Students in 7th and 8th Grade Music Classes can find study guides for their finals here online.
For 7th Grade Study Guide, click here.
For 8th Grade Study Guide, click here.
Don’t forget that the listening CDs are due at the time of the final examination.
Schedule:
Study well!
Congratulations to Cantamus for finishing the year so well! The program was well attended and well received by everyone from whom I heard. Here’s a sample of comments I heard:
Cantamus Jazz: “Westside Story Suite” was interrupted twice by applause. “Wow! They really worked hard on that one!”
Camerata: “El Grillo was very cool.”
Women of Cantamus: “Chattanooga was great!”
Men in Black: “That was awesome” (including from Junior High Students). “That was great, having all of the men sing it!”
Student conductors Phillip and Christian: “They’re going after your [Dr. Wolfe's] job!
Haydn’s “Awake the Harp:” “What a great piece!” “Great way to end the program!” “Impressive!”
Some people expressed surprise at how beautiful the program was; others seemed to have the attitude, “of course they were great: they are Cantamus!”
It’s been a pleasure serving as director of this fine group!
Tomorrow is our concert, with cast call at 5:30. Tomorrow in morning rehearsal we will run through the entire program (hopefully) and get your positions on stage. Please be on time! Everyone is affected by people who are late.
The concert is on Tuesday, May 7, 7:00 p.m.
The performance venue is the Davidson Center at Grace Community Church, directly across Southern Avenue from TPA. The church campus is directly across Southern from TPA. Parking is available on the church property off of Dorsey Lane. The Davidson Center is the large building in the center of the church campus, directly west of the worship center and sunken lawn.
More information is available at the TPA online calendar. Click on the TPA Links tab above to find it.
If one of our number has a vehicle that will hold the folded choral risers, I would like to move them back to the TPA campus (across the street) following the concert.
Our final rehearsal is Tuesday for the large group. Cantamus Jazz and Camerata are rehearsing tomorrow, Friday at 7am in Room 302.
See you at the next rehearsal!
Cantamus singers: only three more regular rehearsals and then we perform our beautiful program. Let’s have all hands on deck, no excuses for these last three rehearsals:
The performance is Tuesday evening, May 7 at 7pm at Grace Community Church’s Davidson Center (where we performed “On Broadway”). Cast call is 6pm.
Some dates are subject to change, as noted. More information soon may be available on the TPA online calendar. To find it, click on TPA links tab above and go to TPA Calendar.
Here is a possible event for Cantamus, 2013-2014:
Possible date: August 10, 2013, 9am – 4pm
Likely agenda:
The workshop and party is intended at this time for auditioned members of Cantamus.
I’d appreciate your thoughts and feedback!
Many of my students have been reporting great experiences hearing concerts for their required concert review. Others and their parents have been contacting me for approval to review concerts they think would be fun to hear. In many cases, this is unnecessary because the concert may already have been pre-approved.
The concert review form that students use to report their concert-going experience is near the same location, here.
Next week is production week for The Sound of Music, so there will be no rehearsals for Cantamus.
In the meantime, listen to some recordings of Randall Thompson’s transcendent “Alleluia.” Go to Cantamus Downloads and click on some of the suggested recordings.
Although they are selling fast, tickets to TPA’s presentation of The Sound of Music are still available. Purchase online by clicking here or go to the link “TPA Links” tab above and clicking on “TPA Performing Arts.”
