Hi, Everyone.
I’m looking forward to our rehearsal Thursday night (Thursday, October 27)! This will be our final rehearsal before we perform at the Sharon Lynn Wilson Center on October 30, and I can’t wait to see how much progress we’ll make!
Important new information: I found another recording of Slavonic Dance No. 8 (linked below), and I’d like all of you to listen to this performance many times (or at least twice!) before Thursday’s rehearsal. The overall performance tempo and the rallentando sections before Letter I and near the end of the piece are very similar to the way I intend to lead our performance. Listening to, and internalizing this YouTube performance will help us save some valuable rehearsal time on this piece on Thursday!
Slavonic Dance No. 8 – Antonin Dvorak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9ae30XcqvE
Congrats on a great start with MYSO’s Play Your Part Fundraising campaign! We’re in our final week of the campaign and I hope all of you are able to make a great final push to reach or surpass the $150 goal that has been set for all of us. As an added incentive, I will be happy to donate $25 to the first four Philharmonia musicians who email me an invitation to donate to their fundraising campaign. It’s never too late to start or continue this important work!
Play Your Part Performance Details:
- When: Sunday, October 30
- Where: Sharon Lynn Wilson Center for the Arts in Brookfield
- Philharmonia Report Time at the Wilson Center: 4:50 pm
- Philharmonia Performance Time at the Wilson Center: 5:35 pm (30 minute performance)
- Performance Attire Click Here: https://myso.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/Concert_Dress_PHIL_2021-22.pdf
- All MYSO Ensemble Performance Times on October 30: Click the link below
- Admission: Invite your family and friends to the Play Your Part concert to support you! As our gift to the community, no tickets are required to attend this full day of free concerts on two different stages (seating is open)! Families are encouraged to hear other ensembles, too. Stop by as many concerts as you’d like. Click this link to see the full performance schedule for the day: https://myso.org/events/play-your-part-2022/
Thanks for your attention to these important details. See you soon!
Mr. Duffy
Philharmonia Orchestra Fall Cycle Practice List:
Danse Macabre
Letter C to letter D (everyone)
Letter E to letter F (everyone)
First violins at F
Melodic fragments in the violin and woodwind sections between letter F & G
First violins at G
Descending chromatic eighth notes in the woodwinds before letter I
Off the string eighth note passage starting in the 13th measure of I
Woodwind eighth notes 16 before K
Woodwind eighth notes starting in the 5th measure of K
Violins L to the Animato
Everyone faster at Animato!
Section entrance and rhythmic accuracy N to the end
Slavonic Dance No. 8
Confident and more refined melody throughout the piece
Lighter and shorter offbeats throughout the piece
Violin and viola sections softer and improved rhythmic accuracy at letter A and letter K (all notes placed correctly after the down beat of each measure)
Confident and more refined woodwinds at G, H, etc.
Improved accuracy, strength, and forward motion Coda to the end
Thunder and Lightning
Aim for a performance tempo marking of quarter note = 158 (if not now, then over the next few weeks).
Listening Links “do you hear what I hear…” 😊
Danse Macabre – Camille Saint-Saens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLLvq91kmj0
Slavonic Dance No. 8 – Antonin Dvorak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9ae30XcqvE
Thunder and Lightning – Johann Strauss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4CoVNcBXeg
Attendance Information: Please continue to make Philharmonia rehearsal attendance a high priority in your very busy lives. We do our best work when everyone is present and working together to achieve our musical goals. Please notify attendance@myso.org to report any unavoidable absences. (Leave your name, instrument, MYSO ensemble, and reason for the absence)