Posted on 12/24/2018 4:04:11 PM PST by mairdie
A wide range of illustrations of the Adoration of the Magi.
PING
Thanks, mairdie!
watching it next....
Thank you! I grew up with many many art books, focusing on Renaissance art and times before and after, and I love seeing the beautiful art work. And the voices.
Always, to both of you.
Mother raised me in the Chicago art museum, so this is also the comfort meal of childhood.
What a fantastic title that would have been for a Christmas episode of Magnum P.I. :)
The real one, I mean. Not today's pale imitation.
Merry Christmas!
Thank you! Wonderful!
Merry Christmas Mairdie.
VERY clever!
A Happy CHristmas to you and yours.
Thank you Mairdie, for elevating my Christmas eve with this beautiful compilation and music!
Singing it in high school choir is one of my fondest memories. This is a way of tucking that memory away where I can find it.
Thanks very much.
Morten Lauridsen gets much more attention in choral circles, but the Tomás Luis de Victoria setting is my favorite, both to hear and to sing.
It is challenging but rewarding for basses. I have been fortunate to sing it in European cathedrals (which only permit sacred music) on two tours, and in two good venues in the US: Mission Santa Clara (long reverb), and St. Joseph’s Cathedral of San Jose (short reverb).
Merry Christmas.
If and when my situation improves, and I learn how to do it, I may post one of the performances of this from one of the better ensembles in which I sang.
I LOVE CHORAL MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I cannot tell you how much I would enjoy hearing that. Oh, do learn. It would be wonderful to hear.
Mary
Perhaps well after the new year. My situation right now is not good, and I am moving soon.
Some of the recordings are professional (from before I joined); some are from live concerts.
All are good, if not very good. The conductor is one of the most famous in choral circles. This ensemble, under her direction, garnered Choir-of-the-World honors in international competition in 1991.
Our final American concert, before her retirement in 2005, which was immediately followed by our final European tour under her, was a concert of 31 pieces, from memory, in: English, Russian, Latin, French, German, Italian, and Hungarian.
In case you do not know, a typical such concert would be 8-12, maybe 15, pieces. She always assigned more, and this was her farewell, so she really laid it on.
We had to be at the airport at 6 AM the next day to fly to Germany. I have seldom been so exhausted.
(Full disclosure: I and a few others, who were relatively new to high-end divisi choral literature, defiantly held music on five of the 31 pieces. We were scared of her, and she knew it, so she also knew that meant we absolutely would crash and burn without, and so she pragmatically and graciously ignored our folders.)
Amen to that.
Merry Christmas, mairdie, Aquamarine, and all!
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