CPB Weekly Update

Written By CPB Admin

Dear CPB!

THANK YOU for another great rehearsal this week! As I mentioned, O'Shae and I are having a BLAST making music with you! Our next rehearsal will feature sectionals led by our Liaisons. See below for sectional locations and for notes for the four works we would like you to focus on along with the areas your Liaisons are planning to rehearse as well. If time allows, please work on the other pieces afterward. Please work on these areas prior to Thursday so the sectionals are effective and fun.

Thank you ALL!

CPB Rehearsal Schedule for Thursday, February 1st:

  • Location: Park Road Church

  • Time: 7-9PM

SECTIONAL LOCATIONS:

  • Flutes/Piccolo - Backstage on Piano Side, Sanctuary Building

  • Oboes - Church Office, Sanctuary Building

  • Bassoons - Foyer, Sanctuary Building

  • Clarinets, Bass Clarinets, Contrabass Clarinet - Main Room, Youth Building

  • Saxophones - Music Storage Room, Sanctuary Building

  • Trumpets - Choir Room, Sanctuary Building

  • Horns - Classroom, Youth Building

  • Trombones - Echerd Room, Sanctuary Building

  • Euphoniums - Classroom, Youth Building

  • Tubas - Helt Hall, Sanctuary Building

  • Percussion and Piano - Sanctuary, Sanctuary Building

6:55 - Move chairs and stands into sectional areas

7:00 - Sectionals begin with Liaisons leading

7:00 - COPLEY - Halcyon Hearts 

  • WW- continue to work on phrasing of ostinato rhythm. Make sure we accent the downbeat, and phrase to the next down.

  • Brass- continue to work on crescendos/diminuendos as these add to the "breathing" of the piece. 

  • Percussion- Be careful on the rolls as you are very pivotal in the overall "Happiness" of the piece

7:25 - HAMMER - Himalayan Peaks 

  • WWs - Keep working on the sextuplets. Start with a metronome at 50bpm and change the articulation. Mark lines where the 8th notes would occur for easier practice. 

  • Brass - Continue to work through connecting the smooth lines. Remember we are imitating the movement on the mountains

7:50 - GIROUX - No Finer Calling - Integrity Fanfare and March, movement 1 

  • Practice with a subdividing met on triplets at quarter = 120. Work on accuracy, clarity of articulation and consistency of rhythm. 

8:15 - BERNSTEIN/DUTHOIT - West Side Story

  • Beg-1 - Stylistic contrasts, 1-5 - feel this section in one at quarter note = 166 work on light articulations and phrasing - remember, fast rhythms crescendo to longer rhythms

  • 5-9 - Phrasing, dynamic contrasts

  • 9-13 - This will be felt in one - practice with your met at quarter note = 186

  • 13-15 - Feel this in two - accuracy of rhythm and consistency of pulse. Bring out the accents!

  • 15-17 - Phrasing and lyrical playing - connect everything - ALL clarinets play the eighth note slurred arpeggios

  • 17-18 - Light playing, bringing out the accents. Consistency of accurate rhythm and subdivided pulse.

  • 18-END - Rhythmic accuracy and phrasing

8:55 - move all chairs and stands back and reset the sanctuary

9:00 - Dismissal

Please continue to assist in our recruitment efforts by inviting your friends, family, neighbors, and students to join us!

See you on Thursday! 

CPB Admin
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