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hugmeUnfortunately I don't have the program with me here at work as I wanted to go song by song and talk about what I heard but I will just have to do the best I can without it.
All of the music was written by local artists (and most of it showed)
there were 2 choruses: Lisa's chorus and the Emory chorus. the Emory chorus came first and did a wonderful piece, it was fast has some good movements to it. Even an armature could tell how difficult it was to sing, it was a great work however only later in the show I was to realize that they should have done this closer to last. Lisa's chorus was next they did 2 pieces, it was a beautiful sound but it was not a challenge at all, no matter how well it was done it could not compete with the complexity of the first piece. someone needs to tell their director to give them something a little bit more difficult.
There was a very distinct difference between the 2 groups so distinct that even daimon noticed it. the Emory chorus was composed of students. as with all student choruses you can pick out individual voices when they sing, while this is good for a small group when you sing with a large group one of the skills you have to learn is the ability to listen to each other and compliment the other vocalists. Lisa's group being an adult group did this very well, surprisingly well even for an adult group, the sounds were clear and solid as if from one voice, even their consonants were together and wholly accurate.
There was an organ solo, it was very good, I enjoyed it, the writing went from very good to mediocre and the organist himself was good.
Now a small group broke from the Emory chorus and came to the front, about 18 or so students and did 2 numbers, the first had 3 soloists in it, 2 female and 1 male. the first female soloists was horrible, she pronounced her consonants so distinctly that she forgot to sing any vowels, this is about 1/2 her fault and 1/2 the directors, he should have told her something...the male soloists was good. The second female was average but one thing bugged me about her solo, it was in English and she rolled her R's. now in many languages this is correct, you should roll them, not English, there is no such sound as a rolling R in our language. My director would have swatted her in the head for that one.
The same group did a second piece and this one had a different soprano soloist. a very pretty girl in the program as Karen King. She had a beautiful voice, no real style that her voice followed just a wonderful sound that filled the room. We tried to find her after the show to tell her how much we enjoyed it but couldn't.
Lisa and 3 other girls left their own chorus and went up to the balcony and this HORRIBLE sound started coming through the organ... oh, it was hideous!! you wanted to cover your ears and run screaming out of the building. not only should those notes NOT be played together ESPECIALLY over and over again but the organist was just bad, he kept fumbling on them. The group sounded wonderful but the noise kept coming from the organ just destroyed the sound. during the quartet there was no noise. The four girls sounded wonderful, very full crisp sound you could easily tell how much they listed to each other and each of them formed their sounds exactly to match the other girls.
then the noise started coming from the organ again... argh!!! I would have rather had a pager go off and not be answered for the length of the music. it would have been a beautiful piece if it was done accapello.
the groups mixed and they finished up with 2 songs, it is a very hard to mix up two groups who don't normally preform together and have them sing like that but an admirable job was done. I did enjoy both of those.
over all it was a very good performance I still would have liked to meet the soprano soloist and I would have liked to break the fingers of the organist who made the noise during Lisa's quartet, then break the fingers and knees of the person who wrote it.
Thank you so much for the invitation lisa!! I can't wait for your next premier!!
All of the music was written by local artists (and most of it showed)
there were 2 choruses: Lisa's chorus and the Emory chorus. the Emory chorus came first and did a wonderful piece, it was fast has some good movements to it. Even an armature could tell how difficult it was to sing, it was a great work however only later in the show I was to realize that they should have done this closer to last. Lisa's chorus was next they did 2 pieces, it was a beautiful sound but it was not a challenge at all, no matter how well it was done it could not compete with the complexity of the first piece. someone needs to tell their director to give them something a little bit more difficult.
There was a very distinct difference between the 2 groups so distinct that even daimon noticed it. the Emory chorus was composed of students. as with all student choruses you can pick out individual voices when they sing, while this is good for a small group when you sing with a large group one of the skills you have to learn is the ability to listen to each other and compliment the other vocalists. Lisa's group being an adult group did this very well, surprisingly well even for an adult group, the sounds were clear and solid as if from one voice, even their consonants were together and wholly accurate.
There was an organ solo, it was very good, I enjoyed it, the writing went from very good to mediocre and the organist himself was good.
Now a small group broke from the Emory chorus and came to the front, about 18 or so students and did 2 numbers, the first had 3 soloists in it, 2 female and 1 male. the first female soloists was horrible, she pronounced her consonants so distinctly that she forgot to sing any vowels, this is about 1/2 her fault and 1/2 the directors, he should have told her something...the male soloists was good. The second female was average but one thing bugged me about her solo, it was in English and she rolled her R's. now in many languages this is correct, you should roll them, not English, there is no such sound as a rolling R in our language. My director would have swatted her in the head for that one.
The same group did a second piece and this one had a different soprano soloist. a very pretty girl in the program as Karen King. She had a beautiful voice, no real style that her voice followed just a wonderful sound that filled the room. We tried to find her after the show to tell her how much we enjoyed it but couldn't.
Lisa and 3 other girls left their own chorus and went up to the balcony and this HORRIBLE sound started coming through the organ... oh, it was hideous!! you wanted to cover your ears and run screaming out of the building. not only should those notes NOT be played together ESPECIALLY over and over again but the organist was just bad, he kept fumbling on them. The group sounded wonderful but the noise kept coming from the organ just destroyed the sound. during the quartet there was no noise. The four girls sounded wonderful, very full crisp sound you could easily tell how much they listed to each other and each of them formed their sounds exactly to match the other girls.
then the noise started coming from the organ again... argh!!! I would have rather had a pager go off and not be answered for the length of the music. it would have been a beautiful piece if it was done accapello.
the groups mixed and they finished up with 2 songs, it is a very hard to mix up two groups who don't normally preform together and have them sing like that but an admirable job was done. I did enjoy both of those.
over all it was a very good performance I still would have liked to meet the soprano soloist and I would have liked to break the fingers of the organist who made the noise during Lisa's quartet, then break the fingers and knees of the person who wrote it.
Thank you so much for the invitation lisa!! I can't wait for your next premier!!
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Date: 2002-10-28 07:02 am (UTC)I figured it was pretty glaring that our pieces were TOTALLY the easiest and simplest on the program. *embarrassed smile* We have 2 1/2 hours of rehearsal time a week, and a requiem to perform three weeks from now; they have at least 4 hours of rehearsal time a week, and nothing until Christmas. That's my excuse, and I'm stickin' to it. ;)
Sadly, there was no fumbling on the part of the organist in "Angels". I was paying attention; he's had some trouble with it in rehearsal, but Friday's performance was hitchless. It's supposed to sound like that, enigmatically enough. :-\ Glad you liked our part, though; we worked really hard to sound that together. :D
I personally think the piece that came after that -- "The Second Coming" -- sounds a lot more chaotic than "Angels". It was the one where the organ had a continuous bass rumble of two clashing notes and it would swell in places to threaten to bring the damn church down around us.
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Date: 2002-10-28 07:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-28 07:20 am (UTC)I love good organ music (I visit Spivey as often as I can just for the instrument) but some of the new music is painful to hear. I wish I could have been there, but I was giving horrible speeches at Berry College. I'm sure you did much better, and all in all, of the two places, I know where I would have rather been....
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Date: 2002-10-28 07:26 am (UTC)Doncha just LOVE Spivey? What a room. Damn.
(We'll be singing there the first weekend in May. ;)
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Date: 2002-10-28 07:35 am (UTC)Ooooohhh.....keep me informed about your show! I don't want to miss that!
I'm on this side of the world today, and will be delivering tapes to our offsite shortly. I'll be back at Circle-75 around lunch. Are you and the large fruit going to find food today?
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Date: 2002-10-28 07:57 am (UTC)"Large fruit", hee.
I am eating at my desk because I have to quietly sneak out at 2 for an errand that might take me a couple of hours. I have no idea what Melon's plans are.
BUT. Thanks for letting me know you're around, and do let me know the next time you are. It's just today that's bad, promise. :)
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Date: 2002-10-28 08:42 am (UTC)Melon hasn't been on all day, I guess she had a tough weekend.
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Date: 2002-10-28 07:34 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-10-29 03:54 am (UTC)lunch
Date: 2002-10-29 05:01 am (UTC)If you sign onto AIM then we can remind you, or if you don't then we will just send the melon monster after you ;-)
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Date: 2002-10-28 11:18 am (UTC)My director tells us to do that on a regular basis to sound more "classical" and it annoys me to no end.
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Date: 2002-10-29 08:40 am (UTC)The rolled "R" is perfectly appropriate English diction -- in singing, anyway -- but ONLY ONLY ONLY if used sparingly, and for emphasis ONLY. Overuse sounds TACKY.
And I can't EVER think of a situation where a soloist should be rolling her Rs. It was WRONG.
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