Our rehearsals are plugging along. Since the revoicing (40 people switched sections), our director keeps going on and on about our NEW sound. We are at about 220 right now. Last night he had the first two rows get up and face the rest of the chorus to listen to us..."didn't that sound amazing?!?!?"
We were working on this sort of plainsong/african piece last night and our director taught almost the entire thing by rote. He made us all sing the melody (my part-yay!) and then kept singing parts and having people sing back. Actually very confusing, I think, and kept going back to phrases of music (no text yet, just LAs) so that many were lost. But, 30 minutes later, we sang it pretty well. We still have 3 months, so I guess it is working.
We have an all day rehearsal this Saturday where we are getting new music.
When is your concert? Maybe I'll be in town this year.
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Date: 2008-09-23 06:30 pm (UTC)We were working on this sort of plainsong/african piece last night and our director taught almost the entire thing by rote. He made us all sing the melody (my part-yay!) and then kept singing parts and having people sing back. Actually very confusing, I think, and kept going back to phrases of music (no text yet, just LAs) so that many were lost. But, 30 minutes later, we sang it pretty well. We still have 3 months, so I guess it is working.
We have an all day rehearsal this Saturday where we are getting new music.
When is your concert? Maybe I'll be in town this year.