Announcements

• June 7th Concert Details

  Our promotional material for our concert on June 7th, the Facebook event page, and the link to the Eventbrite page are now live.
  
  As we’ve seen in past concerts, our audiences have consistently exceeded 250. This results from members sharing the event on their personal social media channels and letting our friends and colleagues know that we have an exciting concert coming up! The more we engage and tap into our communities, the bigger the crowd.

• Extending the May 28th Rehearsal by 15 Mins

  We will extend next week’s rehearsal by 15 minutes to take a good break and work on running songs, building up stamina, and getting into a flow of how the overall program will look and feel.

• Concert Preparation/Memory

  I wanted to make a little note about memory, as I received a few emails from members choosing not to sing in the concert because they don’t feel they can memorize the songs and not be holding music. I will stress that we’re here to learn, grow musically, and have fun singing together. That said, we have three rehearsals (including tonight) to make some great strides. This is why OOTB has practice audio for each part - so members can take the music outside the room and do some work to memorize and lock their part in. However, if you feel this is not an option, please hold your music and participate in the concert as we’re part of a team and every voice matters. The concert is a large part of celebrating music and how far the choir has come this year.

• ‘Teach Your Children’ Practice Audio

  The practice tracks are now available in the Members Area. If you can, it would be great if you could give the Full Choir track a listen and your own before tonight’s rehearsal.

Tonight’s Rehearsal - May 21st

• Continue learning ‘Teach Your Children.’ All parts for the ‘acapella’ version of the practice recordings have now been added to the Members Area. As I explained Tuesday, in the ‘acapella’ version uploaded to the Members Area, multi-measure rests indicated in the sheet music are condensed into one-bar rests.

• Spend some good time on ‘Africa’ and get really comfortable with it.

• Second Half - run songs in succession from memory.