Alto Rehearsal Notes

 

If you missed a rehearsal, search for the date you missed to see which pieces were rehearsed. Questions or additional notes, please don’t hesitate to contact Liz Berk berkden@comcast.net or Cynthia Sorn cls208@comcast.net. Music below not in concert order. 

 

 

1. Concord Fragments

 

I. In Some Dry, Dry Earth

1/14, 1/21

– M4: “Dry” is “drawh.”

– M5: “Earth” is “eahth.” No “r.”

– M10: Forte.

– M11: Change starting quarter note to eighth note, eighth rest.

II. This Day I Am Eighteen

 

 

III. Walden

 

 

2. The Moon Bridge

1/14

– Mark “end” on bottom page 9 so you don’t look for the “next” page!

 

3. Night

1/14, 1/21

– M24: Note that the F is same note as page turn.

– M31: Low G-natural.

– M33: MF.

– M34: Breath after “shades.”

– M37-42: For now, stagger breathing.

– M42: Breath after “track.”

– M49: Breath after “themselves.”

 

4. To Sit and Dream

1/14, 1/21

– Note first and second pages are unison.

– “About” is “ah-bawt.”

– M13: Louder.

– M15: Note A-flat.

– Pages 6 and 7 – review. A2: Especially M23.

 

5. Grown Wild

1/14, 1/21

– We read through it.

 

 

6. Birds of Passage

1/21

– Beware of diphthongs.

– “Aw” sounds: Fawl (fall), rawnd (round), flawt (flight), wahl (wall), etc.

– M4, et al: “Fall” – sing vowel until M5, then add “L”. Repeat in any place with ending “L.”

– M7: Breath after “tall.”

– M12: “Sky” is “skah.”

– M15: Quiet.

– M24: “Lie” is “law.”

– M27: Note we all start on D#.

– M31: Note unison.

– Pick short phrase for pages 12-13.

 

7. Flight

 

I. Sky Song

1/21

– It may be helpful to mark all unisons.

– M43: “Tops” is short.

– M45: “Soar” is held to next measure.

– M50: Note key change.

– M52: No vibrato.

– M60: “What” is “hwhat.”

 

II. Come, Spring

 

III. This Sky Falls

1/14

– We sang through it.