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The information on this page is primarily for the people
currently singing with The Oratorio Society of New York. If you are
interested in singing with us, please visit our
Audition
page for more information.
Important Note - the first
rehearsal of the 2010-2011 season will be on Thursday,
September 16, 2010, at Holy Trinity. This is a change
from previous years - we usually start on the first Thursday
after Labor Day, but since that day, September 9, is Rosh
Hashanah, we have decided to push the start of the season back
one week.
Username and password are
required to access this page. This info was sent in an
e-mail to the chorus on 06/28/10. If you need the info
again, please write to Liz at ChorusNews@oratoriosocietyofny.org.
Click
here to view OSNY Video at YouTube!
Check out the most recent Member
News & Notes. DiAnn Pierce, Florence Long, Brian Percival, David Goldblatt, Fredi
Strasser.
Check out the Calendar page.
Click on a link:
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Rehearsals
BEGINNING JANUARY 7, 2010, regular Thursday
night rehearsals will take place at Holy Trinity Church,
with the following exceptions: See you in September!
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Important Addresses:
Holy Trinity Church:
88th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues
Turtle Bay Music School:
244
East 52nd Street Christ Church is located at:
520 Park Ave (at 60th Street) St. Ignatius is located
at:
980 Park Ave (at 84th Street) All Souls Church is
located at:
1157 Lexington Ave
(corner of 80th Street)
Reidy Hall Carnegie Hall - Stage
Entrance
56th Street just off 7th Avenue
Chorus Room is on the 4th floor |
Music
and Study Tools for the 2010-2011 Season
Stay Tuned - when info
about purchasing music scores for next season becomes
available, it will be posted here.
2010-2011 Concert Season:
Monday, December 20, 2010: Handel Messiah
Monday, March 7, 2011: Poulenc Gloria, Saint-Saëns
Requiem, Debussy Nocturnes
Wednesday, April 27, 2011: Mendelssohn Elijah
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Practice
with MP3 files from Tim
Tim is now Podcasting! You can get all
the practice files, as well as rehearsal recordings, downloaded directly into
iTunes, via Tim's Podcast Page: http://web.mac.com/timdwight/OSNY/OSNY_Podcast.html
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Practice Online
with MIDI files at CyberBass
If you would like to practice your
voice-part on-line, please visit www.cyberbass.com.
It's a website that has MIDI files of many choral works.
There are separate files for each voice part. You can
listen to the files with Windows Media Player. If you
don't already have the player on your computer, it can be
downloaded from Microsoft.
There is no shortage of MIDI files
for choral works out on the web, but most of them are single
files for all voice parts, and you need to have special MIDI
sequencer software in order to isolate your voice part.
The folks at CyberBass have already done that, making it easy
to practice online.
Thanks to Ben Platt for finding this
great site!
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Practice Tapes
If you prefer to purchase a practice
tape or CD, check out Hammond Music Service. Cost per
tape or CD is $19 (incl. s&h). If you are
not familiar with Hammond's product, he uses piano (not
voice), with the other parts in the background and your part
in the foreground. You can go to their website www.songlearning.com
for a demo.
Thanks to David Goldblatt for
providing this information.
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Dues
Membership dues are $150.00 for the season, payable
as soon as possible after rehearsals start. If you have any questions,
please see Marie Gangemi at rehearsal.
Click here for the complete Dues Policy.
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Book
Recommendation
As mentioned by bass Ben Platt,
at the 2/2/06 rehearsal:
The
Choral Singer's Handbook - How to become a good choral singer
Author: Roy C. Bennett
Published by Edward B. Marks Music Company in 1977
Available through Amazon.com
or from SheetMusic.com
via the Cyberbass.com
website. Paperback copies sell for around $5.00.
Ben purchased his through SheetMusic and it took close to 4
weeks for delivery.
The book includes all the basics of
singing, and excellent section on sight reading, rhythm,
diction, as well as pronunciation guides in Latin, German,
Italian and French. There is a large index of musical
terms. Ben considers this a very valuable addition to
his music library.
OS bass Neil Bennett, is the
author's son.
Jane Woodside and her family wish to thank the members of the Oratorio Society for all their gifts, cards and expressions of caring during Lyndon’s illness. Also, we thank everyone who gave their time, gifts of food, labor and singing for the memorial service. Everyone was bowled over by the “Amen” chorus. Lyndon would have been proud.
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