| Concert: UAlbany Chamber Singers in Montreal and Upstate NY | David Janower | May 19, 2012 |
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Hi all,
If you are in upstate NY or Montreal next week...
The University Chamber Singers
The University at Albany, Albany, NY
David Griggs-Janower, Conductor
Ryan Sweet, Assistant Conductor
Joshua Tanis, pianist
Thursday, May 24, 2012, 10:45 am, Queensb... |
| Announcement: "Lazy Afternoon" - new arrangement | David Janower | May 17, 2012 |
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Friends,
This is both a print and mp3 annoucnement. A local composer just set "Lazy Afternoon" for us and we did it in concert last weekend and it's GORGEOUS! The song begins:
It's a lazy afternoon And the beetle bugs are zooming And the tulip trees are blooming
t's S... |
| Concert: Swingin' with APM - Albany (NY) Pro Musica Pops Concert | David Janower | May 11, 2012 |
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Tongiht and tomorrow (yep, I'm a bit late!)
SWINGIN’ WITH APM
APM takes to the stage with show tunes, old standards and familiar folk tunes performed in a room that was built for singing. This cabaret-style evening showcases individual and ensemble talents.
FRIDAY, MAY 11 2012 ... |
| Comment: Re: Beethoven 9 - German pronunciation | David Janower | May 10, 2012 |
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There are two spellings of Elysium. Another is Elisium. Which one did Beethoven have, I wonder?
David
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| Comment: Re: Beethoven 9 - German pronunciation | David Janower | May 8, 2012 |
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Use the wonderful pronunciation file on musicanet.org. Search under Beethveon Ode to Joy rather than Ninth Symhony and it comes up. Singers can listen again and again.
David
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| Comment: Re: Bells, bells, bells | David Janower | April 29, 2012 |
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Gwyneth Walker, Ring Out, Wild Bells. I love it!!!!
David
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| Comment: Re: Producing a CD for sale | David Janower | April 26, 2012 |
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I believe Harry Fox passes the fee on to the buyer, meaning us. The bill from Harry Fox has a processing fee added to it that we pay. Do they also take a fee from the publishers?
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| Forum message: RVW Dona nobis pacem wrong note? | David Janower | April 25, 2012 |
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Hi all,
My singers are convinced there's a wrong note in the alto part in movement 2, bottom of page 12 first measure or ten measure after square 5, rumble of wheels in the stretts. They think "the" should be E-flat to go with the E flats in the orch. I think the E natural is probably corr... |
| Comment: Re: poetry, adult choir and guitar | David Janower | April 23, 2012 |
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Jeffrey Van's A Procession Winding Around Me (I hope I have that rigvht) with Whitman texts. great piece.
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| Comment: Re: Repertoire Pertaining to Animals and the Winter Holidays? | David Janower | April 19, 2012 |
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Ah, the metnion of Norma Farber reminded me of Dan Pinkham's Nativity Madrigals!. Guardian Owl opens the set. "Company's coming tonight, who are you? Hoo?" I think you have to buy the entire set though.
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| Comment: Re: Soloists from the Chorus | David Janower | April 18, 2012 |
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I dont' think anyone shoudl make assumptions about whether a soloist chosen out of the chorus continues to sing the choral parts or not. One person's minor role might be another person's major role, and a soloist can easily get heavily invested in their new role, as we hope they do!
I... |
| Comment: Re: St Matthew Passion study score | David Janower | April 17, 2012 |
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Hi Joe,
I don't either, but they do, and this is a state univeristy, and I KNOW how poor some of my kids are. Some won't blink an eye, but others...
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| Comment: Re: St Matthew Passion study score | David Janower | April 17, 2012 |
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hi john!
yep, i did clefs with Fiora. In fact my audition for her was open-score five parts with the two tenor parts in tenor clef! (can anyone figure out whcih piece that was?). And my first B Minor Mass was in clefs. But I know my students and I don't have time to waste while they t... |
| Forum message: St Matthew Passion study score | David Janower | April 17, 2012 |
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Hello friends,
I'm looking for a study score fo the St. Matt for my students. The Barenreiter is over $30. The Dover is in clefs, I believe, and as much as I'd like them to read clefs... Any one know if the Peters is a good study score and in only two clefs? It's $10 less. Any other... |
| Comment: Re: Repertoire Pertaining to Animals and the Winter Holidays? | David Janower | April 17, 2012 |
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Stephen Paulus also has a Friendly Beasts setting.
David
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| Comment: Re: "The Last Words of David" Thompson | David Janower | April 16, 2012 |
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What a wonderful piece, and what a difficult piece to make work! This piece takes a lot of control, much of this due to dynamis: lots of crec and dim
1. breath, breath, breath. This piece takes LOTS of breath. especially the Alleluia, but also whole "And he shall be as the lgiht of th... |
| Concert: Dvorak Requiem in Albany, NY, Oneonta NY - April 26, 28 | David Janower | April 16, 2012 |
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A little complicated, but:
Dvorak Requiem
University at Albany, SUNY
University Chorale with a community orchestra
David Griggs-Janower, conductor
Thursday, April 26 at 7pmMain Theatre, PAC, UAlbany
Excerpts of Dvorak Requiem (roughly half)
University Chamber Singers on the... |
| Concert: Carmina Burana in Albany NY | David Janower | April 16, 2012 |
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Albany Pro Musica and the Albany Symphony present Carmina Burana on Saturday, April 21, at 7:30 pm
Concert Program
JOANN FALLETTA
GUEST CONDUCTORALBANY PRO MUSICA
David Griggs-Janower, Director
CAPITAL DISTRICT YOUTH CHORALE
Diane Warner, Director
AMY VAN ROEKEL, Sopran... |
| Comment: Re: Your favorite funny/amusing choral pieces for HS and adult voices? | David Janower | April 14, 2012 |
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This is SO interesting. I don't find the BAnquet Fuge interesting in the LEAST. I love how we are all int he same field with the same issues that we deal with daily but we have SUCH differnt opinions on how to make music. That is what makes it all so fascinating.
Sam Pottle's Jabberwock... |
| Comment: Re: Gesualdo Madrigal Question | David Janower | April 9, 2012 |
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I agree with Matthew; I emphasize the ee. This is not a distrotion at all, but a decision similar to holding the s of "ala" or "helas" for dramatic effect rather than the vowel. Hard to believe Gesualdo wouldn't have preferred anything to make his piece work better. Or any composer, for that... |
| Comment: Re: Choral/Vocal work featuring piano | David Janower | April 6, 2012 |
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Schubert, Mirjam's Siegesgesang, a nice extended work for the pianist. And isn't Haydn's The Storm- Madrigal also originally piano?
David
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| Comment: Re: Ethics Question (hiring the interim accompanist?) | David Janower | April 1, 2012 |
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A good accompanist is like gold. A great accompanist is like more gold. Hire the person if you are happy and don't look back!
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| Comment: Re: sacred contemporary repertoire | David Janower | March 31, 2012 |
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Beautiful, Frank!
David
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| Comment: Re: sacred contemporary repertoire | David Janower | March 31, 2012 |
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Hola Silvia!
Take a look at Ola Gjeilo's works. His beautiful Ubi caritas works very well with a small choir, and there are many others on Walton Music's website.
Best,
David
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| Comment: Re: Newer repertoire for chamber choir and strings | David Janower | March 22, 2012 |
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Gwyneth Walkers Dreams and Dances, three movements.
David
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| Comment: Re: Humorous piece for Faculty Choir | David Janower | March 11, 2012 |
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Best of all possible worlds from Candide???
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| Comment: Re: SATB choir + Boy (child) sopranos | David Janower | March 10, 2012 |
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Could do that, Peter, old friend. I did the Faure and Durufle in back to back years and had them sing the Pie Jesu solos, and that worked. I'll give this more thought.
Thanks!
And thanks, Jean, as always. WIll do.
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| Comment: Re: Performing Biebl's Ave Maria: how long is too long, and where do you place your choirs? | David Janower | March 10, 2012 |
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Whoa re we talking about, John? (:-)
I agree with John. When Pro Musica sang Renaissance and early Baroque music in St Mark's, it was VASTLY different from anything I've ever done, including even places like Notre Dame. It was stunning.
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| Comment: Re: Performing Biebl's Ave Maria: how long is too long, and where do you place your choirs? | David Janower | March 10, 2012 |
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Thanks for the video, Jean!
Kathleen, I've sung this piece probably 75 times and conduced it maybe 30, That doesn't make me an experr but it DOES make me opinionated! I first sang the original version in the mid-70s at Cornell. Tom Sokol, long-time conductor of the Cornell Glee Club, ... |
| Forum message: SATB choir + Boy (child) sopranos | David Janower | March 9, 2012 |
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I can't find a thread on longer works for SATB choir and boy/child sopranos, or possibly SA children and SATB choir. (I found a wondrful thread on shorter works in the archives.)
I'd welcome any suggestions, but I'm particularly interested in works with some orchestra.
Thanks!
Davi... |
| Comment: Re: Orlando Gibbons: "O Thou, the Central Orb" | David Janower | February 28, 2012 |
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cpdl.org has the original text printed
http://www.choralwiki.org/wiki/index.php/O_Thou_the_Central_Orb_(Orlando_Gibbons)
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| Comment: Re: piece about ice? | David Janower | February 26, 2012 |
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May I suggest a MUSICA database search using the keyword "ice"? musicanet.org. Dont' know if it will yield anything.
David
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| Comment: Re: Music for Commencement | David Janower | February 23, 2012 |
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Karel Husa's
Festive Ode (for an Academic Occasion)
for chorus and orchestra (or band, wind ensemble or organ)
David
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| Comment: Re: Talking in rehearsal? | David Janower | February 21, 2012 |
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my really evil stare. (:-)
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| Comment: Re: The Key of F bugaboo | David Janower | February 11, 2012 |
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I feel that exactly!
David
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| Comment: Re: The Key of F bugaboo | David Janower | February 11, 2012 |
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Excellent response, Denise. I find it extremely helpful and enlightening. I have a question, though. If the E-f and B-C breaks affect singing in f major beucase they are so tied to I and V, why don't the effect E major the same way? Is it becuase the break is between those pairs of notes... |
| Comment: Re: The Key of F bugaboo | David Janower | February 9, 2012 |
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interesting, John. There's no question that songs feel different when we move them around. I had an odd esperience withmy studentrs today, singing Bach's Ich Lasse Dich Nicht, F minor. Since we are planning to use harpischord at 415, after we sang it in F minor, I then asked them to sing it ... |
| Comment: Re: The Key of F bugaboo | David Janower | February 8, 2012 |
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"Perhaps choir competitions should require an F-Major selection on each program."
No,no, a thousand times no! (:-)
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| Comment: Re: Producing a not for sale promotional CD | David Janower | February 6, 2012 |
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Sadly not, John. Our new Christmas CD, which we did through Harry Fox for convenience, had $432 in licensing fees for 250 copies of about 20 songs, and an additional $257 in processing fees, over a dollar per CD.
David
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| Comment: Re: The Key of F bugaboo | David Janower | February 3, 2012 |
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This came up the other day. MY accompanist mentioned to a room of mostly non-vocal people at a leceture about tuning temperaments that F major is hard to sing in tune in, and they all looked at her like she's crazy, and the two choral people nodded. According to the temperament lecturer, the... |
| Comment: Re: Rutter & Kalmus SATB notes for Fauré Requiem | David Janower | February 1, 2012 |
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As requested, I've made a quickie list of discrepancies among some the editions. Although not comprehensive and in a shorthand that's inelegant, I hope this can be useful. Happy to send a pdf to anyone who wishes it.
David
Discrepancies Between Vocal Scores, Faure Requiem
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| Concert: Albany (NY) Pro Musica High School Choral Festival | David Janower | February 1, 2012 |
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Albany Pro Musica
David Griggs-Janower, Artistic Director
presents its 12th annual High School Choral Festival
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12 • 4:00 pmin the fabulous Troy Music Hall30 Second Street, Troy NY
albanypromusica.org
Saratoga Springs High School Choraliers
Hoosick Fall... |
| Comment: Re: Spanish/Latin American repertoire | David Janower | January 26, 2012 |
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There's TONS of great stuff on earthsongs website, and you can hear the pieces, and they have CDs. I've used much of it over time. Also Third Planet Music. Lots of choral music from Venezuela, Argentina, etc.
David
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| Comment: Re: Song needed for an Alumni Choir | David Janower | January 26, 2012 |
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Our ocal children's choir (grades 4-12) uses Music, You Are a Friend to Me. it's now a wow piece, it's a slightly schlocky heart-on-the-sleeve piece but in this context it works great.
David
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| Comment: Re: Rutter & Kalmus SATB notes for Fauré Requiem | David Janower | January 26, 2012 |
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I don't know of a list but there are some small diffrences, in words ("Kyrie" vs "Eleison" at end of first movment) and note lengths (final half vs. final quarter). I don't recall whether there are actual pitch differences. If you don't find a list maybe I can have a student assistant go throu... |
| Comment: Re: Carmina Burana | David Janower | January 13, 2012 |
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I have found Schott responsive in the past. I suggest you email them from their website and ask permissio to photocopy x number of copies of that movement only and pay them for it. I'd be surprised if they didn't say, sure, go ahead, pay us 50 cents a copy (or whatever) for one-time use.
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| Comment: Re: Best Music Notation software for SATB that's not over the top? | David Janower | January 12, 2012 |
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LOL, Jack!
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| Comment: Re: Looking for a madrigal | David Janower | January 12, 2012 |
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Bruce,
When you get to my age the embarrassing things are forgetting who came first, bach or Mozart. This is nothig to be embarassed about!
Maybe the Gastoldi balletti/madrigals would work. If I recall right (uh uh!), several of them were models for Morley madrigals, and I used to ... |
| Comment: Re: Saint Patrick's Day rep | David Janower | January 2, 2012 |
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So many wonderful ideas already! I second Dulaman, Mouth Music, and Michael McGlynn's stuff!
Shaw-Parker, My Gentle Harp (Danny Boy tune)
Denis Agay Old Irish Blessing, whcih actually combines May the Road Rise to Meet you with May the lord bless you and keep you...
Darmon Meader The ... |
| Comment: Re: Die Nachtigall pronunciation | David Janower | December 23, 2011 |
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Two comments. the Gernabn diphthong is not the as the American, and is transcribed in diction books as [ɔø], or as Brad says above, [ɔʏ]. I prefer the former, as do most diction books I've seen, but both are found. But for your students it would certianly be okay to say it's the same sound... |
