Standing Formations and Musical Changes for I See You

Hi all! Michelle Raine will be at rehearsal tomorrow to work her piece (and each of our remaining rehearsals). She has reworked things considerably and there will no longer be a soundscape required! The concept for her work is a series of short "letters" to the important people in her life and they are all worked into I See You. To create enough places for text to fit without conflicting with sung text, there are going to be two repeats added to the piece and one section will be hummed instead of sung. I am including that information along with detailed notes for your standing formations, etc. below. Much of her piece is being communicated in relationship to you on stage so she had some really cool ideas for how you could help convey meaning through your placement/simple gestures. We will work our way through these things tomorrow but I know some of you will be happy to have a jump on getting this info into your scores.

• Here are the small musical changes:
• mm.41-48 is repeated - first time sops only, second time tutti (MR speaks over sops 1st time)
• mm.49-55 is repeated - first time altos only, second time tutti (MR speaks over altos 1st time)
• m. 60-64 hummed instead of text
• Michelle will be speaking in single sentence “letters” to various people during the song. The sections are:
• mm. 1-8 (may need to be vamped): “Dear Friends”
• mm. 8-24 (MR movement only; no speaking): Dear Parents”
• mm.41-48 1st time: "Dear Strangers”
• mm.49-55 1st time: "Dear Lovers”
• mm. 60-64: “Dear Self”
• mm.75-82: “Dear Sister”
• Here are the movement/formation directions:
• mm.1-24: choir sitting on the floor in a MS formation, facing different directions (but not to the back)
• mm.25-30: slowly stand, maintaining the non-centre direction you've been facing
• m. 31 on “why go risking the way that I see you”: all snap to look at Michelle (you are embodying the voice of her parents at this point)
• m. 34: slowly turn your bodies to face centre
• m. 49 (first time): choir moves to our regular U with Michelle in the centre
• m. 60-64: Michelle gestures slowly with her hands and the choir mimics her (like in a mirror)
• m. 65-68: tutti slowly bring hands down but 1 singer (I’ve suggested Madelaine based on height/hair colour/expressiveness/age) walks to centre and stands face to face with MR to continue the mirror gestures.
• m.69, beat 2: choir moves to a filled in V formation with MR at the point/front
• m. 91: MR walks to an audience member in the front row and reaches her hand out to them
• m. 97: choir slowly walks out and up into the audience (through the aisles) and makes eye contact with someone and reaches their hands out to them; you can break the hand hold whenever it feels right (depending on the comfort level of the audience member) and then slowly turn to face MR for the remainder of the piece.