| Comment: Re: RIP, John Howell | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | May 5, 2013 |
| John Howell will be sorely missed from the forum. One of the main contributors and his entries were always insightful and helpful. He was always interested in helping out and an incredibly warm person to contact. Rest in peace, dear collegue and my thoughts are with you Ian and siblings.Â
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| Comment: Re: Barber Agnus Dei/Adagio question | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | April 20, 2013 |
| Thanks Craig! :D
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Now it's me who must sign away my body (I'm not the conductor, only the chairman of the board) but I suspect it won't be a lot of work to get the piece on the program. Will definitely look at the suggestions!
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| Comment: Re: Barber Agnus Dei/Adagio question | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | April 11, 2013 |
| Thanks, will do — I thought as much, that the Schnittke was even harder. We're not doing this right away, planning for next year but hopefully I can post a vid :)
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| Comment: Re: Barber Agnus Dei/Adagio question | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | April 11, 2013 |
| Oh no, all my sections are good, no way we could have done the Schnittke with only a good first sop! Done the Rachmaninov Vespers too, that needs incredible focus and concentration and we managed. Thanks for the input. :)
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| Comment: Re: Barber Agnus Dei/Adagio question | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | April 7, 2013 |
| Thanks, I will :)
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| Forum message: Barber Agnus Dei/Adagio question | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | April 5, 2013 |
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I'm wondering - read a ton of times that Barber Agnus Dei from the Adagio for Strings is a very challenging piece. If I have an excellent 1st soprano, would you say the rest of it is also all that hard? As I'm listening to the Esoterics' excellent recording the difficult part seems to me to ... |
| Comment: Re: Tell the soloist to tone it down! | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | January 15, 2013 |
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It is Kodály's Angyalok y pástorok, translated into Icelandic. There must be an English translation of it somewhere. It's my all-time favourite Christmas song. :)
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| Comment: Re: Tell the soloist to tone it down! | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | January 13, 2013 |
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Those focus voices definitely exist! My sister is one, somehow manages to color the sound and draw the rest of us into her beautiful sound. (yes she's a soloist, operatic and otherwise but can blend anywhere).Â
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmVY6Rju-vo Here as a soloist - and here as a ch... |
| Comment: Re: The family tradition of choral music | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | January 13, 2013 |
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Same here - two generations now (I and my 2 siblings from my mother and now my younger daughter dreams of being a choral director. Older daughter has a bout of bad consciousness over wanting to be an artist instead of a musician, never mind that I've always told her and her siblings they should fo... |
| Comment: Re: Ca. 20-30 min. piece for international choir workshop | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | December 31, 2013 |
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May I humbly point out my Night Vigil, Latin 5 movements, 20 minutes with organ and a soprano soloist (one movement a soprano aria). Very well received, got excellent crit :)Â
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| Comment: Re: Go with "tradition" or make a new one? | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | November 3, 2012 |
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Michelle, you don't say anything about if it's a good song or if you like it. I think that's quite a big part of this. After all, you're only being asked to do ONE song, not repeat all of the songs the former director used.Â
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I'd say definitely go with the song this Christmas; if it's a goo... |
| Comment: Re: Very good but very challenging music. | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | October 25, 2012 |
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Requiem by Jón Nordal, amazing music and nowhere close to as well known as it deserves.Â
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| Comment: Re: Looking to commission a piece by a female composer | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | October 22, 2012 |
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Hi, may I be in the loop maybe?Â
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Here's one piece for girls' choir:Â http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJSnHzXCc_w&feature=g-upl and another very different:Â http://cyrad.is/tonlist/vocalise.mp3
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| Comment: Re: Community Chorus performing with a professional orchestra? | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | June 3, 2012 |
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I wouldn't know if the same applies to USA than up here but well, when our (admittedly amateur) orchestra works with a choir it normally fills the hall. The professional, ISO too, but that's probably not because of having the choir per se, rather because we'll be singing stuff that brings people f... |
| Comment: Re: Looking for a cappella arrangements of Christmas music | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | June 3, 2012 |
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I have a very upbeat arrangement of Ding dong merrily, sorry no recording (making one this summer). SSATB. Do tell if you like to see it (I give it away to be freely copied, at the moment at least :)
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| Comment: Re: "Hottest" New Choral Composers | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | June 2, 2012 |
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It's like that here - and no it probably works for all music :) Â Wouldn't know about USA.
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| Comment: Re: "Hottest" New Choral Composers | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | June 1, 2012 |
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Yes, in popular music it's seven notes/chord sections in a row, then you're plagiarizing.
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I'd heard about this Golijov thing earlier. Pretty awful and absolutely no excuses. I sometimes steal from myself (right now I'm using part of my dance music, written for one specific modern dance prod... |
| Comment: Re: Are Perusal Videos useful? | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | May 31, 2012 |
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Not really since there's always the possibility to take a screen shot of the page and print that.
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| Comment: Re: Are Perusal Videos useful? | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | May 31, 2012 |
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The Iceland Music Information Centre has had protection programmed, whiting out a part of each page. This is not layered so it's not removable. It's definitely possible.Â
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| Comment: Re: "Hottest" New Choral Composers | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | May 29, 2012 |
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Oh I'm not sending anything, this is per copy printed from a .pdf file. But if you want a title page and good paper you order real life copies from the MIC :)
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| Comment: Re: "Hottest" New Choral Composers | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | May 28, 2012 |
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Well the price of course depends on how big a piece - my choir bought a set of the Rachmaninov Vespers a few years ago and the price was very very steep. Not $1,85 per copy but $23. My two SATB pieces in the Composers' Showcase cost $1 for the short one page piece and $2 for the eleven page motet.... |
| Comment: Re: Vocem angelorum | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | May 25, 2012 |
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but why not Voces as Jaakko pointed out? Correct AND sounds good ;) Â My cousin has a group up here called Voces Thules :)
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| Comment: Re: Vocem angelorum | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | May 25, 2012 |
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Agree here - it's an easy change too from Vocem to Voces.Â
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| Comment: Re: "Hottest" New Choral Composers | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | May 22, 2012 |
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Yessss! let's ruffle feathers!
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| Comment: Re: Hildigunnur Rúnarsdóttir CCMC ChoralNet Composer of the Month May, 2012 | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | May 21, 2012 |
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Sure - very often when I get commissions (I almost only write commissions since I really don't have time to write more than I get commissions for) I tend to ask if the commissioner has a favourite poem or text they'd like to be set. Of course that doesn't always work and then I start ... |
| Comment: Re: Hildigunnur Rúnarsdóttir CCMC ChoralNet Composer of the Month May, 2012 | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | May 20, 2012 |
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Hi Julie, yes that's me and my brother singing and the song is one of my compositions. It's about a couple that does everything right and PC and in the end they turn up to be the most boring people on earth :D It's a part of a duet series, 3 songs with texts by an Icelandic poet... |
| Comment: Re: Hildigunnur Rúnarsdóttir CCMC ChoralNet Composer of the Month May, 2012 | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | May 12, 2012 |
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Thanks, Melinda! :)
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| Comment: Re: Hildigunnur Rúnarsdóttir CCMC ChoralNet Composer of the Month May, 2012 | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | May 12, 2012 |
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Thank you David!
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| Comment: Re: Hildigunnur Rúnarsdóttir CCMC ChoralNet Composer of the Month May, 2012 | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | May 12, 2012 |
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Thanks :)
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| Comment: Re: Beethoven 9 - German pronunciation | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | May 10, 2012 |
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haha we're doing the Berlioz Romeo and Juliet, in french of course and the girl who read the text to the choir had the weirdest pronunciation. Finally somebody in my choir (who lived in France a couple of years) caught on - the girl was Canadian...
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| Comment: Re: Death and Mortality | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | May 7, 2012 |
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My piece Nightmare (Martröð) is about a corpse visiting a living person in his dream to ask to his remains be found and properly buried. It's in Icelandic but has been performed quite a few times around the world. Here's a recording, if you're interested: http:cyrad.is/tonlist/martrod.mp3Â
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| Comment: Re: Your favorite Brit Lit? | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | May 3, 2012 |
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Don't believe I forgot Britten!
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Five Flower Songs (hard)
Hymn to St Cecilia
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| Comment: Re: Your favorite Brit Lit? | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | May 3, 2012 |
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Any difficulty too?
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Arnold Bax:
This Worldes Joie (hard)
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William Byrd:
Ave verum corpus
Haec dies
Justorum animae
Laudibus in sanctis
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Orlando Gibbons:
The Silver Swan
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Herbert Howells:
Sing Lullaby
A Spotless Rose
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James MacMillan:
A Chi... |
| Comment: Re: Kenneth Woods identifies the quote of the week | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | April 27, 2012 |
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LOL. ROFL. Seriously!
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| Comment: Re: Soloists from the Chorus | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | April 16, 2012 |
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When I take a solo I'll stop singing the choral part a few measures early to get ready for the solo and the shift in technic necessary. Same goes with the other soloists in my group. (about 24 ppl). Nobody would dream of not singing at all until their solo.
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| Comment: Re: Your favorite funny/amusing choral pieces for HS and adult voices? | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | April 14, 2012 |
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Almost anything by PDQ Bach,
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Die launige (not launische) Forelle by Franz Schöggl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZSpUym27GkÂ
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| Comment: Re: What exactly is meant by sight singing? | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | April 9, 2012 |
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Yes absolutely - I just wondered since you talked about various ways of learning, not just straight from the page. Here we normally get about a minute to prepare and it's just the melody without any accompaniment or other help. As you say, it's not really sight-singing but when you can rely on peo... |
| Comment: Re: What exactly is meant by sight singing? | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | April 9, 2012 |
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John, did you then give the applicants their harmony parts ahead of time (to practise the reading, ear or praying and fasting) and then how long a time before? I take care with my aural classes to have them sight-read two parts at least (use the Kodály 15, 66 and 77 Exercises which also address t... |
| Comment: Re: What exactly is meant by sight singing? | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | April 9, 2012 |
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Yes it would have been better, since relative pitch matters much more than perfect pitch (which can be a very mixed blessing - my choir was singing the Schnittke Choir Concerto last winter and whenever we went out of pitch in the pretty hard parts the couple of people with perfect pitch in the cho... |
| Comment: Re: Lotti Crucifixus a 8 | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | April 7, 2012 |
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I solve the no-bar-lines in Finale basically by making out the whole lines in 36/4 time or however long I want to fit in every line, yes there will be some ties, between lines but way fewer than if I just made invisible bar lines in a "normal" 4/4 time.Â
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Poulenc without cues! Nightmare!Â
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| Comment: Re: Lotti Crucifixus a 8 | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | April 6, 2012 |
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impinge, why did I say impinge? Hinder, rather. Sorry.
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| Comment: Re: Lotti Crucifixus a 8 | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | April 5, 2012 |
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Robert, I don't agree on the piece needing continuo, I'm not an expert on Lotti but did he explicitly write out that the continuo part mustn't be omitted there? Agree with John here, why insist?Â
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| Comment: Re: Lotti Crucifixus a 8 | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | April 4, 2012 |
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If it's not googleable I suppose it would be easiest to just write it into Sibelius or Finale the way you want it (or ask somebody to do it for you if you don't work with those or other possible programs). :)
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| Comment: Re: sacred contemporary repertoire | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | March 29, 2012 |
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This one of mine maybe, neo-tonal with cymbals (can be omitted): http://cyrad.is/tonlist/psalm_150.mp3Â
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| Comment: Re: Looking for short lively piece by Brahms | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | March 6, 2012 |
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We have free concerts at a summer festival in Southern Iceland - on the way out there's a casket people can put money in. At the start of every concert someone addresses the audience to ask people to turn off their mobile phones and then mentiones the casket. Normally works pretty well (even thoug... |
| Comment: Re: Choir and Organ repertoire | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | March 3, 2012 |
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Another Kodály - Pange Lingua. Beautiful work.Â
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| Comment: Re: Filming School Concerts and Posting Online - Fair Use? | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | February 28, 2012 |
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I seem to remember this issue being discussed here before, and the end being that even though it's not entirely legal to post copyrighted material on Youtube but that hardly any copyright holders really mind that everyone does it anyway. Most of them, even the big corporations, don't mind the publ... |
| PDF Document: Carmen fratrum Arvalium | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | February 6, 2012 |
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| PDF Document: Vorlauf | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | February 6, 2012 |
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| PDF Document: Psalm 150 | Hildigunnur Runarsdottir | February 6, 2012 |
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