Even though our storm is passed, we believe it is too cold and that there is too much snow left in people's driveways and side streets to have our families out to go to choir rehearsal tonight. Jeremy and I feel that it would be too stressful for many of us to struggle to get out to choir. As you can imagine, with our concert and Christmas Eve coming, we will need to make up this lost rehearsal time-- otherwise the concert experience will become stressful for us in another way. We will respond in four ways. Please read these fully and carefully.:
1. Sunday morning the First-Plymouth Choir sings both services at 9:00 and 10:30. We will gather for rehearsal in the choir room at 8:00 sharp-- please do not be late. Give yourself some extra sleep Saturday night and wake up 15 minutes earlier than you think you should on Sunday morning! We encourage as many Abendmusik-only folks to come sing as possible because this gives us all several chances to rehearse and sing MAGNIFICAT and AND GOD SAID (from our HODIE mash-up!).
2. We will rehearse a bit between services on Sunday, from 10:00-10:25, probably in the choir room. There will be some kind of little snack prepared for you then.
3. A light lunch will be served EFFICIENTLY between 11:30 and 12:00 in Pilgrim Hall, then we will ALL rehearse, probably in the chapel, from noon until 1:30. (We cannot go later than that because of the neighborhood caroling party that begins then.). We understand accept that not all of you will be able to attend this rescheduled rehearsal, but we hope and trust that all of you will make every effort to make it possible to attend.
4. We will all promise to spend some quality time today, tomorrow, Friday and/or Saturday studying our scores, plunking out our parts on the piano, listening to the blog and otherwise focusing on our upcoming repertoire. Please do not wait until Sunday to think about your choir music again-- otherwise, our ship has a real chance of sinking. Just being in touch individually with your music a bit will really help our collective progress. Particularly focus on the MAGNIFICAT, AND GOD SAID, DONA NOBIS PACEM, and the Rachmaninoff REJOICE, O VIRGIN-- these need to be on the tip of your tongue! Also, see if you can memorize KEEP YOUR LAMPS-- I think you maybe already have! : )
Thank you all for you bring to the First Plymouth Choir and the Abendmusik Chorus. I will miss being with you all tonight, but hope you will enjoy the gift of a quiet evening at home. Keep warm and safe.
Peace.
TT
