktime in your computer. More interesting is that iTunes will convert the MIDI files to MP3 files which you can copy into your iPOD or equivalent.

You can also go to Youtube.com and play 10 of our choruses on your computer in full up chorus and orchestra performances. It is clumsy at best to find them but you get an idea of the glorious sound when it is performed.

I am experimenting with the audio I have mined from youtube and hope to make MP3 files from them. If all goes well, they can be on our web site soon.

– MIDI Rehearsal tracks of Judas Maccabaeus are here:

http://www.learnchoralmusic.co.uk/Handel/Judas%20Maccabaeus/judas-mac2.html

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