Thank you SO much for your hard work on Sunday, and for being so friendly and welcoming to our special guests! We were able to get a lot of very important work done, while still showing off how far we've come with this show and how exciting it is going to be! Now we need to dig in and fix all of the little things that are still messy or unfinished.
In particular on Sunday, we noticed that the following pieces needed some more memorization work. Christina has added some notes to help you in your practicing:
- Kocsar pieces (Sea-Wash, Nocturne, Bringers) - please please please work on your counting here - the rests are what are causing messes (you know your notes well!). All three pieces share this feature and really need work. They are otherwise really beautiful but they are falling to pieces right now because of bad entries and there are so many entries that I can’t cue all of them.
- Pakkanen - S2s (and S1s) we need your words rock solid by this Sunday. Really.
- I'll Give My Love an Apple - The memory work overall needs attention here.
- To Be Sung on the Water - The memory work is weak in this piece so all the details we added in rehearsals (like clean cut-offs, dynamics, text expression) have disappeared. This piece is much harder than it looks so please give it some extra time this week.
- Alone (Choir 2) - You really needs to do some more work on this one (we will give you a bit of time on your own at rehearsal this Sunday but we will be at the church by 12:45 so I’d suggest you try to come early to work together before rehearsal if possible).
- Alone (Choir 1) - We are going to work on making your sound more pop-epic this week. You will need some free brain space to think about vocal production so make sure you memorization is comfortable enough that you are having to work hard to get things “right” anymore.
Please devote some time this week to making sure each of these pieces is totally solid in your memory. We will spend some time on these pieces on Sunday, and will take quite a bit of time to work on transitions and movement for Parts 3&4.
We would like anyone with a speaking part to arrive early for rehearsal on Sunday to work on your text. Please arrive at the church at 12:45 pm and be ready to go!
Now is the time to really focus on at-home rehearsal preparation so that you come to rehearsal feeling confident in all your music, movement, speaking parts, and transitions. We know this show is going to be stunning if every person commits to working hard at home and in rehearsals.
Costumes - Thanks to Robin for the beautiful work she has done making all of our skirts for the show!!! This Sunday, please bring some options for shirts you could wear for the show. We'd like to see them on and confirm that what everyone has works. Shirts can be any sleeve length from thick strap tank tops (no spaghetti straps) to 3/4 sleeve and should fit into the basic colour palette (ie- lighter whites/blues/greys for younglings and darker blues/navy/charcoal for elders). Please choose something that you can move in comfortably (ie something stretchy with a bit of spandex will hug your body and stay in place, but should not be skin tight). You can choose whether your shirt is tucked in or not, but it should look graceful and the shirt should hang so that you don't have to fiddle with it during the show.
IMPORTANT - We are singing O Canada this friday evening for the Liberal Party of NS AGM (this is a fundraiser for us!). We will meet at 6:15 in the lobby of the Lord Nelson Hotel. Dress is Xara t-shirts, black dress pants or skirts, black socks/tights, and black shoes with Xara braid and make up (to look polished). We will be done by 7:45. The valley crew can't travel in so it is important that everyone else do what they need to do to get here. Let us know ASAP if you have a conflict that you don't think you can fix.
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