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Anybody remember about a million-jillion years ago I wrote an H/D story where Draco is a choir director in Ireland? I did this thing where I linked to a bunch of choir songs that Draco's choir sings. Most of them were songs that my own choir sang, and some of the files I linked to were recordings of my own choir.
Well, tomorrow is my choir's tenth anniversary concert (and may I say it both pleases and disturbs me deeply to say that I'm a founding member of a choir that is ten freaking years old) and we're singing a bunch of the songs that were mentioned in the fic. And it made me all nostalgic for the fic itself. As well as totally grateful to be part of a choir that sings such beautiful stuff.
Our men's section is currently tiny and... um... not very good. In part because they're so few. But the rest of the choir is sounding better than ever. Our concert tomorrow is going to be gorgeous.
::happy sigh::
In case anybody's interested, here's some links:
Here's a bonus thing we're not going to be singing tomorrow, but was in the Ember to Ember soundtrack (I think Draco sang it as a lullaby? Possibly?) and totally blew me away when we sang it at our last concert. This is what it sounds like when 200+ people sing with their eyes closed.
I'm serious. We were doing the final rehearsal before the performance, at least seven choirs including a children's choir and a francophone high school choir, and the guest conductor (Stephen Hatfield, OMG) had us all close our eyes as an exercise in "truly listening to each other and blending your voices." It went well, we all opened our eyes, said, "Cool!" and then the conductor said, "You know what? That was so good I think I'm gonna have you do it like that for the concert. You don't need me."
We honestly thought he was joking.
Close-up starting at 54 seconds. I'm guessing the one tenor whose eyes are open was from the high school and didn't get the instructions translated to him, poor guy. I wonder if he spent the whole song waiting for the conductor to come back.
Anybody remember about a million-jillion years ago I wrote an H/D story where Draco is a choir director in Ireland? I did this thing where I linked to a bunch of choir songs that Draco's choir sings. Most of them were songs that my own choir sang, and some of the files I linked to were recordings of my own choir.
Well, tomorrow is my choir's tenth anniversary concert (and may I say it both pleases and disturbs me deeply to say that I'm a founding member of a choir that is ten freaking years old) and we're singing a bunch of the songs that were mentioned in the fic. And it made me all nostalgic for the fic itself. As well as totally grateful to be part of a choir that sings such beautiful stuff.
Our men's section is currently tiny and... um... not very good. In part because they're so few. But the rest of the choir is sounding better than ever. Our concert tomorrow is going to be gorgeous.
::happy sigh::
In case anybody's interested, here's some links:
- Volunteers (Volunteers Music Page)
- Ember to Ember (Ember to Ember Music Page)
And recordings of the Volunteers/Ember to Ember songs we're singing tomorrow: - All Too Soon
- Pie Jesu (recording of my choir)
- Al Schlosha D'Varim
- Here's another gorgeous song we're singing tomorrow (not from the fics), and this is my choir, singing it:
Love, Deliver Me
Here's a bonus thing we're not going to be singing tomorrow, but was in the Ember to Ember soundtrack (I think Draco sang it as a lullaby? Possibly?) and totally blew me away when we sang it at our last concert. This is what it sounds like when 200+ people sing with their eyes closed.
I'm serious. We were doing the final rehearsal before the performance, at least seven choirs including a children's choir and a francophone high school choir, and the guest conductor (Stephen Hatfield, OMG) had us all close our eyes as an exercise in "truly listening to each other and blending your voices." It went well, we all opened our eyes, said, "Cool!" and then the conductor said, "You know what? That was so good I think I'm gonna have you do it like that for the concert. You don't need me."
We honestly thought he was joking.
Close-up starting at 54 seconds. I'm guessing the one tenor whose eyes are open was from the high school and didn't get the instructions translated to him, poor guy. I wonder if he spent the whole song waiting for the conductor to come back.
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Date: 2013-05-11 01:21 pm (UTC)I DID!! Not only that, I got to sing an entire concert of Stephen Hatfield music, conducted by Stephen Hatfield, capping off a week that included two workshops run by Stephen Hatfield. It's definitely a high point in my choral life :) :) :)
The guy is pretty certifiable. Brings the "eccentric" to "eccentric genius" like whoa. Talks a mile a minute, spoke French often - and very badly - made totally inappropriate jokes in a church, screamed at the sopranos that he was going to stop the entire concert if we didn't get this line right, unexpectedly showed us a tattoo on his back to illustrate a point he was making, pranced around the stage like a demented thing during the concert... and it was all awesome. All the choirs walked away from the concert on a total high. Except for a few of the sopranos in our choir, who were a little miffed about the screaming and unable to understand that he was joking. Oh, and the child he crashed into on stage.
Thanks for posting the links again! I'd borked the computer I'd downloaded the files to, and am delighted to get the recordings of "All Too Soon" and "Tiny Fish" again.
You're very welcome! I made myself a CD of the playlist a while ago... hm... sure I've got it around here somewhere...
*hugs back*