One more rehearsal until the dress rehearsal at Indian Springs. If we can get all of our music to the level of most of our music, we can have an amazing concert. You know what needs fixing, so please take care of it individually.
Trumpets, I did not get to the solo audition on Aida. My apologies. Let’s do it next week.
Here are a few reminders as you prepare for next week’s rehearsal. Please note that the order of the rehearsal is altered from what we have done previously You will need to stay with us until you finish your last piece. Check the times below and figure it out..
Russian Chorale and Overture
This is ready to wrap up. Precision, dynamics, and forward movement in the Allegro are the keys to our success.
Fugue
Absolutely terrific in a number of places. Pay special attention to reh. 2-5 and 7-9.
Peer Gynt – 4th movement
We need confidence, boldness, and tempo stability from the beginning - reh. A. Anything involving 16ths and quintuplets between from reh. A-B needs attention.
Peer Gynt – 1st movement
Critical needs are:
· Viola in m.4 & m.12
· 2nd bassoon in m.8 & m. 16 (Anna, please play the bsn. 2 part until reh. A)
· Reh. B-D in cello is as much about listening to violins as it is about watching the conductor.
· From reh. E-m.62, everyone must stay below cello and bassoon.
· The last solo is the bassoon solo at m. 81.
Remember the following for the arpeggios:
Meas. 30-31, 34-37, count 1 G# major (G#, B#, D#)
Meas. 37, count 2 C major
Meas. 38-45, count 1 F major
Meas. 45, count 2 A major
Meas. 46-48 D major
Meas. 49 Db augmented (Db, F, A)
Meas. 50-52, count 1 F major
Meas. 52, count 2 d minor (D, F, A)
Meas. 53-54 F major
Meas. 55 C augmented (C, E, G#)
Meas. 56-58, count 1 E major
Meas. 58, count 2 c# minor (C#, E, G#)
Meas. 59 E major
Meas. 60, count 1 c# minor
Meas. 60, count 2 E major
Meas. 61 repeat meas. 60
Meas. 62 c# minor
Aida
One run, then trumpet solo auditions at the first of the break. Keep the dotted-eighth – sixteenth figures exaggerated. Balancing from bottom to top, dynamic change, and shaping phrase lines are our focus.
Hungarian Dance #6
Much better today! If we can keep what we accomplished in the Molto Sostenuto section, then we only have a little cleanup in the Leggiero left. Dynamic contrast and precision are the keys to success.
Peer Gynt – 3rd movement (strings & percussion)
This is our biggest challenge. 8th notes from m. 15-21, 36-39, 55-73 and 82-89 must be taken care of by you this week if we are to keep this movement. I am sacrificing time on other pieces to give time to this movement, but you must do your part.
Peer Gynt – 2nd movement (strings only)
The secrets here are sustain, dynamics, and balance.
Battalia (strings only)
1. Violin II m.9-12; viola m.6-9; cello I&II m.6-9; bass m.6-9
5. Everyone be sure to practice with a metronome one per bar at 76 per minute
7 Violins m.2-6; viola m.3-4;
8 Everyone make sure that your pitch is very solid
The rehearsal plan is::
2:30 Tune
C major scale, long tones
Harmonize C major
Chord mutations, beginning in C major
2:50 Russian Chorale and Overture
2:55 Fugue in G minor
3:10 Peer Gynt, movement 4
3:25 Peer Gynt, movement 1
3:50 Aria
4:00 break & trumpet solo audition
4:15 Hungarian Dance #6
4:25 Peer Gynt, movement 3
4:45 Peer Gynt, movement 2
4:50 Battalia 2
5:00 Battalia 7, 8, 1, 3, 5, 6, 4, 2