Let Us Drink and be Merry – Catch you drinking?

Well, we started learning this in great esprit de corp before Zoom rudely pulled us apart.  Never, oh, never, oh never again.  So, here are the dots (for those of you who can still see straight!) and we will finish learning this on Thursday evening. What is a claret canary, anyway?? Audio-1 voice Audio-3 voices

Here’s A Health to All Good Lasses

A Celebrated Glee!  WHEEEE-HEEEEE! WHAT’S A GLEE?? A glee is an English type of part song spanning the late baroque, classical and early romantic periods. It is usually scored for at least three voices, and generally intended to be sung unaccompanied. Glees often consist of a number of short, musically contrasted movements and their texts can be convivial, fraternal, … Read more

Alessandro Moreschi – The Last Castrato

I obtained the Vatican recordings of Alessandro Moreschi through Trunk Records recently, and thought some of you might be interested to hear what a true castrato singer sounded like.  It’s quite extraordinary, and I confess I’ve never heard anything like it. Moreschi was the only castrato known to have made recordings, and these survive from … Read more

The Seal Lullabye, by Eric Whitacre (for SAB Choir)

Here are the parts for The Seal Lullaby that we began rehearsing this past Thursday. By request, I have added a starting chord for each part, followed by your starting note. I hope everyone finds this is helpful. It seems obvious to me now, having had it pointed out to me. Don’t know why I … Read more