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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Feb 26, 2008 at St. Boniface Church in Anaheim, CA (next to Disneyland). Sorry for the low resolution and fidelity; this was taken with the equivalent of a camera-phone which doesn't even begin to represent what CSULB sounded like that evening.
California State University at Long Beach Chamber Choir, under the direction of Dr. Jonathan Talberg, performs Eric Whitacre's "I Thank You God" based on E. E. Cummings' poem:
i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any - lifted from the no
of all nothing - human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
nt bad but de sops sound is nt full enough n their sound doesnt shine over the other sectns as it shld...
I really really like your performance! And that is a BIG compliment after having performed this pieces with my own choir (see (and listen to) the 'VU-Kamerkoor' here at TH-cam).
There's just two things that surprised me.
1. Why the timid, retinent presentation of 'which is yes'? To me, this is the ultimate joy, positivity, happiness, desire.
2. The 'Now the ears' part is very different from what we've sung. Are there different versions of this Whitacre piece? How do you like our version?
The intonation is superb. The only comment I have is on the balance, some of the places where the choir is spread thin there are individual voices sticking out. Alto voices specifically. I sang this piece in college as well, and I think that your interpretation is right on. Interpretation can be a preference thing too. That's the beauty of music; no one performance or interpretation is the same!
That was pretty impressive, eric's pieces are very good for improving technical skill in college choirs. However, the I see the "ears" part was a little rewritten. Perhaps they just didn't have time to learn it(that happens). Our chamber choir is doing this piece this semester!! Go community college!!
"Now the ears" was written this way by Whitacre when he first wrote the piece. It was changed during publication. The composer came to CSULB and asked us to sing the original bars he had written.
I love the tenor that belts that G (i think) near the opening. In the recorded version by whitacre, its not nearly as noticable. But that note here resounds throughout the entire church. Awesome.
The more i listen to Whitacre's compositions, the more I fall in love with his style of writing, and choral music in general. Epic win.
A fantastic performance, in certain aspects definitely 'better' than ours. A beautiful, varied choral sound that comes through even in spite of the technically limited recording. Of course there are some moments that I cherish more in our own performance, but that is only natural I guess.
i was astounded at the part from 4:40 tot 5:00 ('now the ears...'). we had a completely different musical score to our disposal. How come you sing this other part? Which is more recent? Cheers from Amsterdam!
This is my favorite Whitacre choral piece. I absolutely adore this song. This performance is good as well. I just wish there was a little more freedom used in the interpretation of the song. Does anyone know where I can get a score that has this setting of "now the ears of my ears..."? I have the score that BYU used for their recording where on the women sing that in canon (which I prefer).
This was a few days before ACDA-Western Region 2008, but in the same church. CSU Long Beach was as good a collegiate choir as I could possibly imagine, from full-on opera chorus to the most poignant Palestrina motet. Best of luck with their choral program!
Thank you for your comment, and for looking past the low fidelity of this recording which makes certain parts sound out-of-tune or unbalanced. Evidently this version was to the composer's (local to choir) precise specifications within the last few months.
I joined this choir this semester.... i thank you god for this most amazing school year
I'm an SF State student, but CSULB's music and choral program is fantastic. Get involved! Contact the music office for info on auditions and pre-reqs.
I am so excited to be part of such a fantastic music program...CSULB '14!
you guys brought tears to my eyes
yup i angry with you zippyninny
I WANNA GO TO THIS COLLEGE :]]
好曲子！
Very nice. Impressive.
I'm really impressed.
Beautiful...
shivers