Week of OCT 27

4:45 Warm-up and Kalanta review
5:00-5:25 Polar Express, Tour make-up auditions

5:25-5:40 Oseh Shalom, Tomorrow, Shepherd's Pipe--memorize v.1
5:35-5:40 Wedding Choir only BREAK

5:40 S'Vivon, BeThou My Vision, Sweet Was the Song
6:10 Dismiss everyone but Wedding Choir Lift Thine Eyes

Housekeeping: Happy Halloween treats

Week of OCT 20

Shepherd's Pipe Carol--yikes. Haven't done much with this one since camp. Reviewed both parts. Focus on diction and S,L, D, M, S intonation. Also legato v. stacatto passages.

Polar Express--Hit 4 major sections: piano and parts, parts alone, parts w/accomp.

Wedding Team--Lift Thine Eyes

Tour auditions during break and Wedding Team rehearsal

Kalanta of the New Year--language for sop on top of p.5; solfege for other parts. All parts together p. 5 to the end
The Wren Song--ran with accompaniment

Housekeeping: Holiday folder distribution for absentees. Uniforms, Program ads, Singathon materials. Instruction on soliciting money for these fundraisers. Announcement Workbook and Tour Choir Workshop 10/25

Week of OCT 13

Still, Still, Still--C to the end
Sweet Was the Song--count-sing all the way through
Nativity Carol-solfege for intonation, then text. Sopranos descending line M, R, D, T, L, S repaired

Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day--Billy ran this with the kids and went over the descant--pods 7,8 on descant + selected singers who learned it in TR

Sound the Trumpet--began at end and worked forward to section 2

Housekeeping: Distributed Holiday Folders. Highland Games tickets and info

Week of OCT 6

4:55-5:30 Polar Express--woodshed
short responses: p. 3, p.9, p. 20, p. 39, p. 41, p. 44, p. 53
Train-p. 5-8
Journey--p.15-17
Elves/First Gift--p. 23-28
Reindeer/Santa-- p. 30-31, 34, 37-38

Sound the Trumpet--10 minutes; end to beginning

International Dinner Program10/12
Kompira Fune Fune from memory
SASA
Oye

Housekeeping: take up auction donation forms, uniform orders, go over logistical details for Int'l Dinner