Fall 2018 Rehearsal Recordings

We are attempting something new this semester featuring amateur recordings of our actual rehearsals to better enable you to be able to learn and practice your music the way Erik intends us to be performing it.  We missed the first couple of weeks, but here is the recording of our 9/18/18 rehearsal featuring Snow, The Snow, Sim Shalom, Christmas Day, and Merrily on High.

 

9/25/18 rehearsal: Merrily on High, Here’s a Pretty Little Baby, Christmas Day, The Snow, Snow

 

10/2/18 rehearsal: Warm Up, The Virgin Mary…, Sim Shalom, Fum!Fum!Fum!        The Snow, Christmas Day

 

10/16/18 rehearsal (sorry…only until break time…) Still, Still, Still, Do You Hear What I Hear, Merrily on High

 

We are performing ten wonderful pieces this December 8th:

Still, Still, Still – from Norman Luboff.  

Here’s a Pretty Little Baby – Andre Thomas’ classic spiritual 

Christmas Day – This is a Gustav Holst favorite 

The Snow – By Edward Elgar 

Snow  – Irving Berlin’s classic from the movie White Christmas set in fictitious Pine Tree, Vermont in 1954!   

Merrily on High – Jay Althouse’s arrangement that drops the Ding Dong!

Do You Hear What I Hear – Timeless classic with a contemporary arrangement from Harry Simeone.        

The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy – West Indian spiritual arranged by our late local legend Robert De Cormier.   

Sim Shalom – Solemn ‘Prayer for Peace’ from cantor Itzhak Zhrebker arranged for us by Mark Brymer.      

Fum, Fum, Fum – A Catalonian carol arranged by Philip Kern.