Hello Everyone,
What a thrill to have our first virtual rehearsal of our season last night! Although I certainly missed the sound of our voices I loved watching you sing and loved seeing your smiles and engaged faces.
It is very inspiring to know that Women’s Voices Chorus is strong in spirit even these challenging times.
There are so many wonderful and exciting plans for the months ahead – I am so looking forward to our virtual musical journey.
Here is a link to the 8/31/20 rehearsal. It has all the information you need, including links to items stored in a drive folder that you can download as well as links to rehearsal videos (and other items) uploaded to YouTube. This link also will take you to the link for our Zoom rehearsal video in case you missed or you would like to review.
I appreciate everyone’s patience and openness to a new way of experiencing music making with WVC. As hard as we try, we will always have technical glitches – but that is to be expected and I am grateful that the technology gives us the opportunity to continue in spite of its imperfections. I should mention that I am currently using my bluetooth earbuds for rehearsal – that spares us all from having to suffer through my noisy laptop fans. It may, however, at times cause synchronization issues with the videos I share during rehearsal – you may (or may not) experience this – but please know that I am aware and doing everything I can to minimize this but most is beyond my control. When you access the videos on your own, you will find that there are no sync issues. 🙂 I noticed when I rendered the rehearsal video that even when I sang along with my own videos there were sync issues (so I will stop doing that!)! Ah well, always something new to experience and learn.
Looking ahead to 9/14/20
1st half of rehearsal:
A Path to Each Other – Jocelyn Hagen and Timothy Takach
Sectional Rehearsals (breakout rooms)
- Angels of Mercy – Irving Berlin, arr. Milton James
- Snow Angel 1. Prologue 2. Creatures of Light
Read through together as time allows:
- Snow Angel 3. God Will Give Orders and 4. Sweet Child – Sarah Quartel
2nd half of rehearsal:
- Recording for virtual choirs Q&A (anything to help us successfully record!)
- WVC’s beginning and early years – Mary Lycan (Founder and Artistic Director from 1993-2006) will share with us her memories of WVC’s earliest musical adventures with a Q&A. I have invited our founding and current members, Elisabeth Curtis, Patty Daniel, and Jaqueline Little to join in, as well. I am looking forward to hearing all of the stories!
Looking ahead to 9/21/20
1st half of rehearsal:
Sectional Rehearsals (breakout rooms):
- Snow Angel – Sarah Quartel 1. Prologue 2. Creatures of Light (review)
- Snow Angel – Sarah Quartel 3. God Will Give Orders and 4. Sweet Child
Angels of Mercy – Irving Berlin, arr. Milton James
Rise and Stand from the Justice Choir Songbook – Arianne Abela – Drive link
We will read through this piece together at rehearsal and I will share the score on screen. This piece is outside of our angel theme and is for a virtual collaboration with the women’s choruses of Meredith College led by Shannon Gravelle and UNC-Charlotte led by Ginger Wyrick. More exciting information will be shared soon!
As time allows, we will read through the fifth movement of Snow Angel.
2nd half of rehearsal:
We will potentially have one of our guest speakers join us. (I am waiting on confirmation).
Cheers!
Laura