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From our ever ebullient conductor, Jerry: “The Fall Concert theme is “Carol and Carol”. Our friend, the amazing Carol Swarbrick, will headline the second half – but I am getting ahead of myself. The first half is a luscious grouping of superb traditional pieces. The Sopranos and Altos will sing the SSA version of Benjamin […]
Our 2018 season will begin this year on August 30th at 7:00 p.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church (TUMC) in Sequim. There will be a “meet and greet” for past and new members, an opportunity to sign up for committees and to hear the music for our fall concert. We are delighted that Linda Dowdell will […]
From the Board of Directors, greetings, and news about the dues: “In looking as our finances and the success of our concerts when we perform contemporary works, we determined that as our audience is changing and their musical preferences are not as interested in major choral works as in the past. Thus, our library is […]
Interested in singing great music, with a superb choir, to appreciative audiences? You can audition for the choir by contacting Dr. Jerry Wright: maestro@olympus.net Be prepared to work hard! Members are expected to spend spend time outside of rehearsal learning words and notes, so that rehearsal time can be used to best advantage. You will need […]
Barbara Allen, entitled Bonnie Barbara Allen in the Child ballads, in an arrangement from Three Mountain Ballads by Ron Nelson. A nice arrangement—the alto lalas really appreciated finally getting a part worthy of their talents—but I hope everyone gets to hear the ballad sung with the more common, major key tune and the final two […]
The second piece in Ron Nelson’s Three Mountain Ballads. I’ll bet someone composed Will He Remember? sometime after the Civil War, but I’m sure it quickly found a place in the hearts of farm girls who got off by themselves, at the far end of the pasture, and softly sang it to the cows. The […]
A setting of the traditional song, He’s Gone Away, from Three Mountain Ballads, arranged by Ron Nelson. It is a question and answer song, about who will court a girl when her beau goes away “over Yandro.” I have an old song book that says Yandro is a mountain in South (north?) Carolina. The melody […]
A setting by Monteverdi of a poem by Ottavio Rinuccini, a cappella SSATB. The lalas sing this at a moderate tempo, 109 quarter notes per minute. This seems to be slow enough to get the notes, given that you can sing the Italian (!) but if slower versions are desired, let me know. As usual, […]
Purcell’s madrigal for four-part mixed voices. It is quite fast, so the lalas will do it three ways. The usual whole banana (tutti) version is at concert tempo, half-note = 92, presto. The versions in which one part is emphasized are recorded at 75, which is merely allegretto, and then there are four versions with […]
A really upbeat (half note = 80) number from Charles Tessier (1550-?) about a girl who must go to the happy woods to marry a graybeard, because her parents say she must. She says he should beware her wiles; he will find himself in Cornwall before he knows it. SATB, a cappella. It begins with […]