Hello, Senior Symphony!
I hope you are enjoying your weekend and perhaps a more relaxed pace today than your school week. I look forward to seeing you on Monday–you did an outstanding job last week.
If you recall, I asked you to prepare Brahms 3rd movement material for this week, so we’ll focus on that this Monday, 9/23. We’ll also review the 1st movement, play the Holst, and then read both John Williams “Across the Stars and music from the movie, The Incredibles. : )
On September 30, we’ll spend a couple hours in sectionals focusing on the 2nd and 4th movements and then we’ll rehearse them with whatever else we have time for. It should be fun!
Please read to the bottom!
Very best,
Carter
Oh, and something different: from dear Maestro Daniel Barenboim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKUi0c7bg2Q, & https://youtu.be/04YmzdmTUSI?si=AKsyYeatyPUVWTTk&t=24
Monday, September 23
A few of our friends will be here to coach and help us along. Thanks to each of them!
- Hyewon Kim, MSO Violin will be here with the Violins.
- Erin Pipal, MSO Violist will be here with the Violas
- Adrien Zitoun, MSO Cellist will be here with the Cellos
- 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
- 5:20 – REPORT TO SECTIONAL ROOMS
- 5:30 – Sectionals – Please prioritize work on Mvt 3.– then Mvt 2. Thanks!
Other areas/pieces as time allows
- 6:40 – Break
- 6:55 – Brahms/Schoenberg, Mvt 1
- 7:25 – Brahms/Schoenberg, Mvt 3
- 7:45 – Break
- 8:00 – Gustav Holst, Ballet Music from “The Perfect Fool” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUCAhFb54v0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjUPMwj4Ev8
- 8:25 – John Williams, “Across the Stars” from Attack of the Clones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wMiMDBHnJ0
- Michael Giacchino/ Bocook, Music from The Incredibles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmvsuMpb_8o
- 8:45 – Rehearsal End
REMAINING FALL REHEARSALS AND CONCERTS
- Monday, September 23 (2nd rehearsal)
- Monday, September 30: Sectionals with professional coaches
- Monday October 7
- Monday, October 14
- Monday, October 21
- Monday, October 28
- Monday, November 4
- Friday, November 8, 5:30-7:30 pm: Dress Rehearsal
- Saturday, November 9, 12:15 pm: Play Your Part Performance – Report ~11:30 am
Sharon Lynne Wilson Center
- Monday, November 11
- Monday, November 18
- Tuesday, November 19, 8:30 am-3:00 pm: Community Concert Day
- Friday, November 22, 5:30-8:00 pm: Dress Rehearsal, at Carroll University
- Saturday, November 23
- 1:30-2:30 pm: Sound Check at Carroll University
- 3:00 pm: Performance
FALL PROGRAMS
Play Your Part
Senior Symphony Performance at 12:15pm
Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, Brookfield
Bedřich Smetana (1824-1864), “Dance of the Comedians” from The Bartered Bride
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)/Orch. Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951), Klavierquartett g-Moll op. 25 für Orchester, 11’
III. Andante con moto
John Williams (b. 1932), “Across the Stars” from Attack of the Clones, 6’
Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978), “Lezginka” from the Gayane Suite, 3’
Rhapsodic Dances
Saturday, November 23, 2024
Shattuck Auditorium, Carroll University
Bedřich Smetana (1824-1864), “Dance of the Comedians” from The Bartered Bride
Antonin Dvorák (1841-1904, Slavonic Dance Op. 72, No. 2, 5′
Gustav Holst (1874-1934), Ballet from The Perfect Fool, 12’
Intermission
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)/Orch. Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951), Klavierquartett g-Moll op. 25 für Orchester, 45’
See you on Monday!
Carter
Carter Simmons, Artistic and Music Director