While performing this song, the soloist takes flight leading with beautiful passages, but then when the choir joins the piece soars even higher. Singing and sharing this during a performance can only be fully realized if you are in it.
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – One Day More..
This makes me think humanity has a chance. Through music and song, we are one.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – Chan Chan – Compay Segundo, Maritza Gutierrez
Why do you sing in choir? This is why you sing in a choir. 🙂
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – What You See in the Loft – Mahler – Symphony No.2 ‘Auferstehung’ Resurrection Finale
Boom, the last movement of Mahler just rolled in. You’ve been sitting for at least 50 minutes absorbed in one of the great symphonies… then finally, you get to stand, connect with your singing centre and the conductor and embark on this musical journey. Heavenly doesn’t go far enough.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – Cantique de Jean Racine
Choral Standards. 🙂 Verbe égal au Très-Haut, notre unique espérance, Jour éternel de la terre et des cieux ; De la paisible nuit nous rompons le silence, Divin Sauveur, jette sur nous les yeux ! Répands sur nous le feu de ta grâce puissante, Que tout l’enfer
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – Arvo Pärt – Da Pacem Domine (2004)
The work was commissioned by Jordi Savall for a peace concert in Barcelona on 1 July 2004. Pärt began the composition two days after the 2004 Madrid train bombings, in memory of the victims. It was first recorded on 29 March 2005 by the Hilliard Ensemble in St. Gerold, Austria.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Choral Interlude – Who is Silvia – George Shearing
Who is Silvia? what is she That all our swains commend her? Holy, fair and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her That she might admired be Is she kind as she is fair? For beauty lives with kindness Love doth to her eyes repair To help
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – It Was A Lover And His Lass – Arr. Ward Swingle
8 part choral fun. 🙂 Singing it this year as well.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – Solstice Song – Larry Nickle
Singing this song in my choir, a lovely secular tune.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – Choose Something Like a Star – Randal Thompson
Wonderful song to sing. O Star (the fairest one in sight), We grant your loftiness the right To some obscurity of cloud— It will not do to say of night, Since dark is what brings out your light. Some mystery becomes the proud. But to be wholly taciturn In
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – Gabriel Fauré – Requiem : ‘Sanctus’
Upcoming repertoire. 🙂
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – Connected – Brian Tate
I am you are me. That’s what I said. I am you are me. Don’t you see? It’s seems like I’m over here and you’re over there. But there is somethin’ between us that’s greater than air. See thru the confusion; it’s not hard to do, It’s just an illusion;
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – Fantasia on Christmas Carols
This is was the closing piece to our Joyful Noise christmas concert. Fun to learn, challenging to sing. All good. 🙂
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Choral Interlulde – Chi vol che m’innamori” (SV 256)
Without doubt, Monteverdi was the greatest of the early baroque composers. He revolutionized the music of the theatre and the church with his dramatic and imaginative use of voices and instruments and with his daring harmonies and rhythms. Next to his Vespers of 1610, the Selva morale e spirituale of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Friday DWR Folk Interlude – Late in the Evening
Well, another week of firsts folks. My first foray into Karaoke was with Paul Simon and late in the evening. Funny how the difficulty goes up when you happen to be responsible for the rhythmical and lyrical production. A few stumbles, but I managed to stay in time and in
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