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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, Opera Choruses, earlier rehearsals further down the page.
Rehearsal, 11/11, Opera Choruses
Rehearsal, 11/04, Opera Choruses
Christmas at the Cathedral (CAC) 2024, Singers: Scroll way down the page for rehearsals from last spring.
Rehearsal, 10/28, Singers, Christmas at the Cathedral
2024 Masterworks, Opera Choruses. GREAT JOB, Beethoven 9th!
Rehearsal, 10/21, Tenor & Bass Only, Opera Choruses
Rehearsal, 10/14, Opera Choruses
Rehearsal, 10/07, Opera Choruses
Rehearsal, 09/30, Opera Choruses, Bell Chorus & Verdi SATB
Rehearsal, 09/30, Opera Choruses, Wagner SA rehearsal
Opera Choruses, learning files (originally via Bob’s email)
Rehearsal, 09/14, Opera Choruses
Rehearsal, 09/09. Bernstein, Tonight
Rehearsal, 09/02. Bernstein, Tonight
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
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