Music at home is still good

[UTTransplant]

We have been in the S&B since mid September which gave me a chance to spend time with my home church choir. Good thing because we did Vivaldi’s “Gloria” today. Twelve movements, classic baroque music with lots of moving interwoven harmonies, and it definitely took some practice. Four sopranos, six altos, four tenors, and four basses plus piano, two violins, and a cellist (who was about 11!). The music starts about minute 7, but you can start with the prelude by our pianist just after 2:00. Fast forward through the churchy parts if you want. The music lasts about 30 minutes. For me, missing music is the only really bad thing about RVing long term. Karaoke just doesn’t have the same vibe.

 

[PancakeBill]

More falimiar with a tune by same name written by Van Morisson.

 

[John From Detroit]

How long is that piece... I've a choral Gloria around here somewhre..27 minutes (the recorder timed it) that's basically one side of an LP record.

 

[Onyrlef]

More falimiar with a tune by same name written by Van Morisson.

Can you spell it please? It's G.l.o.r. iiiiiii., something, I think.

 

[Larry N.]

We have been in the S&B since mid September which gave me a chance to spend time with my home church choir. Good thing because we did Vivaldi’s “Gloria” today. T

Nice- you have some talented singers there. I noticed there was a big audio improvement at about 9:20, someone throwing a switch I think.

It took some searching, but I found the recording on You Tube through ROKU so that I could listen on my big system in the family room, and it sounded great, especially after 9:20. Oh, and that 11 year old cellist did mighty well too.

Thanks for posting this, Pam.

 

[UTTransplant]

How long is that piece... I've a choral Gloria around here somewhre..27 minutes (the recorder timed it) that's basically one side of an LP record.

It is about 30 minutes, depending on the speed each director uses and the pauses between movements.

 

[UTTransplant]

Thanks for the nice words. We worked hard on this. The choir is pretty evenly divided between people who are at least somewhat trained and people who can’t read music. We even have three professors of voice (two altos and a tenor) which is a major advantage of being in a college town! The ones who can’t read music sit next to or in front of the ones who can, plus you can find rehearsal videos of many classical pieces. But the majority of our singing is pretty standard church music, 3 to 4 part, 3 minutes long, pretty straightforward. We only do something big like this every couple of years.

 

[Gizmo100]

This is parts of 2 different groups that I jam with regularly. Sorry for the poor picture. I need to clean my lens. Nothing like an afternoon of jamming with friends, I couldn't image life without music.

 

[UTTransplant]

Gizmo, I find it very hard to jam with instrumentalists. They always go off on riffs and side pieces rather than doing an accompaniment. No fault to them, that’s just the way it works. But I would love to find someone who doesn’t mind accompanying a singer.

 

[PancakeBill]

Jams are jams. I play the Dobro, mostly bluegrass but we also play some old country and some newer stuff, not sure which side of the squiggle line they are on. When the singer asks the player to break, the break iis up to the player. I stick to chord structure and lat=y within, we have one guy don’t play with much, plays well, but he goes off and halfway thru you are trying to remember the song we ware playing. I wouldn’t think the classics would really venture that way though.

 

[PancakeBill]

Kevin, Pam, where do you live now? That is a pretty impressive choir and accompanyment.