Tonight is the dress rehearsal for my concert. I have a feeling the ladies will have to use music on the Palestrina. We will try it tonight without music. But I would rather have them reference their music and sing it well as opposed to miss entrances, words, and rhythms because they do not know it well enough. I think tonight's rehearsal will require a lot of focus. It's Halloween and even one woman asked me last week if rehearsal would go the entire time. I told her to plan on it. I might let them out a little early, but only if it is a good, focused rehearsal. And we need to have a good 2 hours of rehearsal tonight. On Friday I e-mailed out part recordings for two of their new songs. I hope they use them.
I wish I could start the semester over with them. There would be a few things I would be more demanding on. The concert will go well- the women will sound nice. I am excited (and motivated) to work hard on our Winter Festival pieces.
We had our choir concert this past Saturday. It went well. I am very excited that I am at this program. It was easy to remember why I chose to come to this school as I was singing and specifically while I was watching my teacher conduct the other group.
I am also feeling very motivated to improve my own conducting.
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