AD Music Notes

Hello Everyone,

Thanks for a fun and productive rehearsal last night! It was ah-mazing to sing through all of our repertoire and take stock of where we currently are with everything – and for the most part we are in very good shape – BRAVA to all!

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Lovely rehearsal last night – really sounded wonderful on much of what we sang through last night in mixed formation – great progress! We definitely also found some gaps and will work on those sections next week.

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Hello Everyone,

I enjoyed our music and shenanigans last night – wonderful work, one and all! Special thanks to the S1s and S2s for their extra work at sectionals and for Virginia providing such detailed notes.

Thank you for providing your performance information – I will work on a new seating chart for our next rehearsal. For those not present, I sent you an individual email request for that information, if you would please reply as soon as possible that would be very helpful.

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Hello Everyone,

Thanks for a fun-filled and productive rehearsal. Hats off to the altos who spent extra time at their sectional going through a list of challenging spots that Kay had noted (thank you, Kay!). \ read more…

Hello Everyone!

Thanks for working so hard on our three Irish pieces last night. I think that musically we are in a very good place to continue to learn from our retreat clinician, Dr. Annie Barry, on Saturday. Annie knows that we are very much looking forward to her expertise with the Irish language and all things musical.

Annie is going to create transliterations of the Irish text for each piece this week (hooray!) – we will share them with you on Saturday and then you can transfer the pronunciation notes to your music as is most helpful to you.

If at this point you are unsure of any pitches/rhythms on the Irish pieces that you cannot work out for yourself using the practice files, please let your section leader know so that we can also answer those questions at the retreat. By the time we finish with the retreat on Saturday, I am optimistic that we will be well on our way to performance ready Irish pieces!

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Hello Everyone,

Thanks for a wonderful rehearsal last night – I enjoyed every minute and hope that you did, too! I am very pleased with all the great work we are accomplishing together.

Kinley let me know that we will rehearse in the sanctuary next week – across the street from our usual space. Kinley is going to send an email with a map, so please be on the lookout for that.

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Hello Everyone,

Thanks for your focused work tonight on our music. I apologize for not covering as much ground as I had intended – I definitely spent more time working on Will the Circle Be Unbroken than I had budgeted – BUT we did make wonderful progress, especially singing in tune! Hooray! It’s already so much fun to listen to.

Thank you for the beautiful birthday singing! Happy birthday to all of the February birthdays!

I am going to make this email short because it’s late and I need to be up at the crack of dawn to travel to KY for the Southern Division Regional American Choral Directors Association Conference….so I hope you will understand my abbreviated notes. read more…

Hello Everyone,

Thank you for a lovely rehearsal last night! I heard such gorgeous singing – it filled my heart to overflowing (as evidenced by all the hearts on my sweater!)

Again, welcome to all of our new members – it was very fun to meet you and we’re glad you have joined in our musical adventures.

It is also wonderful to see so many returning singers – your dedication and continued contributions are deeply appreciated!

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Hello Everyone,

What fun to read through all of our spring repertoire at rehearsal last night. I anticipate that we will have a great time working on it together. 🙂

Please remember to review your self-assessments and set personal goals for this semester. And of course, take time to celebrate all that you/we accomplished last semester!

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Hello Everyone,

What a fun listening party! Thanks for all of the kind words, laughs, and affirmations. If you missed it, (we missed you!) I have a music paper flower for you (if you would like one) and did not get one at the party. I will bring them to rehearsal on Monday. I so enjoyed listening to our performance and am looking forward to seeing the video. I will put it all together when I have the files and upload them to our YouTube channel so that we can share with family and friends. I will let you know that that is ready – probably in a week or two.

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Hello Everyone,

Thank you for your hard work on our music last night at rehearsal. So many lovely moments! I had lots of fun and I hope that you did, too. I am super proud of our music and can’t wait to share it with our family, friends, and community.

We will have a few adjustments to make regarding logistical things that should be easy to accomplish so just be ready to be flexible, please.

If you have time between now and Thursday, please take note of these items below (short list) but I am sure it is a busy week for everyone and we will address these at rehearsal.

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Hello Everyone,

Thank you for such a wonderful and fulfilling rehearsal. Our music is really coming together with not only technical accuracy but most importantly, expressiveness. Such lovely moments throughout!

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Hello Everyone,

It was wonderful to see you all (and hear you sing) after our break. I hope that our lizard friend is enjoying their new home in the succulents!

I am very excited about our remaining rehearsals and upcoming concert.

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Hello Everyone,

Great job singing in mixed formation last night – the overall sound was lovely!

We ironed out a lot of details in our sectional rehearsal. Thank you, Janet, for all of your careful notes for the A2 section which guided our work with everyone else also working through their parts on the challenging sections.

We will tweak our mixed formation a bit for this coming week so when you come in, please look for your card. Karla gave great assistance in mapping out our performance space and we have a plan that we think will work well. We will use our risers for the performance (and tech rehearsals) so if there is currently someone tall in front of you, hopefully that will not be an issue. Until then, let’s work together to make sure that everyone can see. When we have our tech rehearsal we can tweak again, if needed. We aim to send the revised mixed formation on Sunday with Janet’s announcements, if not sooner.

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Hello Everyone,

Thanks for your work last night at rehearsal – much appreciated! We are making progress on our music!

I know this is a super busy time of year for most (if not all) so thank you for being dedicated to WVC as we have our final rehearsals before our January concert.

We will have our last sectional rehearsal on 12/11 – bring your questions, please – happy to answer as many as we can. I plan to focus primarily on Spes, Mah Dodech Midod, Ave Maria, and Sparks of Divinity (if we have time).

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Hello Everyone,

What fun to run through our concert music last night. It was good to have a sense of where we currently are with our repertoire and be happy with all we have accomplished but also work toward strengthening our weaknesses.

I think that we are singing well on some of our pieces considering it is the end of November…but we have much room for improvement and plenty to work on during our remaining rehearsals. I’m looking forward to us working together to see how much we can grow musically before January 27th!

One thing we can all work on that does not involve notes and rhythms is quiet page turns!

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Hello Everyone,

We covered a lot of ground at rehearsal – well done, one and all.

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Apologies for the second email from me this week – I neglected to include solo audition information in my Tuesday email.

• make a voice memo recording for each solo.
• use the WVC practice tracks to sing along with.
• make sure that I can hear your voice prominently in your recording with the practice track in the background.
• label your voice memo with the song title and your name.
• email recordings to me (Laura Sam) by midnight, 11/27/23.

You may audition for as many solos as you wish. Make a separate recording for each.

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Hello Everyone,

Thanks for a lovely rehearsal last night. I loved every minute of music-making with you – even the challenging parts!

Special thanks to Kinley and Marsha for setting up in a different space (hauling over all of the stuff from the regular space across the street to the sanctuary) much appreciated! Y’all are amazing.

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