Rehearsal Notes 1/28

Hi ladies,

Every week you will be receiving an e-mail from me regarding BVS rehearsals, updates, etc. Feel free to write to me if you have any questions about anything.

Also, from now on, if you will be missing a rehearsal, send me an e-mail, and if it is a last minute decision, text my cellphone (make sure to leave your name!): 917.587.4601.

Here is the run-down on Monday's rehearsal:

We read through:

Three Hungarian Folk Songs

The Lark in Clear

Beidh Aonach Amarach to measure 36

Famine Lament

Songs from the Riga-Veda 1,2 and 4

Come All Ye Fair Ladies

We also discussed concert dates. Please keep your calendar marked for May 18th and May 30th. We are also deciding whether or not to do a concert on the 1st or the 8th of June. If you have any conflicts, please let me know ASAP.

No rehearsals on February 18th or April 21st.

Have a great week, and see you next Monday :)

Melanie

Rehearsal Notes from 10/15

Hi ladies,

Here's what we rehearsed on Monday:

Morning's Innocent: measures 17-41.
Vacuum: measures 60-75: Really look at the piece for next week.
Night: measures 4-12. Jessica suggested to first try conquering measures 6-12 on your own, then sing it again while listening to another part.
Landscape: measures 29 to the end.
Diamonds: measures 4-24.
Autumn: measures 24-48.
Pedestals: Please have this memorized for next week!
Changeless: We did a sing-through.
Earth: Pickup to 73 to the end, then we did a run of the piece.

Next week, rehearsal is ending at 8:30, followed by a board meeting, so please get to rehearsal on time so that we can work on as many things as possible. :)

Have a wonderful week- see you next time!

-Melanie

10/1 Rehearsal Notes

Hello ladies,

What a rehearsal we had on Monday! We did some difficult stuff but we all did a great job!

Here's what we rehearsed:

Night: working backwards from 25-18. Work on your "stars"!
Blacksmith: measures 19-23. In two weeks, Jessica would like us to have a solid beginning section (especially measures 11-17). She will be posting a sound file of SALT's performance on the BVS site: take a listen to it.
Pedestals: worked from measure 49 until the end, then did a read through
Earth: we worked on measures 53-71 and then read through to the end
Changeless: we worked on page 7
Landscape: measures 24-27
Vacuum: focused on measures 39-60, read through page 6.

We do not have rehearsal next Monday, so please take some extra time to review the above so we can have a smooth transition to the next rehearsal.

See you then- have a great two weeks!

Melanie

9/24 Rehearsal Notes

Hi ladies,

So I finally think I have this mass email thing working! For those of you who didn't receive last weeks email, I apologize.

At last nights rehearsal:

We worked backwards from measure 50 for I Will be Earth.

We also worked backwards from measure 23 of Landscape and then did a casual read through until the end.

Make sure the vowel in "whisper" is elongated- don't place the s sound to quickly!

We emphasized measures 7-9 of Changeless and then sang through the whole piece.

For Blacksmith we reviewed to measure 10 and then worked on measures 11-13.

For Vacuum, measure 31 for the altos: eighth rest, quarter note, eighth note, quarter note. Jessica also asked us to go to www.stephenhatfield.com and check out the excerpt.

We reviewed Pedestals to the end.

Please look over Night for we didn't get a chance to work on it last night and will be on Monday.

See you then!

Melanie

9/10 Rehearsal Notes

Hi all,

Every week you will be receiving can e-mail from me regarding that week's rehearsal and what you should look over for next week.

What we did last night:
Read through Songs for Women's Voices: number's 1, 2, 3 and 6
Read through Three Ways to Vacuum Your House
Read through Dream Song
Worked on the first four measures of The Blacksmith
We also introduced the board and had a nice icebreaker with some refreshments. :)

Jessica will be putting up practice tracks on the BVS site and has also put together an Excel layout of what should be practiced. She will be sending these through e-mail as an attachment. You should print these out and bring them with you to each rehearsal for there is room on the form to write notes.

Looking forward to a wonderful season!

Melanie

Walker Recording

Hi everyone,

Please check out the website below for the "Songs for Women's Voices"
recordings:

http://www.gwynethwalker.com/walkinst.html#womenpiano

Jessica

April 10 Rehearsal Notes

Hey BVSers,

Here's what we rehearsed last night (4/10):
Hebrew love songs #5
Finished On Children
Schumann #4 with German, then all Schumann pieces
All Hebrew love songs
Holst
Small group songs

For next week, whatever we don't know we can't sing in the concert! So, it's imperative that everyone practices, especially Hebrew love song #3--this should be near perfect, and you should be sure to practice the Schumann pieces with the German. Practice everything for next week.

Melissa