Thursday, April 28, 2011

Rehearsals 4

Some shots from Wednesday.

 Rich Skirpan (TA) works vowels in warm-ups.

 Dr. Habermann in action.


 The tenors decided to wear blue.


 Basses.

"Mareta" with Dr. Southern and Carey.

Stay tuned.
V

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Rehearsals 3

Dr. Habermann's back in town, and began putting finishing touches on the rep today.

Dr. Habermann rehearsing "Come, Ye that Love the Lord."

 Massage therapy.

 Dr. Habermann going over the Valencian text of "Mareta."

 Liana.

Anthony Gault.

A short clip of Dr. Habermann doing a memory check on Burchard's "When David heard."

Back for more later.
V

Rehearsals 2

Some shots and a clip from Friday's rehearsal.

 Jeb Mueller (TA) leading Chorale and the "Shadow People" in jazzercise-like warm-ups (which were actually lots of fun!).

 The tenors (Aaron, Paul, George, Esteban).

Jeb doing warm-ups from the piano.

George rehearsing "El cant."

 Jeb rehearsing the spirituals.

 Sopranos (and baritone Anthony).

Baritones and sopranos.

 Jeb rehearsing "How Can I Keep from Singing?"

And again.

A short clip of Anthony rehearsing "Come, Ye that Love the Lord":


Till next time...
V

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Rehearsals 1

First glimpses at Chorale in rehearsal for the tour.

Jeff Stern (TA) rehearsing Burchard's "When David heard" for memorization.

A breakthrough.
 
 Frost Chorale.

 George Case (TA) gets technical.

 Tenors and baritones.

 Alec Schumacker (TA) rehearses "Mareta."

 Brenna, Tom, and Taylor.

 Gaile, George, Jeannine, Chorale guest, and Liana.

 Anthony Gault (TA) rehearses Parker & Shaw's take on "Come, Ye that Love the Lord."

 Gaile.

 Esteban.

 Paul Schwartz, our kick-ass accompanist.

Paul Piazza.

More to come—stay tuned.

V

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Welcome

¡Hola a todos!  As documentarian, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the Frost Chorale Spain Tour 2011 Travel Blog.

I'll be posting nibbles 'n bits here as we go through the tour preparation process:  photos, rehearsal footage, etc.  Stay tuned!

Vicente