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mamajoanChorus rehearsals start tonight. Well, sort of -- one rehearsal tonight, one next Tuesday, then a three-week hiatus and then we start up again for real. The hiatus, of course, is because our director (not to mention several of our members, viz., me and my mom) will be on that trip to Montreal.
This concert cycle we're doing two pieces -- Bach's "Magnificat" and a piece called "Misa Tango" by a contemporary (i.e. still alive) Argentinean composer. As I understand it, it follows the typical Mass form in general, but it's in Spanish, and not very homophonic. I'm beginning to think that William, our director/conductor, is insane for thinking we can learn both these pieces by mid-May. It's true we got started on "Magnificat" last fall, and we learned the first chorus (which means we also learned the last chorus), but there are at least two fiendishly hard choruses left to learn -- that's "Fecit potentiam" and "Omnes generationes" -- not to mention the somewhat easier "Sicut locutus est." Plus the entire "Misa Tango."
And we have... *looks at calendar* ten Tuesday rehearsals, plus the one Saturday all-day retreat. Hmm. Well, it could happen. I can't bail, of course, because I have a trio solo. :) (This means that I and two other sopranos are doing, together, one of the pieces that Bach intended as a solo. William is experimenting with having chorus members do the solo arias in small groups, instead of hiring professional soloists.) I'm also wondering what he's planning to do about rehearsing the solos. I sure hope he's not going to start expecting us soloists to come early -- it's hard enough for me to get to Cambridge by 6:30pm! I'd rather stay late, even though that's kind of "ugh" too. Knowing William, he won't want to stay late -- he always wants to go out for dinner after rehearsals, which, by the way, I'm going to need some serious will-power to resist.
Since we're also doing the "Magnificat" on the Montreal tour, I really need to get a start on learning it. I know it fairly well, but I'm singing second soprano this time around, and I don't know that part as well as first. Eek! I gotta sit down with the CD and start practicing.
I'm also just shallow enough to hope that the three weeks of rehearsal hiatus will include new Buffy and Smallville episodes. 'Cause once rehearsals get started for real, I'm going to be missing the episodes. :( (I mean, not missing. I'll be TiVoing them, of course. But I hate not being there to watch them "live.") I know both shows have new eps next week, which I'll have to record, and there's a new Buffy but no new Smallville the following week. The week after that (March 12) is the tour, and I'm hoping Buffy will be a rerun. ;) And then March 19th is another free Tuesday, and I don't know whether the shows will be new that day. My main sources for info are tvguide.com and the TiVo listings, both of which only go two weeks into the future. *pout*
This concert cycle we're doing two pieces -- Bach's "Magnificat" and a piece called "Misa Tango" by a contemporary (i.e. still alive) Argentinean composer. As I understand it, it follows the typical Mass form in general, but it's in Spanish, and not very homophonic. I'm beginning to think that William, our director/conductor, is insane for thinking we can learn both these pieces by mid-May. It's true we got started on "Magnificat" last fall, and we learned the first chorus (which means we also learned the last chorus), but there are at least two fiendishly hard choruses left to learn -- that's "Fecit potentiam" and "Omnes generationes" -- not to mention the somewhat easier "Sicut locutus est." Plus the entire "Misa Tango."
And we have... *looks at calendar* ten Tuesday rehearsals, plus the one Saturday all-day retreat. Hmm. Well, it could happen. I can't bail, of course, because I have a trio solo. :) (This means that I and two other sopranos are doing, together, one of the pieces that Bach intended as a solo. William is experimenting with having chorus members do the solo arias in small groups, instead of hiring professional soloists.) I'm also wondering what he's planning to do about rehearsing the solos. I sure hope he's not going to start expecting us soloists to come early -- it's hard enough for me to get to Cambridge by 6:30pm! I'd rather stay late, even though that's kind of "ugh" too. Knowing William, he won't want to stay late -- he always wants to go out for dinner after rehearsals, which, by the way, I'm going to need some serious will-power to resist.
Since we're also doing the "Magnificat" on the Montreal tour, I really need to get a start on learning it. I know it fairly well, but I'm singing second soprano this time around, and I don't know that part as well as first. Eek! I gotta sit down with the CD and start practicing.
I'm also just shallow enough to hope that the three weeks of rehearsal hiatus will include new Buffy and Smallville episodes. 'Cause once rehearsals get started for real, I'm going to be missing the episodes. :( (I mean, not missing. I'll be TiVoing them, of course. But I hate not being there to watch them "live.") I know both shows have new eps next week, which I'll have to record, and there's a new Buffy but no new Smallville the following week. The week after that (March 12) is the tour, and I'm hoping Buffy will be a rerun. ;) And then March 19th is another free Tuesday, and I don't know whether the shows will be new that day. My main sources for info are tvguide.com and the TiVo listings, both of which only go two weeks into the future. *pout*
