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hugmehere is my friday night of music!! I was told if I didn't cut it I would be hunted down...
(this new livejournal client doesn't have spell check... grrrr)
I came in a little late and missed the first two pieces and the opening prayer (yeah, I cried over that one) parking was a bitch and a half!!! just damn!! I drove around for 28 minuites looking for a space.. finally I gave up... my car was so short I could wedge it underneath a crane where noone else could park... if something fell from the sky, I would be safe... the church is HUGE!! almost as big as Northwoods prespeterian over in duluth (the big round one)
When I came in there was organ music --- "Improvisation on a submitted advent theme" -- it was great!! some of the best pipe organ music I have ever heard!!
Next was a bell choir doing "God with us for all time" -- The were superb, the dynamics were such as I have ever heard from a bell choir. some of the higher bells made a few opps's but over all I was very impressed.
After that the Spivey Hall kids came on... these are middle schoolers?!? the sounded like an adult group wow, very nice...
"Make a Joyful noise" -- very good, I loved the way the sections work together
"Selections from the Magnificant" -- again I was so impressed to hear sound like this coming from the voice of a group so young
"Mid-winter" -- This one was my favoriate from you. it was both an exelant piece and you proformed it superbly...
"Go where I send the" -- I would have like to have heard you sing this but your pianist destroyed this song!!! I was horrified!!!
"Herzlich tut mich verlangen" -- organ I think... I don't remember this one
"Toccata on fortunats" on the organ -- nice, but did not compare to the first one..
"The Shepherds psalm" -- ok, before I start the rant fest let me say that the flute was lovely.. the bells were beautiful... everone else... grrrr
During this song they had a speaker reading from psalms and a dancer (if you could call it that) dancing up the isle. The speaker had a 'matter of fact' tone and a mid-tenor grainy voice... I am thinking he was the minister? first he didn't know his part.. his queues were given to him by the director and even then he screwed them up. he had no ear for beat, flow, or any part of the music... it was like a bulldoser driving through noon tea... Then there was the dancer... where do they find these people? and who told this woman she could dance? I was insulted!! It looked like they had a meeting and she mentioned that she had a 3 day class on ballett during a sumer camp one year in Junior high.... She looked to be around 35, during parts of it I actually felt BAD for the woman.. I mean.. does she know that she shouldn't be doing this in front of several hundred people? sigh...
"Glorious Things of three are spoken" -- beautiful bells.. I am so in love with this group... I don't know what the trumpet was doing in the back, I guess he was decent.. not great.. but even if he was great... bells and a trumpet? it's like wearing plaid and pasely... just don't do it...
Now on to ASC (Atlanta sacred corale)
"Hodie, Christus natus est" -- wow... just wow... I think I had 3 orgasams during this piece... I can't say enough good things about it... I don't know why you picked it as the first piece, There was no way you could follow that up with anything... I know I sure as hell wouldn't want to try and follow something like that...
"Like as the hart" -- nice, very nice... piano did a great job...
"Shepherd's carol" -- I loved this one too... I really like how together the sections are in this group, you really seem to know each other
"It is well with my soul" -- This was guys only.. very nice!! your tone is outstanding!! that is something that is hard to teach, you just have to know how to hold your mouth... great job... Watch your constanents, especially the 's' which is a hard one... there was one section where it seemed that every other word had an 's' in it. We had a piece like this when I used to sing, the director finally got so fed up with us he had only 1/2 the group actually put the 's' in the words
"Go where I send thee" -- wow, nice tenor!! this was both guys and girls again but it was a very dominant male sound... very nice... Girls, your slides were amazing!! that is something that is very hard to do in a group... it take a lot of listening to each other and you did an wonderful job at it.. there were 2 a the end of the song where I heard a little bit of split... but that tecnique is hard to master, it is more a matter of knowing who you are singing with, how they sing and how to match it than it is something you learn on your own...
That was my evening... the music was absolutly beautiful, if any of you ever get a chance to hear any of these groups in concert I sugget you do it!! you will be happy you did!!
(this new livejournal client doesn't have spell check... grrrr)
I came in a little late and missed the first two pieces and the opening prayer (yeah, I cried over that one) parking was a bitch and a half!!! just damn!! I drove around for 28 minuites looking for a space.. finally I gave up... my car was so short I could wedge it underneath a crane where noone else could park... if something fell from the sky, I would be safe... the church is HUGE!! almost as big as Northwoods prespeterian over in duluth (the big round one)
When I came in there was organ music --- "Improvisation on a submitted advent theme" -- it was great!! some of the best pipe organ music I have ever heard!!
Next was a bell choir doing "God with us for all time" -- The were superb, the dynamics were such as I have ever heard from a bell choir. some of the higher bells made a few opps's but over all I was very impressed.
After that the Spivey Hall kids came on... these are middle schoolers?!? the sounded like an adult group wow, very nice...
"Make a Joyful noise" -- very good, I loved the way the sections work together
"Selections from the Magnificant" -- again I was so impressed to hear sound like this coming from the voice of a group so young
"Mid-winter" -- This one was my favoriate from you. it was both an exelant piece and you proformed it superbly...
"Go where I send the" -- I would have like to have heard you sing this but your pianist destroyed this song!!! I was horrified!!!
"Herzlich tut mich verlangen" -- organ I think... I don't remember this one
"Toccata on fortunats" on the organ -- nice, but did not compare to the first one..
"The Shepherds psalm" -- ok, before I start the rant fest let me say that the flute was lovely.. the bells were beautiful... everone else... grrrr
During this song they had a speaker reading from psalms and a dancer (if you could call it that) dancing up the isle. The speaker had a 'matter of fact' tone and a mid-tenor grainy voice... I am thinking he was the minister? first he didn't know his part.. his queues were given to him by the director and even then he screwed them up. he had no ear for beat, flow, or any part of the music... it was like a bulldoser driving through noon tea... Then there was the dancer... where do they find these people? and who told this woman she could dance? I was insulted!! It looked like they had a meeting and she mentioned that she had a 3 day class on ballett during a sumer camp one year in Junior high.... She looked to be around 35, during parts of it I actually felt BAD for the woman.. I mean.. does she know that she shouldn't be doing this in front of several hundred people? sigh...
"Glorious Things of three are spoken" -- beautiful bells.. I am so in love with this group... I don't know what the trumpet was doing in the back, I guess he was decent.. not great.. but even if he was great... bells and a trumpet? it's like wearing plaid and pasely... just don't do it...
Now on to ASC (Atlanta sacred corale)
"Hodie, Christus natus est" -- wow... just wow... I think I had 3 orgasams during this piece... I can't say enough good things about it... I don't know why you picked it as the first piece, There was no way you could follow that up with anything... I know I sure as hell wouldn't want to try and follow something like that...
"Like as the hart" -- nice, very nice... piano did a great job...
"Shepherd's carol" -- I loved this one too... I really like how together the sections are in this group, you really seem to know each other
"It is well with my soul" -- This was guys only.. very nice!! your tone is outstanding!! that is something that is hard to teach, you just have to know how to hold your mouth... great job... Watch your constanents, especially the 's' which is a hard one... there was one section where it seemed that every other word had an 's' in it. We had a piece like this when I used to sing, the director finally got so fed up with us he had only 1/2 the group actually put the 's' in the words
"Go where I send thee" -- wow, nice tenor!! this was both guys and girls again but it was a very dominant male sound... very nice... Girls, your slides were amazing!! that is something that is very hard to do in a group... it take a lot of listening to each other and you did an wonderful job at it.. there were 2 a the end of the song where I heard a little bit of split... but that tecnique is hard to master, it is more a matter of knowing who you are singing with, how they sing and how to match it than it is something you learn on your own...
That was my evening... the music was absolutly beautiful, if any of you ever get a chance to hear any of these groups in concert I sugget you do it!! you will be happy you did!!
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Date: 2004-01-29 05:15 am (UTC)I wasn't crazy about the kids' pianist either, but the piano itself SUCKED. It was only barely in tune, to say nothing of its size: crappy old spinet. The church has a nine-foot Bösendorfer grand piano usually in the sanctuary -- where was IT??
The handbell speaker wasn't the minister, or at least not of that church. He was somehow affiliated with the handbell choir itself.
The trumpet WAS weird on that one piece -- the trumpeter is a she, Yvonne Toll, and arguably the best bugler in Atlanta. I doubt she's five feet tall, so no surprise nobody could see her. :)
We all thought our Hodie was awesome, and everything else was mediocre, but we're our own worst critics. :) That performance was the absolute first time singing in that hall -- we didn't even get to warm up or rehearse in there beforehand, so we had no idea what to expect from the room.
And we all hated the Messaien (sp?) organ piece at the end. I have mixed feelings about most 20th-century music. The other organ stuff was great -- that guy is the regular organist at the church, and really knows the instrument and how to open it up.
And thanks again for coming! :D
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Date: 2004-01-29 05:38 am (UTC)wow, no kidding!! the only think I can think of is they may not have had enough room...
"we didn't even get to warm up or rehearse in there beforehand"
eep!! I don't know how you managed that one... did you at least do some warming up on your own?
"we all hated the Messaien"
I was very indifferent on this one... I really liked the begining of it but the middle and end seemed sort of crunchy...
"And thanks again for coming! :D"
Thank you for singing for me!!
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Date: 2004-01-29 06:11 am (UTC)The Messaien piece was certainly an impressive effort, but I didn't feel stirred by it, and I didn't think it was terribly musical. I think something less cerebral would have been better to close the concert.