Rudsamblog

Arno warmed us up with a boogie woogie ape song and some huffing and puffing.

GREEN FIR TREE

The words are holding us back, so please try and get to grips with them and where they fit into the music
On first and last page - DON'T seperate the UH from the UN. They should run into each other smoothly
Last page - Chin(g) tsue-y shun(g) uh
Last page - 2nd system. Phrase goes over the bar
Last page - Sop 1 top line the whole page. Sop IIs jump down to alto line and sing the top notes there. Then ATB as usual. In other words, the altos aren't splitting
Top system is UH bottom system is M
A - is AH sound or AR as in Car
WRITE IN your vowel sounds in your part as it's only written in the middle at the moment
Sops - have too many notes somewhere, make sure you're all singing the same words on the same notes. It's somewhere at the beginning
Hard T's - (would you ever believe someone would actually tell you NO Gaelic T's!!)
3rd bar, 3rd page - be ready to turn. Tenors and Sops have to jump 5ths.
Make sure you know where you're going
WATCH for SPEED CHANGES - mainly top of page 2 and 3rd bar top of page 3
Sop IIs have an awkward rhythm somewhere. Pay attention to what you're doing instead of panicking about it!

DEBUSSY

Not going into detail about the pronounciation, but agree with Claire II that we shouldn't sound sloppy or like Yorkshire people when singing regardez - ri-gah-daaay, lad -no no no!
Be DEFINITE with the words, especially the altos
Sing Dee-uh NOT djzi-ew - is French not Polish - sing it with pursed lips (but no kissing)
NO GAP between Dieu and qui
Crescendo through SE MADAMOISELLE
NO GAP between selle and qui. And same value given to the notes connected with these words (Page 3)_
TENORS - sing through Regardez and mind that c sharp which appears somewhere in your music - try to find and circle it for next week, maybe;p
Watch the dippythongs
NASAL tones on words like Songe and grande bien
Look up more for dynamics.

Think that's all, but I was told to concentrate more on singing it, so I might have missed something. Am I the only person who, when taking notes, gets paper everywhere, loses music (and yes, it is in alphabetical order, but it still gets muddled up), is always on the wrong page we're supposed to be singing, can't listen to the next thing if concentrating on the last one, runs out of paper at the bottom but hasn't time to turn over so ends up with instructions squished at the bottom, has arrows everywhere because the next note will refer to something said half an hour ago, sometimes has to mouth 'what?' or 'eh?' at thy neighbour, and the longer s/he leaves it to write them up the less decipherable the scribble. I could write it in my music but that it's already full of instructions from last week, month or 5 years ago. Not to mention it being interspersed with snide remarks I've added myself! However, somehow they always end up in a proper format for all to read!

P.S. Those of you who weren't at the Buster Keaton film missed a rare treat, especially the music - well done Sebastian and 4tet.