Thursday Thoughts

Good morning everyone,

There were some lovely moments in rehearsal on Tuesday. This music is getting off the page and really taking shape. Good work!

I have been asked for the concert order so am enclosing it here. Please copy it and put it in your folders:

(First half – Halifax Camerata Singers )

i thank YOU God for most this amazing day –Whitacre  (solo - Paula)
Lay A Garland – Robert Lucas de Pearsall
Then Shall I Leap Into Love – Edward Enman
Agneau de Dieu – Lang  (solo quartet: Christina, Laura, Chris, Lynn)
Nunc Dimittis – Arvo Part  (solo - Danielle)
Totus Tuus – Peter Togni *
Rosa Mystica – Andrew Balfour *

Intermission

(Second half: HCS/SNSC)

A Mass through the Ages)

Kyrie (from Missa Papae Marcelli) – Palestrina
Gloria (from Missa Brevis) – Imant Raminsh  (solo: Ann B.)
Sanctus (from Requiem) - Gabriel Fauré
Agnus Dei - Samuel Barber  (solo: Judith Burdett)
Dona Nobis Pacem (from the Mass in b minor) – J. S. Bach

The Hour Has Come - Srul Irving Glick *

For Tuesday the rep list is as follows:

i thank YOU God for most this amazing day – Eric Whitacre
Lay A Garland – Robert Lucas de Pearsall
Then Shall I Leap Into Love – Edward Enman
Nunc Dimittis – Arvo Part
Rosa Mystica – Andrew Balfour * (please begin to memorize)
Gloria (Missa Brevis)  - Raminsh
Agnus Dei - Barber
The Hour Has Come - Glick

Some of you have attended 0-1 SNSC rehearsals. In addition to the HCS rep, please be familiar with the last three pieces on the list for Tuesday as I must get to them this week.
Note that the next SNSC rehearsal is Saturday, May 14.  

Some of you have been asking about rehearsal dates/times, days off, etc.  I am  attempting to keep the blog calendar up to date, and right now the calendar should be up to date to December 31, 2011.  If you have questions or think that there may be an error, by all means please contact me.

Thanks to all of you who have updated your Facebook pages to include the Camerata poster and info on the concert. Please continue to do that and help spread the work about the concert  - coming up in three weeks!

Finally, let's remember the Xara concert coming up on Saturday, May 14, 8pm at St. Matthew's on Barrington Street. Christina and the Xara young women have been working hard on this very interesting program called "Played" and will be taking it to Festival 500 in the summer. Let's all get out there and support our little sister choir. 

Have a great weekend everyone. I will be on PEI on Friday helping our daughter celebrate her graduation from UPEI with her DVM degree. Her lifelong dream is finally realized - it doesn't get better than that!