Rehearsal Announcements:

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

• Beth has offered to host a Pot Luck at her home next Wednesday at 7:30 P.M. in place of our regular rehearsal. There will be email with her address and other particulars.
• This was our last rehearsal for 2007-2008. We will not be rehearsing next week (Pot Luck), nor the following week (several people can't make it).
• Louise has new copies of the Missa Brevis printed on both sides, so they're easier to handle.
• Before we decided not to rehearse next week, Louise asked us to bring the Buxtehude Magnificat for next time.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

• Our last rehearsal will be June 11.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

• Happy Birthday, Jon!
• New music:
  • (still probably not by) Franz Joseph Haydn: Missa Brevis: Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei
  • Franz Joseph Haydn: Abendlied zu Gott

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

• New music: (probably not by) Franz Joseph Haydn: Missa Brevis: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo
  (Whoever he was, he wasn't kidding about brevis – the Kyrie is 13 measures (with an orchestral introduction), the Gloria is 9, and the Credo is 24.)
• There are CDs of our June 3, 2007 concert, I Maestri delle Cappelle. (MP3 files from the concert have been on the web page since last June.)

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

• We did rehearse tonight, but the turnout was light. We had a short rehearsal.
• New music: John Dowland: Come again, sweet love

Sunday, April 27, 2008

• We were good.
• The service was nice.
• We were very-much appreciated.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

• We will be singing at the 11:00 AM Service this Sunday at Arlington Forest United Methodist Church.
  • Attire:
    • Women: white blouse; black skirt or pants; Ad-Hoc sash.
    • Men: long-sleeved white shirt; black pants; Ad-Hoc necktie.
  • Please arrive by 10:15 to warm up and rehearse in the Choir Room.
  • Program order (revised Apr 27):
    • William Byrd: Kyrie from the Mass for five voices
    • Thomas Weelkes: All people, clap your hands
    • William Byrd: I will not leave you comfortless
    • Thomas Tallis: If ye love me (will be repeated at the end of the service)
    • plus the three hymns (see Apr 9 notes)
• Our tentative June 1 concert has been postponed until next fall. Louise would like to add some happier pieces to the program, and invite some guest artists.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

• We might sing the Kyrie from the William Byrd Mass for five voices at the April 27th service.
• Gail Anderson, our new soprano, has not been able to come to the last few rehearsals. She hopes she will be able to come back to us in the future.
• Beth Wojiski will be moving again – to Pittsburgh. We will miss her.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

• Louise Lee led half the rehearsal tonight, and Jenny continued after the break with the Byrd Mass.
• New Music – Hymns for the April 27th service:
  • Francis of Assisi (words)/William H. Draper (transl.)/Geistliche Kirchengesänge (music)/Ralph Vaughan Williams (arr.): All Creatures of Our God and King (Methodist Hymnal # 62)
  • Charles Wesley (words)/Thomas Haweis (music): O For a Heart to Praise My God (Methodist Hymnal # 417)
  • Fred Pratt Green (words)/Cyril V. Taylor (music): God Is Here (Methodist Hymnal # 660)

Thursday, April 3, 2008

• Louise Lee was released from the hospital this morning. Her doctors didn't find anything serious.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

• Louise Lee was not able to be at rehearsal tonight. Her doctor hospitalized her because of her asthma and bronchitis. She is at Arlington Hospital (1701 N George Mason Dr, Arlington, VA 22205, 703-558-6161).
• Jenny led the rehearsal tonight. Thanks, Jenny!
• (Sort of) New Music: Thomas Tallis: If ye love me (in the Tallis anthology with the red cover)

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

• Please bring the Tallis Anthology (red and black cover) to future rehearsals.
• I missed the announcement last week, but our spring concert will be Sunday June 1.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

• New Music:
  • William Byrd: I will Not Leave You Comfortless
  • Heinrich Schütz: Ego enim inique egi (VI. from the Cantiones Sacrae)
• Not many people remembered to bring the "new" Byrd or the Tallis Anthology.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

• Ad Hoc will be singing at Arlington Forest's 11:00AM service Sunday April 27 to thank the church for providing us rehearsal space. Tentative program:
  • Thomas Weelkes: All people, clap your hands
  • William Byrd: I will Not Leave You Comfortless
  • Thomas Tallis: If ye love me (in the Tallis anthology with the red cover)
  If you have the Byrd or the Tallis from past years, please bring to future rehearsals. (We performed the Byrd in 1991, and the Tallis in 2005.)
• Please let Louise know about any weekends you will be out of town (or otherwise unavailable) in April, May, or June. She's trying to schedule a concert date.
• Tentative spring concert date: Sunday June 1 or Sunday May 4.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

• There are now copies of the Schütz Cantiones Sacrae and the Greene Lord, let me know mine end for everyone.
• Laura spotted Margaret Broughall, back in town after 5 years in England.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

• We welcome a new soprano, Gail Anderson.
• Louise hopes to have enough printed editions of the Schütz Cantiones Sacrae for everyone next week.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

• New music: Heinrich Schütz: Cantiones Sacrae
• Happy Birthday Louise and Norma!
• Not only did the predicted snow amount to nothing, the skies cleared to let us see the total lunar eclipse after rehearsal. (pictures)

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

• No rehearsal tonight – cancelled by threatening weather.
• Jenny Bland will be accompanying recitatives in the Victorian Lyric Opera Company performance of Donizetti's Elixir of Love in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre at the Rockville Civic Center the next two weekends, Fri. and Sat. nights at 8 and Sundays at 2.
• Julie Mack will be singing romantic love songs with a jazz pianist at Arlington Forest UMC from 12:30 to 1pm this Sunday (Feb 17). There will be a light luncheon served. In keeping with the Valentine's theme, the 11:00-12:00 service will include renewing wedding vows.

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

• Rehearsal began at 8:10 PM because Louise Lee was playing the organ for the evening Ash Wednesday service.
• Lousie is looking for volunteers to sing at the Easter Sunday morning service. Let her know if you're interested.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

• No rehearsal this week. Louise Lee is sick.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

• Beth Wojiski will not be singing with Ad Hoc this spring. Her life is staying complicated (she's moving now), and weekly rehearsals are adding stress.
• I missed rehearsal this week, so if there are any other notes please send them to me.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

• Louise Lee is collecting $20 from each of us to cover the costs of our music.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

• New music:
  • Thomas Weelkes: Give ear, O Lord
  • Thomas Weelkes: All people, clap your hands
  • Hans Leo Hassler: Cantate Domino (just for tonight; not kept)
• Louise Lee would like us to each bring $20 next week to cover the cost of music and incidentals for the spring.

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

• Happy New Year!
• New music – Maurice Greene: Lord, let me know mine end
• Please see the part corrections for the altos (Byrd) and basses (Greene) at the bottom of this page.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

• We sang a nice program at The Hermitage. Some parts were a little rough, as might be expected after missing the previous rehearsal (snow).
• Some of us went to T.G.I. Friday's afterwards. It was loud, smoky, and slow; but the company was good. (There will be are pictures....)

Monday, December 10, 2007

• We will not be singing the Byrd Kyrie and Gloria nor the Guerrero Virgen Sancta Wednesday night.
• We are adding The First Noel, and possibly Good King Wenceslas if we run short or need an encore.
• Program for December 12:

  Composer	?	Piece	Comments
  traditional	☺	Angels We Have Heard on High
  arr. David Willcocks		Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
  traditional	☺	God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
  William Walker		The Babe of Bethlehem
  Sears/Willis	☺	It Came Upon the Midnight Clear	unison, no harmony, words from songsheet
  William Byrd		Mass for five voices Kyrie and Gloria	2 carols will be substituted.
  Watts/Handel/Mason	☺	Joy to the World
  Francisco Guerrero		Virgen Sancta
  Michael Praetorius		Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen
  		Lo, How a Rose e'er Blooming
  Luca Marenzio		Gabriel Angelus
  Brooks/Redner	☺	O Little Town of Bethelehem
  Dietrich Buxtehude		Magnificat	music out of folders; with violins
  traditional	☺	The First Nowell
  Gruber/Stainer	☺	Silent Night
  John Rutter		Nativity Carol
  Oakeley/Willcocks	☺	O Come, All Ye Faithful
  traditional	☺	Deck the Halls
  Camille Saint-Saëns		Tollite Hostias	new copies
  arr. Arthur Warrell		(We Wish You) A Merry Christmas
  Neale/Jacques		Good King Wenceslas	possible encore

  ☺ = audience singalong

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

• No rehearsal tonight – cancelled by snow.
• We will not be singing the Byrd Kyrie and Gloria next week.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

• Program for December 12: see Monday, December 10 notes above.

Sunday, November 25, 2007

• Our Christmas program Wednesday, December 12 at The Hermitage (Alexandria, VA) will be from 6PM to 7PM in the Penthouse. We may do some additional carolling elsewhere in the building. We might adjourn to a nearby restaurant afterwards.

• No Rehearsal! Happy Thanksgiving!
• Note: only 2 more rehearsals before the Christmas program at The Hermitage.

• New piece – Camille Saint-Saëns: Tollite Hostias
• We will sing a Christmas program at a nursing home Wednesday, December 12 – probably at The Hermitage in Alexandria, VA.