WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2014

QUOTE:
“Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.”
AUTHOR: Stephen Sondheim

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“No art is created perfectly the first time.”

COMPOSER 
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV

Christmas Eve 
Orchestral Suite
(1895)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0vFOax7ZeU

I. Christmas Night 

II. Ballet of the Stars 

III. Witches' Sabbath and Ride on the Devil's Back 

IV. Polonaise 

V. Vakula and the Slippers

In Gogol’s story, Vakula, the blacksmith, is the son of the witch
 Solokha (pictured above). More than anything he wishes to win
 over the affections of Oksana, the beautiful daughter of
 a Cossack named Choub.

Sergey Alexandrovich Alimov: The Witch Solokha
Stage Design for Gogol’s play Christmas Eve, 2004

Although made into a suite, "Christmas Eve"

("Noch' pered Rozhdestvom), was originally

an opera Rimsky-Korsakov composed in 4 acts

with a libretto written by himself in 1894-1895 and

based on a short story of the same title, 

"Christmas Eve,"

Night Before Christmas Story

(Christmas Eve)

By Nicolay Gogol

Music by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov

(English Subtitles)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGcA89k2D6c#t=34

by Nikolay Gogol's

Nikolay Gogol

 "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka."
The same story also formed the basis of

Tchaikovsky's operas "Vakula the Smith" and "Cherevichki."

GRANADA ADV. STRINGS

1.  Warm-Up:  D Major Scale

2.  Rocky Top

INTRO. TO INSTRUMENT

1.  Rules and Procedures

2.  "What Is Silence" Worksheet

3.  "Let's Play the Stick Game"

a.  Echo Clapping/Percussion Instruments

b.  Practiced to achieve the silence inbetween the sounds

GRANADA BEG. STRINGS

1.  Warm-Up:  Open string Bowing

a.  Open string one octave scales (GM, DM, AM)

b.  Bow Proportions: to rhythm "Straw-ber-ry"

2.  Twinkle

a.  Memorized

HILLVIEW ORCHESTRA

1.  Warm-Up:  D Major Scale

2.  Boulevard of Broken Dreams