Brianne started rehearsal with a solfege and rhythm warm-up, having each section do an ascending and descending scale in different rhythmic values. After the mechanics were worked out, they still had a hard time making the exercise work because of a fundamental struggle with tempo. We addressed it with silent counting on a couple of different tempi, clapping sharply on a designation count. At slow tempo, subdivide.
Polar Expressapalooza today. We started at the end and worked to the beginning, memorizing along the way.
After the break came the Lakscevitz Gloria. Those who had not written in solfege took some time to catch up on that while Camp kids wrote in solfege from p. 10 to the end. We solfeged through some, but worked the section starting on m. 62, p.8. The alto there is a bear!
Did a read of Angels We have heard on High on solfege. It wasn't a disaster, be we urged the kids to prepare their scores ahead of time if they have trouble sight-singing the piece.
Housekeeping: Ginny gave a fundraising presentation and we passed out fundraising packets for ads and sing-a-thon.
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