Vocal Onset for Vowels, or Avoiding the Amateur Scoop
When the first word of a musical phrase begins with a vowel ( “and,” “in,” “Osanna,” “Agnus”), it will sound flat and/or scoopy unless the singer’s throat is open on the inhalation. It’s just like a sneeze—try simulating one, and see how your throat and nasal passages open up as you breathe in. This is how […]
Purchase a Concert CD
If you want to purchase a CD recording of the Sunday night performance at St. John’s Church in Portsmouth, Add your name to this list, then either give Patrick Dowling $20 or click the button below to pay via Paypal. How easy is that?
Concert Program Order
Singers, Here is the concert program order: Star Spangled Banner (1814) At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal O My Luve’s Like a Red, Red Rose Steal Away Sing Me to Heaven Let Your Light So Shine Hold On INTERMISSION Ave Verum Corpus Missa Brevis Loch Lomond Make our Garden […]
Christmas (2014)
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PPM’S Spring Concert
Join Portsmouth Pro Musica for our 30th Anniversary Concerts on Saturday, April 11th and Sunday, April 12th. The program includes Sacred Music, Spirituals, Folksongs and Hymns plus American classics and contemporary. This concert commemorates 30 years of choral music on the seacoast under the direction of Priscilla French. PPM began as Portsmouth Women’s Chorus in 1985. […]
Salute our Soldiers gala invitation on May 16th
http://vetscount.org/events/3rd-annual-seacoast-s-o-s-gala/ Singers: please click on the above link. PPM has been invited to participate in a “flash mob” on Sat. May 16th at Service Credit Union, Lafayette Rd. Portsmouth along with the Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra. Perform Star Spangled Banner with PSO and 1-2 spirituals? All music will need to be memorized for a flash mob!
YouTube – Hold On
Mansfield University Concert Choir conducted by Peggy Dettwiler at the 2012 World Choir Games in their Gold Medal winning performance in the Folklore competition.
YouTube – Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal
St. Olaf Choir – 2013 Winter Tour, Pasadena, CA.
Rehearsal Notes for Feb. 10
Star Spangled Banner – review vv. 1, 4 in your voice part At the Round Earth – speak, then sing your part while tapping eighth note pulse! Haydn, Missa Brevis – review Credo movement by singing your part slowly (play on piano, if you can). Same with Kyrie and Gloria movements Hark, I Hear – […]
John Donne and Metaphysics
Our April concert program includes an adaptation of John Donne’s At the round earth’s imagin’d corners, blow. Donne is known as a Metaphysical Poet. Wendy Graham did a bit of research and provided the following information. What Does Metaphysical Mean? The word ‘meta’ means ‘after,’ so the literal translation of ‘metaphysical’ is ‘after the physical.’ Basically, metaphysics deals […]