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Rehearsal Schedule

(Subject to Change)

NOTE: Tuesday 5/26 Rehearsal will begin at 7:45pm, not 7pm, due to a service taking place in the church 6:30-7:30pm

St. Benedict R.C Church 1317 Eggert Rd. Buffalo, NY

Rehearsals 5/19 - 6/16 will take place at St. Benedict’s from 7-9:30 pm unless otherwise noted. It would be best to park in the circled lot and follow the red line to the side door, which is handicap accessible. For safety, this will be the only door unlocked. The lot marked with an X should only be used for overflow. Directly in front of the accessible door are a limited number of handicap parking spots.

Notes

Check back here for notes posted after each rehearsal - especially if you missed a rehearsal.

Thursday 5/21

Movements worked on: 1, 2, 4, and 7

Overall: Attendance is still low (as expected), but improvements are being made.

Movement 1

  • opening chorale - measures 19 and 20 do not have a crescendo. Maintain pianissimo until m. 21

  • Rehearsal B “Die mit Tränen” can still be more “sob-like”

Movement 2

  • Opening - open jaw, make a dark tone

  • Rehearsal C is okay, it comes rather naturally, but D to m. 103 needs part work/solidification.

  • We stopped before H

Movement 4

  • m. 48 verlanget = longing, sehnet = yearning. Sing legato and sing longingly. ver-LAN-get und SEH-net.

  • m. 124 can still be more marcato, bouncy, almost Baroque signing.

Movement 7

  • Much improved! We solidified the beginning through m. 34

Tuesday 5/19

Movements worked on: 1, 4, and 7

Overall: Not a bad rehearsal considering we only had about 1/3 of the choir in attendance. Please continue to listen to practice tracks as we don’t have very much time to stop and play out individual parts.

Movement 1

  • Measures 19-27 need more work in order to sing confidently a capella

  • Sopranos - measures 24 and 116 - please watch your pitches F-E-D-E, the Es were coming a little flat when sung from F

  • Measure 154 - everyone should have changed the downbeat to an eight note - making space before the S/A’s “getröstet werden”

  • getröstet is pronounced geh-trur-stet, not ge-troh-stet

  • Tränen is pronounced TREH-nuhn, not TRAH-nuhn

Movement 4

  • Stacking entrances beginning at measure 48 lack confidence. The dynamic is piano, yes - but pitches must be secure.

  • Measure 124-153 (the most rhythmically challenging part of this movement) needs quite a bit of work. Please solidify your pitches. Tenor and Bass rhythms, especially at measures 143-148.

Movement 7

  • We didn’t do much work on the 7th but to solidify the hemiolas (triple over duple) in measures 130 and 140. NOTE: They look similar but they are not the same!

  • Worked on the ending to match the first movement.

  • Though we sang though the whole movement we didn’t “work on” much more than that.