Rehearsal #14 - Cascade Chorus - April 22, 2026
- Apr 24
- 3 min read
Hello everyone.
I have just forwarded Andrea's sign-up lists for both concert set-up and take-down, as well as for putting up posters. Thank you for helping out in different ways, as "many hands make light work". Another task that requires assistance is setting up our new sound system (last term Alyxandar did it, but he isn't with us this term). Also, please bring back any posters that you aren't able to put up and we will check the list to see which places have been missed.
Next week, I hope to have a shorter rehearsal. I'm asking for the men to come early (start at 6:30) to go over their men-only pieces. Andrea will circulate the sign-up sheets again as the whole choir gathers by 6:45. Then we will rehearse the full-choir songs, dismiss the men early, and then practice the ladies-only songs. We will not include the solos/duos/trios or Cascadians songs during this time as we did last night.
A few things were noted as we sang through our songs:
1. I saw many people looking up from their music AND looking like real entertainers with their facial expressions!! WELL DONE!!
2. I heard singers from each section blend their voices with their group so they sounded like one unit. 🙂🎶
3. Listen again to the rehearsal recordings for the verses of WE RISE AGAIN to make sure that everyone is in sync
4. Review the pronunciation for SKIDEGATE LOVE SONG from the rehearsal tracks I made. Just a few voices are singing something different - mark it however it makes sense to you if you haven't already done so.
5. The same goes for ladies in UN CANADIEN ERRANT.....listen to the tutorial that I sent with the lady saying then singing each phrase.
Two more rehearsals! Try to stay healthy! See you next week.
Chord-ially🎶
Brenda
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Our audience-participation song: Something to Sing About - lyrics will be in the program, but you can print them off now if you'd like.
I have walked ‘cross the sand on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland,
Lazed on the ridge of the Mirimichi.
Seen the waves tear and roar on the stone coast of Labrador, Watched them roll back
to the great northern sea.
CHORUS: From the Vancouver Island to the Alberta Highland, Cross the prairies, the Lakes to Ontario’s towers.
From the sound of Mount Royal’s chimes, out to the Maritimes,
Something to Sing About this land of ours.
I have welcomed the dawn from the fields of Saskatchewan, Followed the sun to the Vancouver shore.
Watched it climb shiny new up the snow peaks of Caribou, Up to the clouds where the
wild Rockies soar. Chorus
I have heard the wild wind sing, of the places that I have been, Bay Bull and Red Deer and the Strait of Belle Isle
Names like Grand Mère and Silver Stone, Moose Jaw and Marrowbone, Trails of the pioneer,
named with a smile. Chorus
I have wandered my way to the wildwood of Hudson Bay, Treated my toes to Quebec’s morning dew.
Where the sweet summer breeze, through the leaves of the maple trees, Sharing this
song that I’m singing to you. Chorus
Yes, there’s something to sing about, Tune up a string about, Call out in chorus or quietly hum
Of a country that’s young, With a ballad that’s still unsung, Sharing the promise of
great things to come.
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For your information/listening pleasure, if you'd like, General and First Nations-themed
songs:
General
Centennial
Song - 1967!
All the Little
Rivers of Canada
Something to Sing About
First Nations
Woman
- Kristie Lane Sinclair - draws attention to missing and
murdered Indigenous women
Forgotten
Warriors -
read the under the video - FN veterans not given same opportunities
upon returning home as other veterans.
Auass
- “child” in the Innu language - read the description under
the video
Honours
the courage, resilience, and healing of Residential
School survivors - featuring the composer