I finished my Winter Concert tonight. Ask me anything.

[ChoralScholar]

It was a great success - all seven choirs sang well and did just what they were supposed to.

I however, am dead on my feet.

[SeattleGirl]

1. I miss singing in the choir!

Especially at Christmastime. That was always my favorite concert.

So, my questsion:

What were some of the songs the choirs sang?

[ChoralScholar]

4. Christmas was made for choir.

So much great literature, so little time.

See below for selections.

[SeattleGirl]

5. It sure was.

Nice musical selections, btw.

[ChoralScholar]

7. I went ahead and posted the whole program. EOM

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. What was on the program?

Congrats! :toast:

[ChoralScholar]

3. My select group

performed the Gloria from Haydn's Heiligmesse. My Intermediate Girls did an arrangement of PataPan. Beginning Boys did an arrangement of Riu, Riu Chiu that I wrote. It has gotten picket up for publishing by Cambiata Press, BTW.

Beginning Girls a great setting of the Rosetti text 'Mid Winter'. The setting was by long-time King's Singer Bob Chilcott.

I miss singing too. It's great to teach kids to make music, but it's nice to make music myself sometimes.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. Sounds like a nice program!

Congrats on getting your arrangement published! :toast:

[ChoralScholar]

6. Aww Heck

Here's the program in its entirety.
"Holiday Celebrations of Another Time and Place"

Beginning Girls
Whatcha Gonna Call that Baby - Wolfe-White
Mid Winter - English Carol/Chilcott
Fum, Fum, Fum - Catalonian Carol/Arr. Kjelson

Combined Beginning Choirs
Ring the Bells - Wilson

Beginning Boys
God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen - Siltman
Riu, Riu, Chiu - Spanish Carol/Arr. ChoralScholar

Combined Boys Choir
Three Holiday Glorias - French and German Carols/Arr. Moore

Intermediate Boys
The Holly and the Ivy - Collins
African Noel - African Carol/Arr. Johnson

Intermediate Girls
Joy to the World - Handel
Tomorrow Shall be my Dancing Day - English Carol/Arr. Hopson
Who Would Send a Baby - Beall
Patapan - Burgundian Carol/Arr. Unterseher

Jr. Goblin Singers
Gloria from Heiligmesse - Haydn
Gabriel's Message - Arr. Willcocks
Peace on Earth - Gilpin

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. Is "Mid Winter" the same as "In the Bleak Mid Winter"?

I love that carol...

[ChoralScholar]

10. Same text. Different melody.

The melody most people know is by Gustav Holst.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

11. I've played two different versions...

I'm not sure which is the one I prefer... I've heard it sung in the Lessons and Carols from Kings College.

[ChoralScholar]

12. King's College does one

that is different. I can't remember that tune composer, but it's not Holst.

[sir_captain]

23. That's the Elizabeth Poston one

[AllegroRondo]

13. Some wonderful selections on there

the Haydn, if done well, just gives me chills.

[ChoralScholar]

15. It is a great piece.

We didn't have time to polish it like I wanted. Maybe another time.

[KatyaR]

17. I love so many of those--especially "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day."

You don't hear that much.

I sorta miss singing those Christmas concerts, but as time has passed and I've gotten older, (besides the voice totally going downhill), I find it hard to get through the show without crying. Doesn't do much for the "concert" part of the evening.

When I was an undergrad, we did a Madrigal Dinner in the big ballroom at my school. There'd be several hundred people there, with us dressed in costume, with a harpsichord and a brass quintet. I remember us sitting on stage and looking down at an elderly man in a wheelchair listening to us sing "Silent Night." We barely made it through it, thinking how he might not be there for another Christmas.

Bravo to you for keeping the music alive.

[ChoralScholar]

18. I miss singing myself.

Something about making music. My voice is very unhealthy from teaching. I just make music with the kids now.

I used to love doing madrigal dinners. We did 14 nights a year, when I was in college. I met President and First Lady Clinton when they attended one evening.

[KatyaR]

22. I think we did two or three weekends--

the school kept adding shows because they would sell out almost immediately. It was quite a big draw. They were really neat to do--except I can't eat cornish game hens without thinking about eating them for several days in a row. :9

Performing's truly addictive--I can see why so many musicians and actors have chemical dependency problems. Once you experience a really good high after a show, you want that rush again and again and again . . . .

[bbernardini]

19. You call that a program?!?

I don't see ONE novelty song by Kirby Shaw or Roger Emerson in there. And no Sally Albrecht or Jay Althouse! You, sir, are no choral teacher.

:sarcasm:

[ChoralScholar]

21. Ha! I should have known you'd chime in.

You missed the Emily Crocker on the last concert!!!! (I didn't pick it though, it was an All-Region piece)

[kwassa]

14. I miss singing "The Messiah" this year.

First year in several that we are not in a group that is performing it.

So I've taken to playing the CD at high volume while working around the house, and my wife and I sing our very memorized parts.

"Great was the company of the preachers!"

I like Holly and the Ivy quite a bit. I love the old carols the best, usually.

[ChoralScholar]

16. There's a community chorus that sings the Messiah

every year, but I did not receive any information about it, so I didn't get to sing.

[Redstone]

20. But you're happy tired, which is a good thing to be, yes? Congrats.

Redstone

[ChoralScholar]

24. Yes. I am happy tired.

But I work so hard, leading up to a concert, that my body crashes afterwards.