Information for Choir Members: Spring 2026 season (For Music courses 12 and 14).
Recordings to study
Rehearsal schedule
Practice Files
Pronunciation Files
Translation
Concert Information
Downloadable PDF files of sheet music
The following links provide a PDF file for the appropriate sections. You ideally load this PDF file onto your tablet so you can place it on your music stand and read the music for practice and concert use.
Altos and Soprano iPad PDF file
Tenors and Basses iPad PDF file
Health benefits to singing (posted by Michael on 12/8/2025)
What to Bring to Class!
Three-ring binder (black cover for the concert)
- Tabs or sticky notes for separating the pieces
- Pencil (don’t use a pen!)
- Eraser
- Water to drink
Practice Files
Lauridsen “Les Chansons du Roses”
The Silver Swan – Soprano
Alto – The Silver Swan
Tenor – The Silver Swan
Baritone – The Silver Swan
Bass – The Silver Swan
Tenor 1 – Nachtgesang
Tenor 2 – Nachtgesang
Bass 1 – Nachtgesang
Bass 2 – Nachtgesang
Questions? Please read “How To Use Practice Files” below.
How To Use Practice Files:
Practice files are audio files that play your part louder than the other parts. Whenever possible, there will be links to audio files (such as mp3 files) that you can download. Alternatives may also be provided, such as links to Youtube videos; links to Web sites; and MIDI files.
Slowing down audio files: You may want to slow down mp3 files to play at a slower tempo. Here are links that purport to tell you how to do this — (1) Slow playback speed in Windows Media Player — (2) Slow down playback speed online at Audiotrimmer Web site — (3) Android and iOS apps to slow down playback speed (Mary Regan of the Cinnabar Singers recommends “Music Speed Changer” for Android, or “AnyTune” or “Audipo” for iOS).
PRONUNCIATION FILES
Dirait-on
La Rose Complete
En une seule fleur
Mo-Li-Hua
Nachtgesang im Wald
Translations
Franz Schubert “Nachtgesang im Wald”
Be ever greeted by us, O night! but doubly so here in the forest, where your eye laughs stealthily, where your footstep echoes more softly! Upon the branches’ leafy goblet you pour out your silver; you hang the moon with its ray for us as a lamp in the leaf-house.
Whispering breezes are your speech, spinning rays are your threads; whatever your mouth soothingly touches lowers its eye and sinks into sleep!
And yet, it is too beautiful to sleep; therefore up! and awaken, with the blare of horns, with the surging of brighter sounds, what earlier lay benumbed in slumber: up! up! up!
Already there is stirring in the bowers of the forest; the little birds believe the night has fled; the wandering deer timidly slip away; they imagine it will soon turn to day; the treetops roar with might— from the spring it resounds as if it had awakened!
Already there is stirring in the bowers of the forest; the little birds believe the night has fled; the wandering deer timidly slip away; they imagine it will soon turn to day; the treetops roar with might— from the spring it resounds as if it had awakened!
And if we call in song: “The night makes its home in the forest,” then Echo too calls for long: “It is at home in the forest!”
Therefore be doubly greeted here in the forest, O lovely night, where everything that paints you fair for us smiles upon us far more beautifully; therefore be doubly greeted here in the forest, O lovely night!
Here in the forest be greeted, lovely, lovely night, lovely night!
Recordings to study
INDEX:
- Morton Lauridsen “Les Chansones des Roses” includes:
- 1. En Une Seule Fleur
- 2. Contre Qui, Rose
- 3. De Ton Rêve Trop Plein
- 4. La Rose Complète
- 5. Dirait-on
Franz Schubert “Nachtgesang im Wald”
Rehearsal Schedule
Please be on time: be ready to start promptly at 6:10pm. Classroom in the “Creative Arts” building, first floor, room 132.
REHEARSAL PLAN FOR MONDAY 1/12:
First Class: Orientation. Any unregistered students who are interested in this class should also attend.
REHEARSAL PLAN FOR MONDAY 1/19:
NO CLASS – MLK Day
REHEARSAL PLAN FOR MONDAY 1/26:
Everyone starts at 6:10
- Finish learning “Dirait-on.”
- Work on “En Une Seul Fleur”
- Work on “Mo-Li-Hua”
- Finish learning “A Girl’s Garden” (Sopranos and Altos only)
REHEARSAL PLAN FOR MONDAY 2/2:
- Finish learning “Mo-Li-Hua”
- Finish learning En Une Seul Fleur m. 19-50
- Whitacre “Water Night” m. 1-32
- Schubert “Nachtgesang…” m. 1-78 (rehearsal #8)
REHEARSAL PLAN FOR MONDAY 2/9:
- Whitacre “Water Night” finish learning m. 33-end
- Lauridsen “La Rose Complete” learn beginning to m. 28
- Schubert “Nachgesang” learn from rehearsal #7 to end; tenors and basses only
- Ticheli “Earth Song” learn m. 1-26
REHEARSAL PLAN FOR MONDAY 2/16:
NO CLASS – President’s Day
REHEARSAL PLAN FOR MONDAY 2/23:
- 6:10 Tenors and Basses only: Schubert “Nachtgesang”
- 6:50 add Sopranos and Altos, complete choir:
- Lauridsen “La Rose Complete” learn m. 28-end and
- Lauridsen “Dirait-on”
- “Ecco la primavera”
- “Mo-LI-Hua” if there is time
- 8:00 Sopranos and Altos only, Tenors and Basses may leave (unless interested in small ensemble singing)
- Thompson “Girl’s Garden”
- Ticheli “Earth Song”
- 8:40: anyone interested in “The Silver Swan” and/or “Of All The Birds”
- we will run through them carefully and check voice ranges, etc.
- I will make a decision about who will sing these by Mar 2
REHEARSAL PLAN FOR MONDAY 3/2:
- Everyone should be ready to sing at 6:10
- Lauridsen all three “Les Chanson des Roses”
- Whitacre “Water Night”
- “Mo-Li-Hua” soloists will rehearse
- “Of All The Birds” and “The Silver Swan” small ensembles to be finalized
REHEARSAL PLAN FOR MONDAY 3/9:
REHEARSAL PLAN FOR MONDAY 3/16:
REHEARSAL PLAN FOR MONDAY 3/23:
REHEARSAL PLAN FOR MONDAY 3/30:
NO CLASS – Spring Recess
REHEARSAL PLAN FOR MONDAY 4/6:
REHEARSAL PLAN FOR MONDAY 4/13:
REHEARSAL PLAN FOR THURSDAY 4/16?:
- Adding a possible extra rehearsal for the upcoming concert
REHEARSAL PLAN FOR MONDAY 4/20:
Final Rehearsal: Everyone called at 5:30, second floor atrium in the library
- Meet at 5:30pm in the library — go through all the pieces.
- Meet at the Rosenberg library (bottom of the stairwell) for the beginning of the rehearsal.
CONCERT Date: 4/23/2026
Arrive by 4:30 p.m.
Concert at 5:30 p.m.
Location: Rosenberg Library, CCSF Ocean Campus (bottom floor in stairwell)
On the concert day, please be ready to sing at 4:30pm, when we will do a short rehearsal. The concert starts at 5:30pm, so ask your friends to arrive around 5:15pm. Tickets are free.
Dress code: Men should wear a button-down white shirt (long-sleeved), black shoes, long black pants, and some sort of tie. Women should wear all black and wear a colorful neck scarf. No sneakers. Sheet music should be brought in a 3-ring binder with a black cover.
Concert Order:
- TBD
Web page issues: contact Peter pbarscha@mail.ccsf.edu.
Musical or class issues: contact the professor, Dr. Michael Shahani: shahani@mcassociates.net
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