Great Job! Assignments for This Monday!

Good Afternoon, Senior Symphony.

Thanks to you and your families for helping this season get off to an amazing start.  You sound great, and the energy in the room is perfection–I am so proud of you. Thanks for everything and thanks especially for those concerts!

So, what can you do to help or care for your family members, friends, and teachers….take 45 seconds to think about that and then act on it.  The more you give the more you’ll feel great! : )

To business…we need everyone to focus on the 1^st movement of the Brahms/Schoenberg.  The piece is over-scored, meaning there’s too much going on all at once, and so our challenge is to place each note precisely within the tempo…with a refined, in-tune, sound.  At this time, we do not need to play quickly, so I’d like to rehearse that movement at Quarter Note= 86….well under the printed tempo of 132.  The movement is 373 measures long, so it will take a long while to rehearse and refine.  Please prepared for this using patience, a metronome, tuner, and snacks.  You will need to do a few practice sessions on this…not just one or two. It’s my expectation that you have already been doing so… and that’s why we’re so good!

In addition, I’d like to read the 3^rd movement of Brahms. We will read this around a Quarter Note= 58.. under a target tempo of about 74ish. Winds….please check out measure 618 and after….there are serpents and dragons…take your time and then, in rehearsals, use your best listening skilss and empathy to line up the notes and rhythms with your section mates and other instruments.

And wow, is that Holst fun!  Please do what’s necessary in your tricky spots and we’ll play this again, too.

On Monday. Let’s do this:

A few of our friends will be here to coach and help us along.  Thanks to each of them!

• Paul Hauer, MSO Violin our String Advisor, will be here with the Violins
• Erin Pipal, MSO Violist and Felix’s mom, will be here with the Violas
• I plan to hang out with the cellos because they are just so fun : )
• Paris Myers, MSO Bass and MYSO Progressions Instructor
• Kevin Pearl, MSO Assistant Principal Oboe, with Woodwinds
• Don Sipe, Principal Trumpet, Milwaukee Ballet and MYSO Director of Brass Studies
• Dan Duffy, MYSO Music Director, with percussion

Report about 5:20 to Youth Arts Hall

• 5:30 – Carter’s Pep Talk before Sectionals
• 5:50 – Sectionals
• 6:50 – Break
• 7:05 – Brahms/Schoenberg, Mvt 1 https://youtu.be/NywzRoKEl10?si=Q5z_TA3uTe_PElml&t=4
• 7:50 – Break
• 8:00 – Brahms/Schoenberg, Mvt 3
• 8:30 – Holst https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUCAhFb54v0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjUPMwj4Ev8
• 8:45 – Rehearsal End

BONUS LISTENING ITEMS!

Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzSaOWPBFqA

Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire:

https://youtu.be/bd2cBUJmDr8?si=ClZFKWUCFpuWv37y&t=51

Have a great weekend and see you on Monday!

Carter

Carter Simmons, Artistic and Music Director