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RCS Notes

Greetings! Welcome to RCS' Spring 2024 season!

You will find various resources on this site and on this page to assist us in our online rehearsals, including PDFs of scores and links to audio/video of various works.

PDFs are downloadable, and can be printed as you prefer.

Let's keep our joy alive---sing every day!

Marina

Also see these pages for helpful info
Resources
Vocal Warm-Ups

Spring 2024 

​PROGRAM ORDER
rcs-progamorder-spring_2024-inspirations___perf_forces_2.pdf
File Size: 74 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File


AUDIO/VIDEO LINKS
NOTE: Videos with scrolling scores are provided for some pieces.
Once score starts to play, you can ENLARGE it to FULL SCREEN by clicking on the
arrow
at the bottom left corner.
To return to your normal screen, hit the ESCAPE (ECS) key on your computer keyboard.

Tantum ergo in B flat, D. 730 - Franz Schubert
UPDATED SCORE: this score is updated with a short intro. I added, plus corrections of minor errors
schubert-tantum_ergo_in_b_fla_d_730-ma_p-v_score_intro.pdf
File Size: 158 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File


Shalom - Dan Forrest
A lovely live performance!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XsqGsPeL_w

Neue Liebeslieder, Op. 65 - Johannes Brahms

LIVE PERFROMANCE - Warsaw Philharmonic Choir
CLICK on "SHOW MORE" for tabs of individual movements
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYS5hocu1RE
Recording by the Chamber Choir of Europe
Clck on posting by Bruce Johnson for individual movement tabs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEzH2F70EYQ
SCROLLING SCORE: This video has scrolling scores for both the Liebeslieder, Op. 52
and the Neue Liebeslieder, Op. 65 that we are singing.
To access the individual movements, click on SHOW MORE.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKkEyeMSoXw

REHEARSAL TRACKS for all voices at CyberBass
Movements 1 thru 7 are grouped on the upper part of the page.
​Movements 8 thru 15 are grouped toward the bottom of the page.
www.cyberbass.org/Major_Works/Brahms_J/brahms_neue_liebeslieder.htm

When you click on a voice part for a given movement, a midi recording will play the part.
The midi PLAYER is mid-way down the page.
If you click on the 3 dots on its right side, ​you can change the PLAY BACK SPEED.

 This can also be accomplished in the grid below the player, where you can also hit
"Faster," "Slower," "Rewind," Pause," and "Play."

Es segne uns Gott - Franz Liszt

REHEARSAL TRACKS
SATB + Organ
SOP. + Organ
ALTO + Organ
TENOR + Organ
BASS + Organ

Qui seminant in lacrimis, S. 63 - Franz Liszt

Performed by Vox Danica - With scrolling score
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9DaWcvMCSE

Performed by 
Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5vdFQmMLYo&t=17s


UPDATED SCORE: this score includes corrections of  errors, particularly on Page 1 - 2.
liszt-qui_seminant_in_lacrimis-ma_edit.pdf
File Size: 96 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

REHEARSAL TRACKS
SATB + Organ
SOP. + Organ
ALTO + Organ
TENOR + Organ
BASS + Organ

Kyrie - L. van Beethoven, arr. Gottlob Bierey
An arrangement of the first movement of the "Moonlight" Sonata for chorus
​

Ciudad de Panamá Director: Aldo Jesús
www.youtube.com/watch?v=avCKfPqNV-A

El Coro de la Universidad de Valladolid
​Excellent performance!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqmEmKMVoYA


The Lake Isle - Ola Gjeilo

Recording, with lyrics embedded
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao11wqXm2d4

​
Live performance - Bel Canto Choir Vilnius
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g_dIiG9Tyo


Live performance - Univ. Of Cal.- Irvine Chamber Singers

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJuQ0ViZZ44


TEXT: William Butler Yeats
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
and a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
and live alone in the bee-loud glade.
​
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
 I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
while I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.



Des Tages Weihe, D. 763 - Franz Schubert
​("Fortune's Guardian")


Gerald Moore, piano; sung in German
 with Elly Ameling, Dame Janet Baker, Peter Schreier,
and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,
with scrolling score.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsdG-RmvyqI


UPDATED SCORE: this score is substantially updated, correcting many errors. It is highly recommended that you download and print it.
schubert-des_tages_weihe-ma_edit_1-english.pdf
File Size: 193 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

REHEARSAL TRACKS
SATB + Organ
​COMPLETE, including opening Bass Solo
SOP. + Organ
​from meas. 22

ALTO + Organ
​from meas. 22

TENOR + Organ
​from meas. 22

BASS + Organ
​from meas. 22


Ubi caritas with Piano Improvisation - Ola Gjeilo

Originally, Mr. Gjeilo composed Ubi caritas for chorus ​a cappella.

Known for his piano improvisations,
he released a version including his pianistic extemporizations.
That is the version we will perform.

Here is his performance with the
Central Washington University Chorus,
Gary Weidenaar, director
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_7mcGqsKP8

Here also are 2 videos with the a cappella version, with scrolling scores
​Listening to these performances will make it easier to learn your part.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQTnmY7IClQ

​www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp3IHBSyZKY

Here are learning videos for each voice:

SOPRANO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf-V1Rea5lw
ALTO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvbHcVijvd8
TENOR: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8vzILGJgoc
BASS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGss8hMr44c

Meeres stille und gluckliche Fahrt - Joseph Rheinberger

AUDIO COMING SOON!


One Hand, One Heart - Leonard Bernstein
from West Side Story

Here are learning videos for each voice. They are a bit too slow.......

SOPRANO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmpDH4d6VOE
​
: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IKRgV1mCiY
​

ALTO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg7xVrTPApY
 
: www.youtube.com/watch?v=trse_XaJJ9g
​

TENOR: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6oenESDNnQ
: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLoxPOg_Fkg
​
​​
BASS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A7RadpN0HI
: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jpwXaq6HVI

You Have a Heart - Nick Page

Scrolling score
IMPORTANT NOTE - Bars 95 and 96 (just before the end) are bars I added,
so they are NOT on the recording
​
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mesq_JRZoE&t=36s

For more info, please visit the web sites of Ms. Alexander's ensembles