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Rehearsal Summary - January 22

Hello Prep Chorus!


I'm sorry I wasn't able to be there today, as I'm home ill, but I know that you were in great hands with Simon and Adam at the helm.

Here's a quick summary of our rehearsal today.

  • Welcome Song

  • Warm-Up

  • Everybody Has a Light to Shine

  • Penguin Ball

  • Movement and Orff with Adam

  • Circle game or rhythm work

  • Goodbye song

  • Announcements and sign out


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Rehearsal Summary - January 15

Happy New Year! We had a fantastic start to the new term with a very positive and productive rehearsal.


  1. Welcome Song

  2. Introductions and hello -- we were excited to welcome some new friends today, Laia and Riley!

  3. Warm Up

    1. Stand Up, Feet Apart: movement and singing

    2. Sighs and sirens with scarf (chorister creations)

  4. *Everybody Has a Light to Shine: learned chorus

    1. learned text in rhythm

    2. then added pitch/notes

  5. Step Into the Elevator: movement and singing

  6. *Penguin Ball:

    1. guided movement, getting the song in our ears

    2. solo/group movement (stationary vs. locomotor)

    3. some echo singing in the A Section

  7. Small Groups

    1. new singers -- met with Edmee for some vocal exercises and getting to know you

    2. returning singers -- stayed with Simon for some rhythm/theory learning

  8. Little Sally Walker: circle game

  9. Goodbye Song

  10. Sign Out

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EVM Chorus and Community Choir Resources

Updated: Feb 12

WELCOME BACK!


VIVA Singers Toronto THEME for January to May: POETRY in MOTION


Carmina Burana (excerpt) by Carl Orff (1895-1982)


FUN FACTS:

Orff

  • Was a German composer and music educator;

  • Orff's ideas were developed into an innovative approach to music education for children, known as the Orff Schulwerk. The approach combines movement, singing, playing, and improvisation, and is used in VIVA’s Prep and Junior Choruses;

  • Orff believed music, movement and speech were inseparable.

Carmina Burana

  • Secular cantata composed in 1935;

  • the piece Orff is best known for;

  • work has been choreographed/danced many times;

  • Uses (Latin) poetry from 11th and 12th centuries;

  • Topic of the 24 poems used: the fickleness of fortune and wealth; the ephemeral nature of life, the joy of the return of spring and the pleasures and perils of drinking, gluttony, gambling, and lust.

We are performing Movement I - PRIMO VERE (SPRING) which has 3 parts. Here is a recording. Choir appears on 3 and 5.


Get Busy! by Rosephanye Powell

Check out this awesome composer. We are featuring her work this May: https://www.rosephanyepowell.com/


We Rise Again by Leon Dubinsky; arr. Lydia Adams

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