As, I've mentioned once or twice, graduate school is truly amazing; even after it gets busier than a one-legged man in a butt kicking contest. In Chamber Singers, we are doing a concert in October, which should be streamed on the ECU School of Music web page, and for that concert we are performing none other than Rutter's Hymn to the Creator of Light! I was ecstatic! If I get asked to conduct part of a Chamber Singers rehearsal, guess what I'm rehearsing... We're doing a Brahm's Motet (Schaffe in mir Gott), a Schumann Motet (Und ob ich schon wanderte) [after next semester or next fall I might be able to translate that for you], and a few other octavos - an Ave Maria and a couple of spirituals.
I am conducting William Byrd's Ave verum corpus in Choral Scholars, and it's many much fun. Along those lines of music listening, we have been talking about the early 1500s in choral literature class, so I am becoming more familiar with Palestrina. Whoa! Beautiful composer! I mean, I knew I liked his music before the class, but I'm becoming more aware of why I like it. Points of immitation, texture changes because of the music's text....blah, blah, blah.
In University Chorale we are doing a gorgeous Clausen piece, O My Luve's Like A Red, Red Rose and Sing Unto God by Paul Fetler. Great pieces!
In November, Chamber Singers will be performing Mozart's Requiem at least three times - once on campus, another time at a local church, and for the North Carolina Music Educator's Association. Oh! it's four times. once for some high school kids that come for choral festival...I hope they last 50 minutes and don't clap between movements...
That's about it for now. I have a feeling Tuneful Tuesday will become more random and ultimately will not link itself to Tuesday at all... Stay Tunedful Tuesday...er, something.
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Sounds like a "good kinda busy". Maybe you should get Matt to translate the German for you...Oh, Matt, where are you?
We sang Brahms' "Schaffe in mir Got last semester. Dr. Simmons used it directly after the Stravinsky 12-tone, as he put it, to calm the audience down after they heard all that weirdness.
The "Schaffe in mir Gott" is basically the verse that says "Create in me a new heart oh God" and then a verse or two that follows it...I can't remember, but it has minimal text.
The "Und ob ich schon wanderte" means literally "And whether I have already wandered" which doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but a simple Google search will reveal this site: http://tinyurl.com/6nwsne which translates it to the end of the 23 Psalm. (Yea, though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death).
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