Rehearsal markings for Spring 2012

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Notes from May 14 rehearsal

#8

• m 40-41, A₂: no breath

Notes from May 7 rehearsal

#7

• m 11, S: sing the 8th notes very deliberately.

#9

• m 62: brief lift after each “Sviat”, not an 8th rest as previously marked.

#15

• m 30: Sanford may decide to take a rit here and the whole last page slower.

Notes from Apr 30 rehearsal

#1 & #2

• m 1-2, B₂: sing m 1 as written, then sing down an octave on m 2.

#4

• m 13, SATB₁: back off and listen for B₂.

#5

• strongly observe all the tenuto marks, so as to produce a bell-ringing sound.
• m 34, T: all tenors sing the T₂ part (the altos have the other note well covered).

#7

• m 1-4, T: observe the tenuto marks, and unstress the following notes.
• m 8-10, T: all tenors sing the T₂ part.

#14

• m 31, T: Ignore the D, and divide T₁T₂ on the remaining two pitches.

Notes from Apr 28 workshop

#6

• m 5, 9: no breath

#8

• m 32, ST: no breath

#12

• m 57, SAT: take a quarter rest out of “-ka”

Notes from Apr 23 rehearsal

#12

• m 37, SA: pp
• m 43-55, SA: the staccato applies all the way thru m 55, though only on 1/8 and 1/4 notes.
• m 98, 102, 110, 115, 120: poco rit, with a little fermata on the last beat, then a tempo next measure.

#15

• m 2-3: no breath.
• m 37: mf, not p.

Notes from Apr 16 rehearsal

#2

• m 47: fermata on downbeat; T₁ replace the first half note with quarter, quarter rest.

#8

• m 9: p on downbeat (rest of dynamics as written)

#11

• m 45, TB: T₁T₂B₁ sing the tenor parts, B₂ sing the bass (this measure only).

Notes from Apr 9 rehearsal

#11

• m 57-65, SA: as written (not HML)

Notes from Mar 26 & Apr 2 rehearsals

#4

• m 28, S: mp, not mf

A superset of all the other notes can be found in these files; please mark them all:

Sanford's notes from our 2004 performances

Norm's transliteration corrections and word-by-word translations

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