February 10, 2009 Rehearsal

So sorry we missed the entry for last week. This editor was ill and didn't attend.

We were informed tonight of the death of Ronda Mendenhall’s son yesterday. He had been ill for several years. Our hearts go out to Ronda and her family at this time. The funeral will be this Saturday Feb 14, 2009 at the Letha LDS Church at 10:00 am. (Letha is west of Emmett about 12 miles)

Tonight our rehearsal began with an SSAA a cappalla arrangement of “Embraceable You", followed by a barbershop arrangement of another oldie, “April Showers”. We also reviewed “Pie Jesu” at which time Bruce gave us a brief Latin lesson on the 5 Latin vowel sounds.
--The small i is pronounced as a long e sound.
--e or ae together as eh
--An o sound is part way between ah and o. (forming the mouth as if to say o and saying ah inside the mouth)
--And the u is oo.
-- R at the beginning of a word is always trilled in Latin.

This brings our repertoire to 7 songs

“Ha Shalom”
“Abide With Me Tis Eventide”
“There Is Sunshine in My Soul Today”
“Pie Jesu”
“I Feel a Song Coming On”
“Embraceable You”
“April Showers”

We are searching for a venue to have our Spring Concert on May 2, if anyone knows of one please let us know.

See you next week.