Program April 21, 2022

 

April 21, 2022 Program

By:  Carolyne Oehlerking

6:45     Riser Set Up

7:00     Welcome – The Old Songs

7:05     Warm-up – stretching, breathing, vocalizing with Carolyne

7:20     Review and Work Potential Contest Songs

  • It’s A Good Day
  • Always (duet page 3)
  • You’ve Got A Friend In Me

8:30     Business, Cookie and Social Break

8:45     New Song – Seven Bridges Road

  • Review and work Intro to Bar 21

9:00     Rep Review:  Breaking Up is Hard To Do, In My Room, Swing Down Chariot

 

Music review reminders and music:

Always:  Breath marks are attached.  Please note I have removed the breath after year in bar 54.  Intro start Waltz style tempo a little quicker than previously taken but we will take some  liberties with adlibbing.  Bar 9 line up the word and chord on “each” as well as the word and chord on “day”.  Check notes Bar 45 “That’s”.  Tenors, Leads Bari’s take a breath Bar 55 before “yes always” and all breath end of bar 56 before key change.  Check notes “all of Page 3”.  Bar 68 Leads sing day/Harmony parts sing “not a day” – “not” needs to line up with “day”.

 

It’s A Good Day Please review learning tracks for notes and words – Bar 65 take an expression breath after the word deep (no breath after “breath” – no rest or breath in Bar 66)  Words have been changed in bar 67 “climb the highest hills”

** correct words       Bar 31 for losin’ “the” blues  and  Bar 41 said to “the” sun

 

            You’ve Got A Friend In Me – Pitch Eb “OOO” on First Chord.  Bar 29 Harmony parts –             trumpet “wah wah wah”

9:15   Quartet Tag – Song or Polecat Song of choice

9:25   Keep the Whole World Singing (Oh Yeah Tag), Irish Blessing

9:30    Riser take down, mopping and cleanup

Program April14, 2022

 

April 14, 2022 Program

By:  Carolyne Oehlerking

6:50     Riser Set Up

7:00     Welcome – The Old Songs

7:05     Warm-up – stretching, breathing, vocalizing with Carolyne

7:25     Learn a Tag with Robin

7:35     Review and Work Potential Contest Songs 

  • Always
  • It’s A Good Day
  • You’ve Got A Friend In Me
    • Section Rehearsal to review notes and words (20 minutes)

8:35     Business, Cookie and Social Break

8:50     Rep Review:  Breaking Up is Hard To Do, In My Room, Swing Down Chariot

Music review reminders and music:

Always:  Breath marks are attached.  Please note I have removed the breath after year in bar 54.  Intro start Waltz style tempo a little quicker than previously taken but we will take some  liberties with adlibbing.

It’s A Good Day Please review learning tracks for notes and words – Bar 65 take an expression breath after the word deep (no breath after “breath” – no rest or breath in Bar 66)  Words have been changed in bar 67 “climb the highest hills”

9:10   Quartet Tag – Song of choice / or Robin’s Tag

9:25   Keep the Whole World Singing (Oh Yeah Tag), Irish Blessing

9:30    Riser take down, mopping and cleanup

Program April 7, 2022

 

April 7, 2022 Program

By:  Carolyne Oehlerking

7:00     Riser Set Up

7:10     Welcome – The Old Songs

7:15     Warm-up – stretching, breathing, vocalizing with Carolyne

7:35     Learn a Tag – “Clouds on Fire” with Robin

7:45     Review and Work Potential Contest Songs

  • Always
  • You’ve Got A Friend In Me
  • It’s A Good Day
    • Section Rehearsal to review notes and words
    • Work Pitch to starting notes (new unison notes in intro)

8:45     Business, Cookie and Social Break

9:00     Rep Review:  Come Go With Me, Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Sh-Boom

  • (Same as last week as we did not get to review them)

Music review reminders and music:

Always:  There are two different arrangement copies within the chorus.  Same arranger BUT for some copies in bar 59 the lyric is “a-l-ways” and the other copy by 60 is “Please re-mem-ber” – so for whichever copy you have we will be singing “ah-al-ways” each syllable represented by a quarter note.  Breath marks are attached.  Waltz style tempo a little quicker than previously taken but we will take some  liberties with adlibbing.

It’s A Good Day – Key of G –  All parts sing unison an octave apart on the D, E and G  (tenor/lead upper octave and baritone bass lower octave) “A good” then split into parts.

Please review learning tracks for notes and words – Bar 65 take an expression breath after the word deep (no breath after “breath” – no rest or breath in Bar 66)

You’ve Got A Friend in Me – Pitch Up on “OOO” first chord.  Bar 29 Tenor, Lead, Bari – wah wah wah – muted trumpet sound and then immediately back to good vocal quality at Bar 30

9:10   Quartet Tag – A doo whop song of choice / or Robin’s Tag

9:25   Keep the Whole World Singing (Oh Yeah Tag), Irish Blessing

9:30    Riser take down, mopping and cleanup

Program March 31,2022

 

March 31, 2022 Program

By Robin Saumer and Carolyne Oehlerking

7:00     Riser Set Up

7:10     Welcome – The Old Songs

7:15     Warm-up – stretching, breathing, vocalizing with Carolyne

7:30     Learn a Tag – “Clouds on Fire” with Robin

7:45     Review and Work Potential Contest Songs

  • You’ve Got A Friend In Me
  • It’s A Good Day
  • Always
    • Section Rehearsal (30 minutes) – review notes and words for accuracy

8:45     Business, Cookie and Social Break

8:55     Rep Review:  Come Go With Me, Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Sh-Boom

 Music review reminders and music:

  Always:  There are two different arrangement copies within the chorus.  Same arranger BUT for some copies in bar 59 the lyric is “a-l-ways” and the other copy by 60 is “Please re-mem-ber” – so for whichever copy you have we will be singing “a-l-ways” each syllable represented by a quarter note.  Breath marks will be given at rehearsal.

Tag:  We will be exploring the ending – leads please be prepared to continue to hold the Ab to the end and we will also be trying the leads repeat of “al-ways” with the other 3 parts.

Please review notes and words for section rehearsal.

  It’s A Good Day – All parts sing unison octave apart (tenor/lead upper octave and baritone bass lower octave) “A good” then split into parts.

Please review learning tracks for notes and words – Bar 65 take an expression breath after the word deep (no breath after “breath” – no rest or breath in Bar 66)

  You’ve Got A Friend in Me – Bar 29 Tenor, Lead, Bari – wah wah wah – muted trumpet sound and then immediately back to good vocal quality at Bar 30

  Irish Blessing – Pitch in F.  Please review notes in each part

9:10   Quartet Tag – Irish Blessing / or Robin’s Tag

9:25   Keep the Whole World Singing (Oh Yeah Tag)

9:30    Riser take down, mopping and cleanup

Program March 10, 2022

 

March 10, 2022 Program

  • By Robin Saumer and Carolyne Oehlerking

7:10   Welcome – The Old Songs

7:15   Warm-up – stretching, breathing, vocalizing with Carolyne

7:30     Learn a Tag with Robin

7:45     Part Dueting

  • Can You Feel The Love Tonight
  • Sh Boom
  • Hello Mary Lou
  • It’s A Good Day

8:30   Business and water break

8:35   Rep review:

  • O Canada with French words (see below), I Believe In Music, Yesterday, Sentimental Journey.

O Canada – Bar 7 word changes “in all of us command”.  Bar 8 to Bar 16 in French as an alternative when appropriate in performance.

“Car ton bras sait porter l’épée, Il sait porter la croix! Ton histoire est une épopée Des plus brillants exploits.”

Music review reminders and music;

It’s A Good Day – please review learning tracks for notes and words – Bar 65 take an expression breath after the word deep (no breath after breath – no rest or breath in Bar 66)

Always – considering for contest – please review notes and words for March 17 rehearsal sectionals.

Please note songs we will be removing from our repertoire at this time:

The Banana Boat Song, I Don’t Know Why, When I Grow to Old to Sing, Side By Side, Ten Feet Off The Ground

9:00   Happy March Birthdays and Cookie Break (Cookies TBD – Willie is checking)

9:10   Quartet Tag – You’ve Got A Friend In Me

9:25   Keep the Whole World Singing (Oh Yeah Tag) and Irish Blessing

9:30   Mopping and cleanup

 

Program March 3, 2022

 

March 3, 2022 Program

  • By Robin Saumer and Carolyne Oehlerking

7:10   Welcome – The Old Songs

7:15   Warm-up – stretching, breathing, vocalizing

7:30

  • You’ve Got A Friend In Me
  • King of The Road
  • In My Room
  • Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
  • Come Go With Me
  • Can You Feel The Love Tonight

8:30   Business and water break You’re as Welcome

8:35   Rep review:

  • Always, All I Have To Do Is Dream, Happy Birthday, I Believe In Music

Last week review reminders:

  • The Old Songs – move the song along at a quicker tempo.  Bar 3 – hold out “minor chords” and move through “and good close har” mo  ny
  • Hello Mary Lou – More lyrical connected verses.  We will explore some variations in the phrasing in the future.
  • O Canada – Bar 7 word changes “in all of us command”.  Bar 8 to Bar 16 in French as an alternative when appropriate in performance.

“Car ton bras sait porter l’épée, Il sait porter la croix! Ton histoire est une épopée Des plus brillants exploits.”

Please note songs we will be removing from our repertoire at this time:

The Banana Boat Song, I Don’t Know Why, When I Grow to Old to Sing, Side By Side, Ten Feet Off The Ground

9:00   Break

9:05   Quartet Tag – King of the Road 

9:25   Keep the Whole World Singing (Oh Yeah Tag)

 Irish Blessing

9:30   Mopping and cleanup

Program Feb24, 2022

 

February 24, 2022 Program

  • By Robin Saumer and Carolyne Oehlerking

7:10   Welcome – The Old Songs

7:15   Warm-up – stretching, breathing, vocalizing (see Samba Chill Round words below)

7:30   Part Dueting

       . Under the Boardwalk

  • Swing Down Chariot

8:00   Business and water break You’re as Welcome (new words see below)

8:10   Rep review: 

  • Banana Boat, Hello Mary Lou, Silhouettes, I Love You Truly, O Canada
  • Sight Reading: I understand these were started just before you started Zoom rehearsals so we will sight sing them and see how they feel.  Its Only A Paper Moon (start review at Bar 10), Ten Feet Off the Ground

Last week review reminders:

  • It’s A Good Day – review learning tracks for notes and words – Bar 65 take an expression breath after the word deep (no breath after breath – no rest or breath in Bar 66)
  • Ring of Fire – on back burner but please review learning tracks on a regular basis so that we can bring this back for learning in the future TBA

Review reminders:

  • King of the Road – basses back beat snap alone to bar 9, everyone snaps bar nine to end bar 16, snap snap bar 47 during rest, snap snap bar 71
  • In My Room – melancholy (not sad) to bar 27 – hopeful to end

9:00   Break

9:05   Quartet Tag – King of the Road 

9:25   Keep the Whole World Singing (with new tag ‘Oh Yeah )

 Irish Blessing

9:30   Mopping and cleanup.

 

Samba Chill Round

Samba chill, samba Brazil.

Samba chill, samba Brazil. (repeat)

Rio de Janeiro, dancing through the night.

Rio de Janeiro, ‘til the morning light.

Samba de Brazil, samba de Brazil.

Samba de Brazil, samba.

Samba de Brazil, samba.

Samba de Brazil, samba.

Samba de Brazil, samba.

Program Feb 17, 2022

 

February 17, 2022 Program

  • By Robin Saumer and Carolyne Oehlerking

7:10   The Old Songs welcome

7:15   Warm-up – stretching, breathing, vocalizing

7:30   Doo Wop – parts dueting

  • Breaking Up is Hard To Do
  • Come Go With Me
  • Rep review Sh-Boom

8:00   Business and water break You’re as Welcome (new words attached)

8:10   Rep review:

  • Under the Boardwalk, Swing Down Chariot, Ring of Fire, When I Grow Too Old to Sing, It’s A Good Day, When I Grow Too Old To Sing, Banana Boat, Hello Mary Lou

Last week review reminders:

  • King of the Road – basses back beat snap alone to bar 9, everyone snaps bar nine to end bar 16, snap snap bar 47 during rest, snap snap bar 71
  • In My Room – melancholy (not sad) to bar 27 – hopeful to end

9:00   Break

9:05   Quartet Tag – Heart of My Heart (next week King of the Road)

9:25   Keep the Whole World Singing (with new tag ‘Oh Yeah – tag attached), Irish Blessing

This link is for the teaching of Keep the Whole World Singing with Dr. Jim Henry and Forefront if you have not seen it before…enjoy.

https://youtu.be/IBoKs8rFed8

9:30   Mopping and cleanup.

 

Program Feb 10, 2022

 

February 10, 2022 Program

7:10   The Old Songs and Introduction by Jim Moran

7:15   Warm-up – stretching, breathing, vocalizing

7:30   You’ve Got a Friend in Me

7:45   Can You Feel the Love

8:00   Business and water break You’re as Welcome

8:10   Rep review: Come Go With Me, King of the Road, Under the Boardwalk, Breaking Up is Hard, In My Room, Swing Down Chariot, Sh-Boom, Ring of Fire, When I Grow Too Old to Sing

9:00   Break

9:05   Valentines – Heart of My Heart and Let Me Call You Sweetheart in group and quartets

9:25   Keep the Whole World Singing and Irish Blessing.

9:30   Mopping and cleanup.

Program February 3, 2022

 

February 3, 2022 Program

7:15   Introduce guest director – Jim Moran

7:20   Welcome guests – You’re as Welcome – Robin

7:25   Warm-up – stretching, breathing, vocalizing -Guest director and/or Robin

7:40   Review You’ve Got a Friend in Me (Guest director)

8:00   Review Can You Feel the Love (Robin or guest director)

8:20   Business and water break

8:30   Rep review notes Come Go With Me and King of the Road (Robin)

8:50   Polecat book #1 My Wild Irish Rose (Jim Moran)

9:10   Valentines – Heart of My Heart and Let Me Call You Sweetheart (Robin)

9:25   Keep the Whole World Singing and Irish Blessing. (Robin)

9:30   Mopping and cleanup.