Dear Senior Symphony,
I will take this sunny weather! We are getting ready for a little break and I am enjoying seeing you and our rehearsals. I have to say we seemed a little “bonkers” on Monday—fun energy though a few focus issues, right?
Please see what we have coming up, and give a listen to and practice the Villa-Lobos. I can tell that’s not quite solidly in your ears or fingers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cesZ8d-7HBE or https://youtu.be/u-qIspNyhsU?si=jAu3Va_YfJx7NMbX
Very best,
Carter
Monday, December 11, 2023
5:20 – Report to Large Sectionals
Strings with Mr. Simmons in Youth Arts Hall
Woodwinds with Mr. Pearl
Brass with Mr. Sipe
Percussion in Percussion Ensemble
5:30 – Sectionals: Work on Villa Lobos
6:20 – Break and Move to Full Orchestra
6:30 – Holiday Music
7:00 – Villa Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 8 (1944)
8:00 – Break
8:10 – Lulu’s Wish (Song Set) (read-through)
8:35 – Coleridge-Taylor, Ballade in A Minor op.33 (1898)
8:45 – Rehearsal End
Monday, December 18 (Final Rehearsal Before Break)
5:20 – Report to Youth Arts Hall
5:30 – Villa Lobos, Villa Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 8 (1944)
6:40 – Review Holiday Songs
7:10 – Holiday Concert for String Orchestra (Central) and Flutes!
- A Christmas Song
- Sleigh Ride
- Christmas Festival
7:25 – PIZZA!
8:00 – Lulu’s Wish (Song Set)
8:30 – Buxtehude arr. Chavez, Chaconne in E Minor
8:45 – Rehearsal End
Sunday, January 7 1:30-3:30 Rehearsal and visit with MYSO Alumni!
Monday, January 8 Sectionals with professional coaches
MYSO Founders Concert
February 24, 2024, 1:00 pm | Bradley Symphony Center
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) /arr. Chavez, Chaconne in E Minor
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875—1912), Ballade in A Minor, Op. 33 (1898)
Lulu’s Wish
MYSO and Senior Symphony will partner with Make-A-Wish Wisconsin to fulfill a wish of a young person they support. Lulu’s wish is to sing with a symphony orchestra and Senior Symphony is honored to help make Lulu’s wish come true.
Song Set:
Kurt Weill/Anderson, “September Song” from Knickerbocker Holiday
Scott Frankel, “Pink” from War Paint
Andrew Lloyd Webber, “As If We Never Said Goodbye” from Sunset Boulevard
John Kander, “Maybe This Time” from Cabaret
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887—1959), Bachianas Brasileiras No. 8 (1944)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cesZ8d-7HBE or
https://youtu.be/u-qIspNyhsU?si=jAu3Va_YfJx7NMbX
Remaining Rehearsals:
- Monday, December 18
- Monday, December 25 – NO REHEARSAL – WINTER BREAK
- Monday, January 1 – NO REHEARSAL – WINTER BREAK
- Sunday, January 7, 1:30-3:30 pm
- Monday, January 8 – Sectionals with professional coaches
- Saturday, January 13 – Concerto Competition
- Sunday, January 14, 1:30-4:00 pm
- Monday, January 15 – NO REHEARSAL – MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY
- Monday, January 22
- Monday, January 29
- Monday, February 5
- Monday, February 12
- Monday, February 19
- Friday, February 23, 5:30-7:00 pm, Dress Rehearsal
- Saturday, February 24, Bradley Symphony Center
- 11:00 am-12:15 pm, Sound Check/Dress Rehearsal
- 1:00 pm, Founders Concert