Rudsamblog

Hi everyone

Next rehearsal is on Monday

Better attendance than on Monday when only less than 6 people turned up - please see Derrick's Email from Monday and fill in the Doodle poll - concert happening very soon!

General 

1. To avoid the same mistakes being made over and over - make sure you have a pencil (Susan always has spares) and mark your copies with reminders and to highlight which bits need some personal practice to get right.

2. Most important thing to concentrate on is thinking about singing through each phrase - not just singing each note separately - will help tuning and also expression. Crescendos and diminuendos also happen through notes not just from note to note.

Music - sang through the whole programme last night - highlighted what really needed a lot of work!

1. Thea Musgrave -  Dreams and Subway Pirahnas (not Peacock)  TO DO FROM MEMORY BY NEXT WEDNESDAY 26th  -  it is only 5 minutes  long and has very memorable words!

2. She Walks in Beauty - did not go well - needs revision at home before next rehearsal

3. After Culloden - need to be secure on entries ; need to keep in time so need to 1) breathe early and 2) watch Derrick 

4. Scotland at Night - a mixed bag of success here

Trout - was not great . We've done this a lot but still didn't manage to get people coming in at the right time and on the right note - personal work needed here 

Simmer Dim - tuning was not pleasant - have a look and see when you are singing the same note as another part (mark it in!) so that you can listen out - just keeping on going the same way as before is not an option

Dusk - not too loud at the start and bars 19-23 to be hummed by lower parts and 2nd sops 

Refinery - basses when only part singing eg bars 5-8 , keep in tempo; don't close 'cal' of chemical down onto 'l ' sound keep open vowel 

Ceilidh - keep to written dynamics and keep energy going to the end 

5. My Guardian Angel - is like plainsong - slight crescendo when notes rise and slight diminuendo as notes fall but overall dynamic grows throughout piece. Need to keep the pulse going by feeling the first beat.  Words 'Go Love' need emphasis

6. Sleep Well my bairnie - good progress - for non-Scots among us 'wean' is pronounced 'wane' to rhyme with 'stane'

7. Lullaby for Lucy - went well - may do repeat in concert - to be decided 

So a lot of good stuff - but a lot of work to do. If  you couldn't manage to get to the rehearsal - get that pencil out and mark your copies so that we make everything sound even more muscial and beautiful at the next rehearsal!

Denise 

# posted by rudsambass @ 8:04 am