After the Wind (SATB + piano) REVISED | Greystone Singers
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Originally composed in 2018, the score was revised in 2021 (with better engraving thanks to Dorico). The revisions are quite small, but I wanted an excuse to share this beautiful performance by the Greystone Singers at the University of Saskatchewan.
The score is published by Galaxy Music: www.morningsta...
Music by Nicholas Ryan Kelly (www.nicholasryankelly.com)
Words by Marjorie Pickthall (Public Domain).
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As one of the Greystone Singers, thank you for using our work!! We adored singing your piece. ❤❤️ I can even hear my tenor voice in this a bit haha
Thanks so much! And thanks for singing it. This is one of my most popular pieces (which, ok, isn't really saying that much) and this is easily the best performance of it I've heard. Wonderful work by you and your colleagues!
Absolutely gorgeous!
Thank you, Francois! Good meeting you at Podium.
This piece is absolutely glorious. I've been listening to it on a loop. Just gorgeous composing.
Thanks for listening. I'll admit that I was thinking mostly about amateur singers when I wrote this one, so I'm glad it also holds up to discerning listeners!
Listening to this while watching a thunderstorm it is even more beautiful
Thank you! I always wanted to write calm choral music accompanied by thunderstorm effects, but didn't want to be accused of ripping off Eric Whitacre. I'm delighted that I finally managed to achieve this!
Beautiful, so sensitive and intimate! Excellent work!
Thanks, Clark! I wrote this in like an hour on a plane... and I haven't been able to write something so convincingly simple since then. You know how it goes as a composer!
@@NicholasRyanKelly Yeah, sometimes the simplest ideas are the ones that resonate with people. But an hour? On a plane? I'll have to try that on my next flight :D
Well, it took some time afterwards to get the piano part right, but the harmonic and melodic framework were all there in an hour. One of these years I'll be able to write something so effectively simple again...
Truly lovely! I would like to do this with my choir
Thank you so much! It would be wonderful you did it with your choir. If it's of interest, you can purchase the score at musicspoke.com/downloads/after-the-wind/
Beautiful, I love that sweeping piano line!
Thank you for listening!
i adore this piece, it's just so... gently sweeping towards the crescendo, then ebbing back towards peace, all in such a smooth manner. the voices weave together beautifully, and for all that the atmosphere is even and gentle, it's not soft, i don't think. there's this underlying, unforgiving energy, and when i say "sweeping" i mean that in the way a small boat is caught in a giant ship's wave and pulled along. it's not overwhelming or forceful, everyone was going in the same direction anyway, but it's clear that the boat couldn't have gotten free if it had wanted to.
i'm sorry, i can't describe better how it feels like to me, just know that i adore it. just lovely.
I really appreciate that! It's so cool to hear what happens in people's brains when they listen to my music.
Hermosas composiciones! Serás famoso en el mundo coral, sabedlo ✨
…beautiful…..
Thank you!
Hey! I've been watching your channel for a little bit! My composition professor and I have looked over a couple of your works together when I was in the midst of working on a choral piece. I wanted to ask as a fellow composer, where do you personally start composing? Do you start with a melody or the outline of a bass line/piano line?
I mostly start with a melody that comes to me and then work from there, but when I'm working, I tend to jump to all different parts of the score in the midst of working.
Thanks so much for your beautiful music and I can't wait to hear more!
Hi! Thanks for asking about this. In choral music, yes, melody pretty much always comes first for me, and sometimes a general harmonic shape will suggest itself at the same time. But really, that's because the TEXT comes first... I start by memorizing it and getting a feel for its general dramatic arc, so I can start singing it in my head and allowing melodies to come to me.
(Interesting story on that note: I'm currently writing a piece for choir and orchestra. Since I think melodically, I wrote the whole 12-minute choral score with chords in a couple weeks... but now it's taking months to flesh out the accompaniment and orchestration. It's just not as easy for me, even though I have lots of instrumental background. Funny how different composers' brains work so differently.)
@NicholasRyanKelly That's so cool and interesting to hear! I love hearing how other composers work and the way the music comes to them.
Your work is just so beautiful and the lyrics have such poetry like quality to them.
I also wanted to ask if you went to Grad school? It's been something I've been debating but I'm not sure if that would be more debt without benefit for me or what...
@destinyking257 Thank you so much! (But, as with most choral composers, I don't usually write my own lyrics. I did for Cold Moon and Origin, but FINDING good texts and connecting with living poets are skills I wish more choral composers had.)
I did a master's degree in composition, but I'm not sure if it helped me write music like this. I was writing much more complex instrumental music at the time, and didn't start writing choral music until after I graduated. So I learned about choral composition from studying scores, singing in choirs, and sight-reading badly at the piano--but having at least some formal training helped me know what to look for in those scores. For whatever that's worth.
If you have other questions, please feel free to email me! nicholasryankelly [at] gmail [dot] com
this is fantastic. i love it. did you create the text? if not, where do you find these kinds of poems? thank you so much!
Thank you! This text is by Marjorie Pickthall, and the words are in the Public Domain. I think I found her by searching for Public Domain Canadian poets, but I only found a few things that were settable. It's even better if you can work with living poets, which I've been trying to do recently!
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