The Choral Music Thread- Page 2
The Choral Music Thread
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#25re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/19/04 at 6:59pmi've sung practically everything mentioned above. Shut De Do was done last year or the year before, and Prayer of the Children we just did in our Fall concert- and i had the solos! :)
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#26re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/19/04 at 7:07pm
Son/Gunn- What did you think of Simon Carrington's directing techniques?
I have worked under him on two different occasions in the past year and I have to say that he is one of the best choral directors I've ever met. The man is amazing, and knows exactly what he wants. PLUS, he takes no prisoners, which I love. In a choir of ten thousand, if you aren't doing something right...he will pick you out of the crowd and embarass the hell out of you. I love it!
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#27re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/19/04 at 7:12pm
I love choral music.
I sing with a choir in Washington, DC (about 200 voices strong).
My favorites are the Verdi Requiem and the Brahms Requiem. I'm excited because we have 3 performances of Verdi in the Spring at the Kennedy Center.
Hey Dottie!
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#29re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/19/04 at 8:19pm
oooh, well, I missed this thread until now! I'm in the Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus...
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#30re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/19/04 at 8:40pm
-Shut De Do
aaah I remember that song! Its a neat song but when you are one of 4 guys in the whole choir its not so fun :-b
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#31re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/20/04 at 10:04pmJust got back from a performance of Mozart's Requiem. It wasn't quite a knockout, but it was very, very nice. It's a shame the stage was too small to fit the full orchestra as well as the full choir.
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#32re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/20/04 at 11:06pm
I just started the Faure Requiem in my high school choir. It'll be a great challenge for us, and I have the baritone solo. It's such a dynamic piece and it allows us to grow as a choir.
Choir nerds rock on! 
#33re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/21/04 at 12:01amive also sung set me as a seal. BEATIFUL song.
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#34re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/21/04 at 3:47am
LOve This THRread!
I have been singing in choirs all my life and recently got back into it out here in California with the West Coast Singers (www.westcoastsingers.org)
Chichester Psalms, Britton's Ceremony of Carols, Penderecci(sp?), R. Thompson's Alleluia, Ezekiel Saw the WHeel, tons of Rutter stuff, and on and on.
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#35re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/21/04 at 5:34am
I absolutely love choral music. I love singing in choirs too. I sing with my college choir, and have for many years. Right now we're doing the christmas thing. We're doing the Vivaldi Gloria, de Victoria's version of Ave Maria and O Magnum Mysterium (these two are absolutely gorgeous) and a bunch of light english carols. I think it's one of the greatest things in the world to ba part of a choir. Not only do you get to experience the beautiful sounds of harmony, but you get a taste of music you wouldn't normally hear in everyday life.
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#36re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/21/04 at 9:24ami love this one Vivaldi song... i'll have to find out what it's called... it's full of solos with a chorus with a full choir. it is really great and enjoyable! i had a bunch of the solos in that too and it is one of my fave's to sing in choir!
#37re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/21/04 at 9:45amThat's totally awesome. Vivaldi has a lot of great pieces, choral and non-choral. Let me know when you find out which piece you were talking about. I'd like to take a listen to it.
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#38re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/21/04 at 12:06pm
We are currently working on Finzi's In Terra Pax for Christmas. It's gorgeous. We are doing so well that our director has given us several more pieces to learn (to keep our sight-reading up) which are gorgeous if not terribly difficult. This Christmastide is one of those. Just a really beautiful arrangement. I will definately pull it back out when I am a choir teacher one of these days. 
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#39re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/21/04 at 9:06pm
son, that's a beautiful piece. I've sung it a number of times.
I'm working on a program entitled "Remembering the Dream: A Celebration of Freedom", which will be performed on January 17th.
The performance will include the following:
Agnus Dei from the Mass for Four Voices -- William Byrd
Agnus Dei from Mass in G -- F. Poulenc
Dona nobis pacem from Mass in D -- J. K. Paine
Stabat mater -- G. B. Pergolesi
3 Choruses from “Elijah” -- F. Mendelssohn
Os Justi -- A. Bruckner
Hope There Is -- C. Maclean
Advance Democracy -- B. Britten
‘Tis Not Too Late (Commissioned Piece, premiere)
Prisoner’s Chorus from Fidelio -- L. v. Beethoven
Song for Athene -- J. Tavener
Four Spirituals from “A Child of Our Time” -- M. Tippett
Soon I Will be Done -- arr. W. Dawson
...everybody in the NYC area is welcome to attend!
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#40re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/22/04 at 6:14pmI was just informed this weekend that the choir I sing with in DC has been invited to sing at The Kennedy Center Honors. I'm really excited about this!!!
Hey Dottie!
Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany
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#41re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/22/04 at 6:23pmSaw a live performance of the Brahms Requiem yesterway at NJPAC yesterday. NJ Symphony Orchestra and the Westminster Symphonic Choir. 'Twas wonderful!
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#42re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/22/04 at 6:25pmThe Brahms Requiem is a beautiful piece of music.
Hey Dottie!
Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany
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#43re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/22/04 at 6:34pmEspecially the second movement....so dark.
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#44re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/22/04 at 7:08pmYes, you're right. I'm not sure which movement I like the best, but there are certain phrases of the music that I especially love singing. I performed it this past April and I'm so happy we had 3 opportunities to sing it.
Hey Dottie!
Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany
#45re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/22/04 at 8:08pm
I got back from all day of singing in the choir. we are singing Ubi Caritas
Pueri Haebraeorum
Little Beggarman
Best of Rooms
Heavens are telling
and other pieces... some more Latin, 2 German, and some more English.
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#46re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/22/04 at 9:09pm
What is your favorite REQUIEM. I have only heard two and love them both.
Rutter Requiem.
Webber Requiem.
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#47re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/22/04 at 9:36pmOh, Spider....find a copy of the Brahms....It's worth it!
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#48re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/22/04 at 11:07pmdoes anyone know "What Sweeter Music" by Rutter? It is absolutely gorgeous!! I also love the Rutter Requiem as well. I got the chance to perform it at Carnegie Hall under his direction. I think "The Lord is My Shepard" is my all time favorite.
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#49re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/23/04 at 6:59pm
OH MY GOD! We're doing Ubi Caritas as well. Also Exultate, Seeds Grow To Plants, A New December and Sacred Places among others.
Yes, I love What Sweeter Music too.
Rutter rocks.
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#50re: Son/Gunn's Choral Music Thread
Posted: 11/24/04 at 6:39amoh my god... the most gorgeous song EVERRRR: In Dulci Jubilo. It's a 8 part song that we're singing in my select choir at school. It's incredibly beautiful.
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