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Programming question: sing along Opera choruses?
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2017 10:52 am
by ttf_Ellrod
We recently performed Mozart's Cmin mass followed after break by some popular opera choruses.
When I mentioned the opera choruses to a friend, she asked "Singalong?"
Do you think something like that would be popular?
Programming question: sing along Opera choruses?
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2017 11:24 am
by ttf_robcat2075
The "Hallelujah" chorus is a favorite for that sort of thing and I have heard of entire "Messiah" events done as audience sing-along.
Back in the 70s Leonard Slatkin used to do 4-hour "Baroque Marathon" concerts with the Minnesota orchestra and one time they closed the concert with a "Hallelujah" chorus sing-along.
He took a few moments before hand to get the audience warmed up and singing and he rehearsed a few key moments like when the men sing "And he shall reign..."
I presume they had the choral score printed in the program.
Maybe the "Anvil Chorus" would be another candidate for such treatment.
Programming question: sing along Opera choruses?
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2017 11:38 am
by ttf_Ellrod
Sing along Messiahs are quite common.
Programming question: sing along Opera choruses?
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2017 1:15 pm
by ttf_Andrew Meronek
Programming question: sing along Opera choruses?
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2017 1:55 pm
by ttf_Ellrod
Hebrew Slaves. Anvil chorus are two of the numbers we performed.
Have a few ringers show off, finish off with a big sing along.
Programming question: sing along Opera choruses?
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2017 1:55 pm
by ttf_Ellrod
Hebrew Slaves. Anvil chorus are two of the numbers we performed.
Have a few ringers show off, finish off with a big sing along.