Rudsamblog

here notes from 19/11/2008:

Warmup: Ollie with rubber chicken, step snap moo snap step and african round

- Taladh Chriosda:
- repeat verse 1 from beginning at the end in pp
- don't forget soft gaelic t
- Alleee-luu--iii--a (not alleyluia)
- mifhein should sound like meeheyn
- lionmhor should sound like leee-uuun-vor in two separate crotchets on lee-uun
- each u is actually a "shwa" loud, like a
- Sanctus:
- in the second system have the feeling of opening up sssuuurb
- soprano/tenor: orhnootyoon with an open o sounding like all new tune
- Bogoroditse:
- tyi v zhenakh - akh like loch not like nutch
- radussja has no t in it [it's actually радуйся, more like ra-doo-eess-ya - Ed.]
- 2nd page more legato
- No slow down on last page until last phrase jaku
- O nata lux:
- "D" given
- beware of dynamics
- develop long notes musically, not just hold
- basses hold bar 16
- Run Toboggan:
- bar 53: careful with split of voices in tenor/bass
- bar 32: all tenors and basses sing the bracketed lyrics Run Toboggan Run
- Süßer die Glocken:
- German is funny says Jenny...: Vater (father) sounds like farter
- correct typo: replace and in bar 11 3rd verse with und
- I will prepare more help with lyrics, but:
- think all z replaced by tss, all of them!
- think all w replaced by v
- think all v replaced by f
- ch can have two sounds in German depending on the vowel before:
- sich, lieblich (soft sound)
- Weihnacht, like loch

- Chris has or can prepare more CDs with song recordings and MIDIs

- Sell tickets and spread flyers, tell all your friends about Canongate!
- Some people will go flyering on 6 Dec. Saturday morning - contact Chris if you want to join

- There will be no singing at wedding in Dec. and no brain battle on TV (although we would have won...)

- Check the Sweden choir email and think about it - but it is just an option
- Don't forget end of June 2009 in York

Cheers,
-Sebastian

# posted by rudsambass @ 9:31 am