For future reference.

[saxikath]

Note to self: Two three-hour rehearsals are not enough to teach the Patience first act finale.

Comments

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Ah, but it's worth it. (Isn't it?)

Thank goodness I have it on my MP3 player, or I'd be frustrated the whole rest of the day.

[cycon.livejournal.com]

And that one's pretty easy, as G&S Act 1 finales go.

[saxikath]

I disagree, at least as far as the sextet is concerned. For young singers, especially, the sextet is tough.

[cycon.livejournal.com]

I dunno; I was just-turned-14 my first time singing the "premarital sextet", and I picked it up pretty easily. The last movement of the Yeomen AOF was a lot harder for me to nail, and I still need a score for the "Defiance! Defiance!" section of Princess Ida and the "British Tar" reprise of Pinafore.
And don't even get me started about "Marvellous illusion" in Sorcerer.

[saxikath]

You're not exactly the typical case, though. :)

[navrins]

Which raises the question of what makes one particular piece of music "tough" while another is "easy."

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

Multiple interior harmonies (i.e. you have a soprano soaring along the top and a bass bassing along the bottom and three or four people each trying to not listen to either of them or anyone else so they can hear their own separate line in the middle, but trying to listen to them so they can stay in tune) make a piece of music very very tough.