Rehearsal notes 8/28/17

Welcome home Sherri and Jay! Feel better Sherri!

In attendance:
Elaine
Paula
Sarah Mc.
Sara S.
Scott
Jay
Susan


Worked on:

• Jazz Alleluia (blue hymnal 1050) - for this Sunday 9/3
• please come at 10 for rehearsal/warmup
• 3x thru
• layer in, layer out (boys are last - it sounds really fun that way)
• Out of the Stars - not necessarily for a specific service yet 

Ideas/discussed:

• Steve Afragola with someone/s on vocal for "Teach Your Children" ? (CSNY)
• We might have some out of towners join us for a few weeks coming up - Cynthia W. and friends

We will meet next Monday (Labor Day)
Anyone interested in attending the Taize service at St. Andrews with Elaine Thursday at 7 please contact her

August 14 2017 Rehearsal Notes

August  14  2017  Rehearsal Notes

Present:  Sara S , Sarah M, Paula and Elaine

 

Announcements:

·        no rehearsal next Monday,  Eclipse Day

 

·      Labor Day  YES   we will meet

 

·      plan to sing    Sept 3   Jazz Alleluia  YES

                        Sept 17  Dance Alleluia     IF WE CAN  3 rehearsals inclu labor Day

                         Sept 24   Alleluia by Boyce—the Gold

 

·      Sarah will be away Aug 30  - Sept  10  on an amazing cruise

 

 

Rehearsed today  

 

Jazz Alleluia  #1050  2 rehearsals include today till perform

 

 #1049 Nada Te Turbe

Paula taught us the Spanish but we are not  good yet

First  time Piano Solo

2^nd  Piano simple chords and voices enter

3^rd time  Maybe acapella with 4 part harmony

 

#1049  Vieni Spirito

Rehearsal notes 7/17/17

Attendees:
Scott J.
Susan
Elaine

PLEASE NOTE: we will not meet for the next three weeks. Next rehearsal is August 14.

We did some fun warmups!

We went over:
Cum Sancto Spiritu
Humble and Kind
Love One Another

FYI
Guest musicians will be here for UUFC service on 7/30

I think most choir members except Sherri and Jay of course have the tentative service schedule that Elaine gave out. We are scheduled to sing on various Sundays; if you have ideas of things we could sing for any of the other services please let Elaine know.

Per that schedule we are not singing until 9/17, when we will do "Out of the Stars."

rehearsal 7/19/17

****No rehearsal again until July 10. Elaine away next week. July 4 holiday following week.******


Present:
Sara S.
Sarah M.
Paula
Elaine
Scott T.
Susan



We:

• sorted old music - pretty much only kept the 3 pieces we have been working on most recently
• rehearsed the Tim McGraw piece "Humble and Kind"
• rehearsed "Cum Sancto Spiritu"
• wished Elaine happy travels

Feel better Sherri!!!! We are all thinking about you. <3

Choir notes 6/12/17

Sherri feel better! Jay hope you got lots done!

Present:
Elaine, Scott J., Sara S., Sarah Mc., Susan

Upcoming probable dates:
Aug. 20 - Out of the Stars - eclipse
Sept. 17 - Dance Alleluia
Cum Sancto Spiritu  - also in September - TBA
The idea was dancing around, too, to do "Cum Sancto" as a small group piece sometime during the summer.

Tim McGraw song requested by Terre - We took a listen - Elaine is getting music...

Elaine Faithful doing service about trees. July 9 - looks like only Scott J, Elaine and Susan C... we're open to ideas…

UPDATE:  We are not singing July 9.  Due to our rehearsal calendar— we would only have 1  day to rehearse and so I  told her we were unable to do it.

We went over: This is my home (the Sibelius hymn), Cum Sancto Spiritu, Dance Alleluia, Out of the Stars.

!!!!!!!!!*****
Next week we will do folder-clean-out! Please bring any and all old music so we can turn in to Elaine.
!!!!!!!!!******

Test

uh oh - notes from 4/24

uh oh bc I'm so late
Elaine jinxed me by saying what a good job I'd been doing re the blog. doh!

at least we're not singing this week - I'd like to think I would have been on time with this if we were.



anyway...
in no particular order...

• Cory will be here Monday 5/1 to rehearse "Why Walk When You Can Fly" with Sherri, Sara S., and Susan
• everyone (I believe) got on the doodle poll and let Elaine know the dates they will not be here over the summer - as far as they know so far... - if you haven't done the doodle or let Elaine know your availability please do so
• Paula learned some fun new warmups during her music retreat at The Mountain which we used Monday
• Rehearsed:
• Boyce "Alleluia" - we had shelved this but dusted it off now - to keep handy for whenever it might work - no specific service in mind
• Sibelius "Finlandia" grey hymnal #159 - but it's called something else in the hymnal
• I think that is for Riley's service? I did not note :(
• anyway... Scott has an interesting story about the origins of the piece which he will tell while one or all of us hum in the background
• then all sing both verses - parts:
• Sop: Paula and Sherri
• Alto: Sara S and Susan
• Tenor: Sarah M and Scott
• Bass: Jay
• we aren't singing tomorrow but anyone who is attending, we prepped hymn #51 (grey hymnal) bc it's slightly challenging - may need to help lead the congregation

bye