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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.
Click
here for the 2008 Re-Audition Schedule.
Read
the New York Times Review of our March Concert!
Click
here to view OSNY Video at YouTube!
Check out the most recent Member
News & Notes. Carole Swaim, Florence Long, Chieko Yamaguchi, Lorraine DelliCarpini & Brian
Fisher, Lydia Good, Marti Torn, Susan Shelhart, Shirley
Medwick.
Check out the Calendar page.
Hear a sample of the Brahms Tragic
Overture.
Bass Tim Dwight has provided a
Shockwave link that will let you hear a sample of the Brahms Tragic
Overture. Share this link with your friends - it's a
great way to sell tickets - let everyone sample this piece, which
will showcase our great orchestra.
Click
here for the Shockwave sample page. (Please be warned, there are repeated "preview" and "Shockwave-Sound-dot-com" announcements. There are also brief previews on iTunes and other sites that sell recordings.)
Hear Brahms speak(?) and
play.
Tenor Joe Bookmyer shares this link to an Edison cylinder
recording made by Brahms in 1889. He plays (barely
audibly) part of his first Hungarian Dance in a transcription
for solo piano. What can be heard more clearly is a voice,
long thought to be Brahms himself, introducing the
performance. The AOL video describes it as such. (Click
here for the recording.) However, the Stanford
University page suggests that the voice is more likely to be
that of the Edison technician who made the recording. (Click
here for the Stanford page.)
Click on a link:
Orchestra &
Extra Rehearsal Schedule
Brahms:
Saturday, Apr 26, 2008
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Turtle Bay
Thursday, May 15, 2008
7 - 9:30 PM
Christ Church
Saturday, May 10, 2008
NEW
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Turtle Bay
Saturday, May 17, 2008
1 - 5 PM
Christ Church
Monday, May 19, 2008
3 - 7 PM (Chorus @ 4:30)
Christ Church
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - Concert
Night
6:05 pm - Sound Check
On stage at Carnegie
Use the stage entrance - 56th St.
Remember:
Black folders for your music.
Tenors & Basses
black tux or business suit
plain white shirt (no ruffles)
black bow tie
black shoes and socks
Sopranos & Altos
black floor length skirt
(no sequins, slits
no palazzo pants)
black long-sleeved round
necked pull-over blouse
26" length pearls
black shoes
black or flesh-tone stockings
small evening bag if needed
Everyone
no perfume or cologne
please use deodorant
jewelry should be subtle
NEW:
Getting Ready for Next Season
Bernstein & Bach:
Thursday, May 22, 2008
7 - 9:30 PM
Turtle Bay
Thursday, June 5, 2008
7 - 9:30 PM
Turtle Bay
Thursday, June 12, 2008
7 - 9:30 PM
Turtle Bay
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Turtle Bay Music School
244
East 52nd Street
Christ Church United Methodist
520 Park Avenue
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Recording
Recommendations
A recording of the Moravec Songs of Love and War
is available at OmniTone. (Click
here for the website.) The title of the CD is Reflections:
Four Contemporary American Composers Look Back. It's
recorded by the Dessoff choirs, with our own Kent Tritle
conducting!
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Music
for the 2007-2008 Season
The following scores will be available at the first rehearsal on September 6th:
Handel Messiah - Oxford University Press, edited Clifford Bartlett - $8.00
(Same as last year)
Fauré: Requiem - Rutter edition, Hinshaw Music - $7.00
(This is a different edition from the last time we did this piece.
Kent would prefer we use this edition.)
Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine - Hinshaw Music - $2.00
(OK to use Broude edition if already owned)
Moravec Songs of Love and War - $8.00
Brahms Requiem - Peters Edition No. 3672 in German - $12.00
(the same edition was used in 1996)
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Practice
with MP3 files from Tim
Tim has moved most of the Practice
Files to the new Podcast page (link is below.) He is
using his old home page (http://homepage.mac.com/timdwight)
to host the practice files for the Moravec Songs of Love
and War because they are password-protected. (If you
forgot the password, write to Liz at ChorusNews@oratoriosocietyofny.org.)
All the files are suitable for
downloading and playing on your computer, loading onto an iPod
or other device, or burned onto CD.
Once you get to Tim's site, click on
the "OSNY" folder, then the "Music"
folder. There you will be able to
navigate through appropriately named sub-folders to find the
files you want. Once you find the file you want, click on the download graphic for
it, and you should be given the option to save
the file to your computer. Please note that many of the
files, especially rehearsal recordings, are quite large, and
may take a long time to download, especially if you are using
a dial-up internet connection.
Thanks Tim!
NEW: 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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2007-2008 Season Schedule
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Handel Messiah
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Fauré: Requiem
Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine
Moravec: Songs of Love and War
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Solo
Competition Finals, Weil Recital Hall
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Brahms:
German Requiem
Brahms: Tragic Overture in D Minor
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Service
Auction, Christ Church
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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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