To Concert Choir Students,
Here is your first google voice assignment! It will only take you a few minutes, and it will help me identify students who are going to need more help as we prepare for the festival in March, and the tour in April.
Instructions:
1) Download your part to this weeks assignment (Irish Blessing and Jubilate Deo)
http://www.mediafire.com/choir/googlevoice
2) Sing through it a few times and make sure you are warmed up and ready.
3) Dial my googlevoice number: 485-3531. It will ask for your name, and then it will forward you to my voicemail. At the beep, say your full name again, then push play on the accompaniment track you downloaded and sing your part for me. The excerpts are a total of only about a minute.
4) The assignment is not optional if you are traveling to Italy. Refusing to do these weekly checks will take you off the list of students traveling with the choir.
If you are not going to Italy, I will only ask you to sing the pieces we are working on for the March Festival. If you are not going to Italy and you do not do the assignments you are asked to do, you will not be eligible for an A in the class.
5) Students who cannot learn their parts on their own will be given extra coaching outside of class. This is going to make a huge difference towards our success in these upcoming performances.
II. Extra Rehearsals before Italy
In order to be ready to sing the concerts in Italy, we are going to have to put in some extra time outside of class. I understand that the singers in Kiss Me Kate have no time outside of class, so I am going to do this in two different ways.
If you are not in Kiss Me Kate, we will be having an extra Italy rehearsal on Wed March 9, 6:30-9:00. Please clear your calendar. If you can’t be free, you will need to
schedule a rehearsal with me sometime during that week to make it up.
For all singers going to Italy, including those in Kiss Me Kate, we will be rehearsing Tues March 22, 6:30-9:00 and Wed March 30, 6:30-9:00. If you have an unchangeable conflict with either, you will need to rehearse with me during the full hour of tutorial that week.
III. Spring Performance Dates: Please mark your calendars!!
Sunday, March 27, Invitational Choral Festival, San Jose Choral Project
Mission Santa Clara, 4:00 Performance
April 7-16, ITALY
Thursday, May 26, Spring Concert, 7:30 PM
Thanks!
Bill Liberatore
