Letter from Diane (4/14)
Hey Camerata,
What a great opportunity we had tonight to interact with Farhad Poupel and to welcome Camerata Vivace students to our rehearsal! Having two harps, two bassoons, and a seven-person brass section was amazing! I appreciated your great questions (even the ones about cats…) and thought Mr. Poupel’s responses were interesting and insightful. When he told us that he played the piano and the Persian Santur, I was curious about what the santur sounds like. Here is a video if you are curious too. I also liked his comments about how the best way to learn how to write well for different instruments is to listen to lots of different kinds of music written by lots of different composers. This is great advice for all of us as musicians!
Running all the way through Ode to Childhood was really helpful, but as you know, there are still lots of things to work on before it is performance ready and we didn’t take the time to fix very many things tonight (we will next week!). We have one more rehearsal, so our work is cut out for us! In contrast, your work on the Dvorak is really coming into focus. Great job getting the tempo changes! And Celebration… that one is just fun. It was good to run through everything on the April concert tonight.
Here is the lineup:
Saturday, April 25: CCB and Chamber Ensembles Concert
Roseville Area High School
Call time: 8:45 am
Concert at 10:30 am
Program:
Poupel: Ode to Childhood (All movements)
Dvorak: New World Symphony: First movement
Celebration
I am looking for a few people to introduce our pieces at the April concert and also for one person to talk about their GTCYS experience at Orchestra Hall. If you are interested in either of these opportunities, please put your name on this google doc.
Here is your GTCYS 10
Continue to practice all three movements of the Poupel. If you have a solo on this piece, practice it every day!
Practice Dvorak with attention to dynamics and tempo changes. As a reminder, here are our target tempos.
Beginning: mm=80
Measure 18–suddenly faster! Practice at mm=112
Measure 25: back to 80
Measure 29: faster! mm=112
Measure 47: mm=116
Measure 82: mm=124
Measure 96: rit. As written
Measure 100: back to mm=124
Measure 114: mm=90
Measure 130: mm=102
Measure 172: mm=90
Measure 180: mm=125
Have a great week! And remember to always live your life CON BRIO!