Week of SEPT 30

TR-E has a sub this week (Rebecca Blouin). Name game, breathing exercises (kept it a game, balloon imagery), stretching, blend vowel, lip fluttering, lion's face, staccatto/legato, vocal production basics. Pupu Hinuhinu--expression and gesture. Shake the Papaya--did part 1/part 2 divisi.
TR-C and TR-W

Frog Song as a warm up

Run Papaya for form and memory. Know who's singing what. They should have A,B, or C written above title on their music.

Run Pupu Hinuhinu

SASA

TR alone--

Start Ombra Mai Fu. Teach with solfege. Tone and intonation are the big teaching challeges in the piece. Drill Italian vowels

Alto part on Hey Diddle Diddle

Second melody of Al Shlosha --"al ha' emet"

TR-north

First rehearsal! Read-through of folder with assistance of experienced singers. Scale and arpeggio routines.

Week of SEPT 23

TR only
Hey Diddle Diddle--Part I all the way through on text. Focus on initial consonants "h", "d", "F" and "c"
Shepherd's Pipe Carol--run through with text. At F, teach descant.

Wednesday singers also did 1st verse of Oye
IMM

ALL
Rehearse parts for Shake the Papaya Down (International Dinner)
Part assignments
TR-East Assign about 2/3 of the kids to the "A" part (Mama says no play...) and 1/3 to "B" (Shake them down...)
TR-Callan-TUES Assign about 2/3 of the kids to "A" and 1/3 to "B"
Tr-Callan-WED Assign about 1/2 to "B" and 1/2 to "C"
TR-West Assign 1/3 to "B" and 2/3 to "C"

A=23 B=27 C=22

Start 59th Street Canon

Run Siyahamba

Wednesday singers also did Tallis Canon

Week of SEPT 15

TR-Callanwolde and West
Kompira Fune Fune-memory
Shepherd's Pipe Carol-text
Shake the Papaya Down-parts
Pupu Hinuhinu-text and movement together, whole song
Siyahamba--No IMM--part work
Al Shlosha--No IMM--B melody, m. 21
TR-East
From PM
Solfege “name-that-tune”
Tallis Canon in solfege
Frog song in solfege and Japanese
Siyahamba in all three parts (Cierra led S, Jaylen and Chantz led S2, and I sang alto with 2 newly auditioned kids)
Pupu Hinuhinu.

rehearsals--week of AUG 26-28

This week we did ...
Solfege drills and simple name that tune

Name game song
Got to almost everyone each day. Last year's kids introduced themselves, new kids needded staff to introduce.

Tallis Canon
Solfege hand signals. No canon yet

Frog Song
Solfege hand signals

Million Clouds Away
Into to chorus. Rote.

Siyahamba
Unison for TR/IMM work

TR break out--Siyahamba, stamp on beat one and clap on beat two. Part work using student leaders
then Shake the Papaya Down