Monday, May 07, 2007
choir rehearsal
My big choir has another concert coming up in a couple of weeks, and I love love love the music we're doing, all by the 20th century French composer Durufle. (Sophist loves early 20th-century art; I love early-20th-century choral music. Actually, any time in the 20th century is fine by me.) I recorded a couple of snippets at rehearsal tonight; download them here. As always with Savefile, scroll down to see the "download" buttons. Doesn't anyone know a better place than Savefile for hosting audio for free??
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OMG I LOVE DURUFLE, you lucky ducky!!!!!!
And I love that you love 20th century music. Me too! Who's your fave composer? I can't decide. They're all so great.
Oh, gosh, I could never choose. Right now my favorite is Durufle, because I've just been singing him and who can't love that late romanticism?? But I have a special place in my heart for good ol Bernstein, and of course as a red-blooded American girl, I loves me some Aaron Copland. But then how could I forget TAVENER? I LOVE Tavener! Omg and Rautavaara! And Faure! And everybody!! Ok, everybody lovely and melodic.
that altos and men recording gave me the goosebumps!! when's this concert? more music please. :)
Wow... Durufle's Ubi Caritas is one of my all time favorites! (But I usually don't go for twencen stuff. Go Fig.) The recording gave me goosebumps too. Let us know when the concert is!
I heart Copeland, like nobody's business. It was VERY in vogue to play Copeland when I was on the community orchestra circuit in the high school days. I think I like his orchestral stuff so well because he used a lot of English horn, which is far under-used in most works. Just so lovely! Especially in the Tender Land Suite. Ahhhh...
We did some Tender Land stuff in my last concert with the big choir! It was really great. Basically the orchestra played the suite, and when they got to the pieces that were choir numbers from the opera, we joined in. You shoulda been there, Po.
English Horn is the most underused instrument ever. and WHY!?!?!?!?!?!??!!?!?!?!! That thing is sexy as anything. Guys, if you want a lady, learn to play Copland tunes on an English Horn. Swoon.
The Tender Land is SO FUN to play - especially when you're in the cello section, cause you're usually pretty close to the woodwinds....and the English horn player!! I played the whole thing (sans choir, too bad) when I was in the state orchestra. I made it cause the cellist in the last seat couldn't attend and I was next on the list. A total fluke accomplishment, but SO worth it for getting to play the Tender Land with really stellar players. I still have the audio tape recording somewhere. I'm sure the quality is high.
And yes, TOWWAS, I wish I could have heard your performance! It's sortof hard to find a good recording of the entire Tender Land....or at least I haven't found one (but I stopped trying many years ago). Know of one?
I don't know of any Tender Land recordings, no. Sorry! Useless!
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