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Originally Posted by Joe Crocker
That was really absorbing Christine. You have a talented mother. And the singer was very talented too, though I found it rather distracting watching the video trying to figure out which version of him was singing which part. It was much better when I closed my eyes
Are you or your mother aware of Voces8? They sing a sublime version of the Ben Folds song " The Luckiest" |
Thanks, Joe; I'm very proud of her! And the voicing on the piece is SSATB, so the top two singers... versions of the singer... are the Soprano 1 and Soprano 2 part, and then on the bottom it's Alto, Tenor, Bass (all moving left to right). Though actually peeping at the sheet music, the tenor part splits occasionally so I'm not sure how he managed that.
I don't know if Mom knows Voces8 but I loooooove them and own two of their CDs (
Lux and
Eventide). "The Luckiest" is on one of them, I think the former -- it's a gorgeous arrangement. One of my own favourites is their rendition of Ola Gjelo's "Ubi Caritas":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqBhMwtPjY0
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Edited to add, some hours later:
I love hearing (and singing) different musical settings for poem texts. Here are a few favourites that I've encountered during my choral years:
Frost's "Choose Something Like a Star" set by Randall Thompson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iOMLdxndw0
Frost's "The Road Not Taken" also set by Randall Thompson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXOhRPI6UOM
James Stephenson's "The Coolin" set by Samuel Barber:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX6fB39jh8o