Belgian group Witloof Bay sings “With Love Baby” at the Eurovision Song Contest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWDbKbdGgho h/t The Fredösphere
KVIE public television profiles choral music
Is the Sacramento Choral Society really the only community choir with its own professional orchestra? They kept saying that. Must be pretty substantial, too, if they're often doing pieces like Carmina Burana. Don Kendrick is a perfect example of the beats-at-the-top style of conducting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaZuKy0ga_s
Tallis in Wonderland
All hail the public domain, which allows new interpretations of existing works: http://youtu.be/maGfTHKeYJY Thanks, David!
Mealor Ubi caritas
For all three of you who didn’t see this already:
Anti-perfect
Chris Rowbury comes out against perfection: Which is why I don’t like singers or choirs or music which is just so, so perfect. The blend is perfect, the rendition is perfect, the enunciation is perfect, the costumes are perfect. I may as well stay at home and read the score and imagine the music in […]
IMSLP under attack AGAIN
IMSLP (aka Petrucci Music Library) is the orchestral equivalent of CPDL, with tens of thousands of public-domain pieces available in freely-downloadable formats, often with instrumental parts. A couple of years ago, Universal Edition managed to get them shut down because some of the pieces hosted there which are in public domain in the USA and […]