Stairwell Carollers
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Looking at this now from the perspective of 45 years singing - through the pandemic - it was so much simpler then! We were younger and no one cared about the jostling crowds - the more the merrier! We are still singing!This Christmas 2022 we h
Ottawa choral music fans are in for a real treat June 2nd. Pierre Massie and his award-winning choir The Stairwell Carollers will be celebrating the finale of their 40th anniversary season with a diverse program of six centuries of music sung i
This week is a physical warmup exercise for diaphragmatic breathing - done in a standing position. Teeth together, mouth slightly open, deep breath and release the breath in a controlled manner. Allow only the tiniest stream of air to be rele
In this week's Choral Cacophony Podcast, The Fonz from Happy Daze fame and spaghetti are featured.Pierre uses both these vivid examples (and others) to illustrate vowel quality and production. He runs the choir through the vowel sounds with h
If you've been following our Choral Cacophony Podcasts (and why not???) you may be motivated to hear us LIVE IN CONCERT! Here we are at a recent rehearsal preparing Abendlied by Joseph Rheinberger for the upcoming concerts.Enjoy!The Stai
Whaaaat? This week's Choral Cacophony Podcast features a warmup you can do to help with Octave jumps AND relaxed open tones. The secret?? Looking down. Yes. Literally. Looking down. Looking UP to reach a high note - straining for a note - can c
How high can you go? And can you hold that note?Does dissonance pull you away from your part? Stay with your section and stay in tune!Those are the two skills practiced in this week's Choral Cacophony Podcast. As an alto I know all about ha
We're all on hold waiting and wanting the spring flowers to appear. Our new singing season starts and it's a whole new ballgame - 40th, contemporary, Canadian!Personally, I can't wait to see the first flowers pop up through the snow.It's ea
As a singer, in a chorus especially, we have to shape our vowels correctly (and the way the director prefers!) But, how do we do that?Like most skill development, it takes practice and guidance. Practice making the sound, shaping the mouth, a
This weeks Choral Cacophony Podcast episode is an extra long one - about 10 minutes. With two whole body exercises, the Stairwell Carollers work on rhythm.Pierre created special practice sheets for teaching rhythm to his students and uses a w
In this weeks Choral Cacophony Podcast episode (Second of two parts) we work on a piece called Resonet in laudibus. It's a latin Sacred composition from the 14th century, transcribed by our director, Pierre Massie.About The Stairwell Carolle
In this weeks Choral Cacophony Podcast episode (the first of two parts) we rehearse a piece called Resonet in laudibus. It's a latin sacred composition from the 14th century, transcribed by our director, Pierre Massie.Please DONATE to suppor
Here is the conclusion of a Two Part Choral Cacophony Podcast for lovers of English madrigals from the Renaissance.Part 2 continues with Fine Knacks for Ladies, by John Dowland. This podcast highlights Pierre's sense of humour in rehearsal,
If you love Renaissance madrigals, we have a Two Part CC Podcast for you. Starting this week with Part 1, Fine Knacks for Ladies, an English madrigal from the Renaissance will be dissected and refined. This week, specific pronunciation (to ov
*If you live in the Ottawa region and love The Stairwell Carollers -- and would love to sing in our choir - email us to set up your audition NOW. *This podcast episode shows a typical rehearsal and illustrates how deftly Pierre our director lea
This weeks Choral Cacophony Podcast is a wee lecture from our director Pierre on "getting away from the book".Besides the fact that The Stairwell Carollers are known for connecting with the audience in a way that many choirs don't - we sing t
Director, Pierre, warms up the choir with a simple arpeggios then starts some Movable Do work.Your task is to figure out what your part is. Along the way there are some hints!Use this episode to warm up your voice and test your listening s
As I said in Podcast #16, En El Portal de Belen is a lively and fun Puerto Rican Christmas carol that we have really loved singing for a couple of years now. Yes, you will hear it at our Final concert for the 2017 Christmas season coming up THI
As Pierre always says, vocal strength, power, quality and control is in the diaphragm, not the throat, lungs, vocal chords or some mysterious chest muscles.In this simple exercise, Pierre leads the choir to focus on diaphragm control to relea
En El Portal de Belen is a lively and fun Puerto Rican Christmas carol that we have enjoyed singing for a couple of years now. We couldn't have done it so well without a lot of help with the pronunciation. In this episode, you can hear Josée (a
In this episode, Pierre leads us in an open humming exercise.I know, your mouth is closed when you hum so - open??Wait for it - all will be explained.He asks us to yawn, then close our lips and hum - while keeping the open space in the th
Pierre has written a brand new arrangement of one of the most popular carols on the planet.Carol of the Bells has always been a most requested Christmas carol at our concerts and our director/composer wanted to bring a fresh modern ring to th
Back on October 14th, we were fortunate to have an amazing workshop with master teacher, choral director and composer, Mark Sirett.There were so many wonderful exercises he did with us that simply do not translate to written description or ev
To celebrate the Stairwell Carollers’ 40th anniversary, director Pierre Massie has created a special Christmas program, featuring a wide variety of Canadian composers from across Canada and across different time periods, including himself.In
For some reason, we always call this warmup the "Julie Andrews" one. Despite searching, I haven't found an actual connection between her and this exercise.That doesn't mean there isn't one -- in my mind--- Imagining Ms. Andrews doing this
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