Conducting Masterclass Details

Hi everyone!

I hope your week is going well.  Here are the details for Saturday:

• Time: 1:15-5:15 PM (being on time is CRITICAL)
• Location: Dal Arts Centre, Room 409 (to start)
• Dress: Xara t-shirts and black bottoms (t-shirts for new singers will be available)
• Repertoire: 
• Kyrie by Telfer (you may use your scores)
• Sure on this Shining Night by Barber (score and mp3 were emailed to you)
• Dana Dana (only those singers who already know this piece will sing it as the Hungarian cannot be sight-read!)

Bring your Kyrie score.  Paper scores of the other two pieces will be available for you at the masterclass.

We will be finishing downtown at the Spring Garden Road Public Library with a public "Sing Out" in support of funding to and participation in choral music.  Tell your friends to come at 4:30 to participate!!!

See you on Saturday!

Christina

Five Hebrew Love Songs - Pronunciation (in IPA)

So, here is a definitive IPA transcription of Whitacre's Five Hebrew Love Songs.  It just so happens that I studied Hebrew for two years so I went looking for the texts written out in their original language and took the pronunciation from there!  (I kept the hyphens between syllables to help you copy this into your music but the accented and non-accented syllables have been addressed through vowel modification.)

I'll have an IPA hand-out for you at rehearsal to augment the work we did at camp.  Between what you already know and the key you'll get, you should be good to go!

FIVE HEBREW LOVE SONGS – IPA

I.               Temuná

[tə-mu-nɑ be-li-bi xɑ-ɾu-tɑ

no de-dɛt bein oɾ u-vein o-fɛl

min dmʌ ma shə-kʌ-zo ɛt gu-fɛx kɑx o-tɑ

u-sɑ-ɾɛx ɑl pʌ-nɑi-.ix kɑx no-fɛl]

II.             Kalá  kallá

[kʌ-lɑ kʌ-lɑ ku-lɑ ʃɛ-li,

u-vɛ-kɑ-lut tə-ʃɑk hi .li]

III.           Lárov

[lʌ-ɾov ʌ-mɑɾ gɑg lə-ʃə-mɑi-.im

xʌ-mɛɜ-xɑk ʃɛ-bei-nei-nu hu .ad̪

ɑx lif-nei zmɑn ʌ-lu lə-xɑn ʃnʌ-.im

u-vɛi-nɛi-nu niʃ-ɑɾ sɛn-ti-me-tɛɾ ɛ-xɑd̪]

IV.           Éyze shéleg!

[‘eizɛ ʃe’lɛg kmo ,xʌlɔ’mot k,tʌ’nim nɔ’flim mɛ,hɑʃə’mɑ.ɪm]

V.             Rakút

[tʌm]

[hu hʌ-jɑ mʌ-le ɾʌ-kut

hi hai-tɑ kʌ-ʃɑ

vɛ-xol kɑ-mʌ ʃɛ-ni-stɑ lə-hi-ʃʌ-ɛɜ kɑx

pʌ-ʃut u-vli si-bɑ to-vɑ

lʌ-kɑx o-tɑ el tox ʌt-smo vɛ-hɛ-ni-ɑx

bʌ-mʌ-kom hʌ-xi ɾɑx]

Concert Order

Hi everyone,

Here's our concert order, in follow up to our conversation last Sunday about the narrative that's guiding this program.

SCHEDULES

Hi everyone!

I have added the memorization and sectional schedules to our rehearsal calendar (which you can view on the right side of the blog).  Because this is a mini version of the calendar you need to click on the entries to view all the details.

In case you'd prefer to refer to them within a post, they are below!

Memorization Schedule for "Voices Remembered"

Sectional & Snack Schedule for "Voices Remembered"

Ooooo! Fun Times!! FORMS!!

Hi everyone,

You will have just received (by email) your registration and commitment forms for the 2010-11 season.  They'll only take a couple of minutes to fill out, but please do so ASAP.  I haven't posted them here since the general public could then fill them out so please access them via your email.

Only 6 more days until our first rehearsal!!
Christina

IPA [ai pij :ei]

Hi everyone!

What an AWESOME camp weekend we had!!  The evaluations were extremely positive and I know that I had an amazing time.  Thank you so much to everyone for planning this into your summer schedule so we could kick the year off in style!

A number of you listed the session on IPA (the International Phonetic Alphabet) as one of your favourites. Don't worry if you missed it or felt you didn't grasp it all - we're going to be doing lots of it this year!  For those of you who would like to continue to practice and expand your repertoire of IPA knowledge, I thought I'd pass on this really amazing website:

http://www.yorku.ca/earmstro/ipa/

On it you will find charts that you can click.  When you click a chart, it becomes bigger and each letter is then clickable so you can hear what the symbols sound like!  It's very, very useful!  You'll discover that we've only scratched the surface with our vowels and consonants!!

Only one more week to go until we start the year off in earnest!  I can't wait!

Our newest Soprano 1

BRIANNA COOMBS (Soprano 1)
Brianna comes to us from the Annapolis Valley Honour Choir (Heather's group!)  She is beginning her first year at Dal and also plays french horn in a number of ensembles.