Yup, that's right. The concert is soon approaching!
A few business items to begin. First a reminder about concert dress:
- Men: tux or black suit with white shirt & black bow tie
- Women: white top, black pants or black full-length skirt. Because we're singing on Advent I, women are encouraged to accessorize (e.g., scarves) with purple.
- and for everyone: a BLACK binder for music
Second, all new errors will be posted by date for all voice types. This will keep you from having to go back to see what you've already marked. Please look at the link to the right to see new markings from this rehearsal.
Third, you may not know that our accompanist, the fantastic Terry Wolkowicz, regularly produces educational videos about upcoming NBSO concerts. This is her video for Messiah:
This video was created for the Symphony's Family Musical Connections. Click here to find out more about that program.
And now on to Sunday's rehearsal. We had a good rehearsal yesterday, but it exposed a lot of weakness in the bass section's melismas. But the weaknesses aren't just there. I'm afraid I had to keep stopping and starting again and again because so many aren't "remembering" what's already written in the score. Please be ready to focus at the next rehearsal!
Here's the plan:
6-6:15 warmup
15-30 review O thou that tellest: watch those articulations!
30-7:20 Magnificat (both movements)
20-30 BREAK
7:30-50 And he shall purify
- basses, will you promise to know your notes?
- altos, A natural (please!) in m.16
- and to the rest of you: don't forget what we did on Wednesday
- watch those articulations
- sing full note values
- sing with dynamics
50-8:05 Hallelujah
- oddly, this chorus has some serious gaps, namely in the fugue sections; we'll take those apart, just as we did last Sunday (see last week's agenda)
5-8:30 For Unto Us
- This was much better this week, but there are still a few issues.
- sing full note values
- melisma accuracy
- dynamics
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