RESOURCE PAGE FOR COMMUNITY CHOIR
Tuition for Session 3 SPRING 2025 is $30.
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How to pay tuition:
--bring a check or cash to the first rehearsal
--mail a check to Consonare Choral Community, P.O. Box 338, Mansfield Center, CT 06250
--pay online via in the new registration system (above)
If paying tuition is a hardship for you, please send Sarah an email. If you would like to add a donation to your tuition, you can do so easily and your donation is tax deductible.
MEET OUR MUSIC LEADERSHIP
Sarah Kaufold, Artistic Director
Sarah is a conductor, soprano, and music educator who advocates for inclusion on the podium, within the choral ensemble, and in the choir folder. With extensive choral conducting and leadership experience, Sarah has directed choirs for singers of all ages, range of abilities, and in a number of settings, which include: church choral programs for children and adults since 2000, teaching middle and high school choral and general music classes; conducting collegiate choirs; directing adult community choral programs and a professional vocal ensemble.Sarah holds a Master of Music in Choral Conducting from UConn with extensive graduate study in choral conducting from Cal State University, Los Angeles and Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Cal Poly Pomona where she began her studies as a music educator. Sarah is current and founding Artistic Director of Consonare Choral Community.
Janice Castle is our collaborative pianist. Jan is a music educator and has accompanied adult and youth choirs throughout our area for over 20 years.
REHEARSALS -- SUNDAYS 3:00-4:30pm
Storrs Congregational
Sunday Rehearsals 3:00-4:30pm:
March 30
April 6
April 13
April 27
May 4
May 18
May 25
June 1
[no rehearsal April 20 and May 11]
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Dress Rehearsal:
Friday, June 6 at 6:30pm at von der Mehden, UConn
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Concert:
Saturday, June 7, 2025 at 7:00PM
von der Mehden Recital Hall at UCONN Storrs
INCLEMENT WEATHER:
Please check your email one hour prior to rehearsal as any rehearsal cancellations will be advised by 2pm the day of rehearsal.
CONCERT ATTIRE:
All black with an optional splash of green
GENERAL RESOURCES
SONG RESOURCES
The theme for this session is "Celtic Journey" where we will explore how music can travel through time and across oceans, yet still retain its essence and connection to the past.
Practice Tracks
mm. 1-17
p/u to m. 17-34
p/u to m. 50 - end
Siod Mar Chaidh an Càl a Dholaidh
Nova Scotia Folksong / arr. Gary Ewer
Gaelic song from Cape Breton with possible ties to a Scottish tune.
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Translation:
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That’s how the cabbage was spoiled
This is how the cabbage was spoiled
The flour was lying on the bottom of the pot
and the woman of the house was dancing
One day around harvest time
A dhandsome company of lively young lads
were sitting around a table – drinking from a bowl
In a tavern in the Lowlands.
After a while of singing songs
and another short stretch of foolish stories
One-Eyed Rob tuned his pipes
and some began to dance
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Pronunciation guide:
Notes:
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CH is pronounced like the ‘ch’ in Bach.
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Some words, like the ‘mh’ of mhin, or the ‘bh’ of ‘gabhail’, sound like a very tight ‘V’ sound, as if saying a V by starting with your lips together. But don’t try to make a B sound.
Any ‘v’ in the pronunciation guide that’s underlined should be this tight kind of V. So ‘gabhail’ should sound like “gah-vel”, where the V is almost a B. -
The second word in verse 1and 2, “dhuinn” is pronounced “goin”, rhyming exactly with the English word “coin”.
CHORUS
Siod mar chaidh an cal a dholaidh
Shid mar Kye an cal a golly
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So mar chaidh an cal a dholaidh,
Shah mar Kye an cal a golly
Laidh a’ mhin air mas a’ choir-e’
Lie a vin-air, mass a CHoy-reh
S bean antighe dannsa
S-ben an-tie-eh down-sa.
Latha dhuinn mu am na buana
Lah-ha goin moo am na bwan-a
‘S cuideachd ghrinn de ghillean uallach;
Skoot-chuct grin jeh gill-yan oo-laCH
Suidhmu’n bhord ag ol na cuaiche.
Sooy-moon vord ack all nah koo-eeCH
An tighosd’ air Galldach.
An tie-ost air goll-doCH.
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Air dhuinn greis bhi gabhail orain,
Air goin graysh vee gah-vel or-ehn,
‘S tacan eil’ ri sgeulan gorach;
Stah-kan ail ree skale-an goor-aCH;
Chuir Rob Cam a’ phiob an ordugh,
Choor Rob Cam ah feep an or-duCH,
‘S thoisich chid ri dannsa.
Ss-hos-eech Kooch ree down-sa
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Practice Tracks
Letter D (slow tempo - Sop is melody)
Letter F (Slow Tempo)
Letter H (slow tempo - Alto is melody)
Shule Aroon**
Irish folksong / arr. Ruth Elaine Schram
**This version has the text written in a phonetic format, not the original Irish Gaelic, which should be "Siúil A Rún"
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Pronunciation Guide:
Shule aroon;
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Shule go sookar oggus shule go kewn.
sookar - "0" as in book.
oggus - sounds much like August (without the final f).
kewn - the vowel sound is placed toward the front of the mouth, as if saying a long e with the lips forming an o.
Shule go dorus oggus ehlee lom,
dorus - the o is between a long o and a short u.
ehlee - the first e is between a long e and a short a. lom- the o is between a short o and a short u.
Iss guh jeh thoo mahvohrneen slawn.
jeh - the starting consonant si between aj and a hard ch sound.
thoo - the ht si between our hard ht and a hard t sound, as fi saying a ht but placing the tongue where you would say a t
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Translation:
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Come, come, come, my love,
Quickly come to me, softly move,
Come to the door and away we'll flee,
And safe forever may my darling be.
Practice Tracks
Loch Lomond
Scottish folksong / arr. David Overton
Pronunciation: "Loch" law-ch (like Bach)
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Text:
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By yon bonnie banks an' by yon bonnie braes
Whaur the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond
Whaur me an' my true love will never meet again
On the bonnie, bonnie banks o' Loch Lomon'.
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Chorus:
O ye'll tak' the high road, and Ah'll tak' the low road
And Ah'll be in Scotlan' afore ye
Fir me an' my true love will never meet again
On the bonnie, bonnie banks o' Loch Lomon'.
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'Twas there that we parted in yon shady glen
On the steep, steep sides o' Ben Lomon'
Whaur in the purple hue, the hielan hills we view
An' the moon comin' out in the gloamin’.
Practice Tracks
mm. 1-5 (all tenors sing T1/top line)
mm. 14-21 (all tenors sing T1/top line)
mm. 21-33 (all tenors sing T1/top line)
mm. 37-end (all tenors sing T1/top line)
The wind that shakes the barley
Irish ballad by Robert Dwyer Joyce (1836-1883)
arr. Dan Davison
-performed with Voices of Concinnity & Youth Choir
Original Poem (the music is slightly different):
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​I sat within a valley green sat there with my true love
And my fond heart strove to choose between the old love and the new love
The old for her, the new that made me think on Ireland dearly
While soft the wind blew down the glade and shook the golden barley
'twas hard the mournful words to frame to break the ties that bound us
Ah, but harder still to bear the shame of foreign chains around us
And so I said, "The mountain glen I'll seek at morning early
And join the brave united men" while soft wind shook the barley
'twas sad I kissed away her tears her arms around me clinging
When to my ears that fateful shot come out the wildwood ringing
The bullet pierced my true love's breast in life's young spring so early
And there upon my breast she died while soft wind shook the barley
I bore her to some mountain stream and many's the summer blossom
I placed with branches soft and green about her gore-stained bosom
I wept and kissed her clay-cold corpse then rushed o'er vale and valley
My vengeance on the foe to wreak while soft wind shook the barley
Twas blood for blood without remorse I took at Oulart Hollow
I placed my true love's clay-cold corpse where mine full soon may follow
Around her grave I wondered drear noon, night and morning early
With aching heart when e'er I hear the wind that shakes the barley
Practice Tracks
mm. 32-53 (letter B - letter C)
mm. 80-end
The Fields of Athenry
from Ireland / arr. the Jolly Beggars
We are the back up singers for The Jolly Beggars for this song. The choir is only singing on the choruses.
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You can listen to the recording above and then chose a harmony (which is written is S1, S2, or A).
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Music will be printed for you.
Wild Mountain Thyme
from Scotland
The choir will sing the intro to this song unaccompanied (as written below). The Jolly Beggars will sing the following verses, with the choir returning on the chorus "And we'll all go together" while surrounding the audience. The audience will be invited to sing the chorus at the end.
Practice Tracks
Midi sound that will be updated soon