Notes for Sunday March 13

Hi everyone,

Great work on Sunday!! We are looking forward to making more and more progress each week! :)

Note that for this week, you do not have to have any new pieces memorized. However, we expect all pieces of music/blocking that we have already worked on to be memorized and performance ready. This includes everything up to the end of Virita Criosa 3 (Act 2, Scene 4). Note that for all speaking roles, we are expecting all text/blocking for Act 1 to be memorized for Sunday.

Here's the plan:

1:15 Physical Warm up
1:25 Vocal Warm up
1:35 Music Fixes
3:15 Break
3:30 Blocking Fixes
4:30 Run
5:15 Debrief + Notes

Dan will also be present on Sunday to do costume fittings. Please review his notes on the Facebook page and bring in any requested items for him to work with on Sunday. 

Small Music Tweaks

Christina has made a couple of tweaks to some music items for The House of Bernarda Alba:

• The first two bars of Las Amarillas will be a solo - Christina will audition for this on Sunday during rehearsal
• The first two bars of Cancion de jinete will be a solo - Christina will audition for this on Sunday during rehearsal
• In order to keep the key relationships happy, we will be singing O Vos Omnes down a semi-tone (now in B minor)

Future Dates

Just a reminder that there is no rehearsal on Sunday, March 27 since it is Easter weekend. Rehearsal will be Monday, March 28 from 6-9 pm.

In addition, please make sure the April 3 church service performance at Edgewood-Oxford United is in your calendars.

Auditions

We have set an audition date for the 2016-17 season for new singers. If you know anyone who may be interested in auditioning, please get them to email us at info@xara.ca. We are auditioning for all voice parts. Auditions will be Tuesday April 12. Tenille will be sharing on social media in the coming weeks, so please make sure to share and retweet once it's out to the public!