Cold Moon (TTBB + piano) | Chor Leoni
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- A Christmas song for people who hate Christmas songs.
As usual, this piece is about a sort of transformation, so the music gradually blossoms into something quite different from what it started as. Please LISTEN UNTIL THE END to find out: why is Carol of the Bells being quoted? Will the speaker(s) in the lyrics ever overcome their seasonal depression? Will we finish in D minor, D major, or BOTH?
Commissioned and performed by Chor Leoni in this version for low voices (TTBB). Please contact the composer (website below) if you'd like a version for SATB and/or SSAA.
Music (and most of the words) by Nicholas Ryan Kelly. www.nicholasryankelly.com
Sheet music video of a choral composition by a living composer!
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I heard the SF Gay Men’s Chorus sing this on Christmas Eve at Davies Symphony Hall and thought it was the best song of the concert. A gorgeous composition!
Thank you so much!
I sing Lower Baritone with the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus. We are singing this in our Christmas / Holiday Concert. It stood out from all the other music we are performing. I came here to listen with the hope I would appreciate it more. It worked. Now I understand it better. Great work!
Thank you! I was so thrilled when I heard the SFGMC was doing this... and I'm glad you're understanding (and hopefully enjoying) it!
We did it for ours as well, haha 😄
Wow, this was fantastic. Is it only for TTBB? So haunting... I also loved your harmonic choices.
Thank you so much! Right now, it's only TTBB, but I'm hoping to do a consortium to arrange it for SATB over the summer, so the choirs could premiere the SATB version before XMas 2024.
Igazán énekelhető, és különleges hangulatot fest.. Köszönet érte a szerzőnek és az énekkarnak.
We may be interested too -- what a great piece. And thanks for the D major ending :)
That's wonderful. Thanks so much for listening!
The score still isn't published, so if you'd like it, please send me an email... nicholasryankelly [at] gmail [dot] com :)
This is so great I am doing this for my quartet!
Thank you! I don't think this has been done by a quartet before, and I'm delighted to hear that you're doing it (though I'm a little concerned for your lungs, since this was written for a larger choir that can stagger breathe!)
Qué tremendo compositor!! Serás famoso pronto
Muchas gracias! Espero que si
Excelente
Gorgeous!
Thank you for listening!
love it. absolutely gorgeous
Thank you! Cheers!
Fantastic piece!
Thank you so much!
The gay men's chorus I'm in is singing this song for our holiday concert this year, and it's my favorite piece of the show. Apropos of the mood this year, indeed.
I'm so glad! I hope it provides at least a glimmer of warmth.
This is wonderful, I really enjoyed it!
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it.
Beautiful… I’ll share this with my director, maybe we can sing it some time
Thank you so much! That would be wonderful.
🎶🎵🎶🎆👌
honestly, i enjoyed this quite alot. a very pleasant ever needed secular piece that isn't tied down by the overplayed blech that is most Christmas music. however, that gosh dang carol of the bells quote. its the antithesis of the whole piece. a song about veering away from the traditional light and holiday vibes which then multiple times quotes a carol. i want to like this in its entirety so bad but the song itself is completely hypocritical and trashes its own argument almost immediately. that's just my opinion though and i am a bit of a stickler. other than that though, a lovely ttbb piece. we can never have to many mens choir pieces.
Thanks for your thoughtful comment! That's kind of the point of the piece, though. I don't want to be super-literal and say the carol represents the alienation a lot of us feel around the holidays, but... framing and context are important, and I sort of thought of the carol as the "villain" of this piece when I was writing it, if that makes any sense. Figuring out how to overcome it--or at least make peace with it--is what ended up driving the entire form, in a way that seemed very much in line with the piece's message. Whether it works is another question entirely... sorry it didn't for you, but I appreciate you listening!
I disagree. You are paying too much to the tenors singing about the carol of the bells. Pay more attention to the lower voices singing in a more mournful tone as counterpoint. At least that's the way I hear those sections as a Lower Baritone.
@@NicholasRyanKellybeautiful piece and Resound Voices in the UK love the piece and will perform it tonight and tomorrow at our Xmas concert 😊