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Spring 2018 Rehearsal Notes

Dear SCSO Chorus Members, To help the SCSO maintain a professional level, we urge you to kindly add these notes to your scores.   FEBRUARY 26 REHEARSAL NOTES FORREST #5 Page 66 At D where it says second tenors, ALL tenors are to sing. Forrest #6 Page 74 measure 39 Bass Clef: tenors only until Basses come in at measure 44 WHITBOURN Don asks us to be particularly focused on the tempo and rhythms in this piece. It would be very difficult for the orchestra if the chorus were not to be in perfect time with Don. Page 7and all following identical phrases: Women: please practice this so that all are the same. We are not getting it right until the 3rd or 4th repetition! Pge18 and 19: alto’s and Basses In measures 140 to 143 you share the exact. Same rhythm but it doesn’t sound like it so far.Don went over the parts with usand would like us to get these measures perfect before next rehearsal. Page 22Men: use an aspirant H sound Not a glottal to begin the “et” and rem