YMP Rehearsal notes for Kaleid 2014
Please note, rehearsal resources for Kaleid 2014 music are now posted on our
website: www.woodstockfanshawesingers.com - Click on Kaleid, then follow the
drop down menu and click on Participate and slide over and click on Repertoire
For The Trebles:
Solo pieces:
1) Parlez-Moi – Allan Bevan
All voices will sing all choruses:
rehearsal A - B (top line)
rehearsal C - D (top line)
rehearsal F -to end (middle line)
and choose one of the following verses:
M3 - M13 (top line)
M25 - M35 (top line)
M47 - M57 (follow the melody - top line from M47 - 51, bottom line from
pickup to M52 - M53, top line from pickup to M54 - M57)
A rehearsal mp3 will be posted that will help with pronunciation and
learning the melody of this beautiful piece.
Combined pieces:
1) Kaleidoscope Heart – Sara Bareilles, arr. Allison Girvan: for this piece, all
trebles will sing the lead line throughout.
The break from M18 - M22 is to accommodate the body percussion that
Corazon, our Youth Choir in Residence, will cover.
This piece is by Sara Bareilles - the following link will take you to her version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gY01SBClt8
Click here for a link to a recording of Corazon performing our arrangement.
2) Your Song – Don Macdonald
This is our commissioned work for Kaleid 2014 – the poetry was
commissioned for Kaleid 2014 by Bridget Campion and lyrics were adapted
by composer, Don Macdonald. In this piece, trebles will be featured in the
chorus and need to follow the top line of the score when it is marked
“Trebles” throughout the piece.
3) Sydän ei vastaa (The Heart Won’t Answer)– Hannu Lepola
In this piece we are accompanying Rajaton. Trebles will be singing the chorus
“shout”: M49-58 and M76-79 only. Bars 76-79 are repeated three times, with a
persistent crescendo starting from piano and ending up in forte fortissimo. The
main function of the massed choir is to enhance the dynamics of the song, so
special attention should be paid to dynamics in general.
Pronunciation is as follows:
He = heh as in “head”
Dii = dee as in “see”
Ja = ya as in “see ya!”
Dei = day as in “may”
Da = as in “dot”
The following link to the Rajaton recording of this will be of service with both
pronunciation and rhythm! Enjoy! http://youtu.be/NzsYK4XoV-k
For the Mixed High School Choirs
Solo Piece:
1) Papa Loko: Stan Kellman
The opening section of this piece will be sung by Corazon, our Youth Choir in
Residence for Kaleid 2014. The mass choir will join in when the percussion
and men’s parts begin.
Here is a link with a performance that may prove helpful:
http://youtu.be/yMt2CHeDW90
Combined Pieces:
1) Kaleidoscope Heart – Sara Bareilles, arr. Allison Girvan
Each choir can assign a few sopranos and a few altos to the lead (melody)
line. If your alto section feels too small after this to cover the split in the alto
part, feel free to keep all your remaining altos on the top alto line!
The break from M18 - M22 is to accommodate the body percussion that
Corazon, our Youth Choir in Residence, will cover.
This piece is by Sara Bareilles - the following link will take you to her version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gY01SBClt8
Click here for a link to a recording of Corazon performing our arrangement.
2) Your Song – Don Macdonald
This is our commissioned work for Kaleid 2014 – the poetry was
commissioned for Kaleid 2014 by Bridget Campion and lyrics were adapted
by composer, Don Macdonald. Details for parts are clearly marked in the
score – other than the section marked Rajaton alone, choirs will need to
cover the parts as divided on the score, excluding the line marked trebles –
this will be covered by our younger treble mass choir and Essi!
3) Sydän ei vastaa (The Heart Won’t Answer)– Hannu Lepola
Notes from Hannu:
The arrangement is an expanded version of the original, so after learning their
parts, the choirs should rehearse by singing on top of the album version.
Due to the presumable relative sparsity of male voices, I decided to write only one
male part, titled ”baritone”. Some of it may be fairly low for tenors, and some
fairly high for basses, for once – often the tenor parts tend to be too high for
tenors and the bass parts too low for basses… ;-)
The vowel ”uu” should be pronounced in the Finnish way, which equals to ”soon”
in English. For the pronunciation of everything else, including the ”he-dii-ja-dei”
stuff, please refer to the album version.
Bars 76-79 are repeated three times, with a persistent crescendo starting from
piano and ending up in forte fortissimo. The main function of the massed choir is
to enhance the dynamics of the song, so special attention should be paid to
dynamics in general.
Pronunciation is as follows:
He = heh as in “head”
Dii = dee as in “see”
Ja = ya as in “see ya!”
Dei = day as in “may”
Da = as in “dot”
Sydän ei vastaa = the y is pronounced like the French “u” – think “oo” lips and
say “ee” inside your mouth. The “ä” is pronounced like the vowel sound in
‘cat’ – very bright, wide vowel. “ei” is pronounced like the vowel sound in
“Chaotic”, vastaa – as it looks if spelled in English, with very dark “ah” vowels
for the “a” and “aa”
Eikä = “ei” as above, like the vowel in “chaotic”, the “k” is like a hard g rather
than a strong “k” as in “cat” sound… and again, the “ä” is pronounced like the
vowel sound in ‘cat’ – very bright, wide vowel.
Hiljaa – “H” as in “he”, “i” is very bright “ee” as in “see”, the “j” is a glide like
the “y” of “you”
The following link to the Rajaton recording of this will be of service with both
pronunciation and rhythm! Enjoy! http://youtu.be/NzsYK4XoV-k