I Carry Your Heart With Me - Georgia All-State Chorus 2010

[Gaziaxia7]

I did this song in choir last year, such a beautiful, beautiful song. Great job!(:

[moesings]

Beautiful job, Maestro!! 

[littlemisspoppiepie]

This poem is so beautiful

[Tan1723]

I see the pianist made a mistake at 2:38! But a beautiful performance nonetheless.

[Maestro2500]

@Tan1723 Indeed he did. Ah, well.

[SICchic94]

Wow. Absolutely beautiful. Just spectacular. I did a research project on E.E. Cummings and instantly fell in love with this poem, and hearing it put to music is even more beautiful. You guys did an amazing job with this song! My school's Chamber Choir is performing this song this year and I cannot wait to hear it!=D and for those criticizing the diction, ENOUGH. Just enjoy this beautiful song performed by a talented group of singers.

[edward0220]

good times! brings great memories back.

[bigboy122333444]

so yeah we did 5 of the 7 songs yall did: invirtute, i carry your heart, Zion's walls, Down in the river, and conversion

[slspartanlvr59]

oh wow. im breathless. this is sooooo amazing. my chior is singing this arrangment. i love it sooo much. i hope we can be as amazing as this(:

[thecomposer1995]

such a perfect poem and an spectacular choir

bravo ;)

[cmunce]

"I carry a tin my heart"

"I am never with ow! tit!"

I hate mushy choral diction

[Maestro2500]

@cmunce "Mushy choral diction?" It is a more-than-common practice to attach the last syllable of a word to the beginning of the next word, so that a large choir (such as this choir of two-hundred and ninety singers) makes the syllable sound as one voice. The most important thing is that we are all together, and that the audience knows what we're saying. That does not make it "mushy."

[cmunce]

@Maestro2500 You are right! It is commonplace and it is the easy way...that doesn't make it good.

[Maestro2500]

@cmunce Well, then, what is YOUR suggestion?

[cmunce]

@Maestro2500 The concept is very difficult to execute, but so worth it. The use of shadow vowels, and gentle glottal onsets to separate the syllables into actual words. My high school and professional choirs do it quite well. (My church choir can't, but that's no big surprise...) I learned it from Charels Bruffy who took Robert Shaw's ideas of diction and codified them into an easy to remember rule. If it doesn't sound like English, it is wrong.

[Maestro2500]

@cmunce True, true, I know of that concept, but it is not necessarily something you can have a chorus learn and perfect in two days, even an All-State chorus. Regardless of the diction, I am pleased with this performance.

[cmunce]

@Maestro2500 You also have to remember that you (the performer) will still understand the words in this recording because you ALREADY know them. You want the choir's diction to be so good that even the person in the back row, who has no program notes will understand every word. (And it can be done with large choirs.)

[lwm192]

@cmunce well its not like this was the best recording of it! I thought it sounded beautiful! even when you say "I carry a tin my heart" it sounds like "i carry it in my heart" seriously you have to expect that you audience will understand english!

[rarerudi]

@cmunce also, when its like "ow! tit!", the choral director wants the "ohh" sound to carry instead of the choppyness when you say OUT IT. same with "i carry i tin my heart". ever thought of that? 

[harnedj]

@cmunce Listen to the words..... stop getting tied up by specifics. Beauty is in the whole picture, not in the parts that make the whole.

[TALKshowTIME2012]

The Tennessee All-State SATB choir is doing this song. Our director is David Dickau himself. You guys did amazing. I love it. Our All-State starts tomorrow. Tenor 2's for the win! Haha.

This had better be good. My first All-State will not be a failure. ;D

Great job guys!

[Maestro2500]

@TALKshowTIME2012 I always liked the Tenor 2 part of this song, particularly the interesting clash that they had in measure 36. But I was a Tenor 1 in this song. Ah, well. So, you have David Dickau as director? Astounding! If you have a recording of this song, please post, I would love to see it!

[TALKshowTIME2012]

@Maestro2500 I love those parts together. Yes, he was SO AMAZING! He is so funny and nice and cool. If I get one I may post it.