Week of NOV 15

What a day!
Stupid guy barricades himself in a condo at Stillwood and Briarcliff and all but one passage to Callanwolde are cut off. at 4:45 there are 5 kids in the room and no accompanist, no assistant director.

Started Biebl Ave Maria with PFM at the piano, going over parts by rote. Slowly but surely, kids trickle in and we keep having to go over the same stuff. What a waste of time! Brianne arrives after a time, but still no Billy. Finish painstaking work on Biebl.

Move on to Maria Matrem. It's already 5:40. Notes are OK, so worked tone and phrasing, tempo.

6:00-6:15 Worked on Welcome Christmas. Will work memory next week.

Sing-a-thon rehearsal will have to be a serious rehearsal if we are to recover the time lost from this ordeal. For Sing-a-thon, rehearse rest of Twelve Days of Christmas.

Housekeeping: Passed out Sing-a-thon talent sign-ups, publicity cards. Reminder about location of rehearsal next week--Callanwolde "Retreat" house.

Week of NOV 8

Performance at the Fox for opening of the film "The Candy Shop". During the break, kids practiced the Twelve Days of Christmas, p. 8-13 and memorized.
Also practiced Tomorrow Shall be...

Week of OCT 25

4:45 Warm-up
4:55 Come Thou Fount, St. Francis, Holy Manna
5:15 Run SJO program: Stabat, Inflammatus, Greetings (memory work on all)
5:40 break
5:45 Biebl Ave Maria, 12 Days, Gloria

Housekeeping: Pass out folders to any absentees from last week. Reminder about Workbook this Saturday. Tour choir auditions next week NOV 1. Extra rehearsal next Wednesday for SJO-NOV 3 WED at Decatur Pres 7-8 pm

Week of OCT 18

Holiday Folders today!!

SJO program first half of rehearsal:

Stabat, Inflammatus (memorize)

Brahms Greeting (memorize first verse)

St. Francis

Holy Manna

Come Thou Fount intro

Second Half:

Biebl Ave -- pass scores in after rehearsing

12 days of Christmas

Housekeeping: kudos for good Int'l Dinner performance.

Week of OCT 11

Prep for International Dinner 4:45-5:25

• Bist Du Bei Mir--work on memory, diction, intonation
• Pupu Hinuhinu--catch up new kids on movement, solidify harmony
• Run Singabahambayo

Rehearsal on joint music for NOV SJO Birthday 5:25-5:40; 5:45-6:10

• Holy Manna -- Alice Parker (World Premeire)
• Come Thou Fount -- Leo Nestor
• Prayer of St. Francis -- Arlan Sunnarborg (World Premeire)

AYS program for SJO - Run starred items 6:10-6:25

• Little David
• Pupu Hinuhinu
• Stabat Mater*
• Inflammatus*
• Greetings*
• Bist du bei mir
• Singabahambayo

Housekeeping: Pass out informal uniforms, SJO music, dessert auction forms

TCC Progress AUG-SEPT

TCC Progress Report
Items w/asterisk have been rehearsed. Items in orange are the most prepared at this point

A Pescar Camaron-- not yet begun

*Baidin Fheilimi--at camp. initial melody underway for those who were not on Ireland Tour

*Bist Du Bei Mir--New TCC are best at this since they had to do it for their audition. Line and pronunciation are coming well. Sing for International Dinner

*Cana Fita--introduced primary themes at camp

*Cantemus--3/4 of notes and rhythms conquered at camp for TOUR choir. TCC has not rehearsed the piece

*Child with the Starry Crayon--TOUR Choir has

Every Time I Feel the Spirit--new commission, not yet begun

*Gloria in Excelsis--pitches and rhythms in sectionals through p. 10

*Greetings -- pitches and rhythms under control and ready to memorize. 1st performance slated for SJO 90th Birthday NOV 7

*Little David -- memorized. Need soloists

*Los Bilbilicos -- Read on solfege at camp twice, in regular TCC rehearsal twice. going for tone and line intially

*Maria Matrem -- Tour piece carried over. Studied at camp, will engage more closer to Holiday

*Pupu Hinuhinu -- Memorized by 90% of singers. slated for Int'l Dinner

*Puisqui’ici bas -- Pitches and rhythms learned by TOUR choir at camp. Study of line and vocal production

*Silent Night -- Steady pitches and rhythms by end of camp. Read twice during regular rehearsals
*Stabat Mater
Stabat Mater - pitches and rhythms secure, working expressive elements and diction; slated for SJO concert NOV 7
Inflammatus -- pitches and rhythms secure. Work text. SJO concert NOV 7
Amen -- One rehearsal to introduce themes

Learn by Ear:
*Singabahambayo -- pitches, language, rhythm expression are secure. Working unity of movement, tone and accents

Silvy
Obladi, Oblada
Scorpio and Orion
Jerusalem

Public Domain:
Jesu Joy
Ave Maria
Domine Deus
Panis Angelicus
Canon
Sound the Trumpet

Week of FEB 22

Lesson from Terezin book and Sendak Brundibar. How do we think about race and groups of people?
Staging of Movements 1, 2, 4; Concentrate work on #2 and relate to lesson.
review program for gig on Saturday
Program: Dixit Dominus, Butterfly, City Called Heaven, Silvy

6:00-6:25
Korczak

housekeeping: Reminders for Saturday FEB 27 and MAR 7 (holocaust survivor speaking at Breman)

FEB 15

Witness--put on sounds scape for narration. Sing memorized
Butterfly--work 7 and 9; review 1,2,4

JAN 4-FEB 8

Much of the instruction time after the new year year has been devoted to preparing Madrigal Music. 5 ensembles this year-3 part song/polyphonic and 2 groups of rounds. The parts were covered by the older kids while the rounds were covered by younger or kids with less experience. Even so, the groups where there were rounds had a couple of older kids there for leadership.

The balance of the time in each rehearsal was devoted to preparation of I Never Saw Another Butterfly and Witness. This class will perform
1. It all depends on how you look at it
2. Man Proposes, God Disposes
4. the Butterfly
7. On a Sunny Evening
9. Birdsong
I think we have all the notes and rhythms mostly hammered out. Now's the task of getting things memorized, putting in staging and movement where appropriate. Witness has gone well throughout the month and we now have to get the "pre-amble" put together.

Movement on Mvt I. Children come onto stage in dreamlike state. Throughout first section, pair up and randomly find hands of partner, but without touching. Dreamlike state is broken by "terezin, terezin" figure in the alto. All front and sing the march. At the place where they literally march--forward 4; about face 4; to the center 4; away for 4. Next section is straightforward, but with arms crossed and head tilted up on "wear their noses in the air". For the end, back in partners with hands moving together in slow circular patterns.

Movement II: 3 groups. Not sure how movement should play out. Maybe the division into groups sets up an us and them mentality.

Movement IV:
Movement VII: color
Movement IX: