Rehearsal Announcements:

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

• We're singing for the 11:00 AM service this Sunday, May 31, at Arlington Forest United Methodist Church.
• Please meet in the sanctuary at 10:00 on Sunday.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

• New music – hymns for the service:
  • Bianco of Sienna, 15c / Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1906: #475: Come Down, O Love Divine
  • Edwin Hatch, 1878 / Robert Jackson, 1888: #420: Breathe on Me, Breath of God
  • Delores Dufner, OSB ©1993 / USA folk melody: #2241 The Spirit Sends Us Forth to Serve
• Plan to arrive at 10:00 on Sunday May 31.
• We will not be rehearsing next week, Wednesday May 20th.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

• New music – Francesco Gasparini: Adoramus Te (4-part brass PDF)
• We had a short rehearsal tonight.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

• We will not be rehearsing Wednesday May 20th.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

• New music tonight – Thomas Tallis: If ye love me (It's in the Tallis Anthology with the red and black cover.)
• Tentative program for the May 31 service at Arlington Forest United Methodist Church:
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Dum complerentur
  • Claudio Monteverdi: Adoramus te
  • Thomas Tallis: If ye love me
  • Franz Joseph Haydn: Abendlied zu Gott
  • We will save the Haydn mass for the fall.
• Possible fall concert date: Sunday October 18 – please check your calendars....

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

• Louise hasn't found someplace suitable for us to sing a concert Sunday May 31. So instead we'll sing at the 11:00 AM service here at Arlington Forest United Methodist Church. (It is the appropriate day in the liturgical calendar for our Palestrina.) Our next formal concert will be in the Fall.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

• No notes.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

• I missed tonight's rehearsal. I won't have any information for this week's updates (what was rehearsed, information from Louise, who brought snacks) unless it's provided by some of you who were there.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

• Our spring concert will be Sunday May 31. Location to be announced....

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

• Louise is still collecting schedule information, looking for possible weekend concert dates, May through mid-June.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

• We started rehearsal late tonight because of the Ash Wednesday service. We skipped the break.
• New music:
  • printed copies of Palestrina's Dum complerentur
  • Helen Kemp: Festival Fanfare (for treble voices)
• Please note part corrections for Dum complerentur at the bottom of this page.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

• From his personal CD collection, Peter Wolf has identified our Haydn Missa Brevis as the Missa rotate coeli desuper (Hob. XXII:3). There are still questions to its attribution. The Mass may be "the joint work of master and pupil, [George] Reutter and Haydn, dating from the late 1740s when Haydn was still a choirboy at the Hofkapelle in Vienna."

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

• We put a paper clip in the Schütz Passions-Motetten from pages 9-14 to skip over Ego sum tui plaga doloris.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

• February 25th is Ash Wednesday. Louise will be playing organ for the church's evening service. Rehearsal will start at 8:10 PM.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

• Louise Lee is requesting $25 per person to cover the costs of music and hiring instrumentalists.
• We're back upstairs in the choir room now.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

• No rehearsal tonight — winter storm.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

• New music – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Dum complerentur

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

• We had a short rehearsal tonight because of problems with the heating system.
• For future rehearsals please bring:
  • Heinrich Schütz: Passions-Motetten (set of five, in Latin) – If you don't have this, please let Louise know so she can order more.
  • Franz Joseph Haydn: Abendlied zu Gott

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

• Happy New Year!
• The recording of our December Goodwin House concert is on the website as MP3 files.
• We sang some pieces from Carols for Choirs 3 (the blue carol book):
  • David Willcocks: Angelus ad virginem
  • John Rutter: Star Carol
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Salve Puerule
  • Michael Praetorius: Psallite Unigenito
• Internet radio came up at the break. The Public Radio Fan website is a great reference, and I have a list of programs I've been recording.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

• At Goodwin House Wednesday, we'll meet in the Art Room across the hall from the Auditorium (at 7:15PM).

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 (mp3 files)

• Hymns for the service:
  • Introit: We Wait in Hope
  • #203: Hail to the Lord's Anointed (ELLACOMBE)
  • #200: Tell Out, My Soul (WOODLANDS)
  • #213: Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates (TRURO)
• Meet upstairs at 9:45 Sunday to warm up. After that we'll rehearse the Buxtehude Magnificat with the violins.
• We will rehearse the Byrd Mass and perhaps the Monteverdi Cantate Domino for 20-30 minutes after the service Sunday (noonish).
• In Lo V'chayil, on the word "amar" in the 6th bar of the tune, it's B♭, not natural.
• There was a black scarf left in the parlor after rehearsal. We didn't know whether it belonged to one of us. We left it in the lost and found in the church office.
• I now have a Zoom H2 digital audio recorder which I plan to use for recording concerts. I could easily record rehearsals and put them on the website too, if there's interest.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

• Louise gave us a handout tonight with the program orders and directions to Goodwin House.
• Service of Worship 11:00 AM Sunday, December 14 (arrive 9:45)
  Program order:
  • Rossi: Psalm 126
  • Buxtehude: Magnificat
  • Weidner: There is No Rose
  • Carter: I saw three ships
• Holiday Program 7:30 PM Wednesday, December 17 (arrive 7:15)
  Program order:
  • Monteverdi: Cantate Domino
  • Rossi: Psalm 126
  • Levine: Lo V'chayil
  • Byrd: Mass for five voices – Gloria and Agnus (pages 6 & 51)
  • Trevor: The Angels and the Shepherds
  • Walther: Joseph, Lieber Joseph Mein
  • Byrd: O Magnum Mysterium (ending on page 6)
  • Weidner: There is No Rose
  • Buxtehude: Magnificat
  • Carter: I saw three ships
• We had a quick tour of the Montessori School renovations to the upper level of the east end of the church – quite attractive.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

• Light turnout tonight – 3 sopranos, 3 altos, 1 tenor, 2 basses.
• The old "karoshi" email list will become unavailable sometime in December.
• Have a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving!

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

• New music:
  • Johann Walther: Joseph, Lieber Joseph Mein
  • arr. C. H. Trevor: The Angels and the Shepherds
  • arr. Andrew Carter: I saw three ships
  • Elliot Z. Levine: Lo V'chayil (Not By Might)
• We will probably not need an extra rehearsal Saturday afternoon December 13th.
• For the Sunday, December 14th service we will need to arrive at 9:45 or 10:00 AM, to be confirmed later.
• For the Wednesday, December 17th concert we will need to arrive at 7:15 PM. The program will begin at 7:30.
• Music for the Service Sunday, December 14:
  • Buxtehude: Magnificat
  • Weidner: There is No Rose
  • Rossi: Psalm 126
• Music for the Holiday Program Wednesday, December 17:
  • All the service music above, plus:
  • Byrd: Mass for five voices – Gloria and Agnus (pages 6 & 51)
  • Byrd: O Magnum Mysterium (ending on page 6)
  • Monteverdi: Cantate Domino
  • Monteverdi: Adoramus te (possibly)
  • Trevor: The Angels and the Shepherds
  • Walther: Joseph, Lieber Joseph Mein
  • Carter: I saw three ships
  • Levine: Lo V'chayil

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

• New music – Salamone Rossi: Psalm 126 (Please see the notes at the bottom of the page.)
• We will probably have an extra rehearsal with the violinists for the Buxtehude Magnificat early Saturday afternoon December 13, perhaps 1-2PM.
• Tentative music for the Service Sunday, December 14:
  • Buxtehude: Magnificat
  • Rossi: Psalm 126
  • Weidner: There is No Rose
• Tentative music for the Holiday Program Wednesday, December 17:
  • All the service music above, plus:
  • possibly Byrd: O Magnum Mysterium
  • possibly Byrd: Mass for five voices – Kyrie
  • Byrd: Mass for five voices – Gloria and Agnus
  • Christmas Carols (TBA)
• Our rehearsals have returned to the choir room (upstairs over the chapel).

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

• Tonight's rehearsal was cancelled. Louise has a bad cold.
• If you were singing with us in 2004, please try to find the Salamone Rossi setting of Psalm 126 that we sang at Nancy Mulenex's Memorial Service (July 25).

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

• We're looking for a date in December to sing at a Sunday-morning service at Arlington Forest United Methodist Church (the church where we rehearse), as we did last April. The most likely dates are December 14th or 7th.
• We rehearsed in the Parlor tonight because there was no heat in the Chapel. We tried using the Library first, but there was a combo rehearsing with amplified instruments in the adjacent classroom.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

• Our holiday program will be 7:30PM Wednesday, December 17, 2008 in the Auditorium of Goodwin House in Alexandria, VA.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

• We skipped our break and stopped early tonight so people could hear the Presidential debate.
• Please bring the Buxtehude Magnificat (from last year) to upcoming rehearsals.
• We have a new email list address to reach all current Ad-Hoc singers. All current members should have already received email with the new address. The address will not be listed on this website. (Don't make life easier for spammers.)

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

• Tentative retirement-home holiday program date: Wednesday, December 17, 2008.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

• I was sick and I missed rehearsal. I have no updates.
• New music – William Byrd: O Magnum Mysterium

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

• Welcome to another new alto, Susan Lesser.
• We're still rehearsing in the Chapel.
• Louise asked us to contribute $25 to cover music and advertising.
• The Cathedral Choral Society's March 2008 world premiere of Dominick Argento's Evensong: Of Love and Angels, will be broadcast on 90.0FM WETA's Choral Showcase Sunday evening October 5 at 9 PM. Ad Hoc's own Peter Wolfe is in the CCS.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

• A new alto, Mary Wadleigh, joined us tonight.
• Klaus Alt visited us this evening. (And corrected our German pronunciation a bit.)
• We rehearsed in the Chapel again tonight because the Choir Room is being repainted.
• New music:
  • Tomas Luis de Victoria: Pastores Loquebantur
  • Claudio Monteverdi: Two motets for mixed voices
    • Adoramus te
    • Cantate Domino

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

• Welcome back, everyone!
• We rehearsed in the Chapel tonight because the Choir Room is being repainted. We might be in the Chapel again next week.
• New music:
  • Claudio Monteverdi: Crudel! perge mi fuggi?
  • Claudio Monteverdi: Lasciate me morire
  • Claudio Monteverdi: O rossignuol, ch'in queste verdi fronde
  • Raymond Weidner: There is No Rose