All choirs for this Saturday:
Memorize words for the sing-along music:
Winter Wonderland
Jingle Bells
America the Beautiful
This Little Light of Mine
Review and memorize Siyahamba.
Review and securely memorize Winds of Peace. Pro Arte, since all of the groups will be missing one or two singers, please use the most recent part assignment.
Pro Arte:
We perform for Grace and Holy Trinity’s worship service on February 2nd – one week from this Sunday!
PLEASE work on your music! This is what we plan to sing:
Stars I Shall Find – Please carefully review this piece. https://www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/media-player.jsp?&type=audio&productID=10340265. Please use this recording as an aid. I am needing to add this back as an option, since adequate work hasn’t been done on the Agnus Dei.
Top part – Molly, Matilde, Grace, Marquita, Othniel, Renna, Mikhail;
Bottom part – Lauren, Kamirra, Sadie, Siara, Chadwick, Mehr, Lilly. Chadwick and Mikhail sing one octave down.
Nunc Dimittis – review entire piece on solfege. Finish memorizing. Work on rhythmic accuracy and consonant placement at end of phrases. https://www.sjmp.com/files/audio/24-vol5nunc.mp3
Part 1 – Grace, Marquita, Rena, Molly, Matilde, Lilly, Mehr and Kamirra
Part 2 – Chadwick, Lauren Siara, Sadie, Othniel and Mikhael
Samba Mass (The text and translation accompanies these practice notes. Please study the translation with your score, to fully understand the Latin text. Ignore the Credo, obviously, since it’s not included in Samba Mass.) S1 – Molly, Marquita, Grace, Renna and Othniel; S2 – Matilde, Lilly, Mehr and Mikhail T
S3 – Kamirra, Sadie, Siara, Lauren and Chadwick.
http://www.kitbraz.com/tchr/hist/med/mass_ordinary_text.html
Kyrie – soprano 1 singers need to review mm. 30 to the end, particularly mm. 40 – 47.
Sanctus and Benedictus – review. Spend the most time on the Benedictus.
Agnus Dei – review entire movement. Spend the most time on p. 29 – end. I am hoping we can do enough work on this to perform it on Feb. 2nd.
Review and securely memorize Winds of Peace. Remember new part divisions to be used while singing without the other groups. Part 1 – Grace, Marquita and Molly; Part 2 – Othniel, Matilde, Renna, and Kamirra; Part 3 – Sadie, Lilly, Mehr and Mikhail; Part 4 – Siara, Lauren and Chadwick.
Continue working on the following for future performances:
Samba Mass; Gloria – review entire movement using solfege, then text. Spend time speaking the text in rhythm, particularly at the highly syncopated sections.
