Going Beyond Words

This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio, Host Stan Schmidt Presents a more relaxed atmosphere as his broadcast features Songs Sung in Groups.   You will enjoy some very familiar folk melodies, and some selections on texts of William Shakespeare composed by George Shearing and Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, with choirs from Canada, The United States and England.   Some of the ensembles are The Cambridge Singers, Cor Cantiamo from Illinois, The West Coast Mennonite Chamber Choir from British Columbia and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chorus with the Voice of Sarah Connolly Mezzo Soprano expression the intentions of Sir Edward Elgar and his meaningful work Sea Pictures.

For a look at the CD’s used and a complete list of the music heard go to the blog of WWW.GOINGBEYONDWORDS.COM website and click on show 2328

 

This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio, Host Stan Schmidt Presents a SPECIAL EDITION featuring a Jazz Requiem by Swedish Composer Nils Lindberg.   When listening to the Compositions and arrangements of Nils Lindberg, it soon becomes evident that his musical roots are from his native Dalarna, the traditional home of Swedish Folk Music.  The Music he creates, whether it is written for Choir, Jazzband or full symphony orchestra has also been well received beyond the Swedish borders.

Stan Schmidt had the opportunity to conduct this Jazz Requiem with the Composer at the piano.  He takes the time tell you how this came about and strongly encourages choral directors to step out of the box and experience a very exciting opportunity for growth by combining a Big Band with your choral ensemble that usually sings the classical genre for a very different musical encounter.   A Big Band Requiem with up to 8 Choral parts in a Jazz Idiom.   Re-live the same text that Mozart and Verdi used through Jazz.

For a look at the CD’s used and a complete list of the music heard go to the blog of WWW.GOINGBEYONDWORDS.COM website and click on show 2327

 

This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio, Host Stan Schmidt Presents music for Passion Sunday and Holy Week.   During the visit you will enjoy music from JS Bach, Howard Hanson, Charles Gounod, John Goss, David Naylor, John McCabe, Maximilian Steinberg and two wonderful Hymns.   Choral groups include The Rias Kammerchor, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Stile Antico, Salt Lake Choral Artists, Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, The Gloriae Dei Cantores, The Clarion Choir and The Cambridge Singers.

For a look at the CD’s used and a complete list of the music heard go to the blog of WWW.GOINGBEYONDWORDS.COM website and click on show 2325

 

This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio, Host Stan Schmidt continues the serious listening for the Lenten Season and takes you on a soul searching journey through choral music.   Using Da Pacem Domine by Gesualdo and Pärt to surround the hour of music, you will hear The beatitudes by Bastiks, Motherless Child and Oh Graveyard with the voices of Conspirare; Orlando Gibbons I am the Resurrection and the Life and The 23 Psalm by David Ashley White.  From the Grammy nominated “Passion Week” by Maximillian Steinberg a musical setting of the Last Supper followed by Faithful Cross by Healey Willan, O Vos Omnes by Gesualdo and the Litany of the Divine Providence by Polish Baroque composer Grzegorz Gorczycki.    Some stunning choral works you will want to investigate.

For a look at the CD’s used and a complete list of the music heard go to the blog of WWW.GOINGBEYONDWORDS.COM website and click on show 2324

Going Beyond Words w/ Stan Schmidt
Show 2323 – Free Us, Save Us and Defend Us

This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio, Host Stan Schmidt continues the serious listening for the Lenten Season.   Taking the texts Libera Nos, How Long O Lord? And De Profundis you will encounter music by John Sheppard, an unaccompanied gem by Johann Michael Haydn, Antonio Vivaldi’s Crucifixus, the stunning cry for help from Egil Hovland plus the Agnus dei by Samuel Barber. Then there is an a’cappella setting of the Lord’s Prayer for double quartet and double choir by Otto Nicolai that you will want to look into.  The music is grounded by The spiritual The Trumpet Sounds within-a My Soul, for choir and Trumpet by Ian David Coleman and comes to a strong conclusion with De Profundis heard from the Gregorian Chant and a Cantata of the same title by Nicholaus Bruhns

For a look at the CD’s used and a complete list of the music heard go to the blog of WWW.GOINGBEYONDWORDS.COM website and click on show 2323

Going Beyond Words w/ Stan Schmidt
Show 2322 – A Passion Master Piece

This week on Going Beyond Words and ACDA Radio, Host Stan Schmidt continues with some interesting listening with two versions of Ave Verum Corpus, one by Francis Poulenc and the other by Mozart.    Then for the first time, music from a new CD titled “Far In the Heavens – The Choral Music of Stephen Paulus” offered by the True Concord Voices and Orchestra from Arizona led by Eric Holton.   This Disc, in part, contains seven pieces called  “Prayers and Remembrances” that commemorates the 9/11 tragedy and lets you hear Music recorded under the supervision of Stephen Paulus a short time before a stroke silenced the prolific and Beloved American Composer.  From that set we examine “Lord, Make me an Instrument of your Piece” for Choir and Orchestra.      As a fitting close with to this broadcast you can recall a Passion Masterpiece…the Famous Requiem by Maurice Duruflé with the Ambrosian Singers with Michel Legrand on the Podium.

For a look at the CD’s used and a complete list of the music heard go to the blog of WWW.GOINGBEYONDWORDS.COM website and click on show 2322