Prep for International Dinner:
Training/IMM performing Schooldays, Music Alone Shall Live, and Stand in that River with TCC.
All TR/IMM singers sing the melody on Stand. A few have asked to try the upper harmony and that's fine, but only if they can hold the part absolutely without help.
Work expression on Schooldays. simple choreography for the ending--Jazz hands!!!
Never
let (right hand down, palms out)
me (left hand down, palm out)
go (bring both hands up with the ever-cliche shake)
last chord--"find a friend" and pose. This is a bit free-form ;-) but cute.
Music Alone
reinforce diction--IPA clarification. Just use the top 5 vowels for now A, E, i, O, U (no schwa, etc. yet)
Steve Ortlip's drill: single pitch chant -- for the a sound "How high the sky"; for the E sound "Send them ten men"; for the u sound "Do you moo, too?"; "we see thee flee" Anybody have a drill for O?
Stand in that River--long phrasing. No breathing on the bar line! Memorize the form that appears in the box on p.2
Review French on Compere -- pronunciation guide at this link. add one more phrase.
Run through Wind and Amfalula and Pythagorean if time permits. We need these to be ready for gig Nov 5.
Housekeeping: Collect Schedule forms. Distribute music folders for any new students. Int'l Dinner reminders. Uniforms?
3 comments:
How about: O - Hoe low row slow
stand - do you mean stagger throughout or breath with punctuation?
Link is missing
How does Nov. 5 gig work? Each singer get their on their own?
East - Rough rehearsal this week: crazy energy and focus all over the place. worked on School Days ending with the girls on Part I; focused on holding out the final phrase for full count - introduced hand motions
Music Alone - used vowel drills to line up vowels and listen for scooping - LOT of scooping going on - sound was hard and heavy today, not like last week.
Stand in that River - worked melody, tried to reign in the smaltz, but still, lot of scooping, didn't have time to work on form
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