At first I wasn't so sure about the movement, but you KILLED IT with the final 50 seconds. I was blown away by the powerful visual, and the tears are still flowing. BRAVO!
What a wonderful video and song. Thanks so much for sharing! I really enjoyed listening and watching it! :) We're looking forward to you coming to the Sunshine Coast!
ok, i have no idea how choirs work. im a string boi, but all i know is that this is beautiful actually, my honor orchestra (the one thats two orchestras ahead of mine) played the orchestrated version as a closing piece but this one hits me as more...musical?
Well, singing has an ability instrumental playing doesn't. Words. Yes, you can phrase a beautiful line and make a lovely viola solo sound incredible, but what the viola (and other instruments) lack are words, spoken text. That's why this version probably strikes you as more musical.
beautifully sung but lacking pure vowels. its so overt that it must have been an interpretive decision, but nearly every syllable lacks any kind of unity, depth, or purity. for example, on the words out and boy, they move straight on from the initial vowel to the dip, resulting in a shallow and un-unified sound. they also pronounce "a boy" as though its "uh boy". i understand that thats colloquially said, but in my opinion it would have been more beautiful had their vowel been affected slightly. it's very american, which is appropriate in some pieces, but they could have adapted their vowels to make the sound more appealing, in my opinion. however, if anyone has a differing opinion or explanation, i would love to hear your thoughts!
At first I wasn't so sure about the movement, but you KILLED IT with the final 50 seconds. I was blown away by the powerful visual, and the tears are still flowing. BRAVO!
エリック・ウィテカーさんの合唱曲にはいつも驚かされます。
こんなに美しい曲を作り上げる人はいない。
素晴らしいのひとこと尽きる。
Terrific job!!! This is as close to Eric Whitacre's version as I've ever heard! Great interpretation as well!!!
Nice small ensemble feel. ( :
Has anyone else ever thought that Whitacre wrote the perpetual pairings of the 2nds to represent to togetherness of the boy and the girl?
oh good call
Not me but I'll buy that
One of our leaders in the employment of dissonance in contemporary choral music.
That was amazing. I loved the closing movements, and the lack thereof. Captivating.
This is perfection?
Perfect tears from an imperfect heart.
Heal.
its so beautiful!!
I like the boldness to pronounce the American R' in oranges and other assorted words. Proper confidence I say
Who doesn't pronounce the 'r' in orange? Just wondering. :)
Wow, awesome job to you all
Wow. Completely off the chain. Executed with gentle perfection ... and the tears are still rolling down my cheeks. That was truly amazing!
Perfection!
That was beautiful! Great interpretation.
So beautiful.
Exquisite!
BRAAVOOO!!!
This is just Extremely Well done.
VERY well done -
You pulled it off SOO very well.
Thanks for your great work - and creative.
Deep, deep performance. Just wonderful.
Why are their vowels so spread?
classical singing, hold the first vowel sound, no diphthongs
What a wonderful video and song.
Thanks so much for sharing!
I really enjoyed listening and watching it! :)
We're looking forward to you coming to the Sunshine Coast!
ok, i have no idea how choirs work. im a string boi, but all i know is that this is beautiful
actually, my honor orchestra (the one thats two orchestras ahead of mine) played the orchestrated version as a closing piece but this one hits me as more...musical?
Well, singing has an ability instrumental playing doesn't. Words.
Yes, you can phrase a beautiful line and make a lovely viola solo sound incredible, but what the viola (and other instruments) lack are words, spoken text. That's why this version probably strikes you as more musical.
nice attempt! :)
Great song but I think the vowels could use some work and the pitch was off a little on a lot of the song
ARE YOU KIDDING ME
beautifully sung but lacking pure vowels. its so overt that it must have been an interpretive decision, but nearly every syllable lacks any kind of unity, depth, or purity. for example, on the words out and boy, they move straight on from the initial vowel to the dip, resulting in a shallow and un-unified sound. they also pronounce "a boy" as though its "uh boy". i understand that thats colloquially said, but in my opinion it would have been more beautiful had their vowel been affected slightly. it's very american, which is appropriate in some pieces, but they could have adapted their vowels to make the sound more appealing, in my opinion. however, if anyone has a differing opinion or explanation, i would love to hear your thoughts!
Agreed. These vowels were hard to listen to for me.
You failed to notice that they pronounced "the" as "thuh." :-)
Agreed... they really need to fix their vowels, and also slow down a bit. Stephen Layton's choir has a really good recording of this on Cloudburst.
omg this was so disappointing. the vowels were like nails on a chalkboard