Randall Thompson: Frostiana (Seven Country Songs) (1959)
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- Frostiana (1959)
Music by Randall Thompson, Poetry by Robert Frost
1) The Road Not Taken (0:00); 2) The Pasture (5:08); 3) Come In (7:26); 4) The Telephone (12:07); 5) A Girl's Garden (14:28); 6) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (17:40); 7) Choose Something Like a Star (22:01)
Harvard University Choir
Edward Elwyn Jones, conductor
Christian Lane, piano
live concert recording
I attended this performance 64 years ago when I was a Harvard grad student. I just turned 90. Played the LP they made of the concert for many years until the vinyl became very worn. Happy to find this digital copy. Frost and Thompson are most inspiring.
Our senior high school choir performed these in 1968 & I had the honor of being the piano accompanist . The wonderful memories come flooding back ...
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I was so fortunate to be around when Randall Thompson was still alive. At my church, the Methodist Church he did for several nights I badgered my parents for us to go every night we did every night it was on we did he also conducted at my high school hallelujah it was a wonderful feeling to actually meet him and tell him how much I loved his music. 7:28
@@walkswithdogs2524 What a wonderful experience ! His music still resonates w/ me many decades later .
10 years ago? I sang this 47 years ago and it is still fresh.
Gary Roberts yes, I'm with you. The first time was 1964 for me, with several more times down the road. And I still sing them to myself all the time. Randall Thompson took some of my favorite poems to a whole new level. Singing these words puts Frost's poems into a whole new level of understanding :)
+Janie Waters It is interesting to read the comments on this music. We have never met but as a group this wonderful music draws us together across the miles and the generations. It grieves me that as a society and culture we do not give this art form the place it deserves.
+Gary Roberts Agreed - we're hammered with rap and hip-hop music that might be the words of a new generation, but are so dis-harmonious to the ears. Frost's poetry was magic, and Randall Thompson took it to a new level that still brings chills to me when I hear these songs performed.
+Gary Roberts Same here, Gary, to the very same year, I think...circa 1968-69. Wonderful and fresh now, as then. Frost and Thompson were both geniuses.
same...with our chorus and chorale (audition-only acapella choir) back in '72-73. Loved Thompson and Frost then and still do. His Allelulia was literally a sin qua non for serious choral groups back then :) Thanks for the memories!!
Choose Something Like A Star is the highlight of this entire piece, all of which I love.
One of my absolute favs to sing! I miss it so! I too still sing it to myself. Performing this piece made me love Robert Frost even more. Gorgeous and so much fun!
+Melva Louis . Our choral group will perform this sometime this summer. I am so touched by the lyrics and roving melodies.
Wow. So well done
Absolutely wonderful and memorable.
Possibly my all-time favourite choral work.
I had the pleasure of singing all of Frostiana with my District Choral Festival. All beautiful pieces, especially The Pasture and Girl's Garden. I adore them!
Sang this with Northeastern Illinois U choir about 2005.
Always one of most memorable pieces. Tonight is Winter Solstice and I wanted to hear "Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening", darkest night of the year.
Ed! This is a lovely performance! I've never sung this piece until now - your recording is essential listening to those who care about Thompson's music. Thank you and congrats on a terrific recording.
I love this! When I was in 9th grade choir we sang four of these, and they are still some of my favorite songs (and poems) to date, nearly 10 years later! Thank you!
Stephanie Cullen Nearly 10 years later, there are still choirs performing these pieces. My choir, the Roosevelt High School A Capella Choir.
We did too! I was in 10th grade. Weirdly, my chorus teacher's name was Miss Thompson too
got goose bumps as soon as it started
The Ohio Wesleyan Men’s Glee Club with nine women called the Glee-ettes sang this series in 1965 on tour to New England. Singing these beautiful songs was one of my life’s greatest joys. Thank you to our choir director, Gordon Almstead, for introducing me to this great composer, Randall Thompson. His music still brings me tears.
❤️🎶❤️🎶❤️ - Fellow OWU grad ☺️ (‘72)
This sounds even better in a year without live choirs. One of the great American choral pieces, and I only sang it in winter 1974.
I sang this 44 years ago at St Michael's in Vermont. Wonderful
I beat 'cha. Sang it in 1970, Brevard Music Center, Brevard, NC, 47 years, ago!
I sang it around 44 years ago, myself, while in a choral society in Miami, FL.
I also signed this with a choral camp and tour with University of Miami in 1974
Have been so addicted to this for YEARSS
Choose Something Like A Star is literally my favorite piece EVER
@@MonsterVSAnimal2 Yes ❤️💕❤️💕❤️🎶
Come In was always one of my favorites to hear the women sing. Great job overall!
In the University of Colorado Modern Choir directed by Warner Imig, we sang the Randall Thompson Frostiana. It was the most delightful "Seven Country Songs" and a group of my very songs. Especially A Girl's Garden. The year was 1962 if I remember correctly.
I will be going into 11th grade this year and I sang Stopping By Woods and The Pasture in 9th grade and the women sang Come In when I was in 10th grade and I hope to sing more of these this year, they are absolutely beautiful.
I hope you do too, Choose Something Like A Star is honestly one of my favorite choral arrangements, EVER.
I just saw this at the bottom of my Liked Videos playlist and these are still some of my favorite songs I've sang in all four years of high school, I'm starting senior year now so I hope we'll sing some more of these, it's been too long since ninth grade...
keep singing, Naturefreak! It’s one of the best things in life.
I am wondering if anyone (especially the kiddies in school now) ever learned the history of this piece..... and why it was written the way it was. One of the things my choir director did was made sure we understood the story of every piece we sang.
I know it's been a year but I'm just saying my choir is performing this piece for high school and we are making sure we learn the history behind these songs / poems
Having just performed this piece with the PMEA District 11 2018 choir, I gain appreciation for these songs with every arrangement I hear. Great pieces for a tenor 1.
IQ 5000 I was there too! Shoutout to Dr. Doebler for introducing this to us
Glad to see I'm not the only one still obsessed with these songs! Unfortunately instead of learning regionals music I'm still singing these XD
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:
These songs are excellent. I have sung them as a suite and singly, as a member of mixed and men's choirs on many occasions.
Randall Thompson's "Last Words of David" and his "Alleluia" are also outstanding.
They are perfect examples of American choral music.
I wish you all a Blessed Christmas.
Sincerely yours,
Caleb Boone.
This is a beautiful post from you, Caleb. Keep choosing something like a star and your life will continue to blossom. Thanks for blessing me today
great songs so do even more.
so beautifully sung, so touching
I played this when I was in graduate school at the University of Alabama, 1968. And when I was working at Brevard Music Center, summer of 1970, I sang it with their chorale. Brings back happy memories.
Just realized the composer who actually made the poems into songs split the times up nicely / evenly for everyone / for the boys and girls only songs
Doing this piece this year in my honors choir, definitely a challenge, but fun!
I return to this version all the time. Just fantastic phrasing throughout. Like others I fondly remember singing it.
Divine
This is a wonderful performance! I wonder why more of Thompson's music hasn't been recorded? There's a lot of very fine music waiting to be heard.
We are going to sing this at the Green Lake Choral Festival Aug. 7-10, 2024 at Ripon, Wisconsin at Demmer Recital Hall, Ripon College.
I'v had the privilege to sing this in a well sized mixed choir; and by far the most fun song to sing is The Telephone, and to listen to is girls garden (not including the best song -- Something like a star)
I wish somebody would upload a video of just the piano accompaniment for A Girl's Garden so I could have it to use for a solo performance.
Always moving
My choir is learning this song for contest right now.
An absolutely beautiful piece. The balance was a little off as I could barely hear the altos and basses, but still. Beautiful.
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I can't understand a word. Can't even tell what language it is, though I know it's English because it's Frost.
Perhaps, a hearing aid might help.
@@jslasher1I hear very well and I can’t pick out the words either. Might be because I’ve never heard or read or sang these songs before. Also, the beauty of the sound is distracting me from focusing on the words.
@@mymbsrplaylists It may have to do with the quality of the recording.
@@mymbsrplaylists A bit late in replying , but perhaps reading the poem(s) before hearing the songs , or reading as they are sung , may enhance the beauty of them . 🎶💙 ( Also , there are other choirs to choose from that perform these pieces - some recordings are clearer . )
argh...... not together on the "and" of and be staid.... lol the most tentative, most beautiful part.... ruined it for me.