Ad Hoc Singers 2009-2010 Rehearsal Notes
Rehearsal Announcements:
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
- No notes; almost full attendance.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
- The February 28th concert has been rescheduled to April 11th.
- We will be starting rehearsals at 7:30PM.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
- We will not be singing Peter Hurford's Litany to the Holy Spirit on the February 28th concert.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
- Rehearsal cancelled — blizzard conditions.
Please consider possible times for a make-up rehearsal.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
- New music – Peter Hurford: Litany to the Holy Spirit
- Here are the pieces for our concert February 28th. This is not the program order.
- William Byrd: Lamentations
- Melchior Vulpius: Hinunter ist der Sonnen Schein
- Thomas Weelkes: Give ear, O Lord
- Claudio Monteverdi: motets
- III. Crudel! perge mi fuggi?
- IV. Lasciate me morire
- VIII. O rossignuol
- Heinrich Schütz: Passions Motetten
- IV. Quid commisisti
- VI. Ego enim inique egi
- VII. Quo, nate Dei
- VIII. Calicem salutaris accipiam
- John Blow: My God, My God, Look Upon Me
- Franz Joseph Haydn: Missa Brevis (Missa rotate coeli desuper (Hob. XXII:3))
- Franz Joseph Haydn: Abendlied zu Gott
- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Zum Abendsegen.
Peter Hurford: Litany to the Holy Spirit
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
- Our concert will be Sunday, February 28th at Graham Road United Methodist Church,
2929
Graham Road, Falls Church, VA 22042.
The concert will be at 3:00PM.
We should plan to be available from 1:00PM for rehearsing beforehand, and we should be done by 5:00PM.
(Pastor Mike's wife Marable is the pastor there.)
- We may have a dress rehearsal Saturday afternoon, February 27th, location to be determined (either Arlington Forest UMC or Graham Road UMC).
The list of pieces for the program will be posted here within the next week.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
- "Pastor Mike" Southall-Vess came by at the beginning of our rehearsal to let us know abut the United Methodist Church's relief programs
for the earthquakes in Haiti.
Through January 29th Arlington Forest UMC is accepting toiletries and personal-hygiene supplies to make
Health Kits for the survivors.
And 100% of cash donations to UMCOR – the United Methodist Committee on Relief –
will go to Haitian relief (no admin costs).
Louise Lee added the sad news that the Director of UMCOR happened to already be in Haiti
and he was killed in the earthquake.
Five members of a group of mission and relief specialists in Haiti to discuss efforts to improve medical services were
trapped in the rubble
of the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince for over 55 hours.
The Reverend Sam Dixon, UMCOR's top executive,
died before he was rescued.
The Reverend Clint Rabb,
head of the Volunteers in Mission office, was evacuated but later died of his injuries.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
- Louise Lee temporarily has a cell phone while awaiting the installation of land lines in the new apartments.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
- Happy New Year and welcome back!
- New Music:
- Melchior Vulpius: Hinunter ist der Sonnen Schein
(This is another piece from the Known World's Choir's concert at Pennsic 2009.)
- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Zum Abendsegen.
- Old Music you should bring to upcoming rehearsals:
- Thomas Weelkes: Give ear, O Lord
- Claudio Monteverdi: Madrigals (Crudel! perge mi fuggi?, Lasciate me morire, O rossignuol)
- Heinrich Schütz: Cantiones Sacrae (Quid commisisti, Ego enim inique egi, Quo, nate Dei, Calicem salutaris accipiam)
- John Blow: My God, My God, Look Upon Me
- Maurice Greene: Lord, let me know mine end
- The location for our February 28, 2010 concert has still not been set.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- Our concert at Goodwin House is next Wednesday.
Please arrive by 6:30 PM to warm up and rehearse in the Auditorium.
The concert is at 7:30 PM.
Directions from the Goodwin House website.
Goodwin House is at 4800 Fillmore Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22311.
Google Maps directions:
from Arlington Forest UMC, 4701 Arlington Blvd, Arlington, VA 22203-2706
- Head east on Arlington Blvd (US Route 50) toward N Pershing Dr, 0.3 mi.
- Take the 1st right onto S George Mason Dr, 2.2 mi.
- Turn left at S King St/Leesburg Pike (VA Route 7) E.
Continue to follow S King St (VA Route 7) E, 0.4 mi.
- Turn right at Beauregard St, 0.5 mi.
- Turn left at Fillmore Ave, 338 ft.
Destination will be at the end of the road.
Goodwin House Alexandria, 4800 Fillmore Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22311-5070
- The program for next week has the slight change of moving the break to after the Guerrero (Los Reyes) and before the Levine (Al HaNisim),
instead of after the Levine as announced Monday.
The encore (Haydn's Abendlied) is definite, but it will not be listed on the program.
- We will not rehearse the following week (December 16), nor between Christmas and New Year's (December 30).
We will probably not rehearse the week in between (December 23), but that isn't decided yet.
Monday, November 30, 2009
- Holiday Program order for Wednesday evening 7:30 PM December 9 at Goodwin House in Alexandria, VA:
- Gastoldi/Hopson: Heaven and Earth Are Ringing
- arr. Willcocks: Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
- Haydn: Missa rotate coeli desuper (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei)
- Kirkpatrick/Wilberg: Away in a Manger
- Guerrero: Los Reyes siguen la estrella
Short Break
- arr. Levine: Al HaNisim
- arr. Cochran: The Boar's Head Carol
- Byrd: Lullaby, my sweet little baby
- Johnson: The Coventry Carol
- arr. Jacques: Good King Wenceslas
- Saint-Saëns: Tollite Hostias
Encore
- Pieces for the Sunday Morning Service December 13 at Arlington Forest UMC:
- Gastoldi/Hopson: Heaven and Earth Are Ringing
- Haydn: Missa rotate coeli desuper
- Johnson: The Coventry Carol
- Guerrero: Los Reyes siguen la estrella (if we have enough people)
- Saint-Saëns: Tollite Hostias
We will not sing the Purcell Rejoice in the Lord Alway. Not many people already knew it.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
- Website updates will be a little late this week; I'm in North Carolina.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
- We will sing a Holiday Program Wednesday evening 7:30 PM December 9 at Goodwin House in Alexandria, VA.
- Program for December 9 (not in order yet):
- Guerrero: Los Reyes siguen la estrella
- Byrd: Lullaby, my sweet little baby
- Haydn: Missa rotate coeli desuper (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei)
- Haydn: Abendlied zu Gott
- Saint-Saëns: Tollite Hostias
- Kirkpatrick/Wilberg: Away in a Manger
- Gastoldi/Hopson: Heaven and Earth Are Ringing
- arr. Cochran: The Boar's Head Carol
- arr. Levine: Al HaNisim
- Johnson: The Coventry Carol
- arr. Jacques: Good King Wenceslas
- arr. Willcocks: Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
- We will probably rehearse with the strings just before the concert at 6:30 PM.
- New Music – photocopies of two carols from the Green Book:
- #16: Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
- #13: Good King Wenceslas
- Men (and Nancy) please come to rehearsal early at 7:15 PM December 2 to work on The Boar's Head Carol.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
- We will probably sing Sunday, December 13 at Arlington Forest's 11:00AM worshop service.
- New Music:
- Henry Purcell: Rejoice in the Lord Alway (for the Dec 13 service)
- printed copies of Two Renaissance Christmas Anthems arranged by Hal H. Hopson:
- cleaner copies of Camille Saint-Saëns: Tollite Hostias
Monday, November 9, 2009
- Additional old music to bring to future rehearsals:
- Camille Saint-Saëns: Tollite Hostias (last rehearsed Nov 2007)
- arr. Arthur Warrell: (We Wish You) A Merry Christmas (last rehearsed Oct 2007)
- plus the Victoria and Haydn pieces listed Oct 28
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
- New Music:
- Francisco Guerrero: Los Reyes siguen la estrella
(This piece is from the Known World's Choir's concert at Pennsic 2009.)
- William J Kirkpatrick, arr. Mack Wilberg: Away in a Manger
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
- Sunday March 7, 2010 is under consideration as a possible winter-concert date. Please check your calendars.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
- New Music:
- William Byrd: Lullaby, my sweet little baby
(This piece is from the Known World's Choir's concert at Pennsic 2008.)
- Giovanni Gastoldi (arr. Hal H. Hopson): Heaven and Earth Are Ringing
originally SSATB Amor Vittorioso (Tutti venite armati): Victorious Love (Come all ye, armed)
- Three Christmas carols from the collection "Carols for Choirs 1" (the Green Book):
#16: Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
#13: Good King Wenceslas
#11: God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
- Old Music – please bring these to future rehearsals if you have them:
- Tomas Luis de Victoria: Pastores Loquebantur (last rehearsed Oct 2008)
- Franz Joseph Haydn: Abendlied zu Gott (last rehearsed May 2009)
- Franz Joseph Haydn: Missa Brevis (Missa rotate coeli desuper, Hob. XXII:3) (last rehearsed May 2009)
- The 2 Haydn pieces above will be in our upcoming programs.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
- Use the elevator to enter the church tonight.
The first-floor floors are being worked on today, so we can't walk on them tonight.
- Tentative concert date: Sunday afternoon February 28, 2010.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 – no notes
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
- New music – arr. Grant Cochran: The Boar's Head Carol (TTBB)
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
- New music – arr. Victor C. Johnson: The Coventry Carol
- Louise Lee is collecting $25 for music costs.
- Please relay any contact-information changes (address, phone, email) for the roster to Tim Burr.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
- New music – John Blow: My God, My God, Look Upon Me
- Arlington Forest UMC is having a homecoming celebration Sunday October 25. If you would like to sing with the church choir that morning, please let Louise Lee know.
- We'd like to give a concert on a Sunday afternoon next January or February. Please check your calendars for conflicts.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
- New music:
- John Rutter: God be in my head
- arr. Elliot Z Levine: Al HaNisim
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
- Welcome back, everyone!
- New music – William Byrd: Lamentations
- The Hebrew alphabet (beginning)
| Letter | Standard
Israeli
Pronunciation | Set By |
|---|
| א | Aleph | /'alef/ | Tallis
Part I |
| ב | Beth | /bet/ |
| ג | Gimel | /'gimel/ | Tallis
Part II |
| ד | Daleth | /'dalet/ |
| ה | He | /hej/ |
| ו | Waw | /vav/ |
| ז | Zayin | /'zain/ |
| ח | Heth | /'het/ | Byrd |
| ט | Teth | /tet/ |
| י | Yod | /jod/ |
- Tentative concert date; please check your calendars: Wednesday, December 9th at Goodwin House.
Part Corrections:
- Byrd Lamentations: alto 2, measure 23, beat 4: no D♭
- Tomas Luis de Victoria Pastores Loquebantur: alto, page 3, measure 16: no F♯
- Mendelssohn Zum Abendsegen: soprano, 2nd page bottom line, 2nd measure: the z is missing from the word "Herz".