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In this section CAS members will find all necessary information to participate fully in the Choral Art Society.
You will find all you need for rehearsals and performances, including schedules, pronunciation guides, translations, and mp3 files.
You will also find a roster and contact list, minutes of meetings, and other membership materials.
If you want to just listen to the recording in your browser, then click on its title. However if you want to download the recording do NOT click on the title first. Instead, RIGHT-CLICK on the title and then select “Save Link”.
2024 Masterworks, Fall Concerts, newer Opera Chorus materials just below, Beethoven 9th & earlier Opera Chorus materials further down the page.
Rehearsal, 09/02. Bernstein, Tonight
2024 Fall Concert, Masterworks, Opera Choruses, YouTube
Late in the game: Now that you (and I) have had the summer to learn some notes and make headway on memorization, here are some YouTube selections. Caution, they will differ in detail from our own scores and instructions, and obviously from our Kotzschmar Organ accompaniment, but they are still useful for practicing pieces a tempo and in full choral context.
Bell Chorus, from LA Opera Chorus, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIqs5-wFdG0
Anvil Chorus, MET Opera, https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Verdi+anvil+chorus+youtube#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:f77f87a5,vid:MdX3T_Kjcos,st:0
Oops, I put up a version with the wrong words. This one is better.
Brindisi, from Royal Ballet and Opera, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK-NUuTCras, note our instructions at ltr H, m160.
Triumphal Scene, Aida, Verdi; Vienna, Sala d’Oro – 05 – Ars Cantus, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8tfLSwx2bc
Porgy & Bess, Bruce Hubbard, It take a long pull to get there, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_WBoholtso
Porgy & Bess, Ain’t Necessarily So, Reggie Whitehead, Warsaw Opera, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP5O_NUhrK0
Porgy & Bess, Lawd, I’m on my way ∙ Adina Aaron ∙ Musa Ngqungwana ∙ Cape Town Opera Chorus, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7kLmpqpTJI
2024 Fall Concerts, Beethoven 9th & Opera Choruses, Masterworks
Rehearsal, 09/02. Beethoven 9
Rehearsal, 06/03. Beethoven 9
You do well to use either Choralia or Cyberbass for note learning. Below, segments from Chicago Symphony, CSO, under Riccardo Muti are interleaved with our learning practice, before and/or after our own work. You might want to switch back and forth between CSO segments and our own learning segments. Measure numbers listed below match Bob’s Kalmus score but differ for some people, so we might do well to pencil in consistent measure numbers.
Rehearsal, 06/03. Opera Choruses
Rehearsal, 06/03. Bernstein, Tonight, from YouTube
For “what it feels like in full context,” differs from our score, from online Supercut combining 1961 & 2021 film soundtracks, worth watching at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7RvwD1kicE
Rehearsal, 05/27. Bell Chorus
Rehearsal, 05/27. Wagner
Rehearsal, 05/27. Verdi Anvil Chorus
Rehearsal, 05/27. Verdi Brindisi
Rehearsal, 05/27. Verdi Triumphal Scene
Christmas at the Cathedral, December 2024
Rehearsal, 05/20
Rehearsal, 05/13
Rehearsal, 05/06
Rehearsal, 04/29, Jeff Mosher
Rehearsal, 04/22
Rehearsal, 04/08
Rehearsal, 04/01