Posts Tagged ‘resources’
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
From Dr. Whitmire: Welcome to our 11th rehearsal of Fall 2012! Please sign in.
Tickets – I hope that each singer will sell five tickets at $10 each (Half price). Cash or checks to WMPA.
Flyers– Post them everywhere. Send them electronically to everyone you know.
Tonight is Music Majors Final Exam
Schedule
-Tues. 11/27 Music Majors Final Exam
-Sat. 12/1 Full Rehearsal ⏎ Please do not miss this rehearsal
-Sun. 12/2, 3:00 pm Concert, 2:00 pm Call, Epiphany ⏎ Note new call time
-Tues. 12/04, 7:30pm, Dress Rehearsal for 12/06 Concert, Schlesinger
-Thurs. 12/06, 7:30 pm Concert, 6:30 pm Call, Band/Chorus Concert, Schlesinger
-Sat. 12/8 Full Rehearsal
-Sunday 12/9, 3:00 pm Concert, 2:00 pm Call, with the WMPO, Bishop Ireton HS
Hallelujah Chorus
We will rehearse the Hallelujah Chorus tonight. If you do not own a Messiah score, please print the pdf I sent last week and bring to rehearsal. Here is a link to learning tracks: http://www.anselm.edu/abbey/choir/hallelujah.htm
Tags: attendance, class schedule, dr. whitmire, performances, rehearsal tracks, rehearsals, resources, sheet music
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2012
From Dr. Whitmire: Welcome to our 10th rehearsal of Fall 2012! Please sign in.
Tickets – See your Section Leader. I hope that each singer will sell five tickets at $10 each (Half price). Cash or checks to WMPA.
Flyers – Post them everywhere. Send them electronically to everyone you know.
Thanks to all who attended rehearsal with the orchestra on Sunday. The tempos that I took are the same as on the recording I gave you. Work with your recording.
Schedule
-Sat. 11/24 No Rehearsal
-Tues. 11/27 Music Majors Final Exam
-Sat. 12/1 Full Rehearsal ⏎ Please do not miss this rehearsal
-Sun. 12/2, 3:00 pm Concert, 1:30 pm Call, Epiphany
-Tues. 12/04, 7:30pm, Dress Rehearsal for 12/06 Concert, Schlesinger
-Thurs. 12/06, 7:30 pm Concert, 6:30 pm Call, Band/Chorus Concert, Schlesinger
-Sat. 12/8 Full Rehearsal
-Sunday 12/9, 3:00 pm Concert, 2:00 pm Call, with the WMPO, Bishop Ireton HS
Hallelujah Chorus
We will sing the Hallelujah Chorus with the band at our 12/06 concert. A PDF is attached. If you do not own a Messiah score, please print it and bring to rehearsal. Here is a link to learning tracks: http://www.anselm.edu/abbey/choir/hallelujah.htm
Tags: attendance, class schedule, dr. whitmire, performances, rehearsal tracks, rehearsals, resources, sheet music
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Thursday, October 25th, 2012
The first worksheets for this semester were posted on August 26, 2012. Previous posts can always be located by scrolling in reverse chronological order, or by utilizing the search box to the right of the page.
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Posted in Fall 2012 | Comments Off on Worksheets
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012
Reminder: Frequently Used Documents are always linked on the right side of the page:
Info for New Members (Great refresher for current members, too)
Dr. W’s Choral Singing Tips
Performance Guidance (includes concert dress guidelines)
Join the Chorus
Tags: performances, resources
Posted in Fall 2012 | Comments Off on Performance Guidance
Thursday, August 30th, 2012
From Chorister Ellie: The same guy who recorded the Jubilate Deo YouTube video has done Sicut Cervus, on www.choraltracks.com. Awesome job… he has all the voices.
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Posted in Fall 2012 | Comments Off on Choral Tracks
Monday, August 20th, 2012
From Dr. Whitmire: Dear Singers-
I look forward to seeing you at our first rehearsal next Tuesday, August 28.
We have three concert wonderful concert programs this semester.
With regard to sheet music and rehearsal CDs you have two options: you can download all that you need at www.novachorus.org for FREE or you can purchase sheet music and CD for $30 ($10 per concert).
Concert One-Tuesday 10/02
Choral Fantasy sheet music and Four Scottish Folksongs sheet music ($5)
Rehearsal CD ($5)
Total -$10
Concert Two-Thursday 12/06
Jubilate Deo, Diligam te Domine, Lauda Jerusalem Dominum, Christe adoramus te, Sicut cervus sheet music ($5)
Rehearsal CD ($5)
Total -$10
Concert Three-Sunday 12/9
Magnificat in D sheet music ($5)
Rehearsal CD ($5)
Total -$10
Semester Total-$30
Cash or check to NVCC Foundation
[I prepared this music in order to save you money. To buy the sheet music would have cost $75. Commercial rehearsal CDs (Cyberbass, etc) are $25 each.]
Quartets-Earlier this summer, I suggested that we learn our Concert Two repertoire in quartets. How is that working? If you are in a quartet that has rehearsed and has made good progress, please let me know.
If you know good singers who would like to join us this season, let me know or just bring them on Tuesday. See you then.
Tags: dr. whitmire, performances, rehearsal tracks, rehearsals, resources, sheet music
Posted in Fall 2012, Summer 2012 | Comments Off on First Rehearsal Preview
Friday, August 17th, 2012
From Chorister Jane: I will host a rehearsal for the Chorus 2 Gabrielli and Monteverdi choruses on Mon, Aug 20 at 7:30.
Please let me know if you are coming (no need to reply if not) so I know how many chairs to put out.
Please bring all three pieces of music: Lauda Jerusalem Dominum, Jubilate Deo, and Diligam te Domine.
Arlington VA (Please contact Jane for directions jane.roningen [at] gmail [dot] com)
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Posted in Fall 2012, Summer 2012 | Comments Off on Choir 2 Practice
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
From Chorister Ellie: My quartet has been unable to practice together, for a variety of reasons.
I hereby offer to host a Choir I practice for all four parts, for any quartet member who wants to come.
Monday August 27, 7:30 to 9 pm, at my house. Allergy warning: I have cats.
Alexandria 22304 [Contact Ellie for details]
Let me know if you need directions.
Please let me know if you plan to come so I know how many chairs to put out: ellie [at] briscoe [dot] com.
Do not reply to the chorus list, just directly to me, please.
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Posted in Fall 2012, Summer 2012 | Comments Off on Choir 1 Practice
Sunday, August 5th, 2012
From Chorister Ellie: Translation (.pdf) for “Duncan Gray.” I’m guessing most of the chorus isn’t familiar with Burns’ broad Scots…
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Posted in Fall 2012, Summer 2012 | Comments Off on Duncay Gray Translation
Wednesday, June 27th, 2012
From Admin: As rehearsal tracks, recordings and sheet music files become available, they are posted to the music files page, listed on the tab above.
From Dr. Whitmire: (1) Dear Singers- I hope you are having a great summer. I know that by now you need a choir fix. So here is the music to Gabrielli’s Jubilate Deo. This message will include sheet music and a recording. The next will have Choir I rehearsal tracks, then Choir II rehearsal tracks. Enjoy.
(2) Choir I rehearsal tracks
(3) Choir II rehearsal tracks
(4) Dear Singers- Here is the music to Monteverdi’s Lauda Jerusalem Dominum. This message will include sheet music and a recording. The next will have Choir I rehearsal tracks, then Choir II rehearsal tracks. Enjoy.
(5) Choir I rehearsal tracks
(6) Choir 2 rehearsal tracks. (Tenor is the same as Choir I)
(7) Dear Singers- Here is the music to Gabrielli’s Diligam te, Domine. This message will include sheet music and a recording. The next will have Choir I rehearsal tracks, then Choir II rehearsal tracks. Enjoy.
(8) Choir I learning tracks
(9) Choir 2 learning tracks
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Posted in Fall 2012, Summer 2012 | Comments Off on Music Learning Materials
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
Reminder: Frequently Used Documents are always linked on the right side of the page:
Info for New Members (Great refresher for current members, too)
Dr. W’s Choral Singing Tips
Performance Guidance (includes concert dress guidelines)
Join the Chorus
Tags: attendance, concert dress, faq, resources, section leaders
Posted in Spring 2012 | Comments Off on Frequently Used Documents
Monday, January 16th, 2012
From Dr. Whitmire: Dear Singers- We had an excellent Women’s Rehearsal on Saturday. We found the beginnings of some beautiful moments in Songs of Sunset. Tomorrow we will work on Delius mm 130-187. Attached is the first movement for those of you who did not purchase the Rehearsal CD. The remaining movements will follow. Listen to how lush and beautiful this music is. See you tomorrow.
Yours-DrW
Delius
mm 1-48
mm 130-187
mm 358-412
mm 469-end
[Admin note: Music files are listed on the music files page.]
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Posted in Spring 2012 | Comments Off on Songs of Sunset
Saturday, January 7th, 2012
From Dr. Whitmire: Dear Singers,
Happy New Year! I look forward to seeing you at our first rehearsal this Tuesday. Please bring all your friends who are good singers. Where else will they get to sing a Jazz Mass and a concert with full orchestra in the same season?
Free sheet music and rehearsal tracks for Songs of Sunset and Jazz Mass are posted at novachorus.org/music-files. I will also have sheet music and rehearsal CDs at our first rehearsal on Tuesday.
Songs of Sunset sheet music – $5
Songs of Sunset CDs – $5
Jazz Mass sheet music – $5
Jazz Mass CDs – $5
Cash or checks made payable to NVCC Foundation.
All singers must have sheet music at our first rehearsal on Tuesday. If you have not gone to the website and printed your music, please be prepared to purchase music on Tuesday. Please bring a black 3-ring binder for your music.
Music for our final concert of the season -Barber, Bernstein and Sondheim-is in the bookstore now, but we will not begin rehearsing it until March.
See you soon!
-DrW
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Posted in Spring 2012 | Comments Off on First Rehearsal
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
From Dr. Whitmire: Dear Singers,
I hope you are enjoying a wonderful holiday. I have spent the last few days working on your scores and CDs for Songs of Sunset. It is a rich, wonderful piece in a harmonic idiom that we have never explored. Some have referred to Delius as an English Debussy. The text is by the English writer Ernest Dowson (1867–1900). Interestingly, the phrase “days of wine and roses” is originally from his poem:
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.
I have attached an mp3 to whet your appetite. It will be a challenge, but by now you expect that, right?
And for a (big) change of pace, I have also attached the opening piece to my Jazz Mass.
I think the semester will have something for everyone, and it’s all in English. So bring all the good singers you know to our first rehearsal on Tuesday, January 10. In the meanwhile,
Peace-DrW
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Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
Here are the handouts from the August 30, 2011 rehearsal (.pdf files):
Schedule, 2 pages
Exercises: Chords, Count Singing, Intervals, Note Names, Key Signatures OR All 4 pages
Chichester Psalms: I – Rhythm (changing meters), II – Rhythm, III – Pitch (changing key center), III – Rhythm and Harmony OR All 4 pages
Rachmaninoff: #3 Rhythm (simple meter) and Harmony (2 pages), #4 Rhythm, Compound Meter, #12 Pitch OR All 4 pages
Reminder: Frequently Used Documents are always linked on the right side of the page:
Info for New Members (Great refresher for current members, too)
Dr. W’s Choral Singing Tips
Performance Guidance (includes concert dress guidelines)
Join the Chorus
Tags: concert dress, dr. whitmire, exercises, rehearsals, resources, schedule
Posted in Fall 2011 | Comments Off on Rehearsal Handouts
