Hi YC singers. I want you to be as prepared as possible for this tour so you can have a great time and represent yourselves and AYS well. This site is purely for information and I hope it will be useful and interesting for you. PLEASE let me know if you need any extra help or if you think of something that will help you be more comfortable with the music we're working on. You can leave me messages via this site in the comments area or by email BrieT70@hotmail.com.
The links on the right are are all youtube clips of choirs performing. Some of them are very, very good, and others are choirs that we can learn from--we can always focus on what to learn from other groups. At any rate, I didn't put anyone on here just to make fun of them.
The last several clips I just put on for fun.
In 2005 a Birmingham, England choir recorded a song consisting of complaints they had about their community. It started a rash of complaint choirs in different parts of the world in which folks got together to vent, make music, and record. The Helsinki Complaint Choir is the best I've seen of the bunch. Plus, Finnish is cool.
Scala is a Belgian choir we met at the Kathaumixu festival in British Columbia years ago, and they just blew me away with their artistry in "regular" choral music and the arrangements Stijn and Steven Kolacny do for the choir. Stijn and Steven are brothers, virtuosi on the piano, and practically rock stars in Belgium and they have built their choir program into something quite amazing. They perform with rock bands regularly.
The last clip on the list is from a choir I just read about called young@heart, and they are all 70+ years old. Their director purposely finds modern music for them to sing, and it makes for very interesting and, to me, significant changes in the original intent of the song. Have tissues ready unless your heart is made of stone.
Keep me posted on what you need. This site is for you.
--Brianne
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