Xara Camp & Sun Sept 16 Notes

Thank you all so much for a wonderful Xara Camp! Your energy, passion, and dedication to Xara is so inspiring to the three of us!

Here is a brief rundown of what we worked on this weekend, as well as what you need to prepare for this Sunday:

Music

• we did some detailed work on One Voice, Les Angelus, Tree of Life, Wanting Memories, and Pen-pen sarapen (from Tatlo sa Buhay)
• we had a look at In Autumn, Zai Itxoiten, Two Strings One Voice

Movement

• awareness (blue paint on the bottoms of your feet)
• suspension & lightness (used nearly always when performing, especially in work like the plastiques where you are moving with a partner)
• balancing the space (glass plate balanced on a straw)

Theatre

• working with Shakespeare text to find the shape and meaning of the line
• slowing down the text to become familiar with the shape and sound of the line
• carrying the line forward and up (throwing the net & throwing the ball)
• recalling a personal memory to communicate the emotion carried in the text

Thank you all so much for your hard work on the One Voice video this weekend. Unfortunately, due to the quality of the piano at Ross Creek, we will have to re-record the audio track this coming Sunday at rehearsal. If you were not present at Xara Camp, please come to rehearsal with this piece at performance standard. 

Preparation for Sunday Sept 16:

• Wanting Memories - must be memorized for Sunday
• Les Angelus & Tree of Life - spend time with these pieces and get familiar with your line and how it fits in harmonically with the other parts. Listening to the reference recordings is very important for these pieces.

To that end, audio files for "We Remember" and "Unraveled" have been uploaded to our Soundcloud page. These recordings are downloadable as well. Please remember these recordings are for reference only to help you learn notes and rhythms. We will be performing them with different articulation and expression. To access:

• Go to www.soundcloud.com
• Log in with email address "xaraxingers@gmail.com" and password "xaraxingers"
• Click on "You" > "Sets" and you will see sets for both We Remember and Unraveled.

We will be rehearsing for the Wail remount during the last hour of rehearsal on Sunday. Singers who are not doing the remount will be able to leave at 3:45 pm. A couple of notes for the Wail remount:

• Making Waves: The following people will be singing alto to put more voices on that line - Kristin (top alto), Claire M (middle alto), Camila (bottom alto)
• ALONE DIVISI:
  
  CHOIR 1: SOPRANO 1
  Shannon Lawson (a)
  Deirdre Kellerman (b)
  Brianna Coombs (b)
  
  CHOIR 1: SOPRANO 2
  Kallie White (b)
  Claire MacIsaac (a)
  Kristin Bunyan (b)
  Sarah Sampson (b)
  
  CHOIR 1: ALTO 1
  Suelayka St-Pierre (a)
  Camila Das Gupta (a)
  Erin Gaudet (b)
  Jordyn Bochon (b)
  
  CHOIR 1: ALTO 2
  Tejas Madhur (a)
  Mary Moore (b)
  Robin Lauriston (b)
  
  CHOIR 2:
  Nelle : S1 (except S2 in mm. 41-49 + sing mm. 31-35 octave down)
  Hayley & Mackenzie: S2 (except S1 - octave down - in mm. 41-49
  Tenille & Jenny: A1
  Elizabeth & Nikki: A2

Thanks so much for all your hard work this weekend and we look forward to an awesome rehearsal on Sunday!