| Comment: Re: Bad Showchoir | Michael Parker | November 5, 2011 |
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OMG!!!! Michael, I love you and Anuna! You guys are fantastic! Now all we need to do here in American is get Chanticleer to appear on Sesame Street and we will have "covered the bases!" (as we say in the states) :)
Michael Parker
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Tenor #221
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| Comment: Re: HELP! Decent literature for SA ensemble | Michael Parker | October 18, 2011 |
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There is a wonderful arranger named James Laster who has written MANY fantastic arrangments and orginal compositions for all combinations of womens voices. I would highly recommend seeking his music out. Search for him through jwpepper or your music vendor of choice. Hope this helps!
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| Comment: Re: brahms requiem recording | Michael Parker | July 19, 2011 |
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Mr. Palmer,
I have to disagree with you most strongly about the most recent outing of the ASOC and Berlin. I think the performance of the Brahms with those two world renowned ensembles is a revelation and a milestone in fine music making. I would highly recommend it.
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| Comment: Re: The Next Wave: Rock Choir | Michael Parker | June 18, 2011 |
| Wow! Britain discovers what we in American have known for
years. Amatuer Musicians love to sing and do it wonderfully well in
large groups. I'm glad to see they arrived on the band wagon
finally. Better late than never I guess. By the way, isn't this
just show choir? Haven't we had this for years to... |
| Comment: Re: Rutter "This is the Day" at the Royal Wedding- publisher? | Michael Parker | May 5, 2011 |
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Amen Mr. Pike! I forgot about how annoyed I was with the Rutter 3 seconds after Mr. Mealor's work started. I just thank heaven they performed them in the order they did. If I had heard the Ubi first and then had to suffer through the Rutter the sour taste in my mouth would have been all the biter-... |
| Comment: Re: Rutter "This is the Day" at the Royal Wedding- publisher? | Michael Parker | May 5, 2011 |
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I totally agree Derek! I was watching the wedding with a friend of mine who knows very little about choral music or classical music in general and I was using Mr. Rutter's work as personifying everything I hate about "modern litergical music" on the whole. About two-thirds of the way through the p... |
| Comment: Re: iPad for choir? | Michael Parker | January 17, 2011 |
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Here Garrett,
Check this out. As usual, the New York Times is always one step ahead of us.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/arts/music/16string.html?pagewanted=all
Not quite topic, but pretty damn close!
Enjoy
Michael Parker
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| Comment: Re: Avant Garde Choral Music | Michael Parker | January 17, 2011 |
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Hello Brian,
I did a this work in District Honors choir in High School. It was a REALLY cool piece! So much so that I remember it to this day and I'm 30! Give it a try:
Pierce, Brent (b. 1940). Down A Different Road [No. 1 The Sea, No. 2 The Country, No. 3 The City] (Walton 2915, © ... |
| Comment: Re: thoughts on the impact of Glee | Michael Parker | January 2, 2010 |
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Sorry, say what you want, just my opinion, no "backing evidence" or heavy educational creditional laden debate here, however...
GLEE EQUALS THE DEATH OF WESTERN CULTURE AND A STEAK IN THE HEART OF CHORAL MUSIC IN THIS COUNTRY!
Just another way Broadway is trying to take over group si... |
| Comment: Re: A Response to Eric Whitacre's "Why British Choirs are Best" | Michael Parker | December 25, 2010 |
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Mr. Palmer,
As a truly dedicated, life-long "Shaw follower", I am completely and totally shocked and amazed that someone should dare come from what is a clearly perceived as written "superior position" as Mr. Phillips and his paper in the archived publication which you referenc... |
| Comment: Re: Must Have Texts For The Choral Director | Michael Parker | December 5, 2010 |
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Dear People by Joseph A. Mussulman
and
The Robert Shaw Reader
by Dean Robert Blocker
Both are a MUST for anyone in the choral profession
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| Comment: Re: New rehearsal software | Michael Parker | November 4, 2010 |
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Unless of course you work in the public school system or just hate Mac. Sorry John :)
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| Comment: Re: Ingenuity and Mashing Things Up | Michael Parker | September 8, 2010 |
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You've heard of "What if Mozart wrote 'Have yourself a marry little Christmas'? This is "What if Shostakovich wrote 'Single Ladies'" (However, given the fact he had three wives in his lifetime it might have been a mating call :P)
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| Comment: Re: French Revolutionary Choral/Orchestral Works | Michael Parker | September 7, 2010 |
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There are MANY works by Berloz which are considered 'revolutionary' in tone and to the 'glory' of the french revolution here's a short list:
Sara, Belle D'indolence
2. Meditation Religieuse: Ce Monde Entier N'est Qu'une Ombre Fugitive
3. La Mort D'Ophelie
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| Comment: Re: Choral music supplier in NYC? | Michael Parker | August 16, 2010 |
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Hello Sarah,
In the 'good 'ole days' I would have refered you to Joseph Patelson Music House in Manhattan right next door to Carnagie Hall, it had been open since 1932 and was THE PLACE in NYC to get ANY music you ever needed or wanted. Howerver, they closed their doors this past year. An... |
| Comment: Re: Haydn Creation | Michael Parker | August 13, 2010 |
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Dereck,
The Shaw-Parker translation that problem solve will! :P Its fantastic.
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| Comment: Re: Recommended instrumentation for musical "White Christmas?" | Michael Parker | August 4, 2010 |
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Dave,
I just finished this production at the Apollo Civic Theatre in Martinsburg WV and you most certanily get away with that set up with out strings. I had a VERY good piano player, three trumpets, bass, very good drummer, a sax player who also played clarinet, a flute player who also play... |
| Comment: Re: Performance in church? | Michael Parker | July 18, 2010 |
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Mr. Simon, I don't feel that your comparaison of "performance" to "lecture" is a very good one. I have been to many services where the sermon its self could have been called a "preformance" given how overly dramatic the speaker seems to be. I have also been "lectured" by many a sermonizer in my ti... |
| Comment: Re: Reviews of ACDA Division Conferences | Michael Parker | March 20, 2010 |
| Was anyone able to get to the concert of the Passion work by William Averitt in Memphis? How did it go? What were impressions? |
| Comment: Re: New: "The Choir" | Michael Parker | January 17, 2010 |
| There is a market for GLEE in this country, ovbiously, however, as a classical choral singer and some one who has a true passion for the art of choral singing, I'm so glad that BBC America is going to show this program to a US audience. This is the show I WISH glee had been. Or, I wish there were ... |
| Comment: Re: "Glee" seems to be a favorite | Michael Parker | November 14, 2009 |
| Ok, so I finally bit the bullet and watched the 'The Rhodes Not Taken' episode with Kristen Chenowith on Hulu. As a choral musican I have to say for the most part. I was right. I was afraid that this show would attempt to take the lowest common demoninator and make it, using beautiful actors, a tot... |
| Comment: Re: The War on Pronouns, cont'd | Michael Parker | November 2, 2009 |
| Allen, I'm a Episcopal and I have news for you. As far as 'Marty Haugen' is concerned, some parishes in the Episcopal USA are not far behind. and 'real' Anglicans (other than their music that is) are just to scarry! :P |
| Comment: Re: The viral organ tribute to Michael Jackson | Michael Parker | July 11, 2009 |
| I love this! This is why I love being an Episcopalian! :) |
