Rehearsal Notes – September 21

Recording Information

We will be recording at St Anselm’s in West Chezzetcook. Drive organization will follow!

The Sunday evening time is the “just in case time”, but please plan to be there and we will be released early if possible.

LunaSea Information

Footwear – Xara shoes (basically just black ballet slippers)

Here is the list of costume numbers for each show :

And the list of people with tuning forks:

	Friday	Sat (AFT)	Sat (EVE)	Sunday
Group 1 - Forker	Shannon	Nelle	Kallie	Zoe
Group 2 - Forker	Jenny	Zoe	Kristin	Kallie
Group 3 - Forker	Joanna	Leah B	Jenny	Nelle
Vem kan segla Forker & Huldravisa Conductor	Shannon	Nelle	Jenny	Nelle

(sorry for the formatting, I hope it is clear enough!)

Vem kan segla pitch will be given by someone with a fork, with a breath intake to begin. (Christina will send out a metronome marking for you to practice with) 

Then straight into Be Like the Bird (B Natural) in time and with choreography (Sop 2, Sop 1, Alto 1, Alto 2). Take the tempo and start note from Vem kan segla.

After the first room, transition between rooms in the first act is the slow motion Be Like the Bird (B Natural) that we rehearsed today. The pitch giver in the longest room begins with the word “Be” and everyone joins in as they hear it. Keep going until you are at your next room, and then fade away.  The distance from room C to room A is the longest journey (backyard to third floor), just be aware of that.

At the start of Intermission something will happen (TBA on Thursday) to get you back to the Green Room. At the end of Intermission, something else will happen.

In Act Two : The group who is at the longest room will start Be Like the Bird (B Flat) together in unison. When the second phrase starts, the second soprano keeps going, and the others split off and join as indicated (Sop 2, Sop 1, Alto 1, Alto 2)

After the final room : The longest room will cue the start of Sister Song (the singers in that room will sing the first phrase in unison, and then the round will begin) then you will move outside.

End of the Show (backyard) : Huldravisa will be directed by someone with their head. Note will be taken from the end of Sister Song

Homework

Read the poem for Day Dawn, and let it live inside you as a piece of text in order to really get a sense of the full arc of the piece. Then, look at each phrase of the poem in the context of the music. There will be a quiz ;-)

Ice

If you were absent, please make sure to get phrasing notes from someone in your section

·       Check your AH vowel, and constantly re-evaluate throughout the piece

·       Try to make a “cold” sound, not breathy

·       Whenever a “word” (or consonant) appears under a note, rearticulate. Otherwise, treat it as a slurred vowel.

·       Breath marks for everyone in Choir 1 are as follows:

o   End of measure 6

o   Quick breath in the last measure of page 2

o   Quick breath pick-up to D

o   Sop 1 & 2 after beat 2 in measure 42, Altos breathe at the end

o   NO BREATH after the pause in measure 44

·       Choir 2 only breathe where silence is shown in the music

Pseudo Yoik LIte

·       Really solidify from measure 36 – 40

·       Practice this piece with a metronome beating steady quarter notes

Day Dawn

If you were absent, please make sure to get emphasis notes from someone in your section

Here on These Branches

If you were absent, please make sure to get breath marks from someone in your section

•   The “traps” in this piece are measures with three quarter notes (particularly all on the same note) that lead to something more interesting. It tends to come out very punchy, which is not what we’re after. Make sure the quarters lead toward the next measure. An exception to this is when the text is “What can this be?”

Satakieli

•   Review pronunciation based on the notes Christina gave in rehearsal today (if you were absent, please make sure to check with a member of your section)

•   Sop 2s make sure to solidify the last measure of page 1

•   Note that double consonants in Finnish need to be observed (more so than in English)

Winter

Score study – go through the score and make note of all the complexities (tempo, dynamics, phrasing, text etc)

Typo on the bottom of page 8 in the Alto line : 4^th system, second measure, “nipp’d” should be an 8^th note.