Week of NOV 23

Set up in Concert Formation
Christmas Time is Here for warm-up -- 5 min
Dixit Dominus with soloists out front -- 15 min
Tomorrow Shall Be with new group of descant -- 10 min
Break out Wassail descant, others drill words and form -- 15 min

BREAK

Break out boys for Psallite -- 15 min

Practice German pronunciation Still, Still, Still -- 10 min
Memory work on Mater Ora -- 10 min
This Little Babe -- run 5 min
God Bless the Master run through 5 min

Housekeeping: Music memorized next week. Performance teams. Give Angels We Have Heard to PT for Heiskell. Ticket sales and postcards.

Week of NOV 16

SATURDAY TOUR REHEARSAL
10-12 Workbook
Lunch
1:00-2:00
Miniwanka warm-up
Stabat Mater
Maria Matrem

2:45 Sectional
Baidin Fheilimi
Soran Bushi

3:15
Pupu Hinuhinu
The Wave


Dixit Dominus--break out alto soloist group with Billy 15 minutes
Wassail--break out pods 7-8 with Billy. SLOW work. Break down patterns. 20 minutes
During Wassail break out, run This Little Babe and Christmas Time is Here
Break--all but boys. Psallite with Paige--parts
Break--boys
Maoz Tzur--run parts and words 15 minutes
Still Still Still--trying German this week...ja...pass out german sheets with pronunciation guide. 15 minutes
Mater Ora--hear 2 soloists this week. 5 minutes


Not today: Oseh and Tomorrow Shall Be

Housekeeping: Sing-a-thon kudos; MEMORIZE MUSIC deadline NOV 30; Holiday concert at Shrine DEC 12. Workbook and TOUR Wkshp at Emory Pres on NOV 21.

Week of NOV 9

Warm-up

Dixit Dominus-- break out potenital soloists with Billy to woodshed notes. Brianne and Paige work choral sections
Maoz Tzur--work parts on count-singing
Break out Tomorrow descant kids to work with Brianne
Oseh Shalom--Pods 1-4 on Hebrew, 5-8 on English
This Little Babe--work parts
Break out boys to work on Psallite with Brianne
Wassail--memorize first 3 v.

Housekeeping: Sing-a-thon acts lined up. Reminder of when music is to be memorized.

Week of NOV 2

Warm-up
diminished chord/major chord exercise. Move while singing warm-up. Nee-ah arpeggio exercise. Check posture and breathing.

Tomorrow Shall Be -- phrasing and articulation. Add more people on descant
Dixit Dominus -- solfege each section. Hear solo sections by instructor. Go through pronunciations and add text.
Still, Still, Still -- review all solfege and mark score. Work phrasing and diction on choral parts after review.
S'Vivon -- diction: N's, V's especially
Mater Ora Filium -- mark solo sections. Sing with text.

Housekeeping: Remind of fundraising packets. Pass out any errant music folders.

Week of OCT 27

Pass out Holiday Folders, Inventory sheets, check out sheets.
Wassail Song--solfege through. descant assigned to pods 7&8. 20 min
Work Dixit Dominus solfege, just choral parts. 35 min
Tomorrow Shall Be-- run through 10 min
Run Oseh Shalom Hebrew section
Sing through Maoz Tzur 10 min
S'Vivon--get divisi and balance ironed out. 10 min
This Little Babe--didn't get to this week
Christmas time is Here--didn't get to this week

Housekeeping: Fundraising packets go out=sing-a-thon and ad sales

Week of OCT 19

Int'l Dinner evaluation in pods. Info person record 3 things the pod wants to address and 3 comments for the group as a whole. Pass cards in -- group comments read aloud. Plan for next concert.

Warm-up
Correct errors on Birdsong
review It all Depends
Work Witness, starting at the end
Break out TOUR auditionees
End with Mater Ora Filium

Housekeeping: Uniforms, kudos for HG team, Workbook and TOUR Choir announcement

Week of OCT 12

Warm-ups
PASTA rule introduce. Hook shape and tone into Birdsong diction and memory

INT'L DINNER program
Stand in That River with TR -- simple form ABCA
During Stand, Pull out those auditioning for TOUR: Leafia Cox, JT Herndon, Lanie Mathis, Athena Zhang, Julianna Yip-Ono, Chloe Kahn, Helena Pliszka, Jessica Gough (next week is last week to audition)
Birdsong--work tone/memory
City--assign solo
Silvy with YC

5:30 Announcements about INT'L Dinner--Ginny; pass out sheets--info people in each section

5:40 Review Butterfly, review It all Depends

6:00 Highland Games team out with Brianne; prep Witness -- solfege

Dismiss all but HG team at 6:15. HG Team with Paige 6:15-6:25

Housekeeping: Pass out International Dinner Forms; HG passes and tix. Collect yellow sheets, purple tour forms

Week of OCT 5

Warm up on dotted eighth sixteenth rhythm. alter measures of 2, 3, and 4

Mvt 1 of Butterfly; review Mvt 5 and Mvt 8

Pass out music for Highland Games team

Witness--review solfege; mini-camp kids didn't do this one
Mater Ora Filium review on solfege--work vocal line and tone

City Called Heaven

Housekeeping: tour auditions

Week of SEPT 28

Assign Section responsibilities and pass out divisi sheets

Work Mvt 1 of Butterfly; review Mvts from 2 weeks ago

Break out Performance Team for Emory gig to brush up gig rep from last year: Kompira, Hotaru, For the Future, Siyahamba

Work Storm is Passing Over
Review form of Stand in that River
Witness--review solfege; mini-camp kids didn't do this one
Mater Ora Filium review on solfege--work vocal line and tone

Housekeeping: take up Schedule Reports; pass out info for Highland Games Team

Week of SEPT 21

REHEARSAL CANCELLED due to Flooding

Week of SEPT 14

Warm-up
Work Stand in That River--rehearsed phrasing and how to mark spots where you don't take a breath in the phrase. Worked form and the Bridge.
Agendas
Birdsong--work parts from back to front
Butterfly--start with beginning
BREAK
**Break out TOUR auditioners: Abigail Shelton, etc to sing Stand in that River, spot check WB
Siyahamba--learn by ear all parts; learn new movement step: RLR...for 7 and then back one/forward one on 8
Witness--review solfege; mini-camp kids didn't do this one

Silvy--review movement and add verse

Housekeeping: Uniform order forms; reminder to check TEMPO newsletter and BEAT for Performance Team assignments; Used Uniform sale this week

Week of MAR 16

4:45-5:55

warm-up--listening exercises, tuning chords

5:00-5:15

Brianne pull out Greensleeves ensemble + Drew and Victoria

rest of choir sing Look to this Day

5:15
Work out riser formation and Tallis Canon
5:45
Yellow Submarine-work out solo and attitude, movements
Ob-La-Di -- review; add ending

Housekeeping: details for Friday, pass out postcards

Week of MAR 9

4:45
3-row formation today to set riser chart
warm-up for balance, tone, and intonation. Ring good chords like we find in Look to this Day and Homeland
Descending lines in tune for sopranos
5:00
Look to this Day--from memory
5:15
Homeland from memory
5:30
Tallis Canon--diction, line
5:45
Obladi, Oblada--choose "verse" ensemble and review parts. Add bridge
6:05
Yellow Submarine
Sally Gardens, Greensleeves, or Jazz Man

Housekeeping: Practice Sheets, Camp forms

Week of FEB 16

4:45-5:15
Warm-up and Beatles sing to determine final piece for MAR 21 concert
Tallis Canon
Review music for FEB 18 gig--break out with Brianne
Look to this Day
5:45
Homeland--work tone and diction; word stress for expression
6:15 run Steal Away for FEB 28 gig

Week of FEB 9

4:45
Warm-up
5:00
Homeland
Steal Away--solfege
Chili
5:45
Look to this Day
Yellow Submarine

Housekeeping: kudos for Madrigal, Brianne SSB at Thrashers, pass out Hide and Seek to some of the kids

Week of FEB 2

4:45-5:00
Warm-up
5:00
Break-outs
Greensleeves ensemble
Pythagorean ensemble

CHOIR--table training, Tallis Canon, Look to this Day

5:30
Break-outs
Cuncti Simus/Tallis ensemble
Il est bel est bon ensemble

CHOIR--Cuncti Simus, 3 Country Dances

6:00
Boar's Head ensemble
CHOIR--Non Nobis Domine, Come Follow Me

Housekeeping:
Remind families to RSVP for Madrigal, costumes

Week of JAN 26

4:45-5:30
Warm-up
Tallis Canon
Million Clouds Away
Homeland
Look to this Day

Camp II!! Pala Pala, Pupu Hinuhinu

Tutira Mai--review and/or teach
Siyahamba--review and/or teach

Madrigal ensembles dismiss to work one at a time.

Week of JAN 12

4:45
Warm-up for tempo and tone
Collect Holiday folders

5:00
Hymn to Freedom. Dynamics and memory work
Movement cues on on Oye

5:35 Break

5:40 TOUR with Paige to work Watchman and speaking parts. Other TCC with Brianne and Billy to work Homeland until 6:15

Housekeeping: Collect rooming requests, paperwork, checks for TOUR, make additional Madrigal forms available. Music for Eryn!