Week of NOV 17

So this is the week we really want to push memory on the words more than ever.
Wassail--pair down the word cues to 1. Wassail 2. Horse 3. Ox 4. Cow 5. Butler 6. Maid
Tomorrow Shall Be--memorize 2nd verse. How about a word scramble for memorization? Write all the words to v. 2 on separate slips of paper. Have the kids put them in order. How you do this depends on the size of the group.
S'Vivon--put parts together
Christmas Time is Here--run through
Gavotte--run from memory with the cuts. Chances are the endings will need memory work.

BREAK
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Oseh Shalom/Children of Peace--break off English and Hebrew parts into smaller groups to drill memory, then put back together

Housekeeping: Notes from Sing-a-thon; All music memorized next week!! No Wed and Thurs rehearsals. Those kids come to Tuesday rehearsal at EAST or CALLAN if possible. Recital at Druid Hills Presbyterian Church DEC 5.

Week of NOV 10

Gavotte--for this performance, cut mm 37-84. It's best to this part memorized and well-executed and save the rest for the Spring performance.

Wassail Song --review words and ending. Consider pairs of subjects and rhyming words to aid memory. Wassail/town bread/white ale/brown bowl/tree bowl/thee

Compere Guilleri--review words for 2nd page. The performance team for Nickajack did a great job on this piece, but did slip on words at bottom of 2nd page.

Tomorrow Shall be My Dancing Day -- Work words through with kids in pairs--one experienced, one new.

Christmas time is Here -- run through, holding out ends of phrases.

S'Vivon -- review basic melody. Try to memorize Hebrew words. When IMMs dismiss, review other two counter melodies.

IMMs--Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Children of Peace/Oseh Shalom (no IMMs) -- focus on Hebrew and English separated.

Housekeeping: Sing-a-thon reminders. TR Choir time period is 8am-noon on Saturday NOV 14

Week of NOV 3

Holiday program:
Music Alone Shall Live

Gavotte

Compere Guilleri -- unison only this term

Children of Peace/Oseh Shalom (no IMMs) -- divisi: A/B1 on Hebrew B2/C on English

Somewhere Over the Rainbow (IMMs only)

Tomorrow Shall be My Dancing Day -- vs. 1,2, and 4 only. divisi: unison, but may choose small "solo" group for descant

S'Vivon -- divisi: TR A's + all IMMs on basic melody, B's on Alto, C's on S1. Omit pp. with S2 and slow section. End with 4 pt. canon in this order CB2B1A. Teach parts by ear. If using solfege, please teach in parallel harmonic minor (do, re, me, fa, sol, le, ti, do). I prefer to use counts to keep them from rushing.

Christmas time is Here -- unison

Wassail Song -- divisi at the end: B's on Sop, C's on S2, A's on Alto

Housekeeping: Remind about fundraising packets. Next Workbook NOV 21 (not many TR kids came to the last one). Look at date when music is to be memorized.

Week of October 27

Review note values and counting this week
Review solfege hand signals and give some random melodies

Wassail Song--solfege through. (No descant)
Tomorrow Shall Be my Dancing Day--word stress and rhythm. We'll do verses 1, 2, and 4 for the recital.
S'Vivon--introduce concept of parallel minor to Tr Choir kids.
Christmas Time is Here--teach by ear. Memory as quickly as possible
Oseh Shalom--vowels/tone and long phrases stressed as teaching the Hebrew melody. Maybe just work with 1st two phrases

Housekeeping: Distribute Holiday folder, Repertoire List, and Music Library check-out slip
Sing-a-thon packets go out today. Uniforms.

Week of OCT 20

Last week of music for Spring
Skill of the week
Reflection on International Dinner performance

Review of these pieces this week:
Pythagorean Round

Eli Eli

Compere Guilleri
Wind and the Amfalula Tree
Gavotte

Holiday Music ditributed next week!!

Housekeeping: uniform-a-rama. Sorry, this will be over soon, everyone.

Week of OCT 13

Assign rows for concert formation this week--4 rows.
Procedure: A's B's and C's arrange in height order within their "letter" section. Form 4 rows from there and assign. They should write their row assigment in agenda.

Observation to report--Young ones are forgetting their A/B/C assignments. Hmmm.....

Compere Guilleri--review French words. Pick up one more click in tempo.
Wind and the Amfalula Tree--round tones. reinforce voiced consonants this week.
Music Alone Shall Live--Eb Major
form: Piano intro/Unison/interlude/2-part once through/interlude/3-part twice through. C's start the round both times. Ending: each part sing "Never to die" again and again until all parts catch up. On the last repetition, C's sing these pitches--Sol, Sol, Sol, Sol; B's sing Fa, Fa, Fa, Mi; A's sing the regular melody, (low)Sol La Ti Do.
Schooldays memorized. Although this is from a Broadway show, carful that intonation doesn't get out of whack.
Stand in that River--review form. Words should be memorized.

Housekeeping: Hand our remaining uniforms. International Dinner reminders

Week of OCT 6

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?