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[icepixie]

Yay Chamber Singers! They were excellent, as always. Too bad the audience was so painfully small (~40 people). I got to see Helle, Adele, and Michele for a few minutes after the concert, which was great, and of course there were Doc and Kay there as well. Aw, Kenyon! I miss you!

And now I have "Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel" stuck in my head. Argh, Moses Hogan. Although that's one of the better Hogan pieces I've heard. (And I know I've heard it before, done by a school choir. Did CS do it our freshman year, maybe?) They also did a piece of Lauridsen's Les Chansons des Roses, which--eeeee. Love. My other favorites were a gorgeous Nocturne by a guy with a great name: Adolphus Hailstork, and an interesting choral arrangement of "Hard Times," which I've heard a couple times before as a bluegrass song, thus it being a bit of a shock to hear it this way. This one was so pretty, though, and Julia did an amazing job with the solo.

The obligatory South African songs this year were more low-key and contemplative than usual--definitely unlike Dubula--but they worked.

If any of y'all want the full program, I've still got a copy and can type it up for you.

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[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

And now I have "Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel" stuck in my head.

I HATE YOU.


If any of y'all want the full program, I've still got a copy and can type it up for you.

I'd love to see the setlist.

[icepixie]

I HATE YOU.

MWA HA HA HA HA.

Program:
Sangena - trad. Zulu processional, arr. Khumalo
Ave Maria - Joaquin Rodrigo
Cantate Domino (Psalm 96) - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Prelude for Voices - William Schuman
Nocturne - Adolphus Hailstork
De profundis, op. 56 - Leevi Madetoja
Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, BWV 230 - J.S. Bach
Valiant-for-Truth - Vaughan Williams
Dunk! (Thump!) - Herman Rechberger (They pretended to be machines evaluating human emotions. Doc made the obligatory Borg joke at the beginning. The gimmick got a bit old about halfway through.)
Contre qui, rose (from Les Chansons des Roses) - Lauridsen
Alma beata et bella - Edie Hill
Schone Fremde (Beautiful Stranger) - Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
Le Mensonge (The Lie) - Corrado Margutti (oh-so-very French, kind of like La Vie en Rose)
Hard Times - Stephen Foster, arr. Craig Hella Johnson
Didn't My Lord... - Hogan
Vela! Asambeni Siyekhaya! - Zulu protest song, arr. Andre van der Merwe

[rensong.livejournal.com]

"He delivered Daniel from the lion's den/Jonah from the belly of the whaaaaaale..." Though as an alto, I sang "He delivered! Daniel! He Delivered... Jonah" during that part, but thats kinda boring when it's being typed rather than sang. Our choir had the darndest time getting that one to mesh properly, but once we got it, it was probably one of our better performance peices.

[icepixie]

It's not a bad piece. Of course, if your director just loooooves Moses Hogan, and has you singing one or two of his pieces every year, then you begin to sour on them all just a bit...but maybe that's just me. ;)

[rensong.livejournal.com]

we just had the one, though most of us disliked it anyway. I won't say hate, because again, it turned out to be one of our better performance peices, but whenever Kathy said "Alright, my dears, everyone's favorite now... Daniel!" in choir, quite a few groans could be heard. My own included.