More thoughts from Ralph B. Woodward about pieces on the program this weekend. Please scroll down to previous posts, to find concert details). Our Choir hopes to see you in the audience!
“Dancing Song” (arr. Zoltán Kodály)
The “Kodaly Method” of music education is still taught world wide. However, in addition to being a pioneer in the music education of young people, Zoltán Kodály, along with fellow Hungarian Bela Bartok, was an avid researcher and a great composer. His masterful arrangement of the Hungarian “Táncnóta” (Dancing Song), with its tempo changes, dynamic shifts and electrifying ending, is always a big hit with our singers and audiences.
(For a sneak peek of a past year’s choir singing this number, please click here!)
“Olha a Rosa Amarela” (Brazil)
We have given this Brazilian folk song a Samba treatment–complete with percussion. (The kids have trouble standing still.)
“The Old Chisolm Trail”
Not all so-called “cowboy songs’ are authentic (some of the best known actually been written by Eastern songwriters). But this one really is authentic–and is complete with a fair dose of cowboy humor. Our young “buckaroos” (especially the littlest ones) enjoy “saddling up” and singing this one.
“Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume” (Vienna, City of My Dreams)
This extremely charming waltz by Rudolf Siecynski is much loved throughout the German-speaking world (and beyond) and is a crowd-pleaser wherever and whenever we sing it.
“Calypso Loco”
This piece, written in the Calypso style, just keeps piling on the parts until it arrives at a state of total “craziness.”
“Evening Prayer”
This is a personal favorite–maybe because of the way it came about and the feeling it seems to convey.
“A Day in Spring”
Our traditional “finale,” when many former choir members come up and participate–always making it a sentimental “spring reunion” for everyone.
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