Category: Listen
Music, in all its wonder.
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Chorus Day – He Watching Over Israel
This is one of my favorite songs ever, even beyond choir. In Spring ’07, the Chapel Hill Community Chorus performed Mendelssohn’s Elijah. To be honest,…
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Chorus Day – The Old Woman in a Basket
Recently I started listening to some of the songs I sang in the Women’s Voices Chorus in Spring 2008. It’s been a while since I’ve…
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Chorus Day – Candlelight Carol
I hope everyone who celebrates holidays this time of year had a good one. I enjoyed spending time with my family in Chapel Hill. I’ll…
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Chorus Day – Tantum Ergo
I’m bringing this series back! Woo-hoo. I really love choir, and I really love choir songs. I’ve got so many songs I want to share.…
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Chorus Day – Neighbor’s Chorus
Neighbor’s Chorus by Jacques Offenbach is a fun one. My high school choir did this for our Spring Concert, my freshman year. Way back in…
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Chorus Day – Mornings Innocent
We did quite a few Gwyneth Walker songs in Glee Club (and also in the Chapel Hill Community Chorus). Mornings Innocent is one of my…
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Chorus Day – Haydn, Te Deum n2 in C
This is just a fun setting of Te Deum by Franz Joseph Haydn. The Chapel Hill Community Chorus sang it as part of our Spring…
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Chorus Day – A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28
Apparently, Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols was written for Christmas, but the UNC Women’s Glee Club sang this at our Spring 2003 concert. Our concert…
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Chorus Day – Dirait-On
Tonight, I’m going to share one of my favorite chorus songs ever, Morten Laurisden‘s setting of Dirait-On, a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke. The Women’s…
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Chorus Day – The Last Words of David
(EDIT: You’ll have to watch this video on YouTube because embedding is disabled by request). At UNC, there was both a Women’s and Men’s Glee…