Pentecost Choral Festival

Festival Choir Repertoire

Beethoven "Hallelujah" from Mount of Olives

The Lord Bless You and Keep You - John Rutter

Fix Me Jesus - Brandon Waddles

http://www.giamusic.com/mp3/fix-me-jesus.mp3

Dry Bones - Brandon Waddles 

(no recording available)

Sanctuary Choir Repertoire

One Faith, One Hope, One Lord - Craig Courtney

Create in Me a Clean Heart - Brandon Waddles

World premiere (no recording)

Sing a Mighty Song - Daniel Gawthrop

Praise His Holy Name - Keith Hampton

Festival Details 

Rehearsal: Saturday, June 7th 9:30-11:45am
Concert: Sunday, June 8th at 4pm (3pm call time)
Attire: Any combination of "nice" black and white.

Doubois - Seven Last Words

As we enter into the final preparations towards Holy Week, I wanted to share some resources for the Dubois in order to help our preparations and understanding.

Parts help

Cyberbass - does not yet have a Dubois "Seven Last Words"

http://www.learnchoralmusic.co.uk/Haydn/Seven-Last-Words/seven-last-words.html
This website has midi files of each part which is quite helpful but you will need to download or open each file, it will not simply play in your web browser.

http://www.choralia.net/db01/db01.htm
This website promises to be an even better resource but for whatever reason does not work on my desktop, hopefully you have better luck.

Recordings

www.music.amazon.com  - A good option for both CDs and MP3s


https://www.apple.com/itunes/ - Good for instant gratification and best option for those with iDevices

There are two readily available recordings of the piece, neither of them is outstanding but both are good references.

http://www.gothic-catalog.com/Dubois_Seven_Last_Words_of_Christ_p/g-49124.htm
This one is by a sister methodist church in Lubbock, Texas in English with organ

http://www.gothic-catalog.com/Dubois_Seven_Last_Words_of_Christ_p/g-49124.htm
Full version in English

Videos

Excerpts from the Dubois conducted by Diane Bish. If you open this video in YouTube you can see most of the other movements in this playlist.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7ED9EB7DD71973CE
This is a playlist with videos of all of the movements from various performances.

Repertoire Teaser

Below are just a few of the great pieces we have coming up between January and June of this year!
Rehearsals are on Thursday nights from 7-9pm in the choir room and start back up on January 9th. Contact Juan Carlos Acosta jacosta_fumccv(at)yahoo.com for more information

The Ground (Pleni sunt coeli) - Ola Gjeilo

Worthy to be praised - Byron J. Smith

The Seven Last Words - Franz Joseph Haydn (we'll sing it in English)

Christmas Choral Concert

I want to start off by saying that I am incredibly proud of the work you all did, both in preparation and in performance. Now that I have had some time to reflect on this process I am overwhelmed with a sense of gratitude.

The live stream video of the concert has been archived and is currently available on u-stream. Though it may ask you to log in, you do not actually have to be a member or log in with your facebook account to watch the video. If I can figure out a way, I will see if I can embed the video here in the blog so you do not have to open a different website.

We do not have a hard copy of this recording and while it is possible to pull this from the website, it does take a level of computer wizardry I have not achieved yet. The video quality is not good, but the audio quality is not bad. I do not know how long that the video will be available, it could be taken down at any time so if you are interested in viewing it, please do so soon.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/41486586

I am working on editing down the audio recording of the concert and will post that when it is available as well.

Blessings
Juan

Christmas/Epiphany Repertoire

Just in case you couldn't get enough of this music or you wanted a refresher, here are videos of the repertoire for the next couple of weeks

Sunday, December 22nd - The response of Mary
Magnificat - Charles Villiers Stanford

Christmas Eve
What Sweeter Music - John Rutter

Candlelight Carol - John Rutter

Sunday, December 29th
What Child is This? - arr. Jaco Sta
(no video of this, maybe we are ready to make one?)

Sunday, January 5th - only light can overcome darkness

Break Forth O Beauteous Heavenly Light - J.S. Bach

Rutter "Gloria" Videos

I came across these videos for the Rutter "Gloria" with the sheet music displayed, and thought that they would be most helpful.

Movement I    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZAOQcUQtvo

Movement II    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rALKnDeUTlY

Movement III      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2-EsLZ2iBA

Rutter Gloria Resources

It is hard to believe that our concert is less than two months away! Below you will find resources for the "Gloria" by John Rutter for Choir, Brass and Organ. I hope you will find these useful in the learning process.

Cyber Bass - an website that has midi (computer) recordings of each part as well as all of the parts. This is very useful in learning notes but it does not include the words so you will have to follow along with the music carefully.
http://www.cyberbass.com/Major_Works/Rutter_J/rutter_gloria.htm



The archival recording of our Christmas Concert from 2007 should be rather handy as we prepare this piece.




YouTube - What would the internet be today without videos?
These recordings of the Gloria by the University of Utah are quite good but they do use the orchestral version rather than the one we will be using for brass, organ and percussion. The big difference is that the strings and woodwinds take the parts covered by the organ in our version.