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ciroccojWowsa, our choir director just put up the rehearsal music. If anybody's looking for something to listen to, check this out: Rehearsal music.
Stars indicate what I think of each song
* = OK
** = very nice
*** = love it
**** = would marry it if I could
Freedom Trilogy: **** only my very favourite song in years. It's so damn powerful as a blend of contradictory musical styles. Oh, and the voices in the stratosphere? That's my part. Not my choir in this recording, but when we sing it, there I'll be, sustaining high A's and trying not to die.
Rise Up My Love or don't, I don't care. I hate this piece.
I Beheld Her and then I wanted to run away, because I've sung this song to her just about every damn year I've ever been in a choir and I loathe it. It's like an STD, just keeps coming back over and over and over.
Will Ye No Come Back Again *** beautiful piece. Always makes me think of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series.
Pie Jesu **** always makes me think of my mom. It was written for the victims of September 11, but meant to be used at memorials or funerals.
Thou Shalt Know Him * meh
Here's to Song ** OK
This will be part of our Canadian Composers concert. It's kind of a cool idea. They took pictures by the famous Canadian artists, had kids make up poems for them, then set three of the poems to music. I'm not all that into the Group of Seven-like art, but Scorned and Snow have grown on me as we've been learning the pieces, especially Snow. It's just so... snowy. Although I actually think our choir does a better job of it than the choir in the recording. They're OK, but a little too sugary for my taste.
"Scorned as Timber, Beloved of Sky"
Emily Carr
"Bright Land"
Arthur Lismer
"Snow"
Lawren Harris
Stars indicate what I think of each song
* = OK
** = very nice
*** = love it
**** = would marry it if I could
- Jesu Mkululi: *** we're going to sing this at the African Diaspora Community Forum on April 25. It's quite lovely, though it does start to get a little long at about the fourth verse. We're only doing two.
- Canadian Landscapes Trilogy
- Scorned as Timber: ** it's grown on me
- Bright Land: * meh
- Snow: ** very... Canadian. It's grown on me too, although I think we do it better than this choir does
- Scorned as Timber: ** it's grown on me
This will be part of our Canadian Composers concert. It's kind of a cool idea. They took pictures by the famous Canadian artists, had kids make up poems for them, then set three of the poems to music. I'm not all that into the Group of Seven-like art, but Scorned and Snow have grown on me as we've been learning the pieces, especially Snow. It's just so... snowy. Although I actually think our choir does a better job of it than the choir in the recording. They're OK, but a little too sugary for my taste.
"Scorned as Timber, Beloved of Sky"
Emily Carr
"Bright Land"
Arthur Lismer
"Snow"
Lawren Harris
